Webinar: AI in Corporate Entrepreneurship Innovation: Understanding Its Power, Pitfalls, and Future Impact

Explore How AI is Reshaping Corporate Innovation

AI is no longer just a buzzword — it has become a fundamental driver of transformation and competitive advantage across industries. Aligned with DTU’s mission to lead in advanced technology and innovation, this exclusive webinar brings together an AI expert and a strategic innovation facilitator to explore both the vast potential and practical challenges of leveraging AI in corporate innovation settings.

Whether you’re leading innovation teams, shaping business development strategies, or navigating the complexities of digital transformation, this session will provide forward-looking insights into how AI can spark internal entrepreneurship and accelerate sustainable business growth.

Why This Webinar is Part of the CEL™ Universe

This webinar is a natural extension of DTU’s Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL™) programme — an executive learning journey designed to empower cross-functional teams to discover, validate, and launch new business initiatives. By integrating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, CEL ensures that participants not only learn proven innovation frameworks but also apply them to future-oriented, high-impact challenges.

Understanding AI’s power, pitfalls, and future impact is essential for any team working at the forefront of business transformation. This session exemplifies CEL’s core values: applied learning, strategic insight, and real-world relevance.

In essence, CEL helps organizations become truly innovation-ready — and technologies like AI are among the most powerful enablers of corporate renewal.

Key takeaways:

• Perspectives on the innovation potential AI unlocks
• The changes that AI catalyzes in the economics of innovation
• The new generation of tools that accelerate innovation, from discovery to prototyping and to scaling
• What does it take for an organization to take advantage of these possibilities

This webinar provides not only valuable insights but also a taste of the CEL™  programme,  a success proven business innovation programme for leaders who want to turn opportunities, intentions and ideas into sustainable business growth.

Here are the details:

Date and time: Tuesday, 22 April 2025, from 17:00 to 18:00
Place: Online, webinar link is provided after registration

Program:
17:00-17:05 – Welcome and brief presentation of CEL
17:05-17:35 – AI’s Innovation Potential: Understanding the Fundamentals of AI – A conversation between Prof. Thomas Bolander and Stephane Roger Pierre Guerraz, covering the core distinctions of AI, symbolic vs. sub-symbolic AI, and their implications for innovation.
17:35-17:55 – Live Q&A with all speakers – A chance for attendees to ask questions about AI, its potential, and how to practically apply AI in business.
17:55-18:00 – Summary and CEL program invitation

Please note that spots for this event are typically assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. However, in the event of oversubscription, we reserve the right to decline registrations from competitors, students, or individuals outside the intended audience. If you are not allocated a spot, we will notify you accordingly.

We hope to see you there!

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Speaker

Thomas Bolander

Professor in logic and artificial intelligence (AI) at the Technical University of Denmark

Thomas Bolander, Ph.D., is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His research areas are logic and artificial, focussing primarily on the use of logic to model human-like planning, reasoning and problem solving. Of special interest is the modelling of social phenomena and social intelligence with the aim of creating computer systems that can interact intelligently with humans and other computer systems.

Homepage: Thomas Bolander

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Stephane Guerraz

External lecturer, fmr. Head of Studies, MBA

Stephane Guerraz initially trained as a Certified Actuary, holds a Master in Artificial Intelligence from Dauphine University in Paris with High Honors and an MBA from UC Berkeley in California, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
He started his career as a financial engineer on capital markets and in asset management at BNP Paribas (Paris), then spent more than ten years as a management consultant on the West Coast of the US and Canada, helping corporations with digital transformation, transition to agile, organizational reviews and change, and M&A integration. He co-founded a Fintech startup, taught entrepreneurship and investment management at the Langara School of Management in Vancouver and coached teams in business competitions. He was Head of Executive Education at DTU from 2021 to 2022, and in parallel, runs personal development workshops.

LinkedIn Profile: Stephane Guerraz

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