A four-module executive program for leaders responsible for making AI deliver results.
Built from real AI implementation and executive education experience
The AI value gap
Most organisations already have access to AI tools, vendors and ideas. Yet promising initiatives remain disconnected from core processes, lack accountable owners or never progress beyond experimentation. The problem is no longer access to AI.
MOST ORGANISATIONS ALREADY HAVE
WHAT LEADERS MUST NOW BUILD
The program
15 Oct 2026
Know It
Separate opportunity from hype. Understand where AI is heading, what that means for your industry and where your organisation genuinely stands.
You build
29 Oct 2026
Apply It
Move from tools to agents. Understand what a professional AI agent consists of and build one for a real process you own. No coding. No vendor.
You build
12 Nov 2026
Build It
Build fast. Then understand what it takes to scale. Turn one opportunity into a working prototype and assess it across data protection, sovereignty and user experience.
You build
26 Nov 2026
Lead It
Make your organisation AI-ready. Connect strategy, people, execution and governance — and work through the ethical dilemmas leaders face when there is no clean answer.
You build
15 Oct – 26 Nov 2026 · Live online · English · Four 2-hour sessions
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Prioritised AI Opportunity Portfolio
Professional Prompting Playbook
Agent Building Guide
Your Own Prototype
AI Workflow Blueprint
90-Day AI Leadership Roadmap
AI Leadership Community & Dubai Dinner
AAILA is an executive learning journey for leaders turning AI ambition into institutional reality — built on three connected perspectives.
Build real solutions.
Connect AI to processes, workflows and decisions.
Compare implementation across Europe, the GCC and the Bay Area.
Most programs teach technology, strategy or innovation separately.
AAILA connects them through one journey.
The program leads
Applied AI execution meets strategic foresight and organisational transformation — taught by practitioners who build, advise and lecture at the frontier.
APPLIED AI · TECHNOLOGY · IMPLEMENTATION
The builder behind AI that works in reality.
Zamina builds the AI systems that most organisations only talk about — production platforms, data infrastructure and governance that survive contact with regulators, operators and real workloads.
Over sixteen years she has led that work across some of the most demanding environments in Europe and the GCC: shaping industrial AI at Bosch and Siemens Energy, standing up national health data capabilities with Dubai Health, and advising public-interest institutions such as the Bertelsmann Stiftung on how to move from AI ambition to functioning practice.
Her focus stays where value is actually created or lost — production systems, data platforms, MLOps and the governance that lets AI operate safely inside regulated organisations.
Selected experience
Bosch · Siemens Energy · Dubai Health · Bertelsmann Stiftung
STRATEGY · GOVERNANCE · EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
The strategist turning emerging technology into institutional action.
Tobias works at the intersection of AI, governance and organisational change, helping organisations translate emerging technologies into strategies, operating models and decisions that work in practice.
Over the past two decades that work has taken him from the UAE's Advanced Technology Research Council, NATO and UN initiatives to the boardrooms of Ferrari and Orange, and into the strategic programs of the Dubai Future Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation — helping senior leaders adapt their institutions to AI by deploying new technology and reshaping how they decide, organise and create value.
His focus stays where strategy meets execution — teaching executives at UC Berkeley and Steinbeis Augsburg Business School, publishing in the California Management Review, the World Economic Forum, WIRED and Handelsblatt, and holding nine US patents as co-inventor in privacy-preserving computing and data infrastructure.
Selected experience
NATO · World Economic Forum · Dubai Future Foundation · Ferrari · Orange · UN
Together
One builds what is technically possible.
One makes it organisationally viable.
Together, they move AI from opportunity to implementation.
After the modules
Two ongoing touchpoints keep the cohort connected — one always-on, one in the room.
Always-on
A private WhatsApp group for peer exchange with an international circle of AI leaders — implementation questions, resources, and quiet counsel between modules.
Peers · Implementation questions · Resources
In person
An invitation-only dinner during GITEX week — a private table with the founders and a small international circle.
9 December 2026 · Dubai · Limited seating
WHO THIS IS FORMid- and senior decision-makers on the hook for AI - division and BU heads, directors and VPs across strategy, operations, technology, data, risk, HR and finance, C-1/C-2 executives, founders and family-office principals, and public-sector programme leads. No technical background required.
Founding Class 2026 · Inaugural cohort
The first AAILA cohort. Smaller by design, with direct access to the founders and a hand in shaping how the program runs from here.
4 live modules · 15 Oct – 26 Nov 2026 · Live online · English
Founding-member rate · 2026 only
USD 550
per person
Regular price from 2027
USD 1,200 per person
Save USD 650 as a founding member.
The founding-member rate is held for the inaugural 2026 cohort only. Regular pricing resumes from 2027.
Included outcomes
Plus practical playbooks and frameworks, optional office hours, AI Leadership Community access and Dubai dinner eligibility.
Limited seats · Inaugural cohort
ATTEND THE FREE WEBINARFounding members join a smaller room, work directly with the founders, and help shape how AAILA runs from here.
A 45-minute session with the founders. See how the program runs, ask questions, and decide whether the Founding Class is the right fit before you commit.
When
9 September 2026
12:00 Berlin · 14:00 UAE · Live online · English
Register for the webinarFree · No commitment
Questions
No. You build a lightweight AI agent and prototype without traditional coding. The focus is on understanding the technology well enough to make stronger leadership and implementation decisions — not on becoming an engineer.