Practice Area 05 · Training & Certification

Learn It. Apply It Monday.

Practitioner-grade programmes in Sustainable IT, Sustainable AI, RAG and Agentic AI — taught live by Dr. Niladri Choudhuri, President of the Green Computing Foundation. Open masterclasses for individuals and small teams. Closed enterprise cohorts for organisations. Every programme ends with an artefact you can execute the next working day.

🎓 Instructor-led, live 🛠️ Hands-on exercises 📜 Certificate included 🧾 Instant GST invoice

Start free: The 60-Minute Practitioner's Playbook

48 slides. Verified numbers from the IEA, UN and peer-reviewed research. The full Sustainable IT & Sustainable AI playbook — the hidden cost stack, the three thinking lenses, the 90-day plan — recorded by Dr. Choudhuri.

Open Programmes

For Individuals & Small Teams

Live, instructor-led, virtual. Pay online, get a GST invoice instantly. Bring your real systems — leave with a working artefact.

🔥 Most popular · No coding required

Sustainable Agentic AI & MCP

From AI that answers to AI that acts — safely, greenly, at work.

8-hour live masterclass · 6 hands-on exercises

The agent loop, agent anatomy, and where agents break
MCP — the "USB-C of AI" that plugs agents into your apps & data
The 7 levers of sustainable agent design: right-sizing, caching, carbon-aware ops
Prompt-injection defence, human-in-the-loop, accountability
Playbooks for individuals, startups & educational institutions

You leave with: a signed agent charter + a 90-day agentic AI deployment roadmap.

For: founders, IT & business leaders, consultants, product managers, educators.

Vendor-neutral

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Put your organisation's own knowledge to work with AI — accurately, securely, sustainably.

8-hour live masterclass · 12 hands-on exercises

How RAG works — and RAG vs fine-tuning
The full pattern family: Semantic, Hybrid, Graph, Agentic & more
Choosing the right architecture for your real use case
Caching, small-model tiering, token & cost efficiency
Minimising hallucination — security & governance built in

You leave with: a capstone RAG architecture design for your own use case.

For: IT & engineering leaders, architects, developers, product managers.

For senior engineers

Sustainable IT & AI for the Probabilistic Era

The deterministic era is over. Most teams haven't caught up.

8-hour intensive · 6 exercises on a shared case study

Diagnose systems as deterministic, probabilistic or hybrid
Six practitioner lenses — from Sustainable IT to Critical Thinking
Guardrails, evaluation harnesses, graceful degradation
Rubric-based, statistical evaluation replacing brittle assertions
India-specific governance: DPDP, sector regulators, cybersecurity

You leave with: a target architecture + evaluation harness + Sustainable-AI scorecard for a live system.

For: senior engineers & architects, SRE / platform / DevOps leads, ML practitioners, CTOs.

⭐ Certification · 2 days

Sustainable IT Practitioner

Build, measure and govern sustainable technology — from data centres and software to AI and autonomous agents.

16-hour certification · 7 modules · 10 facilitated exercises

Sustainability foundations & the three thinkings
The 10 levers of Sustainable IT — and how to prioritise them
Green data centres, cloud & the 9Rs of hardware circularity
DevSusOps, SRE & VSM — carbon-aware pipelines, carbon-per-feature
Sustainable AI and Sustainable Agentic AI — governed, observable, net-positive

You leave with: practitioner certification + your personal 12-month roadmap.

For: IT leaders, architects, DevOps / SRE, cloud & infra specialists, AI / ML engineers, ESG & FinOps professionals. Prerequisite: working IT experience.

Green AI Professional Track

All three 8-hour masterclasses for ₹24,000 + GST (save ₹4,000). Completing all three earns ₹5,000 off the Sustainable IT Practitioner certification.

Teams

Buy 3 seats on any open programme, get the 4th free.

Risk-free

Attend the first half; full refund if it's not for you.

Enterprise Programmes

Closed Cohorts for Your Organisation

For organisations building capability at scale: our GreenOps and Sustainable AI certification tracks, delivered as closed cohorts on-site or virtually (15–25 participants, invoiced to the organisation). Any open masterclass above can also be delivered in-house for your team — enquire for batch pricing.

Programme	GreenOps Foundation	GreenOps Practitioner	Sustainable AI Foundation	Sustainable AI Practitioner
Price / Person	₹22,000 + 18% GST	₹28,000 + 18% GST	₹22,000 + 18% GST	₹28,000 + 18% GST
Duration	2 Days · 16 Hours	3 Days · 24 Hours	2 Days · 16 Hours	3 Days · 24 Hours
Batch Size	15–25	15–25	15–25	15–25
Min. Batch (15 pax)	₹3,30,000 + GST	₹4,20,000 + GST	₹3,30,000 + GST	₹4,20,000 + GST
Max. Batch (25 pax)	₹5,50,000 + GST	₹7,00,000 + GST	₹5,50,000 + GST	₹7,00,000 + GST
Focus	Sustainable IT principles, carbon measurement, GreenOps framework fundamentals	SIT strategy, double materiality, programme management, SIT rating systems	Responsible AI development, AI carbon footprinting, ethical AI governance	AI lifecycle assessment, ESG disclosure for AI, advanced sustainability integration
Suitable For	All IT professionals, sustainability team members	IT managers, sustainability leads, architects	Data scientists, AI engineers, sustainability officers	AI leads, sustainability architects, senior practitioners
Enquire	Book →	Book →	Book →	Book →

* Enterprise programmes are closed corporate cohorts — invoiced to the organisation. Foundation is a prerequisite for Practitioner level.

🌿 Awareness Workshop · Corporate · GCF Initiative

Digital Ecowarriors — Lead The Net Zero Journey

A unique 4-hour game-based workshop using the Digital Collage activity to build digital sustainability awareness across your entire organisation. Covers ESG basics, digital sustainability levers, and greener digital practices. Suitable for any team, any size. On-site at your premises · invoiced to the organisation.

₹1,00,000 + 18% GST · per session

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Executive · Bespoke

Custom Board & Leadership Programmes

Tailored programmes for boards, C-suites and audit committees — ESG Director Certification, Sustainable IT Strategy for Boards, ISO integration, and Sustainable Auditor tracks. Scoped and priced per engagement.

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Good to know

Frequently Asked Questions

Are sessions live or recorded?

Live and instructor-led. Participants receive the course materials and exercise solutions afterwards.

Do I get a certificate?

Yes — a certificate of participation for the 8-hour masterclasses, and a practitioner certification for the 2-day Sustainable IT Practitioner programme.

Can my company pay by invoice or PO?

Yes. Choose "Pay by invoice" at checkout, or write to info@xellentro.com with your PO details. A GST invoice is issued for every registration.

What if the cohort date doesn't suit me?

Your seat transfers to the next cohort of the same programme at no cost.

Is there a group discount?

Buy 3 seats, get the 4th free. For 10 or more seats, an in-house batch is usually better value — enquire here.

Not sure which programme fits your team?

Tell us where you are on the journey — we'll recommend the right starting point, or scope a custom in-house programme.

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