PgDip in Artificial Intelligence & Business Transformation (AIBT)

Innovating China Business

In this new era where artificial intelligence and digital technology intertwine, AI is reshaping every industry and every organization worldwide with an unstoppable force. Facing the unknowns and transformations brought about by technology, HKU ICB consistently maintains a forward-looking and optimistic stance, dedicated to inspiring business wisdom through technology and activating endogenous growth momentum through innovation.

In active response to the era's call for developing "New Quality Productive Forces," and to deeply satisfy the profound needs for individual self-iteration as well as the sustainable prosperity of enterprises and society, HKU ICB proudly introduces the Artificial Intelligence & Business Transformation (AIBT) program. This program aims to cultivate exceptional entrepreneurs imbued with a tech-innovation spirit, visionary business leaders, and innovative technology talents. We pursue more than just the enhancement of business efficiency through AI; we are fully committed to integrating the humanistic spirit with frontier science to build a "people-oriented" smart society through innovation.

We bring together an expert faculty team from world-renowned institutions, possessing a unique blend of global innovation genes and Eastern management wisdom. Beyond sharing cutting-edge technological foresight, we are dedicated to helping cross-industry elites reshape their future-oriented mental models and systematically master the core skills required to harness AI. Welcome to the AIBT program—let us stand at the commanding heights of this era to decipher the fundamental logic, master the trends and solutions, and co-create a new future for intelligent business across Greater China!

Programme Objectives

AIBT aims to help cross-industry elites from diverse backgrounds achieve a strategic closed-loop of "Enhancing Efficiency and Accelerating Innovation" through an interdisciplinary curriculum. The program focuses on achieving the following five core objectives:

• Reshaping Strategic Perception in the AI Era: To cultivate the critical thinking necessary during periods of technological leapfrogging, and scientifically deconstruct the fundamental logic of how technology impacts industry ecosystems; to help decision-makers accurately perceive epochal opportunities and reconstruct long-term corporate development strategies and action pathways tailored to the AI wave.

• Fostering Organizational Evolution for "Tech for Good": Upholding the core principle of "Tech for Good" to build an agile, efficient, and human-machine collaborative culture of innovation; to nurture innovative leadership with a sense of social mission, efficiently drive cross-departmental alignment as well as cross-border cooperation among government, industry, academia, and research, and fully unleash innovative productivity.

• Constructing Business-Anchored AI Application Scenarios: Rooted firmly in classic management theories and grounded in real-world business contexts, to formulate scientific AI deployment and implementation frameworks that precisely empower and supercharge core business operations with AI applications.

• Establishing Strategic Barrier-Reinforcement Mechanisms: To accumulate proprietary data assets, intellectual property, and intangible assets, thereby constructing strategic moats that cannot be easily eroded by the democratization of technology; to cultivate dynamic core competencies, solidify business defenses, and ensure the long-term sustainability of competitive advantages.

• Integrating Humanity and Science for Upright Innovation: To gain profound insights into technological ethics, legal compliance, and social responsibility, striking a long-term, healthy balance between humanistic spirit and frontier science; to empower students to become visionary pioneers who innovate with integrity in the AI era, working together to co-create a healthy, sustainable future for intelligent business.

Programme Highlights

• Equal Emphasis on Global Mindset and Chinese Wisdom: Our faculty team graduated from world-renowned institutions, blending international perspectives with deep local business insights. Having long served in core management or technical positions at tier-one enterprises, the methodologies they teach possess both cutting-edge height and highly practical, real-world operability for corporate implementation.

• Dual Strength in Academic Theory and Business Practice: Closely aligned with global frontier technological trends and academic research achievements, the program provides a solid scientific foundation for corporate transformation strategies. Through cross-industry and cross-domain integrated exchanges, students will decipher the fundamental mechanics and core pathways of AI transformation, co-creating the future of intelligent business.

• Convergence of Business, Humanity, and Tech-Innovation: The program performs a deep, closed-loop deconstruction of artificial intelligence alongside core business sectors, including organizational innovation, financial management, product experience, and generative marketing. While pursuing technological efficiency and unleashing innovative productivity, it integrates business ethics and wisdom to cultivate composite leaders who possess both technological foresight and humanistic care.

Learning Journey

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Suitable for

• Existing leaders in SMEs and large firms who are responsible for innovation management, productivity improvement and all functions relating to business growth and digital transformation by A.I. adoptions
• Founding teams of startups and future leaders of SMEs and large enterprises who are seeking rapid business growth in China and overseas through new business model coupled with new technology commercialisation and adoptions with A.I. and digital transformation
• Management teams of traditional firms who need to acquire innovative and cutting-edge knowledge and skillsets with new technologies (such as A.I. and digital methods) to implement change and accelerate innovation to increase new quality productivity, adapt market change and seek new growth.

Alumni

Previous students of this programme came from major companies including: Apple, SAP, Anker, Porsche AG, Carrier Global Corporation, S&P Global Commodity Insights, HSBC, State Street, PwC, CBRE Group, ManpowerGroup, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Disney, Sands China, Eni S.p.A., Tencent, Alibaba, SenseTime, CloudWalk Technology, KE Holdings, Lalamove, East Money Information, Fxiaoke, NAURA Technology Group, Avary Holding, Transsion Holdings, NIO Inc., Dongxin Semiconductor, Espressif Systems, China Resources Land, China Construction Fourth Engineering Division, Hongshi Group, East Hope Group, Hand Enterprise Solutions, Digital China Information Service, China Zheshang Bank, Zheshang Securities, Huajin Securities, Yeepay, Dizal Pharmaceutical, Infinitus (China), Wuzhen Tourism, Shenzhen Airlines, Shenzhen Media Group, New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Apex Logistics, Yuhuitian Group, Matrix Design, ENN Group, Lvjvneng, Yingtou Holdings, etc.

Graduation Certificate

Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence & Business Transformation

Upon completion of the "Residential Workshop", 10 compulsory modules and the "Final Project", and after passing the evaluation, students will be awarded the "Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence & Business Transformation" by the University of Hong Kong at the postgraduate level.