Overview
This masterclass explores the current "noise" around AI and how to sift through emotion and opinion and arrive at a foundational approach to AI for the whole board. It explores how to work with board members around the framing of AI, have AI on the agenda and develop a robust approach to AI reporting across the business.
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Participant Profile
- Do you want to be more of a participant in AI conversations in the boardroom?
- Do you want to get AI on the agenda in a way that moves your organisation forward?
- Do you want to support and challenge your board to have the right conversations about AI?
This training course is relevant to all sectors, including listed and private companies, charities, public sector, and NHS.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will understand:
- Board dynamics with regards to AI and where your board is at and how it got there.
- Your organisational culture around AI (including the Board, the C-suite and senior management).
- The risks of investing and the risks of not investing in AI.
- Why the rise of AI leadership at board level is like the rise of audit leadership and risk leadership
- Advanced strategies for getting AI on the agenda in the boardroom
You will also receive:
- Governance glossary - key terms and their definitions
- A delegate pack containing comprehensive course notes and presentation slides
- A certificate to show you have attended the course
- 3 hours credit towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
If you’ve already signed up for this course, we recommend booking “Deploying AI in the Secretariat: Masterclass” next.
People who take this course often progress to book:
Competency framework
This course aligns to CGI’s competency framework: Emerging/Established
Use the competency framework to identify your strengths and areas for improvement in governance.
Course Leader
Simon is an award-winning pioneer of AI since 2012. Now a trainer and speaker on AI adoption for global organisations. Simon designs and leads the CGI’s AI Curriculum for Boards, Company Secretariat and Senior Executives.
Simon helps Boards, Company Secretariat and Senior Executives gain a deeper understanding of AI so that a strategic direction can be set and organisations can go from disjointed conversations about AI, to being aligned, gaining confidence and building momentum.
Through his company Kegai, Simon delivers AI Lunch ‘n’ Learns, AI Boardroom Briefings and an AI Playbook that helps organisations ranging from the Third Sector to Mid-Market and FTSE100 companies.
Together with Kegai’s partners Simon helps establish AI Centres of Excellence that drive AI adoption to help organisations lead their category.
Simon spoke at the 2024 CGI Annual Conference on AI, leading two sessions and co-presenting a third session with Microsoft. Participants scored themselves before and after his mainstage session on a scale of 1 to 10 in their AI journey and in 40 minutes the shift in understanding and confidence around AI was substantial.
He is also co-Founder of an award-winning technology company, Kia Ora Digital, that helps clients become more profitable by generating more revenue through digital marketing, specifically Google Search.
Simon co-Founded a leading Generative AI company in 2012. It pioneered Generative AI that is 100% accurate (known as ‘deterministic’ vs LLMs that are ‘probabilistic’), has 43 patents, is used by several Fortune 500 companies and reached unicorn status.
He is an AI trainer, AI keynote speaker, author, podcaster and playwright.
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