AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers

Enrollment

By August 15, 2025

Delivery mode

Onsite

Schedule

September 15 – December 1, 2025

Location

Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland

Language

English

Scope

5 days

AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers

Navigate through the AI Hype – Training Program with Solita

To effectively leverage AI and achieve your business goals, it is crucial to understand how artificial intelligence can generate value within your specific business context and grasp the broader implications of the latest AI technology breakthroughs.

Creating lasting value with AI necessitates that decision-makers strategically apply artificial intelligence within their core business operations. The AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers program equips you to generate business value with AI by understanding the foundational AI technology and the various aspects of integrating AI into products and services. You will also gain insights into structuring your organization for optimal performance with new AI technologies and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Furthermore, the program provides an overview of emerging shifts in the business ecosystem and potential future trends driven by AI.

In this program, the instructors from Solita and Aalto University share their extensive knowledge gained from numerous AI projects, focusing on achieving competitive advantage through strategic organizational changes and the implementation of cutting-edge AI technologies. In addition, Vaisala will provide a keynote about how AI/ML can be part of everything your company does.

A key tangible outcome of this program is the development of initial and actionable plans for leveraging AI to boost your business and strategies for structuring your organization to effectively implement AI initiatives.

Start

September 15, 2025

Registration information

Fee: € 5,500 (+VAT)

The Early Bird fee of € 5,500 (+ VAT) is valid until August 15, 2025. The normal program fee is € 6,700 (+ VAT).

Taimo Paavola, Senior Relationship Manager

+358 10 837 3801

taimo.paavola@aaltoee.fi

Sami Koskela, Solutions Director

+358 40 702 9321

sami.koskela@aaltoee.fi

www.aaltoee.fi/aileaders

This program provides essential knowledge for leaders and decision-makers regarding AI technology and its profound business implications.

The program's content is based on decades of practical experience in AI implementation across diverse industries.

The curriculum effectively blends a strong theoretical foundation with practical, real-world AI business cases.

Benefits

The program enhances the participants’ personal skills and competencies as leaders and individuals. The modules also strengthen the participants’ strategic thinking thus increasing their understanding of why businesses need to transform and how they themselves can become drivers of organizational transformation. Via group and independent working, you will document your learnings in a tangible format, which can be used to support your company’s AI adoption journey.

Get a thorough overview of what AI is and how you can benefit from it.

Understand how to build an AI powered organization.

Learn how to make your business thrive in the age of AI with impacts on both top and bottom-line.

Understand the changing business dynamics in a digitalized context.

Get to learn directly from the top experts in the field.

For

The AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers program is designed for general management and executives, middle management in digital roles, and experts who want to understand the business and organizational side of AI.

The program suits, for example, business directors, development managers, digital managers, strategy managers, CFOs, and CIOs.

Contents and Schedule

The program gives you the ability

to identify realistic value-creating use cases for your organization with impacts on both top and bottom-line
to plan and deliver AI-powered initiatives by understanding different aspects of AI development from tech to legal
to conceive and execute organizational transformation programs to benefit from AI

Modules

Instructors

Henri Schildt

Henri Schildt is a Professor of Strategy at Aalto University School of Business and Aalto University School of Science.

Professor Henri Schildt’s research interests span technology strategy, organizational change, and strategy process (with specific interest in reasoning under uncertainty and the use of data analytics). He is currently heading two research programs on data-driven management and the management of digitalization in Finnish manufacturing companies.

He is a tenured professor with a joint appointment at the Aalto University School of Business and the School of Science’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Henri Schildt completed his PhD at Helsinki University of Technology in 2007.

Minna Kärhä

Minna Kärhä, Business Area Lead, AI Business Design at Solita, is a distinguished data and analytics expert with over two decades of experience leading data and AI initiatives across customer experience, sales and marketing, consumer services, and business operations development.

Kärhä's extensive, hands-on expertise spans multiple industries, giving her a deep understanding of both the opportunities and challenges organizations face in leveraging data and AI.

A passionate advocate for the strategic value of data, Minna Kärhä has been instrumental in driving organizational change and embedding data as a core business asset. Drawing inspiration from design thinking, she has developed practical methods to help organizations define their strategic focus and navigate the complexities of data-driven transformation.

Kärhä's work ranges from high-level strategy development to tackling specific business challenges, always with a focus on fostering a strong data-driven culture. Her contributions to the field have earned her notable recognition, including being named a Global Data Innovator of 2020.

Iina Juurinen

Iina Juurinen, PhD, Lead AI Designer at Solita, is a seasoned data, AI, and business professional with extensive experience in conceptualizing, developing, and implementing data-driven and AI services within international organizations and across diverse industries.

With a background in science and over 10 years of experience in various technical and business roles related to AI, Juurinen adopts an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex issues, combining AI and data expertise with deep insights into people and organizational dynamics. In her work, Iina Juurinen ensures that business and end-user value is prioritized in all AI and generative AI projects. She also supports organizations in crafting AI and generative AI visions, strategies, and roadmaps across multiple sectors.

Solita is a Finnish technology company combining data, AI, cloud, and software development expertise with a human-centric and business-driven approach.

Solita integrates business strategy and objectives into its solutions, ensuring that technology solves complex problems and drives measurable business value. With over 2,000 professionals, Solita operates in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, and the UK.

Program Fee

The Early Bird fee of € 5,500 (+ VAT) is valid until August 15, 2025.

The normal fee for the AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers program is € 6,700 (+ VAT).

Registration

Send your whole team to the program and they can learn to derive concrete plans on how to use AI to boost your business and how to structure the AI adoption journey. You’ll get 15% off if three or more people are participating in the program.