For business leaders transforming their companies with AI, Civico runs experiential programmes where you solve your own problem with AI as a partner. Unlike study tours and AI courses, we are judged on the decisions you take home.
Sasin Connect+ EMBAHanoi, July 2026NPS +65Next: Ho Chi Minh City, 21–24 Jan 2027
Business leaders learn to transform their companies with AI by doing real work, not by being taught about it.
What we replace
A venture residential
A week of visits becomes a week of building: teams test a real problem with customers, build with AI and pitch.
AI as a partner on your own problem
AI is used in the room, on the work participants brought, in every build session.
Judged on decisions that held up
We assess the framing, the evidence and the decision, including the times people overruled the AI.
Your programme, run with you
We coach your people to a decision they own. If you want the work built afterwards, that is a separate arrangement.
One for executive programmes. One for leadership teams.
The experiential part runs in Vietnam, where innovation moves at speed. Coaching and masterclasses run wherever your team is.
Venture Residential
For EMBA directors tired of study tours, the Venture Residential has executives build, test and pitch a real venture in Vietnam.
Four days in Ho Chi Minh City. Your school keeps the academic frame; we run everything that makes going abroad hard.
See the Residential →
For CEOs and COOsCivico AI Academy
For CEOs whose AI pilots never reach the P&L, the Civico AI Academy takes leaders' own projects to a board-ready case in eight weeks.
A two-day residency in Vietnam starts it; weekly coaching carries it; a pitch to your sponsors ends it.
See the Academy →
Start with a one-day AI leadership masterclass.
A live demo and a hands-on session, for a school or a leadership team that wants to try us before committing to a programme.
Delivered in Hanoi. Asked back for Ho Chi Minh City.
Hanoi, 15–19 July 2026: about 40 executives in four venture teams. Participants rated the build sessions above the company visits, and scored the week 8.95 out of 10 on whether they would recommend it. Sasin asked us back for Ho Chi Minh City, 21–24 January 2027.
Participant feedback, N=20 respondents (14 promoters, 5 passives, 1 detractor). Quotes anonymised.
It shifted me from answer-first to evidence-first leadership: seeing real systems, testing assumptions, and building from validated problems.
It is eye opening on Vietnam speed and how AI can enable us to move faster and amplify the value.
It has put me on a different playing field, where modern leaders compete with two defining advantages: speed and AI.
See. Frame. Build. Pitch. Deploy.
Every Civico programme runs on the same five-phase loop, and every session ends in something participants built, decided or planned.
See
Briefed visits to real operating environments. Each one ends in three evidence points and one implication.
Output Idea and evidence
Frame
The problem reframed and the model locked, with founders in the room.
Output A clear proposition
Build
Live customer calls, AI-assisted build sprints and a working prototype.
Output Proof and prototype
Pitch
Live to investors and executives, judged on framing, evidence and decisions.
Output Scored feedback
Deploy
The venture turned into accountable action back home.
Output Sponsor and plan
Six principles every programme holds to.
- Learning lives inside the workParticipants bring a real workflow, project or venture idea. Nobody works on a case study.
- The problem decides what to learnFrameworks are pulled in when the problem needs them, not delivered in advance.
- Judgement stays humanAI is a partner in every build session. Leaders make the call, and log the times they overrule it.
- Judge decisions, not usageWe assess the framing, the evidence and the decisions that held up.
- Context at speedThe experiential part runs where innovation moves at speed, starting with Vietnam.
- No session without an outputEvery session ends in an artefact, a decision or a plan.
What leaders should know about AI, with the sources.
We follow where AI money and AI-native firms are going: from selling the tool, to selling the work, to building the system that delivers it. We track which startups are funded, which workflows and industries are moving, and what agents can reliably do, with a short Insight each week linked to the data.
Open the research library →Download the programme brief
Both programmes in one short PDF: the Venture Residential and the Civico AI Academy, how they run and what participants leave with.
Bring us a cohort or a problem.
A 45-minute walkthrough of the Hanoi residential, mapped to your learning outcomes.
Book a walkthrough →A half-day scoping workshop on one leadership team and one live AI project.
Scope a cohort →