CBS AI Academy
Anyone can prompt.Can you build somethingthat holds up?
Sixty selected CBS students. Four workshops built and delivered with industry. One shared business case, and a final where the top three teams pitched working solutions to a jury.
Next
Academy 2027
2026 ran with sixty students and twenty partners. The next one goes bigger.
Academy 2026 — powered by and partnered with
What it was
A programme about judgement, not tools.
Many people can generate AI outputs. Far fewer can turn one into something measurable, accountable and operationally viable. The Academy was built to close that gap.
Sixty selected BSc and MSc students worked through four workshops on a single real business case, supplied by VML MAP. Every session was co-designed and delivered with a corporate partner — real tools, real frameworks, real expectations from the companies doing this work.
Ethics, governance and accountability were not a closing module. They ran through every workshop, because a solution that cannot be governed cannot be deployed.
60
Selected students
4
Live workshops
20
Partner organisations
10,000
DKK prize for the winning team
The learning journey
Four workshops.
One coherent build.
AI Understanding
9 April 2026
Evaluate AI capabilities, limitations and business value. Separate signal from noise.
- Microsoft
- Fellowmind
- VML MAP
Who taught it
Hossein Zahed
Senior Strategist Solution Engineer · Microsoft
Pernille Bernth
AI Lead · Fellowmind
Jacob Sørensen
Senior Operating Officer & Head of Data Consulting · VML MAP
Jeppe Buur
AI Solutions Director · VML MAP
Mads Hovgaard
Head of Cloud and AI · VML MAP
Design & Build
16 April 2026
From business problem to architecture, MVP scope, and a pitch that survives scrutiny.
- Microsoft
- Alice.Tech
- Lovable
- n8n
Who taught it
Christoffer McCarthy Mors
Director of Customer Success · Microsoft
Kim Rants
CEO & Founder · Alice.Tech
Love Norén
Campus Leader · Lovable
Agentic AI & Value
23 April 2026
Design real workflows with measurable impact, human gates and responsible agent scope.
- Microsoft
- BCG
- Twoday
Who taught it
Niels Grønning
Director, Microsoft Innovation Hub · Microsoft
Tobias Laursen
Project Leader, Strategy, Tech & AI · BCG
Jens Kjær Knudsen
Senior Sales Executive, Data & AI · Twoday
Mathias Rotheisen
Senior Data Science Engineer · Twoday
Adoption & Governance
30 April 2026
From working prototype to go-live readiness. Governance, risk, ownership and monitoring.
- IBM
Who taught it
Dr. Poornima Luthra
Author, educator, equity and inclusion researcher · Copenhagen Business School
Halvor Barndon
Client Engineering · IBM
AI Day · 6 May 2026
How it ended.
The Academy closed with a Partner Expo and the Finals at Ovnhallen, Porcelænshaven, CBS. More than ten companies hosted booths, industry leaders spoke, and the top three teams pitched their working MVPs on stage to a jury of industry and venture investors.
Teams were judged on business value, technical reliability, responsible AI and execution. Not on polish.
The ecosystem
Twenty organisations
built this with us.
Tuborgfondet
Sponsor
VML MAP
Case sponsor · Workshop 1
Microsoft
Workshops 1, 2 and 3
Fellowmind
Workshop 1
Alice.Tech
Workshop 2
Lovable
Build platform · Workshop 2
n8n
Workflow automation tool
BCG
Workshop 3
Twoday
Workshop 3
IBM
Workshop 4 host
Wilmo.ai
AI Day jury
Connected Women in AI
AI Day
Venzo
AI Day jury
Skiftr
AI Day
Youth Tech Forum
AI Day
Digital Dogme
AI Day
Manifōld AI
AI Day
Kin AI
AI Day
Heyra
AI Day jury
TechBBQ
Community partner
Next
CBS AI Academy 2027is coming.
Dates, partners and applications for the next cohort are not announced yet. If you are a student who wants to hear first, or a company that wants to help build it, get in touch.