Challenges and prizes
Put your practice to work: answer the weekly prompt, write the monthly challenge, and help others. Prizes are IAIM Membership time, or an AIMP renewal code for credential holders who place first in the monthly challenge, sent as single-use codes that only the winner can redeem.
Weekly prompt
What is one AI use case your team stopped, and what did you learn from stopping it?
- Reply to the prompt thread with at least 80 words. It opens Monday at 9:00 am and closes Sunday at 11:59 pm Pacific.
- Mark the entries you find useful as Helpful. The entry with the most Helpful marks from eligible members wins, with at least 3 marks. A tie goes to the earliest entry.
- Prize: 1 month of IAIM Membership, 50 reputation and the Weekly Challenge Winner badge.
Monthly written challenge
Monthly challenge: November 2026, a governance recommendation
- Clarity
- The recommendation is specific, well structured and easy to act on.
- Use of course concepts
- Applies AIMP ideas (governance, risk, controls, value, people) correctly.
- Evidence
- Claims are supported by the case facts, a briefing, a standard or a cited source.
- Practicality
- Realistic for the organization described; owners, steps and trade-offs are named.
- #1: a free annual AIMP renewal code (for credential holders) or 3 months of IAIM Membership, the winner's choice, plus 100 reputation, the Monthly Challenge Winner badge, a feature in the member briefing and an invitation to publish the entry in IAIM Insights.
- #2 and #3: 60 and 40 reputation and the Top 3 badge.
- Places #1 to #3 need at least 12 of 20; if fewer entries reach it, the remaining places stay empty.
- Entries in the top 10 that score at least 12 of 20 earn 1 IAIM Community CE.
Leaderboard
The monthly leaderboard appears once 50 members are active in a week.
IAIM Practitioner of the Year
Expert and Fellow members nominate the practitioner whose answers, posts and challenge entries helped others most this year. Nominations run 1 to 14 December. A shortlist of up to 5 is ranked by the year's reputation, accepted answers, Helpful marks received and challenge placings, and the IAIM team chooses the winner. The prize is 1 year of IAIM Membership, the Practitioner of the Year badge and a feature in the member briefing.