Training Course

Navigating AI: A Guides for Company Secretaries and Boards

Overview

This course provides an overview of AI and Generative AI for governance professionals. How does AI within the enterprise compare to the consumer AI applications that are available on personal devices? This will build confidence in your understanding of AI and ability to discuss with colleagues.

For any related enquiries please contact us at training@cgi.org.uk, or call us at +44 (0)20 7580 4741

Participant Profile

  1. Are you looking to expand your understanding of AI as a Secretariat or Board member?
  2. Do you want to make sense of the rise of AI breakthroughs in the news and in the world?
  3. Do you want to speak with confidence about AI and its potential within your organisation?

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:

  1. Fundamentals of Generative AI and AI
  2. The difference between consumer generative AI and enterprise generative AI
  3. How to champion implementation of AI
  4. Internal stakeholder consideration for AI
  5. Rules of engagement when it comes to AI in the Boardroom & secretariat

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)

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 Small

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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