2026 Cohort · Now Enrolling

Lead your organisation's
AI transformation.

The executive programme for business leaders who need to govern, direct, and manage AI — not build it.

Reserve Your Place in the 2026 Cohort → Cohorts limited to 6 – 8 participants · Enquiries reviewed within 24 hours

56+ CPD Hours ISO 27001 · ISO 42001 Aligned EU AI Act Ready Face-to-Face · Cohort Format No Technical Background Required

Who This Is For

For leaders making decisions,
not building models.

No technical background required or assumed. This programme is built for the people who need to govern AI — not the people building it.

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Board Directors

Understand your AI oversight responsibilities, what questions to demand answers to, and how to evaluate proposals put before the board.

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C-Suite Executives

Build the strategic and governance fluency to direct AI investment, manage risk, and hold vendors and teams accountable.

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Senior Professionals

Finance, legal, compliance, operations, HR leaders navigating organisations that are deploying AI into their domain.

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Business Owners

SME founders and family business leaders who need to make AI adoption decisions without the luxury of a large internal technology team.

Why AI Leadership Academy

Built for the gap between
strategy and execution.

Most AI education pulls in one direction. This programme sits at the exact intersection your role demands.

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Decision-Ready, Not Technical

Leave able to evaluate AI proposals, set governance guardrails, question technology teams, and hold vendors accountable — without writing a line of code.

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Practical Projects in a Real Market

Projects are built and tested in Hong Kong — deploying AI inside a live, internationally connected environment. Every project must satisfy a four-regulation compliance check before sign-off:

HKMA AI Governance Code — accountability owner named, audit trail in place, explainability documented
SFC Guidelines — algorithmic oversight mechanism and customer disclosure statement drafted
PDPO — data minimisation applied, DSAR handler built, cross-border transfer assessed
EU AI Act — risk tier classified, documentation gap identified, EU exposure mapped

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Intimate Workroom Format

Six to eight participants, face-to-face. A working group for people serious about AI leadership — not a lecture series or a webinar replay.

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Compliant by Design

Every tool demonstrated is mapped to HKMA, SFC, PDPO, and EU AI Act obligations. No blocked services. No non-compliant data flows. Participants leave knowing exactly which tier their AI systems occupy under each framework.

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Up to 56 CPD Hours

Structured CPD recognition pathway targeting HKICPA, HKICS, HKIB, HKILA, and CPA Australia (HK). Completion certificate provided.

Faculty

Practitioners who have built,
governed, and deployed AI at scale.

Not professors who study it. Leaders who have built, invested in, and deployed AI at scale in Asia.

Tak Lo

Founding Partner, Asia's first AI venture firm
Co-founder, The Automated

Founding partner of Zeroth.ai (2017) — Asia's first AI venture firm, 50+ portfolio companies, one IPO, two acquisitions. Co-founder of The Automated, the leading AI + business newsletter in Asia with 16,000 subscribers.

Ronald Ng

AI Leadership Academy · CISSP
AI Governance Lead · ISO 27001 & ISO 42001

Leads enterprise AI governance and security programmes across financial services, logistics, and infrastructure. Delivery lead on ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 management-system implementations. Advises organisations on EU AI Act risk classification and compliance frameworks. Co-creator of the OpenClaw agentic AI framework. CISSP certified.

Lead your organisation'sAI transformation.

For leaders making decisions,not building models.