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AI foundations & applications

Gain a practical introduction to Machine Learning, AI, and Generative AI. Explore data architectures, visualization, and hands-on AI tools to tackle real business challenges from predicting employee attrition to optimizing decisions guided by insights from industry experts.

training informations

Short program (FC)

duration

4 days spread over 1 month

price

CHF 5’000

language

English

location

Onsite

internationally recognized

hands-on & practical course

Presentation of the program

To fully harness the potential of Machine Learning, AI and Generative AI, companies must master the entire AI value chain from raw data to actionable insights and scalable business applications.

This module provides a practical introduction to the foundations of AI. It unpacks the key architectural components and core principles in Machine Learning, AI and GenAI, and provides an outlook on the latest trends, such as agentic AI. Participants explore big data architectures, data visualization and storytelling. Through hands-on sessions with intuitive data science and AI tools, they will apply AI methods to concrete business use cases for instance, predicting employee attrition risks or optimizing operational decisions.

Real-world business applications, presented by industry experts, will further illustrate how companies apply AI and GenAI to solve complex challenges and create measurable results.

Learning objectives

Understand and interact with the foundational architecture components of modern Big Data and AI environments.
Explore core concepts in data visualization, ML, AI, and Generative AI through guided, hands-on sessions with advanced tools.
Analyze real-world industry applications to understand how ML, AI, and GenAI solve complex business challenges and drive results.

Target audience

(Future) Chief Data Officers (CDOs), senior managers and executives who are launching data initiative.
Business intelligence (BI) and data managers, data engineers and data architects who want to manage successful data-driven transformation.
Data champions and executives in business lines (HR, Marketing, Operations, …) who want to become more data and analytics-savvy.

About the program

This short program AI foundations & applications was built for professionals seeking to learn about fundamental concepts and then practice them trough practical exercises. There is a strong emphasis on practical application supported by academic excellence, with the use of exercises and break-out groups, industry examples and guest speakers. The fundamental notions will be presented beforehand, then supplemented and illustrated by numerous practical exercises based on real cases .

This approach will allow the participants to deploy the concepts presented during the course as well as forging a strong analytical mindset to tackle future challenges they might face on .

our speakers

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux professor

English

Sandro Saitta professor

English

Olivier Verscheure professor

English

main program

Data

Digital

4.5

Data science & management

16 days spread over 9 months

CAS

English

onsite

Program's sessions

You can see all our open program sessions in AI foundations & applications below. Click on the session you are interested in or check the full calendar.

March 2026

open

full dates: 18, 19, 20 and 21 May 2026
language: English
registration: Before 16 April 2026

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