AI Entrepreneurship Certificate AI Entrepreneurship Certificate
This certificate offers students an immersive venture-creation experience combining entrepreneurship, design, and artificial intelligence.
The AI Entrepreneurship Certificate is 6-week, hands-on program designed for students who want to develop projects - from problem identification to pitching using the lean startup approach and AI-enhanced tools.
Developed by HEC Paris, with Ionis Group (Epitech, Eartsup), students will join the teams as developers and designers. This year the program will be run in partnership with the Data Lab of the Presidency of the Republic. It offers a unique opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams and join a community of ambitious, tech-savvy entrepreneurs.
The AI Entrepreneurship Certificate enables students to:
- Experience the full Lean Startup cycle, accelerated by AI.
- Learn to use generative tools to ideate, analyze, and prototype faster.
- Build an investor-ready concept supported by real-world validation.
- Understand how AI reshapes creativity, decision-making, and business design.
The AI Entrepreneurship Certificate is an experiential program that gives students the opportunity to build, test, and pitch a real project in just six weeks.
Week 1: Entrepreneurship mindset, AI tool onboarding, and problem selection.
Weeks 2–3: Field research, market exploration, and value proposition design.
Weeks 4–5: Prototyping, user testing, business modeling, and go-to-market planning.
Week 6: Final pitch before the jury.
Collaborate across disciplines - business, design, and technology - to form complete start-up teams.
Leverage AI at every stage of the entrepreneurial process: problem discovery, market research, product design, testing, and storytelling.
Learn by doing, guided by entrepreneurs, investors, and AI experts.
Work with an AI Agent, your intelligent project coach assisting each team throughout the journey.
Pitch before a professional jury including entrepreneurs, investors, and representatives from the Presidency’s Data Lab.
Academic Director
Julien Lévy, Associate Professor at HEC Paris and Scientific Director of the HEC Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.
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