Level 1
Start
Get started – build your foundational AI competency and expand your horizon with others.
Module 0
TRU has partnered with Amii, one of Canada’s three national AI institutes, to build AI competency across our community. Start here with Module 0 – no experience needed.
What you get from this course: nationally recognized AI competency, and your own AI portfolio.
TRU horaizon Circles
Circles are a space to share what you’re learning, challenge and champion different perspectives, and grow together with people around shared subjects and interests. No experience needed.
What you get from this: connection and community with others exploring the same subjects you are.
President’s AI Speaker Series
The President’s AI Speaker Series brings outside voices and fresh thinking to our community, hosted by President Airini via a fireside chat. No experience needed.
What you get from this: inspiration and exposure to innovative ideas beyond our walls.
60-Second Soundbites
60-Second Soundbites are quick talks by our TRU community – one minute, one perspective, one spark of AI thinking. No experience needed.
What you get from this: a minute of insight from someone who’s thought hard about it.
Level 2
Spark
Apply your skills – spark new ideas and put AI into practice.
TRU horaizon Agent Circle
For anyone
Join a monthly circle led by our Chief Information Officer that explores building and deploying AI agents to assist in operational tasks. Share your projects, learnings, and let’s build together.
What you get from this: connection and community with others exploring agentic AI.
TRU horaizon Research Circle
For researchers
Join a monthly circle led by our Research Office that explores AI’s role in supporting research – share what you’re working on, explore tools and approaches, and learn national best practices.
What you get from this: connection and community with others exploring AI in research.
TRU AI showcase
For faculty and researchers
This event, co-organized by the Centre for Open and Engaged Learning and faculty partners, is a forum for TRU practitioners sharing their methods and lessons learned through their work with GenAI. Previous showcases have highlighted the many ways our community is critically engaging and innovating in their teaching and research. We look forward to the next event in early 2027.
Faculty Resources
For faculty
The Centre for Open and Engaged learning resource site features a wealth of strategies and support materials on teaching practice, open education, and learning technology. The site features a GenAI Guidelines page overseen by a working group of TRU’s Teaching and Learning Senate Committee. It also has materials to support instructors in determining classroom policies and communication with students, wherever they fall on the scale of adoption, including syllabus language and activity ideas.
level 3
Surge
Innovate and create – bring your own AI ideas to life.
TRU horaizon Game Changers
Game Changers are TRU horaizon’s innovation pillar – building bold, first-of-a-kind AI projects where Interior BC has the most to gain, and the most to contribute to national, and global futures.
TRU Generator
The Generator is TRU’s entrepreneurship accelerator – now offering AI-specific programming alongside mentorship, events, and hands-on support to help students turn ideas into businesses.
AI research opportunities
As a dual‑sector institution serving the Interior of British Columbia, TRU brings together academic expertise, applied skills, and deep regional knowledge.
Other AI projects
We’re expanding opportunities for students and colleagues across TRU. Check our volunteer opportunities or join our newsletter to stay in touch.