AI Leadership Accelerator
$6,200
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What You Get
Exclusive AI Insights for Senior Leaders
Through a highly interactive curriculum led by world-renowned faculty and industry pioneers, you’ll build a comprehensive understanding of how AI can transform your organization — from strategic planning to operational implementation.
Participants will leave with actionable insights, a customized AI strategy roadmap, and an expanded network of fellow executives and AI experts, all within the innovation-rich environment of Berkeley and Silicon Valley.
C-suite leaders and senior executives
Business strategists leading digital transformation
Decision-makers in AI-reliant industries (tech, finance, healthcare, manufacturing)
Innovation and operations executives integrating AI
Leaders seeking global perspectives and a powerful professional network
Pieter Abbeel - AI Pioneer
Professor, Berkeley EECS
Director, Berkeley Robot Learning Lab
Co-Director, BAIR lab
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Covariant
Co-Founder, Gradescope
Host, The Robot Brains Podcast
Founding Investment Partner, AIX Ventures
Abbeel's research strives to build ever more intelligent systems, which has his lab push the frontiers of deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, transfer learning, meta-learning, and learning to learn, as well as study the influence of AI on society. His lab also investigates how AI could advance other science and engineering disciplines. Abbeel has founded three companies: Gradescope (AI to help teachers with grading homework and exams), Covariant (AI for robotic automation of warehouses and factories), and Berkeley Open Arms (low-cost, highly capable 7-dof robot arms), advises many AI and robotics start-ups, and is a frequently sought after speaker worldwide for C-suite sessions on AI future and strategy.
Learn more about Pieter's background undergrad school KU Leuven: here
David Gallacher – Business Strategy Expert
Industry Fellow, UC Berkeley College of Engineering, SCET
David Gallacher was previously T-Mobile's Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations responsible for the Western United States.
David has led a number of internal business transformation assignments during his 16-year tenure at T-Mobile, including the Reinvent program, a company-wide initiative that streamlined business processes and ideated new products and services that formed the basis for many of the Uncarrier initiatives responsible for the dramatic turn-around in T-Mobile's performance.
UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley / TrueMedia.org
UC Berkeley College of Engineering / Google DeepMind
TIAA
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Databricks / UC Berkeley
AI Thought Leader
AI Ethics Specialist
Engineering Professor & Robotics Entrepreneur
Sustainable Business Expert
Entrepreneurship Mindset & Pedagogy
Scaling AI Enterprises
Strategy & Risk Expert
through change?
Participants begin by establishing a shared understanding of today’s most transformative AI technologies—from large language models and autonomous agents to the ethical, policy, and governance questions they raise. Sessions will explore both the potential and the risks of AI deployment, including real-world case studies of unintended consequences. The day also features a curated showcase of early-stage AI ventures, followed by a fireside conversation on applied AI leadership across sectors.
Sample themes:
- The evolving AI landscape: what leaders need to know now
- AI ethics, governance, and legal risk
- Insights from Berkeley-born AI startups
- Leading through uncertainty and acceleration
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