Explore AI and the World Around Us as you embrace the creative spirit of Stanford University, where leaders become pioneers of the modern frontier. Crafted as a unique, immersive program tailored to CEO interests, ten hours of preparatory work will ready you for Stanford’s unique multidisciplinary research framework directed by outstanding educational resources and paired with high-level inspirational guest speakers from Silicon Valley.
CEO’s inaugural year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, led by founding chair Mark Bitz, offered a cutting-edge curriculum that spanned:
Digital Transformation | Unicorns and Scaling | Venture Capital and New Economy Investing | Biotech and Health Tech | Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Big Data | Cybersecurity | Robotics
"Stanford is the ideal complement to Harvard, CEO's premiere annual education program"
“CEO provides an opportunity for wisdom, trust and vulnerability to freely flow among its membership in unlimited and extraordinary ways!”
“I connected with amazing people, whether networking during the day or in the small study groups each evening. Stanford was the experience of a lifetime!”
Chair Andy Cunningham championed a curriculum exploring how neuroscience, engineering, organizational behavior, and data science innovations are shaping our world. Sixty forward-thinking peers exchanged ideas in study groups daily, delving into the three big drivers of instability: financial, climate, and geopolitics to solve today’s complex problems. Participants engaged with top-rated faculty and got outside the classroom to soak in the Silicon Valley vibe at pioneering tech companies.
Meet Ria, one of the highlights of the program
"This is a must do event for the member with a wildly curious mind."
“This was an amazing learning experience. I will come back every year.”
“…we went deeper and wider on other topics in a forum confidential format. I have learned tremendously from my study group mates.”
Each year the CEO Presidents' Seminar focuses on a pivotal theme to explore and dissect. In 2024, a fresh new curriculum offers a hyper-relevant exploration of the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is everywhere because it is an opportunity for every industry. Get a sharp view of AI through multiple lenses: technology, ethics, geopolitical, and cultural.
Under the inspired vision of Chair Andy Cunningham, the Stanford experience continues to expand on its strengths with highly rated programming by Dr. Amir Goldberg, well respected CEO member study group leaders, and access to the best and brightest Silicon Valley leaders who provide experiential learning in off campus expeditions.
With its eminent scholars, the Hoover Institution promotes economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind. Past Hoover Insitute speakers at Stanford GSB / CEO Presidents’ Seminar have included H.R. McMaster and Andrew Hall.
These groups are one of the most highly ranked aspects of the program and will be facilitated by:
Michael Gray
Tom McAndrews
Jim Brailean
Phil Holthouse
Craig Branigan
Mark Schwartz
Isabelle Nüssli
Off campus visits to companies working with AI will provide real world demos, experiential education, and an immersion in tech culture that is overflowing in Silicon Valley. Insights and conversation continue over dinner at a nearby hotspot.
Participants will engage in research and experiential exercises in a hands-on format that is action-oriented, demanding, and fun. Throughout, the focus will be collaborative learning and team-based activities directed by outstanding educational resources from one of the world’s most prestigious universities, paired with high level Silicon Valley guest speakers to complement the academic perspective.
Faculty Director and Stanford University Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Amir's research projects all share an overarching theme: the desire to undertand the social mechanisms that underlie how people construct meaning and consequently purse action.
Machines can perform tasks that require human intelligence, such as recognizing faces, understanding language, playing games, and more.
From understanding algorithms to how data is used, begin your exploration of how AI can impact society through example applications and hands-on exercises.
Learn how some of the leading companies in the world are building AI solutions for a wide swath of domains and applications that are transforming industries.
Companies include: Synopsys, providing AI-powered EDA solutions for chip design and AI applications; Nvidia, offering an advanced AI platform for enterprise and research; Groq, a startup that has developed a new AI accelerator card; Open AI, a research organization that aims to create safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI); and Meta, who intends to improve augmented and artificial reality technologies.
AI can advance fields like medicine, education, and art, but also create ethical dilemmas, moral hazards, and existential risks. Explore both sides of the conversation regarding improved productivity, efficiency, and quality, at the risk displaced jobs, skills, and incomes.
As AI enhances decision-making, personalization, and accessibility, it also inherits and amplifies biases, discrimination, and inequality.
The emerging regulatory landscape for AI, both in the U.S. and internationally, includes protections that range from privacy and security to broader ethical guidelines.
A few examples include the U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI, issued by President Biden in 2023; the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, proposed by the European Commission in 2021; the OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence, adopted by 42 countries in 2019; and the Beijing AI Principles, endorsed by 15 Chinese organizations.
The geopolitical implications around AI and war are profound and could affect the balance of power, the stability of deterrence, and the escalation of conflicts between nuclear and non-nuclear states.
New ethical questions for the conduct and control of war will require answers that ensure the protection of human rights and values.
China declared the development, research, and implementation of AI to be a national priority, aiming to become a global leader in AI by 2030.
Delve into how China’s multi-billion dollar investment in IT and AI companies and promotion of AI research and education has helped them excel in areas such as facial recognition, natural language processing, and computer vision.
AI has the potential to transform the entertainment industry across content creation, production, distribution, and consumption.
The ability to create text, images, videos, music, and other forms of content, using techniques such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision has far-reaching consequences and creative implications for intellectual property rights, fair use, authenticity, and originality.
Spend a day immersed in AI with a local company and two evenings off campus for dinners, soaking in the Silicon Valley vibe while you discuss the day’s revelations.
Outside the classroom, enjoy the California lifestyle, taking care of the “whole you” with on-campus workout sessions, meals from an award-winning chef, time to network, and options to decompress and reflect.
Andy Cunningham
25-30 August 2024
Limited to 60
Schwab Residential Center, Stanford
University Campus, Palo Alto
Deanna Sibbald
San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
Oakland International Airport (OAK)
US$14,700 (single occupancy)
A truly transformational experience in critical thinking.
