AI CXO Academy: AI Workshops & Coaching for CEOs, CXOs and Boards

Three ways in

Come yourself, bring your team, or work with a coach

Open CXO cohort · 1–2 days

Enrol yourself, or sponsor seats

Learn alongside leaders from other companies and sectors. Reserve your own seat, or send two or three colleagues. Next open session: A CXO's Guide to Strategic Decision-Making at Bharat AI Innovation 2026.

Live demonstrations and hands-on use of AI tools
Use-case and governance frameworks you can reuse
A personal 90-day plan

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Private workshop · 1–2 days

A workshop for your leadership team

Only your leaders in the room, at your boardroom or an offsite. Built around your strategy, your data and your constraints.

Demonstrations of AI agents on your own documents
A use-case shortlist your team has scored together
An agreed 90-day plan with named owners

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1:1 · Around your calendar

CXO coaching

Private sessions with an Aegis coach, working on the decisions in front of you: vendors, hires, use cases, governance and your own use of AI.

Private, one leader at a time
Driven by your live agenda, not a syllabus
Also offered as a board briefing for directors

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Open for registration · Hosted by Aegis

For leaders: Aegis sessions at Bharat AI Innovation 2026

Bharat AI Innovation 2026 is India's B2B platform for AI, organised by Aegis Knowledge Trust at the World Trade Center, Mumbai. Aegis School of Data Science & AI hosts its training workshops: expert-led, hands-on sessions for the leaders deciding where AI goes and the engineers who build it. Every workshop carries a completion certificate from Aegis.

Dr. Vinay Kulkarni

Adjunct Faculty, IIT Bombay
Director, Aegis School of Data Science & AI

For CXOs

Data Science to Agentic AI: A CXO's Guide to Strategic Decision-Making

As organisations move from Data Science and Machine Learning to Generative AI and Agentic AI, CXOs face a critical challenge: identifying the right business problems, selecting high-value AI use cases, evaluating pilot outcomes, and scaling successful solutions into production.

This session gives business and technology leaders a practical framework for navigating the AI landscape, making informed technology and investment decisions, and turning AI opportunities into measurable business outcomes.

What the session covers

Identifying the right business problems: where AI can address meaningful business challenges and create measurable value.
Selecting and prioritising AI use cases: when to use Data Science, Machine Learning, Generative AI or Agentic AI, based on business needs, feasibility and risk.
Designing and evaluating AI pilots: defining success metrics, establishing baselines, and evaluating technical performance and business impact.
Moving from pilot to production: assessing readiness for enterprise deployment, including integration, security, governance, scalability and operational reliability.
Scaling AI for business impact: a roadmap to prioritise investments, scale successful solutions, and realise sustained business value.

Key takeaway: a practical decision-making framework for CXOs to move from AI opportunities and pilot projects to reliable, scalable, production-ready enterprise solutions.

Register for this session →Full session page at Bharat AI Innovation

Moderator

Bhupesh Daheria

CEO, Aegis School of Data Science & AI

Dr. Vinay KulkarniAdjunct Professor, IIT Bombay; Director, Aegis
Dr. Ashish TendulkarLead, Google AI

CXO Roundtable · Closed-door · 60 minutes

Building the Enterprise AI Workforce: Talent, Delivery and the Rise of Forward-Deployed Engineering

A closed-door conversation for the leaders responsible for enterprise AI talent and delivery: why AI investments stall before production, which skills teams now need, and how forward-deployed engineering closes the gap between a business problem and a working system.

Roundtable agenda

The Enterprise AI Execution Challenge. Why organisations struggle to translate AI investments into production-ready solutions and measurable business outcomes.
Building the Enterprise AI Workforce. Emerging skills, capability gaps, and preparing engineering and data teams for Generative AI and Agentic AI.
The Rise of Forward-Deployed Engineering. How FDEs bridge business problems, AI engineering and enterprise implementation, and how the approach differs from traditional software engineering, AI engineering and consulting.
From AI Pilots to Production. Evaluating pilots, establishing success metrics, addressing integration and governance challenges, and developing scalable AI delivery models.
Industry–Academia Collaboration. Industry-ready talent, corporate training, reskilling, and practical learning pathways for enterprise AI.
Key Takeaways and Next Steps. Priority workforce capabilities, enterprise challenges, and opportunities for collaboration.

Intended audience: L&D heads, delivery heads, Chief AI Officers, Chief Data Officers, CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise technology and workforce transformation leaders.

Ask about a seat →Full session page at Bharat AI Innovation

Dr. Ashish Tendulkar

Google AI

Live coding · 90 minutes

From Prototype to Production: Building Enterprise AI with Forward-Deployed Engineers

How do you turn a real business problem into an AI solution that can work in an enterprise? This 90-minute session introduces the Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) role and shows how business needs, AI engineering and enterprise integration come together. Through live coding, participants see an AI-powered workflow built, tested against realistic cases, and examined through the lens of production readiness.

What you will take away

What a Forward-Deployed Engineer does, and how the role differs from traditional software and AI engineering.
How an engineer translates a business problem into a scoped AI solution and architecture.
A live-coded enterprise AI workflow that connects an LLM with data, tools and business logic.
Why testing, failure handling, security, reliability and evaluation matter beyond a working prototype.

The 90 minutes

The rise of the FDE. What a Forward-Deployed Engineer is, why the role is emerging, and why enterprises need engineers who can connect business problems to working technology.
The FDE mindset. How FDEs discover the real problem, clarify requirements, define constraints, and identify what success should look like.
Designing the solution. A concise walkthrough of the architecture: model, enterprise data, tools or APIs, workflow, and guardrails.
Live coding: build an enterprise AI workflow. A focused business workflow agent, such as a procurement assistant that checks policy and supporting information through a mock enterprise API, then recommends a next step.
Test, find failures, improve. Realistic test cases, including missing information or a policy exception. Examine the output, identify failure modes, and demonstrate an improvement.
From prototype to production. What real deployment needs: access control, privacy, reliability, observability, evaluation, human approval, and integration.
Key takeaways. The FDE mindset and the capabilities required to build useful enterprise AI.

Who should attend: fresh engineering graduates, software developers, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, technology leaders, and enterprise decision-makers, including CIOs, CTOs and Chief Data Officers.

Register for this session →Full session page at Bharat AI Innovation

How to attend at Bharat AI Innovation 2026

Register for Bharat AI Innovation 2026Choose the Premium Delegate or VIP pass on bharataiinnovation.com. Each pass includes one workshop seat, along with the conference.
Pick your workshopOnce registered, you choose your workshop seat in the event app. Seats are limited and go first come, first served.
Come to the World Trade Center, MumbaiCuffe Parade, Mumbai. For hands-on sessions, bring a laptop with at least 8GB RAM, basic Python knowledge and a GitHub or Google Cloud account.
Leave with an Aegis certificateEvery workshop carries a completion certificate from Aegis School of Data Science & AI.

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Built around your seat

The question each leader brings, answered for your business

CEO & Managing Director

Where does AI change our P&L in the next twelve months, and what should we stop funding?

CFO

What does an AI use case really cost and return, and how do I control the spend?

COO

Which processes can AI agents run end to end, and what breaks when they do?

CHRO

Which roles change, which skills do we build, and how do we carry people with us?

CMO & Sales heads

How do we use AI for growth without damaging the brand or customer trust?

CIO, CTO & CDO

Build, buy or partner? Which platform, and how do we keep our data safe?

Board & independent directors

What should we ask management, and what does good oversight of AI look like?

Promoters & family businesses

Where do we start with a lean team and no data science department?

What the Academy covers

Eight conversations every leadership team needs to have

The workshop runs through all eight. Coaching and briefings go deep on the ones that matter to you now.

What AI can and cannot do todayGenerative AI, agents and what has changed, shown live rather than described.
Where AI moves your P&LRevenue, cost, risk and speed, mapped to your value chain rather than a generic list.
Choosing use casesScoring ideas on value, feasibility, data and risk, and saying no to the rest.
Build, buy or partnerHow to read a vendor pitch, what things should cost, and when to build your own.
Data, security and governancePrivacy, India's DPDP Act, the EU AI Act, human review, and what the board should see.
People and skillsWhich roles change, what to train, whom to hire, and how to lead the change.
The operating modelWho owns AI, how it is funded and measured, and when a Centre of Excellence makes sense.
Your 90-day planThree to five moves, each with an owner, a budget line and a date.

Formats

From a single briefing to ongoing coaching

Format	Typical length	For	What you leave with
Open CXO cohort	1–2 days	Individual leaders and small groups from a company	A working understanding of AI, reusable frameworks and a personal 90-day plan
Private leadership workshop	1–2 days	A CEO and their leadership team	An agreed use-case shortlist, a governance position and a 90-day plan with owners
Board briefing	A single session	Boards and independent directors	The oversight questions to ask, and the reporting to expect from management
1:1 CXO coaching	Sessions around your calendar	An individual CXO leading an AI agenda	A private sounding board on live decisions, and fluency with the tools
Function-head sessions	By function	Finance, HR, operations, sales, marketing, technology	Use cases and a pilot plan for that function

Leaders who use AI themselves make better decisions about it.

Every participant works with AI tools on their own material during the session. It is the fastest way to tell a real capability from a sales pitch.

How it is taught

Practitioner-led, and specific to you

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Taught by people who build AI

Aegis faculty run production AI systems such as SaveNadi, Khozo and Aarakshak. You hear what works from people who have shipped it.

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Your business, not a case study

Private workshops are prepared with your sponsor beforehand, so the examples, demonstrations and exercises use your sector and your documents.

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Vendor-neutral advice

Aegis has no model or cloud to sell. You get a neutral view across model providers, clouds and tools.

After the Academy

Turn the 90-day plan into capability

A plan needs people who can deliver it. Most leadership teams take one of these next.

Train the organisation

AI Executive Education

Training-need diagnosis, use-case discovery, on-site training by role, on-the-job projects and competency assessment for the wider organisation.

See AI Executive Education →

Build the engine

AI Centre of Excellence

A central team, platform and governance to deliver the use-case portfolio. Aegis designs it in 6–8 weeks, builds it in 90 days, or runs it with you.

Explore the AI CoE →

AI CXO Academy FAQ

What is the AI CXO Academy?

The AI CXO Academy is the leadership practice of Aegis AI Executive Education. It gives boards, CEOs, CXOs and business heads the understanding and the working plan to lead AI in their organisation, through an open CXO cohort, private leadership workshops, board briefings and 1:1 coaching.

Who is it for?

CEOs and managing directors, CXOs across finance, operations, HR, sales, marketing and technology, business and function heads, board members and independent directors, promoters of family businesses, and senior government and PSU leaders.

Do I need a technical background?

No. There is no code. The Academy is about decisions: where AI creates value in your business, which use cases to fund, whether to build, buy or partner, how to manage risk, and how to organise people. You do use AI tools yourself during the sessions, on your own work.

Can I enrol on my own, or sponsor my leadership team?

Both. You can reserve a seat for yourself in the open CXO cohort, sponsor seats for colleagues, or bring the Academy in as a private workshop for your leadership team. Tell us which you want and a program director replies within one business day.

Where is the next open session for CXOs?

At Bharat AI Innovation 2026, World Trade Center, Mumbai. Aegis is hosting 'Data Science to Agentic AI: A CXO's Guide to Strategic Decision-Making' by Dr. Vinay Kulkarni, Adjunct Faculty at IIT Bombay and Director of Aegis School of Data Science & AI, and a closed-door CXO roundtable on building the enterprise AI workforce, moderated by Aegis CEO Bhupesh Daheria. Register at bharataiinnovation.com.

What do participants leave with?

A shared, working understanding of what AI can and cannot do; a shortlist of use cases ranked by value, feasibility and risk; a position on governance and data protection; and a 90-day action plan with named owners. In a private workshop these are built for your company with your own leadership team.

Where is it delivered?

Private workshops and briefings are delivered at your boardroom or an offsite venue of your choice, or at the Aegis campus in Mumbai. Coaching sessions and shorter briefings can also be held live online.

What happens after the workshop?

Most leadership teams follow with one of three steps: a training-need diagnosis and use-case discovery for the wider organisation, role-based training with on-the-job projects through Aegis AI Executive Education, or an AI Centre of Excellence to deliver the use-case portfolio.

Next step

Reserve a seat, or bring the Academy to your boardroom

Tell us whether this is for you, your leadership team or your board. A program director replies within one business day.

Your point of contact

Ritin Joshi

Head – Admissions and AI Executive Education | Learning Solutions

ritin.j@aegis.edu.in · +91 77770 66810

Meet us in person

Aegis is the AI School Partner at Bharat AI Innovation 2026, 20–21 November, World Trade Center Mumbai. Book a slot with a program director at our stand.

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