PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
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The AI Business Field Guide
This guide steers away from philosophical takes on AI’s future. Rather, it focuses on concrete strategies I’ve tested and refined on how to use AI to move the needle in work and life, from winning a $50k consulting gig to avoiding getting ripped off by a mechanic.
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UNF’s AI Business Innovation Fellowship Preps Students for an AI-First World
It’s not higher ed’s fault that AI is disrupting careers and entrepreneurship. But it is higher ed’s problem to solve. We created the UNF AI Business Innovation Fellowship to address this challenge head on through learning by doing, connections to industry, and an ongoing community.
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AI Innovation Week
Picture ChatGPT projected on a jumbo screen. A sales guy crafts a prompt while forty peers workshop every word—its phrasing, its hidden assumptions, whether the AI will misinterpret the goal. Each prompt becomes a live drill in AI‑powered leadership. That doesn’t happen in a typical business school. But it happened at IPADE, Mexico’s leading MBA…
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The U.S.-Mexico AI Education Initiative
The rapid rise of AI has left many communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems feeling uncertain—worried about job disruption, economic instability, and the challenges of adapting to this new wave of technology. At Actionworks, we see a different path.
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A 4-Week Program Changed Portugal’s Research Ecosystem
Portugal’s Ministry of Science and Technology faced a challenge: turning research into startups and spinoffs to drive economic growth and innovation. The “From Portugal to the World: Innovation-to-Business Journey” program addressed this need.
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From Tokyo to Texas: The University of Tokyo at SXSW
Helping Japanese technologists build international businesses, sell their ideas, and capitalize on conferences.
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Transforming Deep Tech: Actionworks at Intel
How we helped teams at Intel Ignite tell better stories on camera, sell to enterprise, and raise more capital.
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Customer-Centric Learning: A Week in Delhi with the Nexus Accelerator
A recap of a week’s worth of customer-focused founder education in Delhi, India.
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Minimum Viable Video at Silicon Valley Bank
At Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a challenge emerged: how to effectively distribute valuable market insights to their audience. The solution? Our Minimum Viable Video program designed to transform SVB’s experts into confident on-camera communicators.
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70 Executives Get Hands-on with AI
There I was, standing in front of 70 businesspeople and software developers visiting from India, watching them pound on table tops.
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Under Pressure: Dave Chang’s Desperate Creativity
170 degrees for 30 seconds. This is how hot and how long a kitchen sink needs to run to pass an NYC health code inspection. The water from the sinks in Dave Chang’s restaurant Momofuku had just failed this test. A critical health code violation. And because this was not the first strike against the…
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What Navy SEALs Can Learn From Entrepreneurs
A month ago, I ran a program for a group of Navy pilots and SEALs. My role was to teach them how to think and act like entrepreneurs so they could bring the entrepreneurial mindset back to their organization to solve problems, navigate bureaucracy, and communicate better.
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Building a post-pandemic business: Minimum Viable Video goes to Ecuador
What happens when you fly to Ecuador to deliver sessions in Spanish (!) and 900 people register for your sessions? You get nervous, reframe those nerves as energy, and blow people’s minds. That’s what happened when the US Embassy Quito Ecuador, Cámara de Comercio de Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and UEM Benalcazar brought…