Delivered by MIT faculty through Riff Learning, the AI Business Strategy & Application online course provides education to employees from enterprises of all sizes to encourage adoption of disruptive technologies.
Why NextED?
Gain AI Insights and Skills
An in-depth understanding of AI principles and hands-on techniques for applying AI to specific business problems in order to guide an organization in building out its AI practices.
Develop and Drive AI Adoption
The ability to develop a disruptive AI innovation and use various approaches to drive adoption of AI practices within specific disciplines and Industries.
A Digital Badge and Certificate
A certificate of participation in the founding course of NextED’s AI Business Strategy & Application program will be awarded as a digital badge.
What We Do
With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Canadian businesses need to not only prepare, but equip themselves with skills to be competitive in this new data-driven economy.
NextED is offering a unique program for both executives and employees of large and medium-sized enterprises. The program will help participants understand the implications of data and AI as well as create strategy and technical insights to adopt AI into their businesses. The courses will be delivered both in-person through the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business and through a new online platform powered by Riff Learning.
Course Offerings
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Course Duration:
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First Cohort:
Rotman AI Executive Primer
Value of Course: $4,500 per participant
Course Duration: 1.5 days in-person
Profile of the Participant: C-suite executive of Canadian business or organization
Delivered By: Rotman Professors and Canadian AI Experts
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AI Business & Strategy
Value of Course: $3,199 per participant
Course Duration: 8 weeks online
Profile of the Participant: Middle management, direct employees working on implications of AI in the business
Delivered By: MIT, Oxford, and Ryerson Faculty
September 17, 2019 - Applications now open!
Meet the Faculty & Network
Ajay Agrawal
Academic Director, NEXT Canada, Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and NBER
Inmar Givoni
Senior Autonomy Engineering Manager, Uber Advanced Technology Group
Katya Kudashkina
Founder and CEO, Cultura; Ph.D. Candidate at Vector Institute and University of Guelph
Hossein Rahnama
Founder, Flybits; Ph.D, Computer Science, Ryerson University
Alex "Sandy" Pentland
Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences, MIT; Ph.D., AI and Psychology, MIT
David Shrier
Founder and CEO, Distilled Analytics; Sc.B, Brown University
Beth Porter
Co-founder and CEO, Riff Learning Inc.
Mina Soltangheis
Head of Research and Development, Flybits