Specifications include, but are not limited to: ITD is holding training workshops to: create general awareness among a large group of stakeholders about what AI is and the kinds of problems that it can be applied to. form and educate a smaller group of “citizen developers” that can act as early adopters and AI champions within the various state agencies get ongoing support to help maintain momentum around AI adoption The Vendor would conduct three kinds of training sessions based upon the audience: A general introduction to AI and applications as deployed within Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services – this would be an approachable AI workshop in the lecture style with speaker-led demos. High level introduction to Azure - for the people coming to the next “hands-on” upcoming session. This would include helping them get test accounts set up for the purposes of training, walking them through some of the key parts of the portal, and making sure that they know how to provision resources. Smaller group “hands on” workshops. Format could include integrating some of the things from the demos, like reaching into cognitive services or training a simple model.