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Master Quantum Computing, AI & Security
Through Tailored Live Sessions

Twelve focused 90-minute live sessions — 1-on-1 or for your team. No hype, no recorded fluff. Pick a topic, get in touch, and we arrange the rest.

Stop guessing. Start deciding.

Quantum, LLMs, RAG and AI identity risk are already on your roadmap — whether you planned for them or not. Replace vendor hype with mental models you can actually reason from.

Built, not lectured.

Every session is hands-on and concrete — circuits assembled gate by gate, a Transformer opened up, a RAG pipeline built end to end, a data leak intercepted live. You leave with something you can reproduce.

Tailored to you.

90 minutes shaped around your context — your stack, your sector, your real questions. Run it solo to go deep, or bring your whole team onto the same page in one sitting.

Our Courses | Quantum Computing, AI & Security

Each course is a focused 90-minute live session with real-time Q&A, lifetime recording access, and practical resources. Filter by the area you care about, then get in touch to arrange your session.

Quantum Computing

6 sessions

Inside the Qubit

A clear, intuitive shortcut to understanding how quantum computing actually works

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Forget the mysticism. Forget the "quantum is magic" narratives. In 90 minutes, you'll understand the fundamental mechanics of quantum computing through mental models that actually stick.

We'll demystify superposition, entanglement, and quantum gates — not through heavy mathematics, but through intuitive analogies and visual frameworks that make sense. You'll see why qubits behave differently from classical bits, understand what quantum advantage really means, and grasp the limitations that marketing materials conveniently skip.

This isn't a physics lecture. It's a strategic intelligence briefing on the technology that's already reshaping cryptography, optimization, and materials science.

Who should attend

  • Technical leaders evaluating quantum investments
  • Software engineers curious about quantum fundamentals
  • Product managers scoping quantum-adjacent features
  • Anyone tired of quantum hype who wants real understanding

What you'll walk away with

  • Clear mental model of how qubits actually work
  • Understanding of when quantum computing is (and isn't) useful
  • Ability to evaluate quantum vendor claims critically
  • Foundation for deeper technical exploration
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Inside the Quantum Algorithm

Learn how to assemble quantum algorithms, not just describe them

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

We won't explain how David Deutsch's algorithm works. We'll show you how he built it — step by step, gate by gate.

This is hands-on assembly. Together, we'll build a quantum calculator from scratch. You'll learn to design quantum algorithms by constructing them, not by reading about them. We'll work through the actual circuit design process: choosing gates, structuring measurements, handling quantum states as they evolve.

Who should attend

  • Developers ready to move beyond quantum theory
  • Engineers who learn by building, not reading
  • Technical leads who need hands-on quantum experience
  • Anyone frustrated with "explain-only" quantum courses

What you'll walk away with

  • Experience building real quantum circuits from scratch
  • Understanding of algorithmic design patterns
  • Practical skills in quantum circuit construction
  • Confidence to prototype your own quantum algorithms
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Inside QC AI Project

What a real QC+AI project looks like today — real challenges, real workarounds, real state of maturity

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Theory ends when the project starts. This is the session on what actually happens when you try to ship quantum-AI hybrid solutions today.

We'll walk through a real project lifecycle: problem scoping, algorithm selection, hardware access, classical preprocessing, quantum execution, postprocessing, and result validation. You'll see the tooling landscape — simulators, cloud quantum providers, hybrid frameworks — and understand where the friction points are.

Who should attend

  • Technical architects designing quantum-AI systems
  • Project managers scoping quantum pilots
  • Researchers transitioning from academia to industry
  • Teams preparing to run their first quantum project

What you'll walk away with

  • End-to-end understanding of quantum project workflows
  • Realistic assessment of current technological maturity
  • Practical strategies for hybrid classical-quantum systems
  • Ability to scope pilots with clear success criteria
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Mathematics of the Qubit

Start by grounding the qubit in geometry — what a quantum state is and how it moves

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Begin with a geometric, operational interpretation of a qubit so that the abstract notation stops being mysterious and becomes predictive. We'll build from the single-qubit state to the Bloch sphere picture, then translate that picture into what you actually observe when you measure: bases, probabilities, and the mapping from amplitudes to outcomes.

Who should attend

  • Technical leaders who need to reason about hardware-level behaviour
  • Software engineers moving from bits to qubits
  • Researchers and students who want intuition before proofs
  • Anyone who wants to reason visually about single-qubit behaviour

What you'll walk away with

  • A durable geometric model of single-qubit states and evolutions (Bloch sphere fluency)
  • Clear intuition for measurement, basis choice, and probability mapping
  • Ability to predict outcomes of elementary single-qubit circuits
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Mathematics of the Quantum Algorithm

Turn geometric states into algorithms — gates as concrete process for circuits you can compose, compute, and reason about

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Move from "what a qubit is" to "how we use qubits to compute." We'll treat gates as explicit linear maps (unitaries) and show how to compute their action on states step by step.

Who should attend

  • Engineers building or integrating quantum subroutines
  • Algorithm designers translating concepts into circuits
  • Product and project leads scoping feasibility and implementation effort
  • Anyone who wants to move from black-box algorithms to actionable gate-level designs

What you'll walk away with

  • Practical methods to compute the effect of gates and to compose circuits by hand
  • Confidence tracing state evolution through multi-gate sequences
  • The ability to evaluate algorithmic claims by inspecting circuits rather than slides
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Beyond the Algorithm

Look past gate sequences to the physical and conceptual limits of computation

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

This session moves from "how we compute" to "what computation costs and what it can become." We'll introduce counterfactual quantum computation in clear, operational terms — what experiments demonstrate and what practical constraints remain.

You'll get an accessible treatment of Landauer's principle and logical reversibility: why erasing information costs energy, why reversibility matters for quantum architectures, and how thermodynamics reframes the cost-benefit conversation for quantum vs. classical computing.

Who should attend

  • Leaders and strategists assessing medium- and long-term impact
  • Researchers and engineers interested in physical limits and new paradigms
  • Product teams exploring where to pilot quantum-assisted features
  • Anyone curious about the boundary between theoretical possibility and commercial reality

What you'll walk away with

  • Clear intuition for counterfactual computation and what it really demonstrates
  • Understanding of Landauer's limit, logical reversibility, and why these matter for system design
  • A mapped view of current, realistic quantum use cases and the metrics by which to evaluate them
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Artificial Intelligence & LLM

3 sessions

Inside the LLM

Understand what actually happens inside a large language model — from tokens to transformers to generated text

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Every week someone tells you an LLM "understands" something, or "hallucinates," or "reasons." Most of those statements are wrong — because the speaker has no idea what's actually happening inside the model. This session fixes that.

We'll open the black box. Starting from tokenization — how raw text becomes integers — we'll walk through the Transformer architecture step by step: embeddings, attention heads, feed-forward layers, and how the model decides what token comes next. We'll use BabyTransformer, a minimal GPT built in pure Python, to make every concept concrete and observable.

You'll see the weight matrices W_Q, W_K, W_V go from random noise to structured knowledge over 1000 training steps. You'll understand why "high-level" is a hard stop for anyone making real decisions about AI — and why understanding the internals changes everything.

Who should attend

  • Technical leaders who want to reason about LLM behaviour, not just prompt it
  • Engineers building on top of LLM APIs who want to understand what they're calling
  • Product managers making feature decisions involving AI-generated content
  • Anyone tired of the "magic box" narrative and ready to look inside

What you'll walk away with

  • Clear mental model of the Transformer architecture — attention, embeddings, MLP blocks
  • Understanding of tokenization and why it matters for cost, quality, and edge cases
  • Ability to evaluate LLM vendor claims and architecture decisions critically
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Inside the RAG

Build a complete retrieval-augmented generation pipeline from scratch — and understand every design decision along the way

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

LLMs are powerful — but they have a knowledge cutoff, and they've never seen your data. RAG fixes that. In this session, we build a complete RAG pipeline from the ground up and make every component visible and explainable.

We'll cover the full pipeline: document loading, text splitting strategies (and why chunk size matters more than you think), embedding models, vector stores, retrieval strategies including MMR and cross-encoder reranking, prompt engineering for grounded answers, and conversational RAG with history-aware retrieval.

We use LangChain as the orchestration layer, ChromaDB as the vector store, and HuggingFace embeddings — so the entire pipeline runs locally with zero token cost for the data processing steps.

Who should attend

  • Engineers building internal knowledge bases or document Q&A systems
  • Architects designing AI-assisted workflows over proprietary data
  • Technical leads evaluating RAG frameworks and vector store options
  • Anyone who has used a RAG system and wants to understand what's actually happening

What you'll walk away with

  • Working RAG pipeline built step by step — loading, chunking, embedding, retrieval, generation
  • Understanding of retrieval strategies: similarity search, MMR, threshold filtering, cross-encoder reranking
  • Citation-aware prompt design — every answer traces back to its exact source
  • Conversational RAG with history-aware question reformulation
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Inside the RAG Data Pipeline

Production-grade document ingestion over a real directory structure — where RAG is actually won or lost

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

The most common reason RAG systems fail is not a bad prompt or a weak LLM. It's bad data. Poorly loaded documents, misaligned chunks, and missing metadata silently degrade retrieval quality before the model even gets involved. This session fixes that.

We'll design a directory structure that encodes metadata in the path itself — category, subcategory, version, all derived automatically without manual tagging. Then we'll build an automated loader that walks the entire tree, deduplicates by content hash, cleans raw text, and enriches every chunk with a complete metadata schema.

We'll use Elasticsearch as the vector store — hybrid search (vector + BM25), metadata filtering, and full audit trail. Every answer is traced back to the exact source document, chunk index, and category.

Who should attend

  • Engineers building enterprise RAG systems over large document repositories
  • Data engineers responsible for knowledge base ingestion pipelines
  • Architects choosing between vector store options for production workloads
  • Technical leads who need audit trails and source traceability for compliance

What you'll walk away with

  • Directory structure convention that makes metadata free — no manual tagging
  • Complete ChunkMetadata schema with every field explained and justified
  • Auto-loader with deduplication, cleaning, chunking, and enrichment in one pipeline
  • Elasticsearch integration with metadata filters and citation-aware retrieval
  • Traceability report: every answer traced to exact source, chunk, and category
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Security & Identity

2 sessions

Inside Your Identity

What really happens to your data when an employee pastes it into an AI chat — and how one inline protection layer changes everything

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Right now, someone on your team is pasting a client name, a contract clause, or a deal value into ChatGPT. Not maliciously — practically. AI makes them faster and they know it. The problem is not the behaviour. The problem is that nothing is watching what leaves your environment when they do it.

This session follows a single piece of sensitive data through its full journey: from the moment an employee types it into an AI chat, through the prompt, across the network, into the model, and back. You'll see exactly where identity data is exposed, why conventional controls — firewalls, policies, training sessions — don't intercept it at runtime, and how an inline anonymization layer sitting between the user and the model removes sensitive entities before they leave.

We'll work through a live demonstration of the full flow. An employee types a prompt containing client names, deal values, and email addresses. The protection layer detects and strips the entities inline. The model receives clean, de-identified text. The answer comes back complete and usable. The employee gets the same result. The data never left your environment.

We'll cover what gets detected — named entities, financial values, identifiers, email addresses, internal project codes — how detection categories are configured, and what the audit record contains. Critically, we'll also cover what the audit record does not contain: you get governance evidence without creating a surveillance liability around what your employees actually wrote.

Who should attend

  • CEOs and CTOs deciding whether and how to officially sanction AI tools
  • CISOs and data protection officers responsible for AI data governance
  • Legal and compliance teams evaluating AI tool adoption under GDPR, HIPAA, or sector regulations
  • Security engineers evaluating or building inline AI protection layers
  • IT leaders who need to give employees a safe AI path rather than a banned one

What you'll walk away with

  • Clear map of how sensitive data flows through AI systems — and every point where it is exposed
  • Practical knowledge of inline anonymization: what it catches, configuration options, and honest scope
  • A governance model that enables AI adoption without surveillance — audit what was stripped, not what was typed
  • The conversation to have with your board, legal team, and IT department when rolling out enterprise AI
  • Live demo walkthrough you can reproduce or adapt for your own environment
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Inside the Identity Living System

The architecture for continuous identity trust in the age of AI agents and MCP tool chains — what Zero Trust left unfinished

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Zero Trust Architecture solved the perimeter problem. It was not designed for a world where AI agents execute multi-hop tool call chains on behalf of authenticated users — where a single manipulated prompt can trigger a cascade of real actions across CRM systems, email platforms, and internal APIs before anyone realises something went wrong.

This session introduces the Identity Living System (ILS): an architectural model that treats identity not as a credential but as a continuously evolving property of trust that must be evaluated at every hop in an agent chain, not just the moment of login.

We'll cover the two architectural insights that make ILS distinct from existing IAM and Zero Trust frameworks. First: every MCP tool invocation is an identity event. When an AI agent calls a tool it is acting as an identity — and that action should be governed like one, with per-invocation trust evaluation, risk-differentiated approval gating for destructive or sensitive actions, and a signed audit record that captures the full trust context at the moment of execution. We'll walk through the Trust Context Object — the structured data artifact that carries trust state across each hop — and show how enforcement thresholds work at the action class level.

Second: trust propagates and can be corrupted across multi-hop agent chains. Three small signal anomalies across three tool calls — none individually alarming — can compound into an enforcement trigger that a session-level authentication check would never catch. We'll trace a realistic agent execution chain, show how trust score degrades across hops, and demonstrate where and why a bulk-send action gets blocked that an authentication checkpoint at hop zero would have permitted.

We'll cover the six-state identity lifecycle (Nominal → Injection → Propagation → Capture → Recovery → Reinjection Resistance), the Independent Trust Anchor as an out-of-band verification source, and an honest account of what the architecture solves today, what is in specification, and what remains an open research problem in the field.

Who should attend

  • Security architects and IAM engineers designing governance for AI-driven systems
  • CTOs and CISOs evaluating identity frameworks for agentic or MCP-enabled deployments
  • Platform engineers building on MCP tool ecosystems who need a per-invocation governance model
  • AI product leaders who need to understand the identity surface area of the systems they ship
  • Anyone who has implemented Zero Trust and wants to understand where the model reaches its limit

What you'll walk away with

  • Clear architectural understanding of why Zero Trust doesn't cover multi-hop AI agent chains
  • The Trust Context Object schema — how to carry and evaluate trust state across MCP tool invocations
  • A trust propagation model you can reason about: signal accumulation, delta composition, enforcement thresholds
  • The six-state identity lifecycle applied to agentic systems, with Recovery and Reinjection Resistance as first-class architectural properties
  • Honest positioning of what is production-ready, what is in specification, and what remains open
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Prompting & Communication

1 session

Inside the Prompt

How to design a prompt that gives consistent, repeatable, and production-ready answers — for individuals and teams

90 minutes €250

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What you'll learn

Most people who use AI every day have never thought carefully about prompt structure. They type a question, get an answer, and adjust by feel. That works — until it doesn't. The moment you need a response that is consistent across team members, or reproducible across sessions, or reliable enough to embed in a workflow, prompt-by-feel breaks down.

This session is about building prompts the way engineers build functions: with a clear structure, defined inputs, predictable outputs, and the ability to hand them to someone else and have them work. We'll cover the anatomy of a well-formed prompt — task, context, role, constraints, and output specification — and show how each element changes what the model produces and why.

We'll work through prompt structure in three dimensions. First, control over the task: how to write a clear assignment that leaves no room for the model to interpret its way out of what you actually need. Second, control over the output: format, tone, length, determinism, and how to specify verification criteria so you can tell whether an answer is right before you read it in full. Third, practical patterns that scale: role prompting, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought instructions, and reusable templates that a team can adopt without each person reinventing the prompt from scratch.

The session is built around live examples. Every principle is demonstrated with a before-and-after prompt pair — the vague version that produces unpredictable output, and the structured version that produces a consistent, usable result. You will write prompts during the session and see the difference in real time.

Who should attend

  • Anyone who uses AI tools daily and wants more consistent, reliable output
  • Team leads who want their whole team producing prompts that work the same way
  • Product managers embedding AI into workflows who need prompts that are reproducible and auditable
  • Developers writing system prompts for AI-powered features or applications
  • Anyone who has finished "Inside the LLM" and wants to apply that understanding to how they communicate with models

What you'll walk away with

  • A reusable prompt structure — task, context, role, constraints, output spec — that works across model providers
  • Output control techniques: format specification, tone direction, determinism, and self-verification criteria
  • The ability to write a prompt that is usable in production — not just in your own session
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Open Session

Need to talk through a topic with an expert?

90 minutes of focused conversation on any topic you're working through — architecture, AI adoption, security, quantum, or anything in between. Your agenda, your questions.

90 minutes €250

What this is

Not every question fits neatly into a course. Sometimes you need 90 minutes with someone who has been in the room where these decisions get made — to pressure-test an idea, unblock an architecture decision, or simply think through something out loud with a person who understands the space.

This is that session. You bring the topic. I bring the experience. We work through it together.

What people use it for

  • Evaluating an AI or Quantum Computing strategy or vendor decision before committing
  • Reviewing an architecture for an AI, RAG, or identity system
  • Understanding what quantum computing actually means for your sector
  • Thinking through an AI adoption or data governance strategy
  • Getting a second opinion on your specific idea

How it works

  • You get in touch and describe the topic
  • We agree a time that works
  • You pay to confirm the slot
  • We meet for 90 minutes — video call, shared screen, whatever helps
  • You get a written summary of what we covered within 24 hours
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Turn "we should look into this" into "we understand this"

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What You Get

Every course includes these benefits to maximize your learning experience.

Live Interactive Sessions

90 minutes of focused content with real-time Q&A. No pre-recorded fluff.

Practical Resources

Access to presentation, code samples, architecture diagrams, and reference materials you can use immediately.

Expert-Led

Taught by Avenue78 team with PhD-level math and 25+ years building cutting-edge IT.

Certificate of Completion

Official Avenue78 certificate to showcase your expertise.

About the Instructor

These courses are led by the Avenue78 team, who combine PhD-level mathematics with more than 25 years of building cutting-edge IT systems. We are Quantum, AI and Large Language Model experts helping leaders and organizations navigate the shift from "one day" visions to Day One realities.

We don't just teach theory. We've architected quantum solutions, built AI systems, and advised Fortune CEOs and CTOs on frontier technology strategy. This is experience you can't get from academic courses alone.

Our approach: No evangelizing. No hype. Just practical knowledge that translates directly into competitive advantage for you and your organization.

Frequently Asked Questions

What technical background do I need?

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It depends on the course. Sessions like "Inside the Qubit", "Inside the LLM", "Inside Your Identity" and "Inside the Prompt" are designed for any professional who uses or wants to use AI, security or quantum — minimal technical background needed. The mathematics and RAG data-pipeline sessions go deeper for engineers and architects.

Can I combine multiple courses?

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Absolutely. The catalogue spans four areas — Quantum Computing, AI & LLM, Security & Identity, and Prompting. Many professionals combine several to get comprehensive coverage from fundamentals to implementation. Tell us your goal and we'll suggest a path.

Are the Security & Identity courses technical or business-focused?

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"Inside Your Identity" and "Inside the Identity Living System" are designed for both technical and business audiences — CISOs, CTOs, legal teams, and security engineers will all find them directly relevant.

Do I need to take other courses before "Inside the Prompt"?

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"Inside the Prompt" stands completely on its own — no prior Avenue78 course is required. That said, participants who have taken "Inside the LLM" will have an additional layer of understanding of why the techniques work at a mechanical level. The course is designed as the top of the LLM learning pyramid: useful immediately, and deeper if you have the foundation beneath it.

How do I book — and what does a session cost?

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Every session is €250 for 90 minutes, delivered live online, 1-on-1 or for your team. Just get in touch with the topic you're interested in and your availability, and we'll arrange a time that works for you.

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