Small by design.
Civico Ventures runs experiential AI programmes for business leaders transforming their companies: the Venture Residential for executive-education cohorts and the Civico AI Academy for leadership teams. The people you meet on the first call are the people in the room.
Jakub Wachocki
Founder · Programme director
Directs Civico's programmes and led the Hanoi residential for Sasin's Connect+ Executive MBA. Teaches the masterclass The Autonomous Organisation, on how agentic AI redesigns operating models, decision rights and roles. Former Global Director at Bentley Systems; MBA, Imperial College Business School; based in Vietnam.
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Alvin Ng
Faculty
Leads the teaching, coaching and judging on Civico programmes. Adjunct Associate Professor at Nanyang Business School (NTU) and visiting faculty at Sasin, teaching AI for business to MBA and executive cohorts. Thirty years as an operator at Cisco, GE Digital, Johnson Controls and Aboitiz Data Innovation; ICF Professional Certified Coach.
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Leaders, not tools, decide.
Civico comes from the Latin civitas: the citizens who make a city, rather than its walls. We hold to that distinction. AI changes the tools every quarter; the judgement about what to fund, what to stop and who is accountable stays with people.
So every programme puts a leader's own problem at the centre, uses AI as a partner on it, and judges the result by the decision that holds up, including the times someone overruled the machine.
Business leaders learn to transform their companies with AI by doing real work, not by being taught about it.
We run short, intense programmes where leaders take a real problem from framing to a funded decision, with AI as a partner, in places where innovation runs at speed.
Where this goes. The study tour and the AI course give way to programmes judged by decisions that held up.
Six principles every programme holds to.
Learning lives inside the work
Participants bring a real workflow, project or venture idea. Nobody works on a case study.
The problem decides what to learn
Frameworks are pulled in when the problem needs them, not delivered in advance.
Judgement stays human
AI is a partner in every build session. Leaders make the call, and log the times they overrule it.
Judge decisions, not usage
We assess the framing, the evidence and the decisions that held up.
Context at speed
The experiential part runs where innovation moves at speed, starting with Vietnam.
No session without an output
Every session ends in an artefact, a decision or a plan.
Clear lines, so you know who does what.
Not a study-tour operator
We run programmes where participants build, test and pitch. Travel logistics stay with your school's agency.
Not a degree or certificate issuer
Credits and certificates stay with the school.
Not an investor
Venture here means venturing. Civico invests in nothing.
Not a consultancy
We coach your team to a decision it owns. If you want the work built afterwards, that is a separate contract with a delivery team.