FreeDaily AI 101. Specialist workshops from ₹99.
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Practical AI training, live on Zoom, for professionals, students, creators and business owners. Join a free AI workshop any evening, or spend one weekend building a working AI toolkit in our two-day bootcamp.
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Ali Mehdi Hemani
Founder & lead instructor, DIT
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AI 101 — Fundamentals of AI
- Time
- 5–7 pm weekdays, 7:30–9:30 pm weekends IST · 2 hours
- Format
- Live on Zoom
- Runs
- Every single day, weekends included
- A reusable prompt framework
- Ten use cases you can repeat the same night
- A clear idea of which workshop to take next
Other ways to learn · no prerequisite, start with any of them
Choose your workshop
AI 101 is free, every day. Five specialist workshops run one each weeknight at ₹99 + GST each. You don't need all five; start with whichever solves your problem.
Ready for more than one evening?
The AI Mastery Bootcamp: 12 hours over one weekend that turn the core skills into one working AI toolkit.
- Saturday: Foundations & intelligence
- Sunday: Creation & application
- 2–8 pm IST · Live on Zoom
₹9,999+ GST · every weekend
See the bootcampWays to learn with DIT
An evening, a weekend, or a few weeks.
Start wherever suits you. None of these is a prerequisite for another: you can apply for a longer programme without doing the workshop or bootcamp first.
- Free · every day
Free AI workshop
Two live hours of AI 101 on Zoom. Try AI on real tasks and leave with a prompt framework.
- 5–7 pm weekdays, 7:30–9:30 pm weekends IST
- Plus 5 specialist workshops, ₹99 + GST each
- Flagship · every weekend
2-Day AI Bootcamp
12 live hours across Saturday and Sunday that turn the core skills into one working AI toolkit.
- Sat + Sun, 2–8 pm IST
- ₹9,999 + GST for both days
- 6 to 12 weeks
Longer programmes
Depth, real projects and a portfolio.
- Applied AI Fellowship with Private MentoringBroader applied AI and building, with private mentoring on your own projects.3 months (12 weeks) · weekends · ₹1,00,000 + GST · by application
- AI-Powered Digital MarketingCampaigns, content, SEO, ads and analytics, with AI in every step.6 weeks · Zoom · ₹29,999 incl. GST · new batch monthly
5 specialist workshops, one every weekday
Three live hours on Zoom, 7–10 pm IST. Pick one skill and leave with something you made.
Flagship · 2-Day AI Bootcamp
The AI Mastery Bootcamp brings the core of every workshop together in six 2-hour sessions over one weekend. You leave with things you built, not notes you took.
₹9,999
For both days · 12 hours total
Next weekend
Saturday, 24 October + Sunday
- A personal AI assistant set up for your work
- A reusable prompt framework and template library
- A visual campaign made with AI image and video tools
- A simple website or tool built with AI
- One automated workflow running on your own tasks
Day 1 · Saturday
Foundations & intelligence
2–8 pm IST · 6 hours
Session 1 · 2–4 pm IST
How generative AI works
- How large language models produce answers
- Map of assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more
Session 2 · 4–6 pm IST
Prompting that holds up
- The DIT framework: context, task, instruction, refinement
- System prompts and custom instructions
Session 3 · 6–8 pm IST
Your own assistants
- Custom GPTs and Claude Projects for your work
- An introduction to agents and automation
You build: A personal assistant set up for your job.
Day 2 · Sunday
Creation & application
2–8 pm IST · 6 hours
Session 4 · 2–4 pm IST
Visual storytelling
- Images, ads and product shots on demand
- Short-form video with modern generators
Session 5 · 4–6 pm IST
Build with AI
- From idea to a working web page without code
- Rapid prototyping with AI builders
Session 6 · 6–8 pm IST
Automate and apply
- A workflow that removes one repetitive task
- Applying everything to your own work
You build: A capstone project from your own work.
Brands and institutions we've worked with
Featured on
Ali on TV, news and podcasts.
4.9150 Google reviews- Smart India Hackathon · 2017National AwardSolved a Ministry of Railways challenge
- Deloitte IndiaBest Innovation AwardFor a women's safety app built at a national hackathon
Wall of Fame
Awards and recognition, on paper.
National hackathon awards, appreciation from Mumbai's institutions and a published research paper. Tap any certificate to read it in full.
Felicitated by Prakash Javadekar, then Union HRD Minister
Anjuman-I-Islam, Mumbai · printed in The Urdu Times Daily, 2017
Published research
“Interactive Smart Mirror Screen”
International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (UGC-approved), 2019
Your week at DIT
AI 101 runs every day: 5–7 pm on weekdays and 7:30–9:30 pm IST on weekends. One specialist workshop runs each weeknight, 7–10 pm, and the bootcamp runs Saturday and Sunday, 2–8 pm. Days repeat every week; the dates shown are the next bookable ones.
Swipe for the full week. All times are India Standard Time (IST).
The tools change every month.
The skill of using them stays.
That's what we teach.
12 weeks · Quarterly intakes
Build practical AI skills through 12 weeks of live weekend learning, hands-on projects and private mentoring focused on what you want to create or improve.
Month 1
Foundations & prompt mastery
- LLMs, embeddings and how assistants reason
- Advanced prompting and retrieval (RAG)
- Custom assistants for a real domain
Project: A domain-specific AI assistant
Month 2
Creation, design & marketing
- AI for UI/UX design and brand
- Image, video, voice and music production
- Marketing, automation workflows and voice agents
Project: A complete AI-made campaign
Month 3
Build, launch & capstone
- Building AI products without code
- Databases, APIs and content pipelines
- Capstone project and Demo Day
Project: A launched capstone product
Who it suits
- Professionals leading AI adoption in their team
- Founders building AI-first products or operations
- Graduates who want a portfolio of real AI projects
- Freelancers and creators offering AI services
Commitment: About 10–12 hours a week: 6 hours of live weekend sessions plus 4–6 hours of assignments and project work.
₹1,00,000
+ GST · 3 months (12 weeks) · by application
Reserve your seat with ₹5,000. Pay the remaining balance in instalments over the first 8 weeks of your cohort.
Step 1
Apply
Tell us about your background and what you want to build.
Step 2
Interview
Admission is by interview. Not everyone is accepted.
Step 3
Reserve
If you're accepted, reserve your seat with ₹5,000 using the link our admissions team sends you.
Step 4
Begin
Weekend sessions and private mentoring start with your cohort.
Quarterly intakes. The next start date will be announced to applicants first. Applying early puts you early in the interview queue; mentoring begins when your cohort starts.
Meet Ali · Why DIT
Ali Mehdi Hemani has trained more than 1,00,000 students, from houseful auditoriums at NMIMS and Anjuman-I-Islam to corporate teams at Orient Technologies. He won a national award at the Smart India Hackathon and ran his own businesses before founding DIT in 2022.
DIT exists for one reason: most people are told AI will change their work, and almost nobody shows them how. Every session here is built around a thing you make and can keep using the next morning.
- 1,00,000+ students trainedAcross colleges, schools, companies and DIT's own classes.
- Houseful events at NMIMS & Anjuman-I-IslamPacked auditoriums at NMIMS Mumbai, NMIMS Hyderabad and Anjuman-I-Islam, Mumbai.
- Corporate training at Orient TechnologiesAI training for the team at a stock-market-listed IT company.
- Trainer at OutskillHas taught on Outskill, one of India's biggest GenAI learning platforms.
- Mumbai University & Bombay International SchoolSessions for university students and at BIS, one of Mumbai's top schools.
- National Award, Smart India Hackathon 2017Solved a Ministry of Railways challenge at India's national hackathon.
- Best Innovation Award, Deloitte IndiaFor a women's safety application built at a national hackathon.
- Published research, IJRAR 2019Co-author of “Interactive Smart Mirror Screen” in a UGC-approved journal.
Guest faculty
Taught by people who use AI at work.
Directors, engineers, founders and educators from Morgan Stanley, KPMG, J.P. Morgan, Capgemini and more teach alongside Ali, live, in the weekend bootcamp and the Applied AI Fellowship.
Ali Abbas Merchant
Director, Morgan Stanley
Prompt engineering
- Featured in New York's Times Square
- Co-founder, PlacementRush
- CTO of EDC, VJTI · multiple coding-competition wins
Tausif Panjwani
Director, KPMG
Guest faculty
- Director at KPMG
Ali Raza Panjwani
Ex-Deloitte
Guest faculty
- Formerly at Deloitte
Danish Khan
Ex-Mastercard
Guest faculty
- Formerly at Mastercard
Ayaan Ali Khunt
Founder, TrueTech
Guest faculty
- Founder of TrueTech
Hussain Amreli
AI engineer, Capgemini
Prompt engineering
- Masters in AI & Data Science, KJ Somaiya
- 7 years in AI · ex-Wipro, ex-Teradata
- Toastmasters president
Ali Abbas Kanadia
Software engineer, J.P. Morgan Chase
Ethical and effective use of AI
- Specialised in deep learning
- Neural networks & ML certified
- Backend developer, Unicode
Komail Merchant
Chartered accountant & CA firm owner
AI automations
- Running his CA firm for about 15 years
- Five-star rated corporate trainer
- Trained teams at brands like Air India
Ali Asgar
Founder, GIDS Tech
Setting up a startup
- Regional IT head, Lifestyle International
- IT manager, Shoppers Stop
- Tech manager, Croma
Ms. Yamina
Founder & CEO, Tofu Digital
Organic sales and branding
- Founder, YAMINA Healthcare
- Worked with Masina & Jaslok hospitals
- Visiting faculty, MyCaptain
Murtuza Jaffry
AI analyst, Athetaa Solutions
Co-mentor
- IBM certified data scientist
- Studied at the University of Michigan
- Built an AI financial-fraud detection system
Mustafa Zaidi
Director & Head of School (PYP & MYP)
AI strategy
- AI strategist and educator
- Executive programme, IIT Guwahati (Accredian)
- Former lead programmer, Marvel Infotech
Ali Malpara
App creator & DevOps expert, Canada
Building and shipping apps
- Apps that reached #1 on Google Play
- Creator of Asma-ul-Husna and Synapse Spark
- AWS, DigitalOcean and Vapor projects
Zahra Nayani
Prompt engineering trainer
Prompt and context engineering
- WhiteHat Jr certified trainer
- Google AdWords certified
- Upskilled at IIM, NMIMS, D.Y. Patil, Parul University
Ms. Saba Sayed
Robotics engineer & AI educator
Robotics and AI for kids
- Masters in AI & Robotics
- Has taught 5,000+ children
- Teaches AI in BMC schools
Zia Shroff
Founder of two startups
Vibe coding co-mentor
- Kreative Kiddiez Korner & Kreative Kartz
- Content creator and graphic designer
- Runs workshops for kids
Shabnam Mamdani
Trainer, DIT
Vibe coding
- Trains students at DIT
- Expert in vibe coding
Wajiha Lalani
Occupational therapist & host
Weekend host
- Former HOD, IZM school
- Child psychologist
- AI generalist and public speaker
Kashish Dawoodani
Fintech & taxation expert
Weekend host
- Ex-Amazon India
- Trained finance MIS executives
- AI generalist and public speaker
Sakina Valli
Head of Outreach & Operations, DIT
Co-mentor
- Founder, Inara Creations
- Worked with Alkem Labs
- Graphic designer and host
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Placed at leading companies
Most of our students go on to work at some of the biggest agencies and companies in India.
Promoted into AI work
Many become the person their team turns to for AI, and take on new responsibility for it.
Or building their own
Founders and freelancers use what they build here to win clients and run leaner businesses.
Our students work at
Graduation 2026
This is how you finish at DIT.
Our Applied AI Fellowship graduation at Islam Gymkhana was next-level crazy: it included the Sharkathon 2026, our second hackathon of the year after Hackathon 2026. And the GenZ-AI summer batch walked up for their certificates too.
- Sharkathon 2026
- A magician from India's Got Talent
- Stand-up comedy
- Gowns & caps
- Sparklers
- Dinner under the sky
- The best Sharkathon ideas got investment.
- Some graduates got hired and started new lives.
Alumni & Reviews
They couldn't code. Now they ship.
DIT learners on what they built after learning AI with us, in their own words.
Evidence
From packed auditoriums at NMIMS and Anjuman-I-Islam to corporate teams at Orient Technologies, more than 1,00,000 students have learned AI with Ali. The easiest way to see why: sit in on free AI 101 daily.See all 23 events, with photos
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A year from now, you'll either be using AI every day, or wishing you had started today.
Be aDigitalist.
the people who get AI to do the work- Your first class is free, live on Zoom every day
- Pick one ₹99 workshop for the tool you need most
- Leave with something that works on Monday morning
- Get certified after every class, even the free one
Start with one real task, such as summarising a document or drafting an email. Learn to give the AI context and a clear instruction, then check the result against reliable sources. DIT's free, two-hour AI 101 class covers ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, a reusable prompt framework, and where AI's answers need checking. No coding or technical background is required.
Choose by your starting level, the syllabus, the project you will build, prerequisites, teaching format and total cost, including optional tool subscriptions. For practical AI use, start with AI 101. Choose Claude for writing and work, Vibe Coding for websites and apps, AI filmmaking for video, Digital Twin for voice and avatar workflows, or Agentic AI for automation. DIT's workshops teach practical AI tools; they are not a substitute for a mathematics, programming and machine-learning curriculum if your goal is to become a machine-learning engineer.
The AI 101 workshop is free. Each specialist workshop is ₹99 + GST (not a bundle or subscription). The two-day AI Mastery Bootcamp is ₹9,999 + GST for both days. The Applied AI Fellowship with Private Mentoring is ₹1,00,000 + GST, reserved with ₹5,000 after acceptance. AI-Powered Digital Marketing is ₹29,999 incl. GST. GenZ-AI for ages 10–16 is ₹10,000 + GST; admissions are currently closed. Where a price says "+ GST", 18% GST is added at checkout.
Yes. Every class at DIT can be certified: add the DIT certificate of completion (₹99) when you book free AI 101, any workshop or the weekend bootcamp. You can also add the session recording, workbooks and tool packs at checkout.
Mostly online: every class runs live on Zoom, which is how most of our students prefer to learn. We also run hybrid sessions and a few offline workshops at our experience centres in Mazgaon and Andheri West (Mumbai) and in Dubai.
Yes. Message the team on WhatsApp at +91 92216 36113 and they'll send the syllabus PDF for any workshop, the bootcamp or the fellowship.
No. Every workshop stands alone. Pick the one that solves your problem today; many people start with free AI 101 and then choose one specialist evening.
AI 101 runs every day: 5–7 pm weekdays, 7:30–9:30 pm weekends IST. The five specialist workshops run one per weeknight, Monday to Friday, 7–10 pm IST. The bootcamp runs Saturday and Sunday, 2–8 pm IST on both days.
No coding is needed for any workshop. You need a laptop (a phone works for AI 101), a stable internet connection and Zoom. Each workshop page lists the free accounts to create beforehand.
No. We show you what the free tiers can do. Some tools work better on paid plans; those subscriptions are your choice and are not included in any DIT fee.
Tell us before your session starts and we'll move you to the next session of the same workshop, or a later bootcamp weekend, at no cost. The full terms are on our refunds page (digitalist.co.in/refunds).
No. Each programme stands on its own. You can apply for the Applied AI Fellowship with Private Mentoring or register interest in AI-Powered Digital Marketing directly.
The Applied AI Fellowship with Private Mentoring takes 25 people per cohort, by application and interview. The next start date is shared with applicants; applying early puts you in the queue for the next interview round.
DIT team
Questions about a class?
Dates, payments, Zoom links, which workshop fits you. The team answers on WhatsApp through the day.
+91 92216 36113
The team can help with
- Choosing a workshop
- Dates & timings
- Payments & invoices
- Zoom & WhatsApp links
- Syllabus PDFs
- Corporate training
Nobody else does this
Talk to the founder. Directly.
Most institutes keep their founder behind a sales team. We are sure enough of what we teach to give you Ali's own number. Big question, serious concern, or you just want to know if this is right for you: message him.
+91 80808 77860
Ali Mehdi Hemani · Founder & lead trainer. Please WhatsApp first to check he's free, then call.
Experience centres
Three centres. Classes live on Zoom.
Most students learn online, from anywhere. Drop in to a centre for hybrid sessions and the occasional offline workshop.
Mazgaon, Mumbai
Piramal Aranya, Mazgaon
Andheri West, Mumbai
Opposite Andheri West station
Dubai
Dubai experience centre
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