AI value
AI Value Immersion Program
Turn AI investment into measurable impact and lasting competitive advantage.
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Turn AI investment into measurable impact and lasting competitive advantage.
Organizations have invested in AI tools, pilots, and capabilities, yet many still struggle to translate experimentation into sustained enterprise value. The challenge is no longer simply understanding what AI can do. It is determining where it matters most, redesigning work around new capabilities, and building the leadership and organizational readiness required to scale responsibly.
This extended Silicon Valley experience brings together expert perspectives, conversations with innovators, hands-on experimentation, and work on real business challenges. Over three days, executives explore what is becoming possible, examine how leading organizations put AI to work, and develop a shortlist of opportunities to take forward. Optional fourth and fifth days allow for deeper technology immersion, business-model innovation, and more developed action plans.
Who it’s for: Executive committees, business-unit presidents, transformation leaders, and cross-functional senior teams seeking to move beyond fragmented AI pilots and align around enterprise-wide opportunities, investment priorities, and execution.
Three-day Silicon Valley executive immersion, expandable to four or five days. Designed for senior leadership teams.
Singularity combines expert-led sessions, peer learning, hands-on application, and curated exposure to the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem. The balance of faculty, research visits, startup encounters, and major technology-partner engagements is tailored to the client. Half-day partner visits are optional, dependent on relationships and host availability, and designed around substantive executive dialogue rather than guaranteed access to specific companies or individuals.
The learning journey moves leaders from understanding the shift to seeing what is possible, reimagining value, leading at scale, and activating first moves. It is built on five design principles:
Establish a shared language for accelerating AI and adjacent technologies.
Meet practitioners and examine what works, what fails, and why.
Experience the researchers, startups, major technology partners, and enterprises bringing new capabilities to market, and distinguish emerging experiments from enterprise-scale deployment.
Use hands-on exercises to surface trade-offs and organizational requirements.
Develop a shortlist of opportunities and practical first moves. Optional extension days add deeper immersions into convergence and growth opportunities, then refine an activation agenda.
The three-day core combines distinct expert perspectives, Silicon Valley engagements, facilitated reflection, and practical application. Optional Days 4 and 5 can include a half-day engagement with a major technology partner alongside startup and research encounters. Recommended faculty and visits are illustrative, require advance coordination, and are subject to host availability.
Focus: See what’s next
Rob Nail (facilitator)
Explore why linear thinking can leave organizations unprepared for accelerating change. Participants challenge assumptions about the pace of AI progress and discuss where it could open new possibilities for their industry.
Michael Gillam
Explore how data and AI are changing what organizations can understand, predict, and decide. Using examples and discussion, participants identify where better use of data could improve decisions or unlock new value.
Michael Housman
A practical look at what today’s AI systems do well, where they fall short, and how leaders can evaluate real applications without losing sight of business needs.
Startup founders and Singularity facilitator
Meet founders building applied AI products. Discuss the customer problem, what makes the solution possible now, and what adoption looks like in practice. Specific organizations are selected for client relevance.
Rob Nail (facilitated reflection)
Capture surprising developments, challenged assumptions, and the business questions participants want to pursue during the immersion.
Focus: Make AI real
Research institution or enterprise innovation host
Go behind the scenes at a research lab or technology organization to see emerging systems in context. A facilitated discussion connects the experience to the client’s industry and strategic priorities. Visits depend on host access and availability.
Bryce Goodman
Most organizations can start AI experiments; the harder task is making them useful at scale. Explore how work, processes, and decision-making change when AI is built into the way an organization operates. Small-group discussion: what would we redesign rather than simply automate?
Alix Rübsaam
A protected, hands-on workshop that makes the trade-offs in AI design and implementation visible. Participants explore how assumptions and choices shape results, and discuss the implications for trust, oversight, and scaling.
Rob Nail (facilitated application)
Teams identify an existing process, service, or decision that could be rethought around AI, and surface the questions they would need to answer before proceeding.
Focus: Turn possibility into value
Vivienne Ming
Explore the potential of human–machine collaboration, drawing on examples from research and real-world applications. Discuss where AI can elevate human creativity, expertise, and judgment, and what that means for how teams work.
Jody Medich
Explore how established organizations can experiment, work across boundaries, and move new ideas forward. Discuss practical obstacles to innovation and approaches for overcoming them.
Rob Nail
Explore what it takes to lead change in established organizations, drawing on lessons from technology transformation. Participants discuss the barriers that prevent promising ideas from moving forward and the leadership choices that can help.
Singularity facilitator with expert input (tailored workshop)
Working with real business challenges, teams choose promising AI opportunities and examine whom they benefit, what would need to change, how they might test the idea, and what success would look like.
Rob Nail (facilitated closing)
Teams share their strongest opportunities, receive peer feedback, and agree on initial experiments or questions to investigate. Close with a short discussion of the next steps leaders can take back to their organizations.
Optional extension: Explore the edges and meet the builders
For teams seeking a broader future vision, exposure to technology at enterprise scale, and more time to explore adjacent opportunities. A half-day strategic technology-partner visit can be built into Day 4, with expert sessions and startup encounters scheduled around it or across the two extension days.
NVIDIA, Microsoft, or comparable
A curated executive-level visit focused on the client’s strategic questions, not a standard product briefing. Where relationships and host availability permit, meet technology and industry leaders, explore relevant AI platforms or applied use cases, and discuss what enterprise adoption and scale require. A half-day block includes travel and a structured debrief; host, speakers, access, and agenda are not guaranteed.
Hod Lipson
Explore how AI is extending into robotics and the physical world. Discuss second-order implications for industries and business models beyond the obvious applications.
Sally Dominguez
Challenge conventional assumptions and explore ambitious 10X opportunities through a moonshot approach. Apply the thinking to a client-relevant challenge and identify bold possibilities worth testing.
Startup founders and host organizations
Additional startup demos or visits selected to illustrate unexpected intersections between technologies and sectors, with structured reflection on potential relevance. These complement or replace the major technology-partner immersion, scheduled as a dedicated block on Day 4 or, when a half-day partner visit is included, on Day 5 if time permits.
Optional extension: Commit to action
For leadership teams ready to invest additional time in aligning around specific priorities. When Day 4 includes a half-day technology-partner immersion, the remaining expert sessions, startup encounters, and activation workshops are sequenced across Days 4 and 5 to protect meaningful time for each. The exact mix is tailored rather than presented as five full days of fixed sessions.
Singularity facilitators and selected experts (tailored workshop)
Teams deepen selected concepts through stakeholder, value, feasibility, and adoption lenses. Identify assumptions to test and the evidence needed to make the next investment decision.
Rob Nail (facilitated working session)
Discuss organizational dependencies, decision rights, talent, governance, and executive sponsorship. Translate priorities into initial experiments and a realistic sequence of next steps.
Leadership team with Singularity facilitator
Share proposals, challenge each other’s assumptions, and agree on priorities and owners. The output is an initial action agenda, not a claim that a complete transformation strategy can be built in five days.
(presented by facilitator)
Thinking exponentially is core to everything we teach at Singularity, this means that we start with showing how each year the power and/or speed of technology is doubling and/or the cost is dropping by half. Getting into the mindset of thinking exponentially is a fundamental first step for projecting into the future. During this session participants will not just understand the basic definition of exponential growth, but dive into its implications, and shift from a linear way of thinking to an exponential one.
We typically overestimate growth in the short term, and underestimate it in the long term due to the deceptive nature of exponential growth. Because computational technologies (including artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, advanced manufacturing, and more) progress exponentially, its growth and adoption can be surprising. As these technologies continue to democratize, access to use them becomes more widespread and more and more people, companies, and industries will have a role to play in how they’re leveraged.This session will prepare you for thinking about these growth patterns, how they apply to your industry, and what role you can play in their use.
The world around us is changing at an exponential pace. From climate change to water to hunger, global issues are becoming more challenging and growing faster than traditional organizations are able to manage. What does it mean to create impact in this new environment? And how can you, as one of today's most capable leaders, define your own massive transformative purpose?