Prerequisites

Normally a 4-year degree (Bac+4) or international equivalent, with at least 10 years of professional experience

Upcoming Intakes

January

Price

€25,000

Location

Paris or Nice

Executive MBA AI & Business Transformation The Executive MBA for the AI Era

Designing, Leading & Governing AI-Driven Organizations.

Paris Nice Dubai

Paris and Nice campuses · Dubai as a 5-day AI Investment & Readiness Expedition

Program taught entirely in English

Early bird tuition: €20,000 instead of €25,000, for registrations completed before November 1.

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12months

Duration

Part-time

Format

300hours

Total learning time

100 %English

Language of instruction

10+years

Professional experience

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Is this program right for you?

Your role, your goals, your career stage: the Executive Education team will discuss your plans with you before you apply.

12 months, part-time. Designed to be completed alongside executive responsibilities.
100% taught in English. Paris and Nice campuses, plus a 5-day expedition to Dubai.
A minimum of 10 years of professional experience. No technical background required.
A real transformation project. The AI Transformation Lab runs throughout the 12-month journey.

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Why now

The MBA was designed for another era.

Artificial Intelligence is not simply adding another technology to the manager's toolkit.

It is changing the very foundations of business: how decisions are made, how knowledge is produced, how work is organized, how customers are served, how competitive advantage is built and how organizations create value.

Generative AI is augmenting human capabilities. Agentic AI is beginning to act, execute and collaborate. Data is becoming a strategic asset. Intelligence itself is becoming scalable.

The rules of business have changed.
Shouldn't the MBA change too?

The positioning

Not an MBA about AI.
An MBA redesigned for the AI Era.

Artificial Intelligence is too important to be treated as another specialization.

This is not

A technical AI program

You will not learn how to code algorithms. You will learn what AI can and cannot do, how it works, and how to make informed decisions about it.

An MBA for CIOs

AI can no longer be delegated to the IT department. It is becoming a CEO, board and executive committee responsibility.

A traditional MBA + AI electives

AI is not an additional subject. It runs through strategy, operations, finance, marketing, people, governance and leadership.

A catalogue of AI use cases

Leaders must understand how these applications combine to transform the organization as a whole.

This is

A new leadership model

Learn to lead organizations in which human and artificial intelligence increasingly work together.

A new managerial capability

Use Generative and Agentic AI yourself to think, analyze, decide, communicate and execute differently.

A transformation journey

Move from isolated use cases to enterprise-wide AI strategy, investment, deployment and organizational redesign.

A new responsibility

Learn to govern AI across ethics, regulation, sovereignty, geopolitics and human impact.

AI is not another subject to add to the MBA. It is changing the very nature of business, work, decision-making and leadership. We don't need to teach yesterday's MBA with tomorrow's tools. We need to reinvent the MBA for the AI Era.

Prof. Tawhid Chtioui President & Founder, aivancity
Named among the 25 most influential global personalities in AI in 2025 by Keyrus

You don't need to build the engine. You need to know where to take the organization.

This Executive MBA does not prepare you to build Artificial Intelligence. It prepares you to build the organizations that will thrive with it.

The journey

One journey.
Four transformations.

From understanding AI to leading in the AI Era. 20 Executive Seminars across the core curriculum and experience seminars.

Understand

AI Foundations & Strategic Literacy

Understand before you decide. From technological complexity to executive clarity.

Block deliverableAI & Data Strategic Assessment Brief

Augment

Generative & Agentic AI for Managers

Don't just learn about AI. Work with it. From using AI tools to becoming an AI-augmented leader.

Block deliverableAI-Augmented Manager Toolkit

Transform

AI Strategy, Use Cases & Transformation

Move from experiments to enterprise transformation. From isolated use cases to organization-wide value creation.

Block deliverableAI Transformation Strategy & Roadmap

Lead

AI Leadership, Governance & Future of Organizations

Lead what comes next. From managing today's organization to designing tomorrow's.

Final deliverableExecutive AI Strategy Presentation

The backbone

AI Transformation Lab: the backbone of the Executive MBA.

Throughout the 12-month journey, participants work on a real organization and progressively build, challenge and refine a complete AI transformation project. The AI Transformation Lab connects all four competency blocks, taking participants from the initial AI and data diagnosis to managerial augmentation, enterprise transformation and, ultimately, a board-level AI strategy.

Step 1Diagnose
Step 2Augment
Step 3Transform
Step 4Lead

Because the best way to learn transformation is to lead one.

The experience

300^h

300 hours. 12 months.
One transformation journey.

Program taught entirely in English

192^h Core Curriculum

Four progressive competency blocks.

48^h Experience Seminars

An immersive seminar concluding each block.

30^h Dubai AI Learning Expedition

Five days of ecosystem immersion through the eyes of investors.

30^h AI Deep Dives

A personalized online pathway reflecting your role, industry and ambitions.

The detailed curriculum

Four blocks.
One transformation: yours.

Explore the 20 seminars, block by block. Expand the ones that interest you.

Understand

AI Foundations & Strategic Literacy

Understand before you decide. From technological complexity to executive clarity.

Objective. Provide a rigorous and accessible understanding of AI and data, enabling participants to make informed strategic decisions and interact effectively with technical teams.

4 Executive Seminars

AI ecosystem, data as a strategic asset, value creation.

Analysis of a data-driven vs non-data-driven organization.

Models, APIs, pipelines, architecture for managers, security by design.

Designing an AI/data stack for a business use case.

Data lifecycle, quality, governance, data platforms.

Data maturity and governance diagnostic.

Bias, hallucinations, critical judgment.

Audit of an AI-supported decision system.

Experience Seminar 1

AI Foundations in Action

AI Transformation Lab · Step 1: Diagnose: Participants assess the AI and data maturity of a selected organization, identifying capabilities, strategic assets, dependencies, risks and readiness.
AI Era Conversation #1: With a CEO, Chief AI Officer, Chief Data Officer or leading AI expert.
Deliverable: AI & Data Strategic Assessment Brief

Augment

Generative & Agentic AI for Managers

Don't just learn about AI. Work with it. From using AI tools to becoming an AI-augmented leader.

Objective. Enable participants to effectively use Generative and Agentic AI tools to enhance productivity, decision-making and managerial performance.

4 Executive Seminars

Prompting, automation, personal productivity.

Building a personal AI assistant.

Strategic thinking, synthesis, decision support.

Solving a business strategy case with AI.

Agents, orchestration, automation.

Designing an AI agent for a workflow.

Tool benchmarking, security, privacy and enterprise deployment criteria.

Selecting and implementing an AI toolset.

Experience Seminar 2

AI-Augmented Leader Lab

AI Transformation Lab · Step 2: Augment: Participants identify how Generative and Agentic AI can augment managerial work, redesigning key tasks, workflows and human-AI interactions.
AI Era Conversation #2: With a senior executive or AI transformation leader.
Deliverable: AI-Augmented Manager Toolkit

Transform

AI Strategy, Use Cases & Transformation

Move from experiments to enterprise transformation. From isolated use cases to organization-wide value creation.

Objective. Equip participants with the ability to define AI strategy, explore high-impact use cases across business functions, and translate them into a prioritized and actionable transformation roadmap.

4 Executive Seminars

Strategic impact, competitive advantage, AI-native business models.

Analysis of an AI-driven strategy.

Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience.

Redesigning a customer acquisition and engagement strategy using AI.

Operations, Finance, Risk, Human Resources.

Transforming a core internal function using AI.

From vision to execution, ROI logic and value measurement.

Designing a transformation roadmap.

Experience Seminar 3

AI Transformation Lab

AI Transformation Lab · Step 3: Transform: Participants define a comprehensive AI transformation strategy, prioritize high-impact use cases, assess value and investment priorities, and design an actionable deployment roadmap.
AI Era Conversation #3: With a CEO, transformation leader, strategy consultant or investor.
Deliverable: AI Transformation Strategy & Roadmap

Lead

AI Leadership, Governance & Future of Organizations

Lead what comes next. From managing today's organization to designing tomorrow's.

Objective. Develop leaders capable of making informed, responsible and forward-looking decisions in an AI-driven environment.

4 Executive Seminars

Governance frameworks, ethical decision-making, cybersecurity governance.

Resolving an ethical dilemma.

AI Act, global dynamics, dependencies.

Strategic decision in a geopolitical context.

Evolution of jobs, organizational redesign.

Restructuring an organization.

Executive decision-making and leadership.

Board simulation and strategy defense.

Experience Seminar 4

AI Leadership & Board Challenge

AI Transformation Lab · Step 4: Lead: Participants integrate governance, regulatory, geopolitical, organizational and human considerations into the transformation strategy, turning it into a comprehensive executive-level AI strategy.
AI Era Conversation #4: With a CEO, board member, policymaker or senior AI leader.
Final deliverable: Final Board Deliverable: Executive AI Strategy Presentation

Beyond the core

Explore. Personalize.
Stay ahead.

Dubai AI Investment & Readiness Expedition

5 days · Experience AI through the eyes of investors

Dubai becomes a living laboratory for exploring how AI is reshaping investment decisions and enterprise value. Through meetings with investment funds, business leaders, AI companies, advisors and ecosystem players, participants learn how to assess an organization's AI readiness, transformation potential, technological assets, risks and value-creation opportunities.

The week combines ecosystem immersion with an AI Readiness & Due Diligence Challenge, where participants assess a real organization through the lens of an investor or strategic advisor.

Why Dubai? Because the AI Era is also reshaping the geography of power.

Some futures are discussed in classrooms. Others are already being built.

AI Deep Dives

30 hours online · Common foundations + personalized pathway

The online component combines a common advanced foundation with a personalized selection of Deep Dives reflecting each participant's role, industry and ambitions.

Topics may include Agentic AI, AI cybersecurity, AI regulation, AI-native business models, investment & due diligence, finance, marketing, HR or industry-specific transformations.

One common journey. Your own AI pathway.

Living Curriculum

A curriculum that refuses to become obsolete

The program is continuously reviewed and enriched to reflect major technological breakthroughs, emerging practices, new tools, regulatory developments and geopolitical shifts as they happen.

Each cohort begins with a “State of AI 20XX” session and concludes with “What Changed While We Were Here?”

Because an Executive MBA for the AI Era should not only teach change. It should experience it in real time.

AI by Default

Use it. Challenge it. Take responsibility for it.

AI is not treated as an exception or prohibited shortcut. Its use is expected throughout the Executive MBA. Participants learn to use AI to research, analyze, create, challenge and make decisions, while remaining responsible for verification, critical judgment and final outcomes.

The question is no longer “Did you use AI?” but “How intelligently and responsibly did you use it?”

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The audience

Who is this Executive MBA for?

For leaders who know that standing still is no longer an option.

Group 01

Executive leadership

CEOs, senior executives and high-potential senior managers preparing for broader leadership responsibilities.

Group 02

Business & transformation

Functional leaders in finance, marketing, sales, HR or operations, consultants and transformation leaders.

Group 03

Investment & entrepreneurship

Private Equity, Venture Capital, Asset Management, M&A and due diligence professionals, and entrepreneurs building AI-native organizations.

This MBA may be for you if...

You are wondering how AI should reshape your strategy, organization and competitive advantage.

Finance, marketing, sales, HR or operations: you know your function will look radically different within the next few years.

You want to move from advising on digital change to leading AI-driven transformation.

You need to assess how AI can impact the value, competitiveness and future potential of companies and investment portfolios.

You want to assess a company's AI readiness, maturity, transformation potential and risks.

You want to rethink business models, build AI-native organizations and capture new opportunities.

You are preparing for broader leadership responsibilities in organizations where humans and AI will increasingly work together.

But you know that using AI is not the same as leading with AI.

No coding background required. Significant managerial experience required.

The program is designed for experienced professionals with a minimum of ten years of professional experience.

Program taught entirely in English

No technical background is required, but the ability to follow an Executive MBA taught entirely in English is essential. No French-language version of the courses is offered.

Your career

The same expertise.
An entirely new advantage.

AI will not only create new jobs. It will redefine existing ones. For experienced professionals, the greatest opportunity may be to become dramatically more valuable in the career they already have.

CFO: Understand how AI can transform forecasting, risk, reporting and decision-making.
CHRO: Anticipate how AI will transform jobs, skills, workforce planning and organizational design.
CMO: Understand how AI is redefining customer intelligence, personalization, content and growth.
Investment professional: Assess AI readiness, disruption risk and AI-enabled value creation.
Consultant: Add AI strategy and transformation to the capabilities needed to advise tomorrow’s organizations.
Entrepreneur: Rethink business models, redesign operations and identify new sources of value.

The biggest career opportunity in AI may not be a new job. It may be becoming a new version of yourself as a leader.

Admissions

A new MBA deserves a new admission process.

We do not ask candidates to hide their use of AI. We ask them to use it, challenge it and show us what remains uniquely human.

Human

Your human CV

Present your journey: experience, responsibilities, achievements, transitions and impact. Not only the positions you have held, but what you have actually accomplished and changed.

AI-generated

Your AI-generated motivation

Tell an AI who you are, why you are considering this Executive MBA and what you expect from it. Ask it to articulate your motivation. Submit the final version together with the prompt or prompts used: how you prompt is part of your application.

Critical thinking

Challenge your AI

Answer three questions: what did the AI understand particularly well? What did it misunderstand, simplify or miss? After challenging its response, what makes this Executive MBA the right next step for you?

Just you

Two minutes. Just you.

No lengthy admission interview. Introduce yourself in a two-minute video. Tell us who you are, what has shaped you as a leader and what you could bring to the cohort. No AI-generated avatar. No synthetic voice. Just you.

Tuition fees

Early bird tuition

20 000 €

~~25 000 €~~ for enrollment completed before November 1.

For the entire 12-month Executive MBA. After November 1, tuition fees are €25,000.

Eligibility

10 years of professional experience minimum
Four years of higher education or an international equivalent, normally required
No technical prerequisites
Next intake: January

For financing options, employer sponsorship and details of what tuition covers, contact the admissions team.

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The institution

Why aivancity ?

Because the Executive MBA for the AI Era must be designed by an institution itself built for the AI Era.

aivancity is a French Grande École dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and Data for Business & Society, built from the outset around the convergence of technology, business transformation and ethical responsibility.

State-recognized Grande École: A French higher education institution recognized by the State.
A mission-driven school: A distinctive model combining academic ambition, innovation and positive societal impact.
#1 in AI & Data: Ranked #1 in France among schools specializing in AI & Data by Eduniversal.
AI research & innovation ecosystem: Research, academic chairs, the AI Clinic and initiatives dedicated to responsible, impactful AI.
International & diverse community: Students, faculty, experts and partners from diverse nationalities, sectors and backgrounds.
10,000+ professionals trained in AI: Over the past five years.

Your next step

Don't add AI to your career.

Make your career fit for the AI Era.

12 months, part-time, taught entirely in English. Next intake in January.
300 hours including a five-day expedition to Dubai.
A four-step AI-native application. No lengthy admission interview.
Early bird tuition: €20,000 instead of €25,000, for enrollment completed before November 1.

Request information Apply