Institutional programmes

AI Executive Education with Universities

Practitioner-led AI sessions for university executive education: a curriculum contribution, teaching artefacts, and assessment that fit existing learning outcomes.

Direct answer

Direct answer: University executive education

University executive-education programmes usually have their learning outcomes, cohort, and assessment model in place; what they need from a practitioner is a contribution that fits. I offer sessions and short modules on how AI systems are built, governed, and operated in practice, designed against the programme’s stated outcomes and leaving teaching artefacts and an assessment approach the programme team can use.

The question

“We need practitioner-led AI sessions that fit an existing programme and learning outcomes. What contribution is suitable?”

Who it is for

Executive-education directors, programme leads, and module convenors at universities and business schools.

What you leave with

A curriculum contribution, teaching artefacts, and an assessment approach aligned to the programme’s learning outcomes.

  • 01 A session or module plan mapped to the programme’s existing learning outcomes
  • 02 Teaching artefacts: case material, exercises, and reading drawn from public work and published sources
  • 03 An assessment approach, such as a decision memo or system critique, that the programme team can mark
  • 04 A short handover note so faculty can reuse the material where rights are agreed

How it runs

Format, method, and preparation

Duration
A single guest session, a half-day or full-day block, or a short module across several sessions
Delivery
On campus in the UK or remote, within the programme’s timetable
Participants
Executive-education cohorts as organised by the programme
01

Align to outcomes

Review the programme’s learning outcomes, cohort profile, and assessment model with the programme lead.

02

Explain the system

Show what changes when an AI system can read, decide, and act, using public reference systems and published research.

03

Apply to a decision

Participants work through a governance or investment case and produce a decision artefact.

04

Assess and debrief

Use the agreed assessment approach and connect the session to the rest of the programme.

Useful to have ready

  • →The programme’s learning outcomes, cohort profile, and assessment model
  • →Agreement on intellectual-property and reuse terms for teaching material
  • →Timetable, room or platform, and accessibility arrangements from the institution

Evidence

What this draws on

Open teaching material

GenAI and Agentic AI Playbooks

21 open chapters in ten languages under Apache 2.0: a business-leader guide to GenAI adoption followed by an engineering and operating guide to agent systems.

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Published book

AI for Everyday Automation (Packt, 2026)

Seven connected workflows for email, meetings, research, reports, task tracking, spreadsheets, and professional communication, each with people kept in review.

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Education

Graduate Certificate in Strategic Studies

Completed at The Takshashila Institution in 2018, alongside an M.S. in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) from Arizona State University and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi.

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arXiv preprint

The Correctness Illusion in LLM-Generated GPU Kernels

Operator-aware testing caught 10 of 10 seeded defects while 16 of 16 correct controls stayed clean across five GPU classes. A controlled corpus result, not a deployed-model defect rate.

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Scope and limits

What this is not

  • —Contributions are made as a visiting practitioner. They do not imply a university appointment, faculty title, or affiliation unless the institution separately grants one.
  • —Academic credit, accreditation, and quality assurance remain with the university.
  • —This page covers curriculum and learning outcomes. Automating a university’s own administrative work is delivery work handled through dipankar.co.

If the need is different

Common questions

Answers before you commission

What can a practitioner add to a university executive-education programme on AI?+

First-hand material on how AI systems are designed, governed, and operated, including where they fail, connected to the decisions executives on the programme will actually face.

Can the session fit our existing learning outcomes and assessment?+

Yes. The contribution is designed against your stated outcomes and can use an assessment format your programme already marks, such as a decision memo or critique.

Do you act as guest faculty?+

Sessions can be delivered as a guest practitioner within your programme. Any faculty title or affiliation is the university’s to grant and is not implied by this offer.

Who owns the teaching material?+

That is agreed in advance. Material drawn from open playbooks and public research can usually be shared; reuse and recording terms are set per programme.

Related

Next step

Describe your audience and decision

A short written brief is enough to establish fit. I reply personally, and say plainly when the work belongs elsewhere or is not worth commissioning.

Institutional programme: what to include

  • →Sponsor institution and programme owner
  • →Audience, roles, capability range, and obligations
  • →Learning or decision outcomes required
  • →Existing curriculum, accreditation, or procurement requirements
  • →Format, number of sessions, dates, and location or remote
  • →Accessibility requirements
  • →Budget range or procurement route
  • →Recording, materials, and reuse requirements