Every year, aivancity offers its third-year students the opportunity to participate in a learning trip to an emerging country. In addition, a “learning trip” focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in an emerging country—an initiative designed to explore the opportunities, challenges, and developments related to AI in Morocco and India—is offered to third-year students. The trip lasts three weeks and includes one week of optional cultural immersion.

At the end of the fourth year of the Grande École Program, aivancity offers its students the opportunity to take a three-week learning trip. Students travel to the United States for a three-week learning trip at UC Berkeley, followed by a one-week independent cultural immersion experience that includes writing a “surprise report.”

aivancity’s “Grande École”-style artificial intelligence program trains future IAgénieurs® capable of addressing the many economic and societal challenges related to harnessing the potential of data and artificial intelligence—technologies that rank among the most profoundly transformative in human history, on par with fire and writing. The world will soon be populated by intelligent agents, some acting autonomously, others enhancing human intelligence, skills, and performance. Some of these agents will be purely software-based, while others will reside in robots, cars, drones, satellites, and every type of hardware imaginable.

The San Francisco Bay Area, which includes Berkeley and Silicon Valley, has been at the forefront of numerous technological advances for decades. Key factors include the presence of universities with exceptionally strong technical programs, the world’s largest ecosystem of technology companies and startups, and investors with budgets that remain unmatched.