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Ready to see how AI can help your business grow right now? Kickstart your thinking with this GPT that will apply the fundamental strategies from this course to your business. Just give it a URL and it will give you a starter report on how AI will affect your business and how you can leverage AI to gain the upper hand.

AI Strategy GPT

AI is no longer optional - it’s a must have for all products. Join&nbsp;Cy Khormaee, AI Faculty at UCLA with experience building AI products at Attentive, Google, and Microsoft, to discover how product managers can lead their products into the AI era. In this session, Cy will help you cut through the noise and make AI work for your product—offering real-world insights, frameworks, and strategies to help you stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Whether you're just beginning to integrate AI or looking to scale your AI-powered solutions, you'll walk away with practical tools to drive AI adoption and product success. Reasons to take this course: - You are being asked to build AI into your product or build a new AI product - You want to understand how to identify key opportunities for business impact beyond novelty - You want to learn from real world AI success stories at Netflix, Tesla, and Google - You are struggling to measure AI products and execution of your AI team - You looking to move into AI Product Management or leadership role Course Style:This course will be dynamic with a lot of student interaction. Much of the content will be taught in the case method where core frameworks are introduced and then immediately applied to real world cases in a discussion format. The projects will follow the discussions to enable students to apply these frameworks to their current problems. Students will walk away from this course with complete strategies to tackle AI in their product. This event is perfect for product managers looking to expand their AI expertise, enhance their product management skills, and lead AI strategy in their organizations. If you’re looking to transform your product and advance your career, this is a must-attend event for you!

Position your product and career for success in the age of AI

Course syllabus

Class will meet Tuesday and Thursday Morning for two weeks. There will be short projects after each session to give students an opportunity to apply what they've learned.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Course schedule

Product Managers looking to understand how apply AI to their product or get a role in AI

Managers + Leaders looking to broaden their understanding of AI Strategy to position their organizations for success with AI

Aspiring PMs. AI presents a unique opportunity for engineers, analysts, or students looking to transfer into the PM role.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Understand how AI will shape industries and a framework to understand how it will affect yours. Featured Case Study: Netflix vs Hollywood

How to see the 4 AI Forces

Learn the core ways that you can leverage AI to advantage your business as the forces sweep through your industry. Case Study: Netflix vs Hollywood pt 2

How to Apply the 4 AI Advantages

Learn the new AI PDLC and how AI product execution is different from traditional software. Understand how this changes the role of PMs and the formation of product + engineering teams as a whole. Case Study: Tesla vs Everyone

How to get AI Products Built

Use the Crawl-Walk-Run framework to develop trust with customers. Understand common blockers for AI adoption and how to overcome them. Learn the flywheel effects that drive rapid AI adoption. Featured Case Study: reCAPTCHA

How to Drive Customer Adoption of AI

Each module of the course will have a project that constitutes a piece of a wholistic AI strategy. At the end of the two weeks you'll have the first version of your AI Plan ready to put into play.

A Plan for AI in your Business

Master the principles of building impactful AI products in 2 weeks.  Learn core concepts from strategic positioning to driving adoption.

Cy Khormaee

The PM's Guide to Building AI products

UCLA AI Faculty | x-PM Director @ Google | Havard MBA | 20+ years building AI

Learn the 4 AI Forces to position your product in an evolving market. Cy will share real-world case studies to help you

AI Strategy

Discover how to manage non-deterministic AI projects with the new tools and processes—Jira can’t solve everything!

AI Execution

Customers are both curious about and cautious of AI. Get a roadmap to building trust with customers.

AI Adoption

Digital Twins - Leverage AI to Automate Content Creation

UCLA AI Faculty (x-Google Director, x-Microsoft PM, 2x successful startup exits)

Learn how content can be a proven growth customer acquisition channel

Leverage Content as your Product Growth Engine

You'll see every step in the process to create a custom GPT from scratch to create compelling content.

Live Demo: Accelerate your Content Engine with Automation

Context is everything.  We'll walk through how to power your new twin with the best content to maximize engagement

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CyAI

Courses

Building AI products: A PM's Guide to Strategy and Execution

Lightning Lessons

The PM's Guide to Building AI products

Digital Twins - Leverage AI to Automate Content Creation

Resources

AI Strategy GPT