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AI-Native Foundations (AIF)

You’ve been told to “use AI.” But between hype, half-truths, and a flood of tools, it’s hard to know where to start.

AI-Native Foundations cuts through the noise. In two immersive days, teams gain the fluency, frameworks, and confidence to put AI to work. Not just in theory, but in the flow of the actual day-to-day.

This isn’t another webinar about prompts. Teams learn in-plain-English how AI really works, master the 7 AI-Native Success Factors, and redesign one of their own workflows to create measurable business value from day one.

By the end, teams walk away with:

• A shared AI vocabulary that accelerates alignment across business and tech
• A responsible adoption playbook to reduce compliance and brand risk
• A 30-60-90 day AI action plan tailored to their role, ready to implement immediately

Who this is for?

AI-Native Foundations is built for professionals who are expected to deliver AI results without the luxury of trial and error.

You’ll fit right in if you are:

• A business leader who needs to translate AI potential into measurable ROI
• A product or delivery professional responsible for integrating AI into value streams without breaking what already works
• An operations or enablement lead tasked with creating standards, playbooks, and guardrails for responsible AI use
• A change-maker inside your team who wants to bridge the gap between technical possibilities and business realities

Business outcomes

By the end of AI-Native Foundations, you and your team will be able to:

• Align faster across business and tech with a shared AI vocabulary that reduces friction and misinterpretation.
• Turn existing tools into real ROI by redesigning workflows to save hours and deliver measurable results immediately.
• Lead with confidence and credibility by knowing how to assess feasibility, risks, and expected returns before committing resources.
• Innovate without increasing risk by applying compliance and safety guardrails from the start.

AI-Native Value Architect (AIVA)

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Most organizations don’t have a shortage of AI ideas. They have a shortage of AI initiatives that are ready to deliver real business value.

Promising opportunities get stuck because the data isn’t ready, operational needs haven’t been considered, risks aren’t bounded, adoption is an afterthought, or no one has clearly defined how value will be measured.

AI-Native Value Architect is built to close that gap. In this 2-day, hands-on course, you’ll learn how to identify, shape, and deliver high-value AI opportunities—translating AI potential into initiatives that business and technical leaders can understand, support, and move into production.

This isn’t theory. You’ll work through a real initiative using the AI-Native Solution Lifecycle—Sense, Discover, Design, Deliver—learning how to take an opportunity from its first signal through the decisions and planning needed to make it real.

By the end, you’ll have:

• A repeatable approach for identifying and shaping high-value AI opportunities
• The ability to translate AI concepts into business language that engages stakeholders and builds sponsorship
• Practical experience using the AI-Native Solution Lifecycle to move an initiative toward production
• An AI-Native Solution Charter, Value Blueprint, and implementation plan that accelerate execution

Who this is for?

AI-Native Value Architect is for people who sit at the intersection of business opportunity and delivery—the people who help turn “Could AI help us here?” into “Here’s what we should build, why it matters, and how we move forward.”

You’ll fit right in if you are:

• A Product Manager looking to identify where AI can create meaningful customer or business value
• A Scrum Master or Release Train Engineer helping teams navigate cross-functional AI initiatives
• A SAFe Practice Consultant helping organizations connect AI opportunities to business outcomes
• A practitioner or leader who needs to bring business, technology, data, and stakeholders together around an AI opportunity

Business outcomes

Graduates of AI-Native Value Architect are equipped to:

1. Move AI initiatives out of the POC graveyard: Recognize the failure modes that stall AI pilots and help move promising initiatives toward production.
2. Find and shape the right opportunities: Identify high-value AI opportunities and develop them into initiatives with clear business outcomes.
3. Align business, tech, and leadership: Translate AI concepts into business language that engages non-technical stakeholders, builds sponsorship, and reduces rework and delays.
4. Design for execution, not just experimentation: Account for data readiness, operations, risk, adoption, and value realization before they become expensive downstream problems.
5. Create repeatable AI delivery capability: Build the skills and artifacts needed to launch and scale AI solutions across teams and the enterprise.

What You’ll Learn

During the course, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize the five failure modes that commonly stall AI pilots: unready data, unplanned operations, unbounded risk, unengineered adoption, and unmeasured value
• Run the AI-Native Solution Lifecycle—Sense, Discover, Design, Deliver
• Translate AI concepts into business language that engages non-technical stakeholders and secures sponsorship
• Identify, shape, and deliver high-value AI opportunities
• Build an AI-Native Solution Charter, Value Blueprint, and implementation plan
• Guide cross-functional teams from early discovery toward sustained business impact