PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
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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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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 program, during a live experiment I designed: AI Innovation Week.
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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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The Entrepreneur and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: What You Need to Know
Machine learning refers to the ability to extract and leverage insights from data using computing in an automatic way. Here’s an oversimplified example: Let’s say you are coaching a basketball team and you need to decide which player should take the most shots. You could simply watch your players take a lot of shots and decide on gut instinct. Or you could capture data (how many shots each player takes and their shooting percentage, i.e. their make/miss ratio) and decide which player you want shooting the ball the most.
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Crowdsourced Document: Teaching Entrepreneurship Online
Sharing best practices for teaching entrepreneurship online. Includes insights from educators on three continents!
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The “Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur” Bootcamp Comes to Colombia
As AI reshapes industries, initiatives like this course play a crucial role in equipping the next generation of entrepreneurs with the tools and mindset needed to thrive in a chaotic business climate.