Cornell Chief AI Officer Program

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Program Overview

AI in 2025 is way more than the ChatGPT of 2024. AI capabilities have rapidly advanced from text and visual generation in 2024, to doing advanced reasoning and autonomous agentic work in 2025. In effect, we already have widely accessible, limitless amounts of advanced intelligence.

These advances have the potential to usher in a business transformation akin to that from the invention of other general-purpose technologies such as the steam engine, electricity, the internet, etc. Organizations and individuals that prudently harness the potential of these technologies will gain a significant advantage, while those that get swept by the hype or fail to upskill and prepare risk obsolescence.

The Cornell Chief AI Officer Program prepares you to lead this AI transformation with clarity, confidence, and credibility. This experiential program with live interactive sessions, including working labs, builds fluency across the full stack of AI Transformation skills. You will select an organization or industry and apply insights from each session to create your AI Strategy Blueprint. In the final session, you’ll share your AI Strategy Blueprint with faculty for feedback and refinement.

Starts On

30 August 2025

Duration

6 Months

Program Fee

$4,800 USD

Program Benefits

16 live interactive sessions

AI Strategy Blueprint: 3 working lab sessions

AI Strategy Blueprint final report out and personalized feedback

Peer coaching and assessments

Access to Cornell’s library of 2000+ Courses

Access to exclusive curated AI track from the Cornell library

Certificate from Cornell University

Small cohort for learning impact

Curriculum

AI Strategy Blueprint


Develop a rigorous AI Strategy Blueprint for your organization or selected industry. The blueprint will include:

  • An assessment of short, medium and long-term productivity, business model innovation, and strategic opportunities and threats.
  • Recommended short and medium-term transformation initiatives.
  • A plan to derisk and refine the initiatives via series of escalating experiments.
  • An architecture of the organizational structures and resources needed to execute this strategy.

Intensive Working Labs

  • Work with industry experts on your AI Strategy Blueprint through structured labs: 3 group sessions of 30 minutes each.
  • By the end of the program, you will have created a rigorous, actionable AI Strategy Blueprint.

AI Strategy Blueprint Report Out

  • In the final session, you’ll present your AI Strategy Blueprint to peers and faculty for feedback and refinement.
  • Your AI Strategy Blueprint will be your deliverable designed to inform executive decision-making or guide entrepreneurial execution.

Cohort Statistics

Work Experience

Average Work Experience: 21 Years

Industries

  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Healthcare
  • Real Estate
  • Oil & Gas
  • Consulting
  • Hospitality
  • Edtech
  • Construction
  • Telecommunication
  • Retail
  • Entertainment
  • FMCG and Others

Designations

  • Founder
  • Partner
  • Chairman
  • Managing Director
  • Executive Director
  • President
  • Group CEO
  • Group CFO & COO
  • Director of Finance
  • Director – Communication & Marketing
  • Chief Planning Officer
  • Chief Digital Officer
  • Chief HR Officer
  • Senior Vice President
  • AVP, Retail Analytics

Companies

Faculty (Indicative)

Karan Girotra

Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management

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Allan Filipowicz, professor of management and organizations (JMO).

Allan Filipowicz

Clinical Professor of Management and Organisations

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Mor Namaan

Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute

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David Rand

Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Frank Pasquale

Frank Pasquale

Professor of Law

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Industry Experts (Indicative)

Anton Musgrave

Futurist and Business Strategist

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Navid Asgar

Professor of Management Systems

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Antoinette Dale Henderson

Leadership and Change Expert and Executive Coach

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Jamie Anderson

Creative Management Thinker

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Federico Quijada

Professor of Technology

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Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be awarded a digitally verifiable certificate by Cornell University
Note: Certificate image is for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Cornell University.

Who Should Apply?

Cornell Chief AI Officer Program is designed for emerging and current CXOs, senior leaders and executives, across geographies and industries, who desire to be agile in thinking and strategic in their approach towards building innovative AI solutions to steer business growth.

  • 10+ years of work experience and proven success in leading high performing teams / impactful projects
  • A minimum of a Bachelor's degree
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