Choosing an AI trainer is a decision about what your team will be able to do after the session. A convincing demonstration can create excitement. Useful training gives people time to work with the tools, understand the limits, and decide where AI belongs in their own responsibilities. Rui Vas brings technical experience, entrepreneurship, and teaching together to make that transition approachable.
For organizations planning AI training in Portugal or Spain, the starting point is a conversation about the people in the room. Are they executives deciding where to invest, developers experimenting with coding agents, or professionals who want to improve everyday work? The right curriculum follows that answer. It should make sense to participants before it tries to impress them.
Who is Rui Vas, and why learn AI with him?
Rui Vas is an AI educator, keynote speaker, advisor, and entrepreneur. He has been researching AI since 2016, beginning in the robotics labs at EPFL. His background includes AI and machine learning product work at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and founding AI ventures across Silicon Valley and Europe. He has taught more than 3,000 people to build and create with AI through different courses and learning experiences.
That combination matters in a training room. Technical understanding helps explain what is happening beneath the interface. Product experience helps connect an exercise to an actual user or workflow. Teaching experience helps meet people where they are, particularly when the vocabulary sounds more complicated than the task. A question about retrieval, context, or an agent becomes an opportunity to build understanding.
You can explore Rui’s background and personal approach, inspect the tools he uses, and read the selected client work before discussing a programme. These resources make it easier to evaluate the fit for your team rather than choosing on a headline alone.
Training shaped around the people in the room
Executive teams and decision makers
Leaders need enough practical understanding to ask better questions. An executive workshop can explore what AI tools can do, which workflows deserve attention, how to assess a proposal, and what people need to adopt a new way of working. The aim is a more informed conversation about opportunity and implementation, with examples connected to the organization’s priorities.
Rui delivered a three-hour workshop on AI in banking for the executive team at Banco BiG. That is a concrete example of adapting the topic and audience together. For another leadership team, the right emphasis may be customer experience, internal knowledge, product development, or preparing managers to support experimentation. The brief determines the emphasis.
Developers and technical teams
A developer workshop can focus on AI-assisted development, working with an existing codebase, describing tasks clearly, reviewing changes, and keeping human judgment in the loop. Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub are among the tools in Rui’s toolkit. Tool selection should reflect what the team is allowed to use and the development environment it already knows.
For Strato Automation, Rui delivered a four-hour Cursor workshop for developers. A future workshop can be scoped around a representative development task, with time for participants to compare approaches and review the result. The value of the session comes from working through the decisions, including where an agent’s output needs correction.
Professional teams, faculty, and industry leaders
Non-developers need exercises that connect to familiar work. Researching a topic, drafting a document, organizing information, or exploring an automation can offer a useful starting point. Faculty may bring teaching or research material; a construction leadership group may want to explore workflows and decisions in its own industry. Participants should recognize the problem being discussed.
Rui has delivered generative AI training for faculty at FEUP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, spanning prompting, models, and agents. He also delivered a 90-minute AI-for-construction workshop through Técnico+ for leaders in the construction industry. These examples show different audiences and scopes, rather than a single presentation repeated under different company names.
What a practical AI workshop can cover
The curriculum can move from everyday AI assistants to more technical workflows. A focused programme may use just one tool. A longer programme may connect several tools around a shared task. The following topics are possible areas of focus; the final agenda is agreed around your team’s starting point and desired outcome.
- AI foundations: models, context, prompting, and how to assess an answer.
- Research and writing: structuring a request, working with source material, and reviewing a draft.
- AI-assisted coding: describing changes, exploring code, checking diffs, and working with coding agents.
- Automation and agents: mapping a workflow, deciding where AI adds value, and identifying human review points.
- Prototyping: turning an idea into an initial interface or application and testing whether it addresses the problem.
- Team adoption: sharing useful patterns, setting expectations, and choosing a next experiment.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Make, and n8n are examples from the wider toolkit. A workshop should not require people to open ten accounts just to keep up. Existing access, company policy, and the exercise itself help determine which tools belong in the session.
From 60 minutes to a longer training programme
A 60-minute session is useful when there is one clear topic and a tightly defined exercise. Ninety minutes creates more room for demonstration, practice, and discussion. Longer training supports a deeper sequence: try a workflow, review the result, return with questions, and refine the approach. Duration should match the learning goal rather than the number of slides.
The workshop planner supports total training durations from 60 minutes to 20 hours. Programmes above two hours are planned across multiple sessions. For example, a three-hour programme can be two 90-minute sessions, while four hours can be two two-hour sessions. A longer programme can leave time between meetings for participants to try an agreed task in normal work.
These are planning options, not a fixed syllabus. The delivery schedule, number of participants, preparation, and level of support are discussed together. A small technical team working on one workflow and a large leadership group exploring AI adoption have different needs, even if they request the same total training time.
Portugal, Spain, and international teams
Rui delivers sessions in English and Portuguese. Organizations planning training in Portugal can discuss which language best serves their team, including international groups that work primarily in English. For a team or event in Spain, explain the audience’s working language during the enquiry so the format can be assessed realistically.
In-person delivery, online delivery, dates, location, and travel arrangements should be agreed in the discovery conversation. If you are coordinating people across Portugal and Spain, include where participants are located and whether they need one shared programme or separate sessions. These details shape the learning experience as much as the choice of tool.
For a cross-border programme, explain the team’s working context as well as its location. A shared example can help participants in different offices discuss the same workflow. Agreeing how people will practise, ask questions, and share what they learn makes the training easier to carry into daily work.
Evidence you can inspect before booking
At Mindvalley, Rui received a 9.1/10 speaker rating across more than 290 responses. His work there developed from community support into live instruction on a flagship AI programme. Student comments highlight clear explanations, practical schematics, patience, and step-by-step teaching. You can read the testimonials on the homepage in their own words.
The selected workshops identify the client, topic, duration, and audience for Strato Automation, Banco BiG, and Técnico+. FEUP’s case study describes training with participants’ own material. Together, these examples help a prospective buyer evaluate audience fit and teaching experience.
For your own programme, agree on a useful indicator before the session. That may be a completed exercise, a workflow participants can explain, a prototype they can demonstrate, or a follow-up observation about use. The most informative measure is one connected to the reason your organization commissioned the training.
How to choose the best AI trainer for your team
The best fit depends on your goal. Ask how the trainer adapts to different experience levels, what participants will practice, and how the exercises relate to real work. Ask which accounts or subscriptions people need and what preparation is expected. A clear answer is more useful than a long list of fashionable tools.
Look for evidence that matches the service you are buying. Teaching feedback helps assess communication. A developer workshop helps assess relevance to a technical audience. An executive session helps establish experience working with decision makers. Entrepreneurial experience adds a useful perspective on priorities, but it should connect to the learning brief rather than replace it.
Rui is a strong candidate for teams that want technical depth delivered in a human, accessible way. The fit is particularly clear when the goal is to move from curiosity or uncertainty into practical use. A discovery call is an opportunity to assess that fit, choose a scope, and understand what a realistic next step would look like.
Questions about booking AI training
Can beginners take part?
Yes. The programme can start with foundational concepts and a familiar task. Tell Rui about participants’ current experience so the session can use appropriate language and leave enough room for questions. Mixed groups may benefit from different exercises or separate sessions.
Can we focus on a specific tool?
Yes. You can identify preferred tools in the workshop planner. Share how your team uses them today, the task you want to improve, and any access restrictions. A focused Cursor or AI-assistant session can be more valuable than a broad tour when the need is specific.
Is this training available for organizations in Spain?
Enquiries for teams and events in Spain are welcome. Discuss location, dates, online or in-person delivery, and the audience’s language requirements. Rui speaks and teaches in English and Portuguese.
How do we request a proposal?
Use the workshop planner to outline tools, duration, and company details, or book a free discovery call. Include the number of participants, their roles, one relevant workflow, and what you would like them to be able to do afterward. Those details give the conversation a practical starting point.