Overview
Start date: Q1 2024
Duration: Every Thursday for six weeks
Fees: $3,500
The Programme
Understand how AI is impacting business across the African continent and develop a strategy for implementing AI in your organisation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our world and the way businesses work. Gain a better understanding of how AI is impacting business practices and learn the skills necessary to operate in this new environment with UCL’s Artificial Intelligence for Business, Africa programme. You’ll also get the opportunity to develop a project based on the potential implementation of AI in your own organisation.
The programme is suitable for mid to senior level managers and executives working in any industry.
The impact
By the end of the programme you will:
- Have an understanding of the fundamental principles underlying AI;
- Be able to identify new business opportunities for applying AI;
- Understand how AI facilitates new business models;
- Recognise the benefits and pitfalls of applying AI in a business environment.
Programme outline
Week 1: AI Fundamentals and the Deep Learning Revolution
- What is AI?
Understand different AI approaches and learn the language of AI. - The deep learning revolution
What are the basics of deep learning and why has it been so successful?
Week 2: AI business opportunities – identifying ways to use key AI business applications in your organisation.
- AI business applications
Study a variety of AI business applications.
Week 3: Translating Business Opportunities into AI Solutions
- Translating business opportunities into AI solutions
Find out what makes a business opportunity solvable by AI and how to prioritise such opportunities.
Week 4: Decision-making and Business models for AI.
- Decision-making
Learn how to analyse biases in AI models, combine AI models, and when to use humans and machines together.
- Business models
Understand the different ways in which AI can facilitate new business models.
Week 5: AI implementation – the key considerations and challenges when implementing AI in a business environment.
- The challenges of AI implementation
Create your own implementation design, while considering the challenges of implementing technological – and particularly AI – changes within an organisation.
Week 6: AI Strategy and discussion
- Project presentations and debrief
Present and discuss your ‘game plan’, reflect on what you’ve learnt and prepare for how you can make your plan a reality.
Programme dates
This Artificial Intelligence for Business, Africa programme is taught online for five weeks and one week in Nigeria. Dates will be confirmed for Q1 2024 soon, please check this page for the latest information.
Your learning environment
You will be taught by academics from the UCL School of Management, the business school of University College London, one of the world’s leading universities. Your peers will be a diverse group of mid-senior level executives from a range of industries, bringing a wealth of different experiences.
UCL’s strong emphasis on research and progressive approach to teaching means your course will be based on the most up-to-date understanding of how artificial intelligence is used in real-life businesses. On completing the course you should feel confident in your ability to implement AI projects in your organisation.
Our Faculty
In the latest Research Excellence Framework, 95% of the UCL School of Management’s research was considered world-leading and internationally excellent. Choosing the UCL Artificial Intelligence for Business, Africa Programme gives you access to world-leading academics who combine their unique research with real-world practical solutions.
Dr Bart Vanneste
Bart Vanneste is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship group of the UCL School of Management. His research focuses on corporate strategy, relationships between organisations and machine learning.
Bart is widely published in prestigious journals and wrote the book Corporate Strategy: Tools for Analysis and Decision-Making. He is active in management education and was awarded the Management Best Teacher Award by UCL School of Management.
Dr Angela Aristidou-Ritter
Angela Aristidou-Ritter is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship group of the UCL School of Management. She studies how multiple organizations across different sectors coordinate and innovate to address important societal challenges, with a focus on healthcare sustainability and continuity. She designs multi-sited studies that include virtual spaces such as online platforms and social media. Her work draws on organizational theory (primarily practice theory and institutional theory) to examine and explain puzzles that are uncovered in her empirical fieldwork.Dr Alastair Moore
Alistair Moore is a Lecturer (Education) in the Operations and Technology group of the UCL School of Management. He is a computer scientist with more than 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early-stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com.
His activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He has been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and has mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
Applications
Who should apply?
This programme is suitable for mid-senior level managers working at organisations in any industry. No prior technical knowledge is required.
What are the entry requirements?
There are no formal entry requirements to our executive education programmes, however, typically our applicants will have:
- a minimum of five years’ work experience
- a bachelor’s degree or higher
- a good level of English (an English language test is not required for this programme, however, the programme is taught entirely in English without translation, and so you should be comfortable communicating in English.)
How can you apply?
You can apply to the programme by completing our application form which shouldn’t take you more than five minutes to complete.
Once submitted, your application will be reviewed and Ai8 who will be in touch to discuss your place on the programme and to arrange payment.
Fees
Fees for this six-week programme are $3,500, with $175 discount per referral.
For more information on what the programme fee covers, or to discuss your fees, please email info@aieducation4africa.com.
Payment
Payment will be taken via Ai8’s payment portal found on on Ai8.
Are corporate partner rates/alumni discounts applicable?
Yes, we do offer discounts for alumni and for some corporate partners. Please contact the team at info@aieducation4africa.com.
Why choose us
As a programme attendee, you’ll benefit from a personalised approach that champions innovation, creativity and cross-disciplinary working.
The UCL School of Management was recently ranked in the top five of UK business schools by The Guardian, and UCL is consistently ranked in the global top 20 for its academic excellence and research. You’ll be learning from a university that combines cutting-edge thinking with a disruptive spirit, helping you to develop the skills that will allow you to fulfil your potential and achieve real results for your organisation.
Video library
Dr Bart Vanneste explains how the programme can help you explore the possible uses of AI in your organisation.
Madiha Latif, Managing Director at Zuria Dor, tells us how networking on her programme helped her to open her mind to new possibilities and collaborations.
Register for information
Want to know more? Please contact info@aieducation4africa.com to discuss your education and any other enquiries you may have.
FAQs
An English language test is not required for this programme, however, the programme is taught entirely in English without translation, and so you should be comfortable communicating in English.