Mentor Guide
This guide focuses specifically on the Mentorship Stage occurring in June. This is the critical validation stage of the program, where the Top 50 participants move their solutions from a theoretical idea to a scalable business case.
Overview of the Mentorship Phase (June)
The Mentorship stage is designed to introduce expert validation, helping participants create real-world solutions.
50 high-performing participants will be paired with an assigned mentor for focused guidance on feasibility and real-world compliance.
Outcome: Participants finalise their proposals, ensuring the output is scalable and includes a crucial organisation adoption and governance plan.
Your Primary Function
As a mentor, your focus is centered on business application rather than technical instruction. You’re not expected to be an AI specialist or technical advisor.
You’ll be able to provide real-world business context and critical feedback on the feasibility of the proposed AI-powered workflow.
By offering guidance on real-world compliance and scalability you can help to shape a solution that is of most value to you and your business, as well as the participant.
Commitment and Structure
The program is designed to be high-impact with a focused time commitment of 3 hours total mentoring, including preparation and feedback.
Participants: You will mentor 1-3 people maximum.
Format: Mentorship is conducted 1:1
Structure: Three structured, virtual check-ins over a three-week period.
Schedule: All Mentor sessions will happen in June.
Feedback
To ensure progress and provide institutional endorsement, mentors are required to complete brief administrative check-ins.
Short Feedback: Complete short feedback weekly during the 3-week period after each meeting.
Final Validation: Provide the final guidance needed for participants to include a Team Adoption Plan (how to roll it out) and a Governance Plan (the final validation checklist).
FAQs
Do I need to be an expert in Google Gemini or AI to be a mentor?
No. All participants are required to finish the Google AI Professionals Certification and have undergone technical training in prompt engineering and tool usage (Gemini and NotebookLM) prior to the mentorship stage.
Your role is to mentor them so their solution can work in a real professional environment (e.g., "How would a Legal or HR department actually use this?").
What if the participant asks a technical question I can't answer?
They can refer back to their training materials, including the Google AI Professionals Certification which all participants are required to complete prior to mentorship. Alternatively, Love Frankie - who conducts the Virtual Training Day - will be running Office Hours during the contest, should they wish to reach out.
Can I share my firm’s proprietary data with participants to help them?
No. Participants are using consumer-grade tools. Please do not share non-public, proprietary, or sensitive data. If the problem requires data for testing, please use "synthetic" data or public domain files that have been thoroughly anonymised.
How are the sessions structured if I have more than one mentee?
Mentoring sessions are 25 minutes long, enabling you to conduct two mentoring sessions in the 60 minute mentor slot. This includes a buffer of five minutes between mentees. If you have only one mentee, the session remains a standard 25-minute check-in. If you have more than two mentees, we will reach out to arrange the schedule.
What happens if I have to miss a scheduled session?
Please notify the 33 Talent team as soon as possible at sisgmentors@33talent.com. We will assist in re-arranging the mentoring session so that it can go ahead that week.
How do I complete the weekly pulse survey?
We will attach the weekly survey to the calendar slot. This weekly feedback loop contributes to the participant’s final result.
How do I "validate" their solution for the Grand Finale
You will be provided with a rubric to help you assess if the participant has addressed key business concerns, for example: Is it safe? Is it efficient? Does it solve the original problem statement?
What is the "Grand Finale"?
This is an in-person event at the Google Singapore office in July. The top participants will present their mentor-validated solutions to a panel of senior executives and government officials. You are encouraged (but not required) to attend.
Contact Information
For support during the 3-week mentorship period, please reach out to the 33 Talent team at sisgmentors@33talent.com.