Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries at an unprecedented rate. The AI for Business Leaders course, offered and taught by the University of Maryland's esteemed Robert H. Smith School of Business, will equip you with the skills to evaluate how AI may impact your business model and value chain.
As an exclusive benefit of membership, PTNPA Members can register for this online professional certificate program at a special 25% discount from the regular course price.
Through the six course modules, find out how to prepare your company for the inevitable changes AI will bring and identify opportunities for AI to create new revenue streams or improve existing ones.
The program leverages Smith faculty expertise and research to examine AI's role in supply chain, healthcare, finance, marketing, and people analytics.
While domains in the coursework are specific, concepts apply broadly to cover all business areas. PTNPA Study Groups will delve in to how the learnings apply to the nut industry.
Study group sessions are guided by PTNPA Advisory Board member Vince Lubsey, Chief Product Officer of HyperSpectral.ai. Lubsey has more than 30 years of experience specializing in software and systems design covering early stage startups to multinational corporations, including Coca-Cola International. He was a co-founder and EVP of Product Management and Solution Architecture at Virtustream before it was acquired by Dell Technologies.
A Few Suggestions for How to Tackle the Course
Develop a more profound understanding of artificial intelligence's possibilities with a few suggested learning tips from fellow PTNPA Members:
View the videos before you read the articles provided. The videos provide excellent context for the articles.
Take the opportunity to answer the questions which will help you determine where your organization might be in building a culture of AI.
Join the moderated PTNPA AI Study Group Sessions to share ideas and how we might apply AI learning and systems to the nut industry and our businesses.
Discussions to Help Elevate AI Understanding
During study group, we ask the following questions about the focused "AI Module of the Month: What did we learn? What information made sense? What was surprising? What was confusing? What questions, as nut industry organizations, do we have about the content featured in the AI Monthly Module? Who can help us answer those questions AND help us operationalize what we’ve learned?
