E X E C U T I V E E D U C A T I O N
AI Growth and Value Creation
in Emerging Companies
A limited-seat executive working session for VC- and PE-backed leaders and their investors on how to create measurable value with AI.
Participants: Investors, board members, and C-suite executives
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Time: 1:00-3:00 PM ET
Location: virtual
Cost: $295 per seat
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AI IS NO LONGER A TECHNOLOGY QUESTION
AI is changing how organizations discover, develop, operate, commercialize, invest, and compete. But many leadership teams are still approaching AI through scattered tools, isolated pilots, vendor demonstrations, and poorly governed experimentation.
Creating measurable value with AI requires more than enthusiasm and technical awareness. It requires executive leadership, strategic prioritization, cost management, data readiness, governance, workflow redesign, adoption planning, and disciplined execution.
This working session is designed for leaders who want a clearer, more practical way to think about where AI can create value — and what must be true inside an organization for that value to be realized.
A SESSION FOR GROWTH LEADERS
AI Growth and Value Creation in Emerging Companies is a two-hour executive education session on AI growth and value creation in start-up and growth-stage organizations.
This is not a general AI overview, a technical training course, or a product demonstration.
It is an applied leadership session for leaders who need to evaluate AI opportunities, recognize organizational barriers, and lead the right conversations inside their companies or portfolios.
Participants will leave with practical frameworks for recognizing high-value AI opportunities, understanding the organizational conditions required for success, and beginning the right leadership conversations inside their company or portfolio.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Investors
Board members
Operating partners
CEOs
CFOs
Founders
Other C-suite leaders responsible for strategy, growth, innovation, governance, or enterprise performance.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
During the session, we will address five executive questions:
1. Why is AI adoption a leadership problem, not just a technology problem?
We will clarify hype from reality, examine competitive and investment pressures, and discuss why chatbot experimentation often falls short of value creation.
2. What does a credible AI value creation plan require?
We will explore how AI strategy connects to business strategy, measurable improvement, competitive positioning, and enterprise value.
3. What organizational conditions determine whether AI succeeds?
We will examine the leadership, process, data, governance, technology, and adoption conditions that influence AI performance, cost, risk, and value creation.
4. How should leaders identify and prioritize AI opportunities?
We will discuss how to distinguish tools, pilots, and scalable solutions and evaluate opportunities for strategic relevance, feasibility, and measurable impact.
5. What does practical execution require?
We will discuss why AI execution should be a managed process involving use-case selection, data readiness, workflow redesign, governance, risk controls, adoption, and continuous improvement.
WHY THIS SESSION IS DIFFERENT
Many AI sessions focus on tools, trends, or technical concepts. This session focuses on the executive work required to create value. That means asking harder leadership questions:
Where can AI create measurable improvement?
Which opportunities are strategically important enough to pursue?
What data, process, governance, and adoption conditions must be in place?
Where are current efforts likely to stall?
How should leaders avoid vendor sprawl, unmanaged risk, and wasted investment?
What conversations need to happen across leadership, technology, operations, finance, compliance, and the business?
TAKEAWAYS
Participants will receive practical executive tools and discussion guides, including:
AI Value Creation Framework to help leaders characterize potential opportunities
Success Dependency Checklist defining leadership, data, process, governance, adoption, and risk requirements
Success Barrier Diagnostic to help identify organizational constraints likely to limit AI value creation
Opportunity Screening Questions to help leaders distinguish tools, pilots, and scalable solutions
Next Conversation Guide with practical steps to take back to their teams
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jason Burke is an industry executive, advisor, educator, and author focused on AI, analytics, data strategy, innovation, and enterprise growth.
He has served as Chief AI and Strategy Officer for a PE-backed life sciences and healthcare consulting firm, founding Chief Analytics Officer for UNC Health, and a senior strategy and product leader for health and life sciences at SAS. Burke has been an active advisor to venture capital firms regarding emerging technologies and associated market opportunities. He is the author of Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Healthcare.
His executive education program at the Duke Fuqua School of Business has been cited by Forbes as one of ten "courses that should be on every executive’s radar."
RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW
Join a focused group of executives for this practical working session on how to recognize, evaluate, and deliver AI value creation.
Format: Live virtual working session
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 1-3PM ET
Duration: 2 hours
Price: $295 per seat
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