Opleiding: Innovation in the Age of AI

Harness AI for strategic innovation

As AI reshapes industries, the pressure to innovate with speed and creativity is growing.

This two-day, hands-on program is designed as an innovation lab built around your real innovation challenge. You’ll combine creative methods and AI-enabled tools to design customer-centric solutions that deliver impact.

Expert input, real-world cases, and interactive workshops ensure practical outcomes you can apply immediately.es, group workshops, and networking sessions, this highly interactive program ensures practical takeaways that can be applied immediately.

This program is delivered in collaboration with Vali Berlin as part of the Innovation Academy.

Your profile

• You are a mid- to senior-level leader or functional manager responsible for driving innovation, strategy, or digital transformation in your organization. You may be a head of innovation, R&D director, product development manager, digital transformation lead, or business unit manager.
• You have minimal or no prior technical expertise in AI but are looking to leverage it in your business strategy.

Benefits

• Get an overview of AI-driven innovation: value-add of AI in products, services and processes
• Discover frameworks to integrate AI into your innovation strategy and business model
• Bring your own challenge and outline a roadmap
• Accelerate innovation by learning latest AI tools and how to integrate them
• Gain inspiration and build relationships by engaging with leading startups & ecosystems in Berlin & Europe

Topics

• AI technologies - machine learning, big data, generative AI
• AI case studies - successes, failures, and lessons learned
• Data-driven innovation - strategy, quality, and governance
• AI-enabled business models - value propositions and customer experience
• Startups & ecosystems - partnerships and open innovation
• Future trends - impact of emerging tech (e.g. genAI, IoT) 

Why ESMT?

• Ranked #1 business school in Germany and among the best in the world by the Financial Times
• Located in Berlin, one of Europe's biggest startup hubs
• This program is delivered in collaboration with Vali Berlin, ESMT’s entrepreneurship hub, as part of the Innovation Academy