Delivered in the UK, China or Thailand, with bilingual support. Every participant receives an NTU executive certificate at a closing ceremony.
The AI edition
Make your leaders, or a national workforce, AI-native, in a programme custom-made for them: rebuild real processes with AI, build an AI workforce and leave with a roadmap.
What AI adds
- Delivered: for the MHESI-funded national programme, CBIT designed sector AI courses and ran hands-on workshops in which participants used generative AI and no-code or low-code methods to design initial workflows, assistants or prototypes. CBIT era
- Delivered: the same programme’s CEO track, “AI for Strategic Management for CEO”: a day on AI strategy, a day turning one process into a standard operating procedure with AI support and human checks, and a day building a simple business operating system. CBIT era
- Thai-published: Professor Xiao Ma gave the special panel talk at MHESI’s launch of its national AI e-learning platform, Bangkok, 16 December 2025. CBIT era
AI-native outcome: leaders who can say where AI creates value, redesign a process around it and run an AI workforce with people in charge; participants who leave with first AI workflows, assistants or prototypes; and, for a ministry, an outcome report and a route to scale through train-the-trainer and a sister centre.
For ministries and agencies: national AI skills programmes, or a programme for your leaders
Two ways in for the public sector, both government-commissioned and custom-made: National AI skills programmes, delivered with a partner university in your country, to build AI skills across your workforce; or AI-Powered Business Transformation for your leaders, the senior-team programme above, run as its own cohort or as the leaders’ track of a national programme.
A national programme gets you
- A needs assessment.
- Sector AI curricula, with research-backed sector decks.
- Hands-on workshops of three days: day 1, understand and prioritise; day 2, validate and redesign; day 3, build and commit.
- Joint certificates.
- 21 days’ post-course support.
- An outcome report.
Format: five sector courses of three days each, in-country, over about five months.
Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) funded a national AI and entrepreneurship programme, delivered by CBIT and Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park (CMU STeP).
Source: CBIT figures registry v1.8 (1 October 2026). Figures and sources →
Email us about a national programme
Or, for your own leaders: email us to arrange a call
National AI skills programmes
A ministry-funded programme took practical AI training to businesses across Thailand
Read the story: A ministry-funded programme took practical AI training to businesses across Thailand
Who: Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI), which funded the programme, and Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park (STeP), which led it.
- The challenge
- MHESI funded STeP to build AI skills among industrial workers, graduates, researchers, incubator managers and science-park officers.
- What CBIT did
- After a needs assessment, CBIT and STeP designed sector courses: wellness and tourism, marketing and data, food manufacturing, chief executives, and incubator managers. CBIT ran hands-on three-day workshops across Thailand in 2026, with follow-up support and joint MHESI, Chiang Mai University and Nottingham Business School certificates.
- What happened
- Participants began designing AI workflows and prototypes for their own organisations.
- Track record
- See the track record on this page
- Where it can lead
- In April 2026 MHESI and NTU signed a five-year memorandum of understanding, with a CBIT sister centre at STeP.
This story on the Programme impact page
AI-Powered Business Transformation
On a national AI programme, Thai CEOs designed AI support for a real business process
Read the story: On a national AI programme, Thai CEOs designed AI support for a real business process
Who: Chief executives and senior managers on the CEO track of an AI skills programme funded by Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI).
- The challenge
- Leaders wanted to connect AI strategy with the way their organisations actually work.
- What CBIT did
- CBIT designed and delivered “AI for Strategic Management for CEO” at Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park: a day on AI strategy, a day turning one process into a standard operating procedure with AI support and human checks, and a day building a simple business operating system.
- What happened
- Participants left with first executive workflows, assistants or prototypes grounded in their own businesses.
- Track record
- See the track record on this page
- Where it can lead
- The same programme can serve a ministry’s senior team, an open CEO cohort or a single company.
This story on the Programme impact page
AI-Empowered Going Global
Chinese technology CEOs came to Nottingham to work on taking their businesses global
Read the story: Chinese technology CEOs came to Nottingham to work on taking their businesses global
Who: Chief executives and founders of Chinese technology companies, in an executive cohort from Fudan University School of Management.
- The challenge
- The CEOs needed to see where AI creates value in their businesses, and how to grow beyond China.
- What CBIT did
- CBIT designed a bespoke three-day strategy lab for the cohort: where AI was failing to create value, a charter for AI agents with a rule for when to stop, a 90-day experiment plan, a company visit and pitches.
- What happened
- The lab ran in Nottingham in July 2026, the month CBIT and the school signed a five-year sister-centre partnership.
- Where it can lead
- Further executive cohorts can follow.
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