AI & Digital Transformation for Leaders
The question your board will ask is not whether to use AI; it is who answers when it is wrong. This programme prepares the leaders who will sign their name under the machine.
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Most AI programmes teach executives what a transformer is. Your tenure will be judged on something else: which use-cases got funded, which got stopped, and who owned the model when the regulator asked. Over three days — no code, no demo-as-strategy — senior leaders work through AI as an operating decision: the unit economics of a use-case, the plumbing it needs before any model matters, the governance that makes model risk a named person’s job, and the adoption work that turns pilots into practice.
What you will do
Who attends
- C-suite executives and board members setting technology direction
- Chief operating, risk and transformation officers
- Business-line heads deciding where AI enters their P&L
- Senior public-sector leaders mandated to modernise — no technical background required
Programme agenda
Built around the questions your board will ask
I.Where does AI actually pay?
- Use-case economics: cost to build, cost to run, cost of being wrong
- The anatomy of a failed pilot — and the stop-rules that would have caught it
- Case: a bank’s credit-workflow automation, costed line by line
- Build, buy or wait: a decision framework for non-engineers
II.Who owns it when it is wrong?
- Model risk for executives: inventories, validation and human override
- Data governance as the precondition — what breaks without it
- The regulatory posture: what supervisors already ask about AI in regulated workflows
- Workshop: writing the one-page AI governance standard your institution lacks
III.Will the institution adopt it?
- Operating model and talent: what to hire, what to rent, what to retrain
- Incentives, staffing and stop-rules that turn pilots into practice
- Leading the change: the executive behaviours adoption actually responds to
- Capstone: participants defend an AI investment case — faculty play the board
Frequently asked
Do participants need a technical background?
No. This is a non-technical executive programme — no code, no demo-as-strategy. It treats AI as an operating decision: the unit economics of a use-case, the plumbing it needs before any model matters, the governance that makes model risk a named person’s job, and the adoption work that turns pilots into practice. No technical background is required.
Is the programme relevant outside banking?
Yes. It is designed for C-suite executives, board members, chief operating, risk and transformation officers and business-line heads across financial services, telecoms, government and energy — including senior public-sector leaders mandated to modernise. The frameworks — use-case economics, model-risk governance, adoption stop-rules — apply wherever AI enters the P&L.
What do participants take away from the three days?
A way of deciding, not a technology tour: how to rank AI use-cases by economics rather than novelty, a one-page AI governance standard drafted in the workshop, the questions that expose a weak technology proposal in one meeting, and a defended investment case — the capstone puts each participant before faculty playing the board.
Can it be run in-house for our leadership team, and what does it cost?
Yes — every BIZENIUS programme is available in-house, tailored to the institution, and an executive-committee edition can be built around your own investment portfolio and governance gaps. The programme is delivered in English and French. Fees are provided on enquiry, with dates arranged on request from a rolling calendar.
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