{"id":43605,"date":"2026-05-19T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43605\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:06:20","slug":"city-launches-ai-training-pilot-for-oahu-businesses-nonprofits-hawaii-news-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/43605\/","title":{"rendered":"City launches AI training pilot for Oahu businesses, nonprofits \u00a0| Hawaii News Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A new pilot program aims to help Oahu businesses and nonprofits bring AI training into the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The City and County of Honolulu\u2019s Office of Economic Revitalization, Mapunawai and Skilled Tomorrow are launching \u201cAI for Everyone at Work,\u201d a free, one-day, train-the-trainer course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say it will equip leaders in management, HR and team development to teach AI fundamentals, prompt-writing and practical workplace uses, and how to introduce AI responsibly across multigenerational teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWith the increasing speed in tech advancements and AI adoption, upskilling is critical for our local workforce,\u201d said Amy Asselbaye, executive director of the Office of Economic Revitalization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program is open to leaders at Oahu-based small businesses and nonprofits with 5 to 50 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No prior AI experience is required, but applicants must submit a letter of support and agree to hold at least two internal trainings within six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Up to 12 participants will be selected, with notifications sent on June 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone interested can find the application online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revitalizeoahu.org\/ai-for-everyone-at-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.revitalizeoahu.org\/ai-for-everyone-at-work\">www.revitalizeoahu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A new pilot program aims to help Oahu businesses and nonprofits bring AI training into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,1242,1240,2278,2276,2275,2277,2279,2274],"class_list":["post-43605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}