The AI-Enabled Embassy

November 17, 2026 | Washington, D.C. | In-person

One-Day Applied Program | Open Enrollment

Use artificial intelligence to work faster, prepare better, and strengthen mission capability — without compromising judgment or information security.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how professionals research, prepare, communicate, and make sense of complex information. For embassy personnel, the opportunity is significant — but so are the risks.

The AI-Enabled Embassy is a practical, hands-on program designed specifically for foreign mission personnel who want to use AI responsibly and effectively in their everyday work. Participants will learn how to apply AI to realistic diplomatic tasks, evaluate its output critically, protect sensitive information, and build repeatable workflows that can save time and improve the quality of embassy work.

This is not a course about the future of AI — it’s about how to use it effectively tomorrow.

Live, In-person
One-Day Intensive
Hands-On AI Labs
Embassy AI Playbook
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Enrollment is limited to support discussion, application, and facilitator feedback.

What Participants Will Learn

Participants will learn to:

  • Use AI to accelerate research, briefing, drafting, and meeting preparation
  • Build prompts and workflows that produce more useful and reliable results
  • Verify AI-generated information and identify common weaknesses or errors
  • Determine which embassy tasks are appropriate (and inappropriate) for AI assistance
  • Protect sensitive, proprietary, diplomatic, and personally identifiable information
  • Use AI to support stakeholder research, reporting, communications, and analysis
  • Build repeatable AI-enabled workflows that can be adapted across embassy functions

Why This Training Matters

Most embassy personnel are already encountering artificial intelligence –whether they are actively using it or not. The challenge is that informal adoption can produce very different results across a mission.

One officer may be using AI effectively to accelerate research and preparation. Another may avoid it entirely. A third may use it without fully understanding the risks associated with sensitive information, hallucinated facts, or overreliance on automated output. The result can be inconsistent practice, missed productivity gains, and unnecessary risk.

Embassies need more than just access to AI tools.

They need personnel who understand when to use them, how to use them, and when human judgment must remain in control.

Why This Training Is Different

General AI courses typically teach tools. This program teaches diplomatic application. Participants work with realistic embassy activities such as:

  • Preparing for an ambassadorial meeting
  • Researching an unfamiliar stakeholder
  • Summarizing a developing policy issue
  • Improving a headquarters briefing
  • Drafting and refining outreach
  • Comparing alternative courses of action
  • Preparing public-facing content
  • Organizing large amounts of background information

The emphasis is not on becoming an AI specialist — it’s on becoming a more capable embassy professional who knows how to use AI intelligently.

The program also complements technology or AI guidance provided by a participant’s home government. National policies establish what personnel may or may not do. This course focuses on developing the practical judgment and workflow skills needed to operate effectively within those rules.

Program Agenda

  • AI as a diplomatic productivity tool: Where AI can improve speed, preparation, and analytical capacity—and where it cannot.
  • Asking better questions: How prompt structure, context, constraints, and iteration affect the quality of AI output.
  • Verification and judgment: Recognizing hallucinations, weak sourcing, false confidence, missing context, and analytical gaps.
  • Responsible use: Information sensitivity, confidentiality, privacy, and determining what should never be entered into an external AI system.
  • Embassy workflow labs: Participants apply AI to realistic diplomatic tasks involving research, briefing, engagement, reporting, and communication.
  • Human + AI: Determining which parts of a task should be automated, assisted, reviewed, or performed entirely by a person.
  • Building repeatable workflows: Turning successful AI use into simple processes that can be used again.
  • Implementation Lab: Participants design practical AI-enabled workflows they can begin using within their own responsibilities.

What Your Embassy Takes Away

An Embassy AI Workflow Playbook

Participants leave with practical tools they can continue using after the course, including:

  • A framework for evaluating appropriate AI use
  • Prompt structures for common professional tasks
  • Verification and quality-control checklists
  • Information-sensitivity decision guidance
  • Reusable workflow templates
  • Three participant-developed AI-enabled workflows tied to their actual responsibilities

Rather than returning to the mission with notes about AI, participants return with working approaches they can begin applying immediately.

Joining this training opportunity is easy:

Register

Choose individual enrollment or send a three-person embassy team.

Participate

Bring your laptop and work through practical, embassy-focused AI exercises.

Apply

Return to your mission with an AI Workflow Playbook and three workflows you can begin using immediately.

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for embassy personnel who regularly research, prepare, communicate, coordinate, or advise, including:

  • Political and economic officers
  • Trade and investment personnel
  • Public diplomacy and communications staff
  • Ambassadorial and executive office personnel
  • Consular and administrative personnel
  • Policy and research staff
  • Senior locally engaged personnel
  • Section heads responsible for improving staff productivity

No technical or programming background is required.

Participants should bring a laptop and be prepared to work through practical exercises during the program.

Program Details

Dates: Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Format: In-person and highly interactive

Value to the Sponsoring Mission

The program is designed to create organizational value — not just individual awareness. A sponsoring mission can gain:

  • Faster preparation of routine research and briefing materials
  • More consistent and disciplined use of AI across personnel
  • Reduced risk from inappropriate or careless AI use
  • Better understanding of where human review and judgment remain essential
  • Practical workflows that can be shared and adapted across embassy sections
  • Greater staff capacity without requiring additional personnel

For missions operating with small teams and expanding responsibilities, even modest improvements in how personnel research, prepare, draft, and organize information can return substantial amounts of staff time to higher-value diplomatic work.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The program is designed for both newer and more experienced AI users. The emphasis is on practical professional application rather than technical knowledge.

No. Participants will not learn programming, machine learning, or software development. The course focuses on using existing AI tools effectively and responsibly in everyday embassy work.

No. Home-government policies determine which systems, information, and uses are authorized. This program complements those requirements by developing practical skills, judgment, and workflow capability within the boundaries established by each participant’s government.

No. Participants should never provide classified, restricted, sensitive, or protected information during the program. Course exercises are structured so that useful skills can be developed without exposing sensitive mission information.

The program emphasizes transferable methods rather than dependence on a single platform. Participants learn principles and workflows that can be adapted to the AI tools authorized by their mission or home government.

Yes. Missions are encouraged to send personnel from complementary sections. Multiple participants can use the course to begin building a more coordinated use of AI to boost efficiency.

Yes. Bonvalet Academy can deliver a customized version for one embassy, incorporating the mission’s priorities, team structure, and engagement objectives. For private delivery

Participants leave with an Embassy AI Workflow Playbook, reusable templates and checklists, and three AI-enabled workflows designed around their own professional responsibilities.

Build Capability, Not Just Awareness

Put AI to work in your mission — responsibly and practically.

November 17, 2026

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