When: June 19 – 27, 2026 / Fridays, 19:00-22:00 & Saturdays, 10:00-18:00
Where: Deree – The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi Campus (6 Gravias Street, 153 42 Aghia Paraskevi)
Language of Instruction: English
Audience: By registration only
Registration Deadline: June 18, 2026
Overview
An intensive 4-day seminar designed for business professionals to master the world’s leading Generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Co-Pilot. Moving beyond abstract theory, this hands-on seminar focuses on immediate practical application, teaching participants advanced prompt engineering techniques and strategic workflow integration. The program specifically addresses the leadership requirements of the AI era, guiding participants through the development of five essential “superpowers”—from unlearning legacy mindsets to scaling transformation via AI agents. The ultimate, measurable goal is to equip every attendee with the skills and confidence to offload at least 30% of their daily workload, transforming AI from a novelty into an indispensable professional co-pilot.
Who is this for?
This seminar is tailored for C-level leaders, mid- to senior-level professionals, managers, team leads, and consultants across all business functions and industries, including but not limited to Marketing, Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and Product Development. No prior coding or data science experience is required. The ideal participant is proficient in their respective domain, comfortable with digital tools, and possesses a strong motivation to leverage new technologies for a quantifiable improvement in personal and team productivity.
*The use of a personal laptop is required for all sessions.
Why attend?
- Learn to automate, augment, and accelerate daily tasks to meet the seminar’s core promise of a 30% workload reduction, freeing up valuable time for high-impact strategic work.
- Master the tools and techniques that are rapidly becoming essential for professional advancement. Participants will leave not just with knowledge, but with practiced skills that are in high demand across all industries.
- Learn to transition from using AI as a simple tool to leveraging it as a “co-thinker” for complex problem-solving, creative ideation, and strategic analysis, a framework drawn from leading management research.
- Master the five leadership superpowers: unlearning/relearning, routine integration, opportunity identification, role-modeling, and scaling through agents.
- Gain the expertise to critically evaluate and select the right AI tool for the right business task, ensuring the effective and efficient application of generative AI within their organization to become a Frontier Firm.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental workings of Large Language Models (LLMs), including the roles of transformers, tokens, and embeddings, using a clear, non-technical mental model.
- Critically evaluate and select the most appropriate Generative AI platform (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM) for a given professional task based on a nuanced understanding of their unique strengths, weaknesses, and features.
- Apply a versatile suite of advanced prompt engineering techniques—including Chain-of-Thought, Few-Shot, Structured Formatting, and Role-Playing—to generate reliable, accurate, and high-quality outputs from any major AI platform.
- Design and implement AI-augmented workflows for at least three core business functions relevant to their professional role (e.g., market research, financial analysis, content creation, policy review, etc).
- Apply a narrative-driven framework to thrive in the AI era, focusing on the five leadership superpowers to empower teams and drive innovation.
Dates & Times
4 in-class sessions (20 hours in total)
Friday, June 19, 2026 | 19:00-22:00
Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 10:00-18:00
Friday, June 26, 2026 | 19:00-22:00
Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 10:00-18:00
Certificate of Participation
In order to be awarded the Certificate of Participation from the Deree – Center of Professional and Continuing Education, participants will need to fulfill the following criteria:
- Attendance of 16 out of 20 hours
- Successful completion of the final capstone project
Course Fees
Regular single participant fee: €1450
Members of the ACG community, Professional Education past participants, students, and the unemployed: €1250
Instructors
Poly Palaiogeorgou is the Digital Experience Lead for Microsoft in Europe South, where she spearheads AI-driven transformation across the Europe South region. As the strategic Digital Business Partner to regional leadership, she orchestrates large-scale digital initiatives, aligning business priorities with cutting-edge AI capabilities to accelerate impact and adoption. Her role spans all business units, where she leads change management efforts to embed new AI ways of working. Before joining Microsoft, Poly led transformative programs at OTE Group, heading both the Process Improvement Division and the IT Innovation Center, where she delivered operational efficiencies and pioneered innovative technologies. Her earlier career includes leadership roles at PwC Greece and IBM Global Services UK, with a focus on IT strategy, process excellence, and digital innovation.
Dr. Konstantinos Vavousis is Associate Professor and the Department Chair of the Department of Information Technologies, Cybersecurity and Computer Science at The American College of Greece. He is an IT Security professional with over 17 years of in-depth technical knowledge and experience. He holds a PhD from the University of Piraeus, researching in the field of IT Security with a focus on Network and Infrastructure Security. His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence in the context of Cybersecurity, as well as Machine Learning, Wireless Communication Networks, Social Engineering, and the Regulatory Compliance and Legal Aspects of Cybersecurity. He is initiator of Ethihak – the innovative ethical hacking contest. Dr. Vavousis is a certified Ethical Hacker, and an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. Dr. Vavousis is also Research Associate at the University of Piraeus at the Department of Business Administration.
Vasileios Vlaseros has collected 20+ years of experience as head of data analytics and big data, head of digital transformation, advanced data analytics expert, funding solutions and structured finance expert, an OTC derivatives trader and a syndicated bond loan officer at the National Bank of Greece and Piraeus Bank. Vasileios graduated from Athens University with a Ptychion in Mathematics, an MSc in Applied Mathematics and an MPhil in Economics. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh for his thesis entitled: “Essays on Strategic Voting and Political Influence.” His main research interests lie within the fields of Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Intelligent Systems, Fintech & Payments Systems.
Alexandros Kafkas is a researcher in Computational Social Science, with a focus on behavioral decision-making, human-AI interaction, and social simulations with AI agents. He designs experiments on how humans behave alongside artificial agents and builds systems that put those questions into practice. His recent work includes “Primed for Intelligence: Sharing in Human, Machine and Hybrid Agent Compositions”. He has designed and led production-grade AI systems for institutional use.
Antonios Armonis is a Data Scientist and AI Engineer with hands-on experience designing AI-powered tools and building GenAI applications for research, education, and financial analysis. At the EEFA Research Lab, he developed advanced data pipelines and AI systems for credit risk modeling, NLP applications, and student services. His current work focuses on deploying LLMs to enhance productivity and decision-making across business domains.
For more information, please email [email protected] or call +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1532, 1332.
Classes start: June 19, 2026