Shillong, Meghalaya

A city known for music, design and English fluency. AI is the next instrument worth learning.

Live, practitioner-led applied-AI and AI-marketing diplomas for Shillong — built for a city that already thinks creatively and communicates in English, taught online so you never have to leave the hills.

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Shillong's own airport keeps growing, and Guwahati is a short drive away for anything else — but for this, you don't need either. Every session streams live to wherever you are.

No relocation

Everything you need from Shillong

Live online classes — same faculty, same fee as Kolkata
Recordings posted within a day of every session
No-Cost EMI on paid diplomas, UPI & card checkout
Financial aid via LearnPact Foundation, by application

Sound familiar?

If you're in Shillong, you've probably thought this.

Shillong has a brilliant creative and music scene, but almost no one teaches us how to use AI in that work.

I run a small tourism, homestay or content business and keep hearing AI could save me hours a week — I don't know where to start.

NEHU and local colleges are strong on fundamentals, but applied, project-first AI training isn't offered here.

Everything 'AI' I find online is generic — nothing built around how a small hill-town business actually runs.

How this actually works

Live online, so Shillong's connectivity and terrain never get in the way.

Classes run over video at a fixed weekly time — no travel through the hills to attend, no missed session because of a long commute from outside town. You see the same live screen, ask questions in the same chat, as a learner joining from Kolkata.

Recordings go up for every session, so a patchy evening connection or a tourist-season workload never costs you the class — you catch up within a day.

Why this fits Shillong specifically

Shillong runs on tourism, hospitality, music and a genuinely strong English-speaking creative economy — the kind of city where a content, marketing or automation skill compounds fast if you already know how to tell a story. What's been missing is hands-on, practitioner-led AI training aimed at exactly that: small businesses, creators and students who want a skill they can use on Monday, not just a certificate.

For Shillong's tourism, hospitality and creator economy, the AI Marketer Diploma is the natural fit after a ₹99 Sunday taster — content, campaigns and analytics for a small business or a personal brand.

Flagship programs

Career-grade AI, built for outcomes.

Premium, project-first diplomas that lead to a role, a raise or a launched venture — with transparent all-in fees and No-Cost EMI. Below are four flagships; the full catalogue spans engineering, marketing, content, leadership and founder tracks.

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Sunday Series

Open to all · No prerequisites

Our community on-ramp. Every Sunday, a working practitioner walks a live online room through one applied-AI skill — from prompt craft to building a no-code agent — live and hands-on. ₹99 a seat.

Format: Live online · join from anywhere
Duration: 2-hour sessions, every Sunday

Build a working AI mini-project in a single session
Meet faculty and current cohort learners
Decide if a paid track is right for you — no pressure

₹99 covers the platform and the practitioner's time. No prerequisites, no application — just book a seat.

₹99 a seat

180 seats / week

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Applied AI Foundations

Beginner → Practitioner

AI Marketer Diploma

Intermediate · For marketers, founders & agency teams

A career-grade diploma for marketers, founders and agency teams. Master the full applied-AI marketing stack — content engines, paid-media copilots, analytics agents and a capstone campaign for a real Kolkata business.

Format: Live online · weekend studio
Duration: 16 weeks · 120 contact hours

Run a live AI-driven campaign for a partner SME
Build a reusable content + analytics agent stack
Graduate with a placement-ready diploma & portfolio

Need-based scholarships fund learners who otherwise couldn't enrol — limited places, by application and a short assessment. No-Cost EMI available.

₹74,999 full fee

No-Cost EMI · all-in fee

Cohort 6 · 28 seats

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AI Fellowship

Advanced · By application & interview

Selective

Our flagship. A selective, full-time online program for those committing to applied-AI as a career. Work on sponsored industry problems, mentored 1:1, with an interview loop across our hiring-partner network.

Format: Full-time · fully online
Duration: 24 weeks · full-time online

Solve a sponsored, real-world AI brief end to end
1:1 mentorship from senior practitioners
Introductions to hiring employers

Selected merit fellows are fully funded by LearnPact Foundation & industry sponsors.

₹1,95,000 full fee

No-Cost EMI · all-in fee

Batch 3 · 12 fellows only

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See all programs — engineering, marketing, content, leadership & founder tracks

"I run a homestay page and a small YouTube channel. The Sunday session alone taught me more about using AI for content than months of scrolling tutorials."

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Who teaches you

Practitioners, not lecturers.

We teach the workflow we'd use on a Monday morning: every session ends with something working, not just explained.

Prateek Bera

Lead Faculty · AI Data Analyst

Teaches the AI Data Analyst cohort

Hands-on, dataset-led sessions

Illustrative profiles. The four below are placeholders while we publish verified faculty bios: photos are stock and the details are not verified. Ask your counsellor who leads your cohort before you enrol.

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Dr. Ananya Sengupta

Director of Curriculum

Ex-IIT Kharagpur · 12 yrs ML research

1,800+ learners mentored

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Rishi Aggarwal

Lead Faculty, Applied AI

Former Staff Engineer, fintech unicorn

Shipped AI to 40M+ users

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Megha Banerjee

Head of AI Marketing · Diploma lead

Built growth at 3 Kolkata startups

₹40Cr+ in tracked pipeline

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Imran Qureshi

Fellowship Mentor

TEDx speaker · G20 youth delegate

210K+ trained online

Shillong questions

Specific to Shillong.

Still unsure? Message us on WhatsApp — we usually reply within a few hours.

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Is there an in-person option in Shillong?

No — every LearnPact program is live online. That's deliberate: the same faculty and fee reach you without anyone needing to travel.

I run a small tourism/hospitality business — is this still relevant?

Yes. The AI Marketer Diploma in particular is built for small businesses: content, local marketing and simple automation, not just corporate case studies.

What if my internet drops during a live class?

Every session is recorded and posted within a day, so a connectivity issue never costs you the material.

Is financial aid available for Meghalaya applicants?

Yes, through LearnPact Foundation's need-based scholarship, open to applicants from anywhere in India — apply at foundation.learnpact.com/scholarships.

Admissions open

Start from Shillong. Live, this week.

Tell us a little about you. Our admissions team replies within one working day with your seat, scholarship eligibility and next steps — wherever in Meghalaya you're learning from.

No fee to apply — and no obligation
7-day cooling-off refund (see our Refunds page)
Financial aid available via LearnPact Foundation
Taught in English — explained in Bangla & Hindi when you need it
A ₹99 Sunday Series seat while you decide

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