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Imperial College Business School
Building Your AI Unicorn: Fast-Track Your Tech Startup
PROGRAMME STARTS
Spring 2023
Price
$2,146.00
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Length: 6 weeks
Language: English
Effort: 7-10 hours per week, self-paced online learning
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Your Next-Gen AI Accelerator

When humans innovate with AI, the results can be transformative: pharmaceutical companies finding new links between diseases and drugs, financial institutions detecting fraud before it happens, e-commerce giants enhancing the customer experience. AI is more than tech – it’s a promise of a healthier, fairer, more dynamic future.

For entrepreneurs, corporate innovators and startup-ecosystem business professionals, AI offers an exciting yet immense challenge. AI ventures inevitably encounter unique issues, like obtaining voluminous amounts of data and compiling the right mix of talent and teamwork to clean and secure it. Machine learning can yield meaningful insights, but only if you solve the cost-benefit problem of AI computational power. Supercomputers don’t grow on trees.

In this programme, David Shrier, Professor of Practice in AI & Innovation at Imperial College Business School, and Christopher Tucci, Professor of Digital Strategy & Innovation, Imperial College Business School, give you the foundational tools to accelerate your AI venture from prototype to product. A leader in UK tech startups, Imperial College Business School has the industry experts to help startup founders sidestep traps and secure funding.
The programme is an opportunity for leaders and innovators to gain immediate expertise in AI and learn how to leverage it for business success. By the end of the programme, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of the AI startup ecosystem, a functional AI prototype, a plan to execute your venture and a road map for AI business success in any industry.
David Shrier
Programme Director
Professor of Practice, AI & Innovation, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
You’ll benefit from this programme if you are:
  • An entrepreneur looking to venture into the dynamic field of artificial intelligence.
  • A startup-minded intrapreneur leading emerging tech innovation within an organisation.
  • A C-suite executive or senior leader overseeing AI innovation and R&D.
  • A functional business head interested in exploring cross-business AI opportunities.
  • A corporate professional – product manager, marketer, sales executive, technologist – eyeing entrepreneurship as your next move.
  • A lawyer, accountant, consultant or professional services/advisor eager for insights into AI entrepreneurs and your AI clients.
  • A current or future SMB leader seeking innovative business transformations.
  • A business professional looking for upskill and career advancement opportunities driven by advancement in AI applications.
  • An investor or analyst seeking AI business analytics tools, perspectives on venture implications and a deeper understanding of investment feasibility.
  • A policymaker responsible for building and growing AI-based innovation tools.
  • A government advisor or regulator in risk management, venture promotion, competition enhancement or consumer protection looking to leverage data to protect against unintended consequences of AI.
Programme Content
Module 0: Orientation and Overview Module arrow
Module 1: AI Technologies and Opportunities Module arrow
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Module 3: Strategies and Frameworks Module arrow
Module 4: Risks and Mitigation Module arrow
Module 5: Financing Your Venture Module arrow
Module 6: Capstone Project and Next Steps Module arrow
What you will gain
  1. Earn a certificate of participation issued by Imperial College Business School Executive Education demonstrating proof of knowledge.
  2. Have access to a powerful professional network of proven global leaders, thinkers, strategists and influencers, plus a community of driven programme participants.
  3. Possess dynamic new skills supported by an AI-driven learning platform, individual- and team-based programming, and individual success coaching.
  4. Know coveted industry details from a market-driven curriculum designed and delivered to elite academic standards.
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Professor of Practice, AI & Innovation, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
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Professor of Digital Strategy & Innovations, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
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How you will learn:
  • Digital videos or audio content, augmented by material created exclusively for the course
  • Quizzes and exercises designed specifically to help you understand and retain new information
  • Dialogue with expert instructors and your peers via discussion forums and small group sessions
  • Simulations and other carefully crafted interactions to provide an engaging learning experience
  • Real-life examples that place information in context to help you understand how the concepts delivered in the programme material can be applied to your work environment
  • AI coaching to improve your and your team’s collaboration
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The Imperial Learning Experience

Human
We create people-centric learning experiences. From conception through to delivery, we are guided by the principle that learning is a creative, personal and above all, human process. Our high quality, crafted learning environments are highly interactive, community-orientated and actively tutored. Our programmes offer an engaging experience designed to facilitate natural learning behaviours.

Real
No compromises. Our online programmes offer the absolute equivalent of our campus-based programmes. They adopt the same rigorous academic standards, are delivered via our world-leading faculty and offer a comparable high-touch approach to the classroom experience.

Collaborative AI-enhanced learning
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Collaborative AI-enhanced learning
We teach executives as they work - in cross-functional teams. Learners participate in interactive simulations and team projects which reinforce applied learning and enhance collaboration and complex problem solving skills. If you are looking for an individually-paced course, this course is not for you.
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improvement on completion rates compared to other online courses
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