Prerequisites

5 years of post-secondary education

Upcoming school years

January

Price

25,000 euros

Location

Paris or Nice

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

Designing, Leading, and Governing AI-Driven Organizations.

Paris Nice Dubai

Paris and Nice Campuses · Dubai as part of a 5-day expedition, the AI Investment & Readiness Expedition

Program taught 100% in English

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

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12months

Duration

Part-time

Format

300hours

Total volume

100%English

Language of Instruction

10+years

Professional experience

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Is this program right for you?

Your position, your goals, and where you are in your career: The Executive Education team reviews these with you before submitting any applications.

12 months, part-time. Designed to be taken while fulfilling executive responsibilities.
100% taught in English. Campuses in Paris and Nice, plus a 5-day field trip to Dubai.
At least 10 years of professional experience. No technical prerequisites.
A real-world transformation project. The AI Transformation Lab runs for 12 months.

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Why Now?

The MBA was designed for a different era.

Artificial intelligence isn't just another tool in a manager's toolbox.

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

Generative AI enhances human capabilities. Agent-based AI is beginning to act, execute tasks, 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?

Positioning

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

Artificial intelligence is too important to be treated as just another field of study.

This is not

An AI Technical Program

You won't learn how to code algorithms. You'll learn what AI can and cannot do, and how to make informed decisions about it.

An MBA for CIOs

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

A traditional MBA + a few AI electives

AI is not just another topic. It cuts across strategy, operations, finance, marketing, human resources, governance, and leadership.

A Catalog of AI Use Cases

Leaders need to understand how these applications work together to transform the organization as a whole.

This is

A New Model of Leadership

Learn how to lead organizations in which human intelligence and artificial intelligence are increasingly working together.

A New Managerial Skill

Use generative and agent-based AI yourself to think, analyze, decide, communicate, and act in new ways.

A Journey of Transformation

Moving from isolated use cases to an enterprise AI strategy, investment, deployment, and organizational redesign.

A New Responsibility

Learning how to govern AI through ethics, regulation, sovereignty, geopolitics, and human impact.

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

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

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

This program does not prepare participants to build artificial intelligence. It prepares them to build organizations that will thrive alongside it.

The Course

One journey.
Four transformations.

From Understanding AI to Leadership in the AI Era. 20 executive seminars divided between the core curriculum and experience seminars.

Understand

AI Foundations & Strategic Literacy

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

BlockAI& Data Strategic Assessment Brief Deliverable

Increase

Generative & Agentic AI for Managers

Don't just learn about AI. Work with it. From using AI tools to AI-enhanced leadership.

AI-AugmentedManager Toolkit Deliverable

Transform

AI Strategy, Use Cases, and Transformation

Move from experiments to enterprise transformation. From isolated use cases to value creation across the entire organization.

BlockAITransformation Strategy & Roadmap Deliverable

Lead

AI Leadership, Governance, and the Future of Organizations

Lead what comes next. From steering the current organization to designing the one of tomorrow.

Final Deliverable: Executive AI Strategy Presentation

The Spine

AI Transformation Lab: the backbone of the Executive MBA.

Over the course of 12 months, participants work with a real-world organization to gradually develop, challenge, and refine a comprehensive AI-driven transformation project. The Lab connects the four key areas: AI and data assessment, managerial enhancement, business transformation, and board-level AI strategy.

Step 1: Diagnosis
Step 2: Increase
Step 3: Transform
Step 4: Lead

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

The Experiment

300^h

300 hours. 12 months.
One journey of transformation.

Program taught 100% in English

192^hours Core Curriculum

Four progressive skill sets.

48^hours Experience Seminars

An immersive seminar to conclude each block.

30^hours Dubai AI Learning Expedition

Five days of immersion in the ecosystem, as seen through the eyes of investors.

30^hours AI Deep Dives

A personalized online learning path tailored to your role, industry, and career goals.

The Detailed Curriculum

Four blocks.
. One transformation: yours.

Details on the 20 seminars, organized by block. Expand the ones that interest you.

Understand

AI Foundations & Strategic Literacy

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

Objective: To provide a thorough yet accessible understanding of AI and data so that participants can make informed strategic decisions and interact effectively with technical teams.

4 Executive Seminars

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

Case Study: A Comparison of Data-Driven and Non-Data-Driven Organizations.

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

Case Study: Designan AI/data stack for a business use case.

Data lifecycle, quality, governance, data platforms.

Case Study: Data Maturity and Governance Assessment.

Bias, hallucinations, critical judgment.

Case Study: Auditof an AI-Assisted Decision-Making System.

Experience Seminar 1

AI Foundations in Action

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

Increase

Generative & Agentic AI for Managers

Don't just learn about AI. Work with it. From using AI tools to AI-enhanced leadership.

Objective: To enable participants to effectively use generative and agent-based AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and managerial performance.

4 Executive Seminars

Prompting, automation, personal productivity.

CaseStudy: Building a Personal AI Assistant.

Strategic thinking, synthesis, decision support.

Case: Solving a business strategy case using AI.

Agents, orchestration, automation.

Case: Designan AI agent for a workflow.

Tool benchmarking, security, privacy, and criteria for enterprise deployment.

Case: Selectand implement an AI toolset.

Experience Seminar 2

AI-Augmented Leader Lab

AI Transformation Lab · Step 2: Augment: Identify how generative and agent-based AI can enhance managerial work and reshape tasks, workflows, and human-AI interactions.
AI Era Conversation #2: With a senior executive or an AI transformation leader.
Available: AI-Augmented Manager Toolkit

Transform

AI Strategy, Use Cases, and Transformation

Move from experiments to enterprise transformation. From isolated use cases to value creation across the entire organization.

Objective: To enable participants to define an AI strategy, explore high-impact use cases across business functions, and translate them into a prioritized and actionable roadmap.

4 Executive Seminars

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

CaseStudy: Analysis of an AI-Driven Strategy.

Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience.

CaseStudy: Redesigning a Customer Acquisition and Engagement Strategy Using AI.

Operations, Finance, Risk, Human Resources.

CaseStudy: Transforming a Key Internal Function with AI.

From Vision to Execution: ROI Logic and Value Measurement.

CaseStudy: Designing a Transformation Roadmap.

Experience Seminar 3

AI Transformation Lab

AI Transformation Lab · Step 3: Transform: Define a comprehensive AI transformation strategy, prioritize use cases, assess value and investments, and design a deployment roadmap.
AI Era Conversation #3: With a CEO, transformation leader, strategy consultant, or investor.
Available: AI Transformation Strategy & Roadmap

Lead

AI Leadership, Governance, and the Future of Organizations

Lead the way forward. From steering the current organization to shaping the one of tomorrow.

Objective: To develop leaders capable of making informed, responsible, and forward-looking decisions in an environment shaped by AI.

4 Executive Seminars

Governance frameworks, ethical decision-making, cybersecurity governance.

Case: Resolving an ethical dilemma.

AI Act, global dynamics, dependencies.

Case: A Strategic Decisionin a Geopolitical Context.

Changes in job roles, organizational redesign.

Case: Restructuring an Organization.

Executive Decision-Making and Leadership.

CasBoard: Simulation and Strategy Defense.

Experience Seminar 4

AI Leadership & Board Challenge

AI Transformation Lab · Step 4: Lead: Integrate governance, regulation, geopolitics, organization, and human considerations into the transformation strategy and bring it to the executive level.
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 is becoming a living laboratory for understanding how AI is transforming investment decisions and corporate value. Through meetings with investment funds, executives, AI companies, advisors, and other stakeholders in the ecosystem, participants learn how to assess an organization’s AI readiness, its potential for transformation, its technological assets, its risks, and its opportunities for value creation.

The week combines immersion in the ecosystem with the AI Readiness & Due Diligence Challenge, during which participants evaluate a real-world organization from the perspective 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 Core Curriculum + personalized learning path

The online component combines a shared, advanced foundation with a personalized selection of Deep Dives tailored to each participant's role, industry, and career goals.

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

One shared journey. Your own path to AI.

Living Curriculum

A curriculum that refuses to become obsolete

The program is continuously updated and expanded to reflect major technological advances, new practices, new tools, regulatory changes, and geopolitical shifts as they occur.

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

Because an Executive MBA for the AI Era shouldn't just teach about change—it should let you experience it in real time.

AI by Default

Use it. Challenge it. Take responsibility for it.

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

The question is no longer “Have you used AI?” but “How intelligently and responsibly have you used 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.

Family 01

Executive Leadership

CEOs, senior executives, and high-potential managers preparing to take on broader leadership responsibilities.

Family 02

Business & Transformation

Department heads in finance, marketing, sales, HR, or operations; consultants; and transformation leaders.

Family 03

Investment & Entrepreneurship

Private equity, venture capital, asset management, M&A and due diligence specialists, and entrepreneurs building AI-native organizations.

This MBA might be right for you if...

You're wondering how AI will reshape your strategy, your organization, and your competitive advantage.

Whether it's finance, marketing, sales, HR, or operations: you know that your job will be profoundly different in the coming years.

You want to transition from digital transformation consulting to leading AI-driven transformations.

You must assess the impact of AI on the value, competitiveness, and future potential of companies or portfolios.

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

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

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

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

No coding experience required. Significant managerial experience required.

The program is designed for experienced professionals with at least ten years of professional experience.

Program taught 100% in English

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

Your Career

The same profession.
A completely different approach.

AI will not only create new jobs; it will also redefine existing ones. For experienced professionals, the greatest opportunity may be to become much more valuable in the careers they are already pursuing.

CFO: Understanding how AI can transform forecasting, risk management, 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, the risk of disruption, and the value creation enabled by AI.
Consultant: Include AI strategy and transformation among the capabilities needed to advise the organizations of the future.
Entrepreneur: Rethink business models, redesign operations, and identify new opportunities for 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 program deserves a new admissions process.

We don't 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 Resume

Describe your career path: experience, responsibilities, accomplishments, career transitions, and impact. Don't just list the positions you've held—focus on what you've actually accomplished and the changes you've made.

Generated by AI

Your AI-generated motivation

Explain to an AI who you are, why you are considering this Executive MBA, and what you hope to gain from it. Ask it to articulate your motivation. Submit the final version along with the prompt(s) you used: the way you phrase your prompts is part of your application.

Critical Thinking

Challenge Your AI

Answer three questions: What did the AI get particularly right? What did it misunderstand, oversimplify, or omit? 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. Record a two-minute video introducing yourself. Tell us who you are, what has shaped you as a leader, and what you could bring to the cohort. No AI-generated avatars. No synthetic voices. Just you.

Tuition

Early Bird Rate

20 000 €

~~€25,000~~ for any registration completed before November 1.

For the full 12-month Executive MBA program. After November 1, tuition is €25,000.

Eligibility

At least 10 years of professional experience
A four-year college degree or international equivalent is typically required
No technical prerequisites
Next semester: January

For information on financing options, corporate sponsorship, and details on what tuition covers, please contact the admissions team.

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The Institution

Why aivancity?

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

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

State-recognized Grande École: A French institution of higher education recognized by the government.
Mission-Driven School: A distinctive model that combines academic ambition, innovation, and positive societal impact.
#1 in AI & Data: Ranked #1 in France among schools specializing in AI and data by Eduniversal.
AI Research & Innovation Ecosystem: Research, endowed chairs, the AI Clinic, and initiatives dedicated to responsible and impactful AI.
International Community & Miscellaneous: Students, teachers, experts, and partners from a variety of nationalities, sectors, and backgrounds.
10,000+ professionals trained in AI: Over the past five years.

Final step

Don't let AI take over your career.

Get your career ready for the AI era.

12 months, part-time, taught entirely in English. The next program begins in January.
300 hours, including a 5-day expedition to Dubai.
An AI-native application process in 4 steps. No lengthy admission interview.
Early-bird rate: €20,000 instead of €25,000 for all registrations completed before November 1.

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