Knowledge Track

What’s in Private AI Certified — Essentials

The entry point to the Knowledge track. Ten papers that give anyone who talks to customers about private AI the concepts, the risk vocabulary, and the first real numbers — no prerequisite.

NetApp Certificate - Private AI Essentials

Papers

None

Prerequisite

~1.5 h

Reading Time

What Private AI Actually Means

The anchor paper — why data, model, and hardware all have to stay under one roof.

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I Hadn't Mentioned My Dogs

The plain-language cold open on what an agent is and why it matters.

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What’s in Storage — and Why It’s Suddenly Reachable

Grounds the “your data” half of the pitch.

The Five Layers of AI Memory

The corrected memory-and-risk paper.

Never Train Your Rival’s Model

The competitive-exposure hook.

Shared · Starter

Shared · Generate

How to End Your Token Costs

The basic-level economics answer — the field brief version.

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What Generate Actually Does

Speed-of-deployment proof point (from “From Empty Infrastructure to Working AI in 20 Minutes”).

Shared · Field Readiness

How an Agent Actually Works

Learn how Generate is outcome-based.

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The ROI for AI: It's Real.

Learn how Generate is outcome-based.

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What Privacy Actually Buys You

Privacy as an edge, not just a safeguard — security, cost, and knowledge you keep.

Take Certification Quiz

To earn it: read all 10 papers (about 80–100 minutes), pass a 20-question quiz at 80%. No prerequisite.