
- Generative AI Masterclass - Innovation Pioneers May 2025 Slides
- Generative AI Masterclass Workshop Companion - May 2025
- Mentimeter questions link
AI tools and applications used in the masterclass:
- AI Chatbots:
- Audio, Image, and Video Generation and Manipulation:
- ElevenLabs - text-to-speech, voice clones, sound effects
- Heygen - AI Avatars
- NapkinAI - AI-powered diagrams
- Opus Pro - AI Powered video clipping
- AI-Powered Applications, Vibe Coding
- A Framework for Boosting Productivity with Generative AI
- Custom GPT AI Booster Analyzer - https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Di2nm0crr-genai-productivity-booster-advisor
- Upgrade your useof Chatbots
- Choose the Right Tool for the Job - https://chatmatrix.live/
- The R.I.G.H.T. Prompting Forumla
- Role - Tell the AI who it should play
- Information - Give it all the relevant details
- Goal - Be clear about what you want to achieve
- How - Explain the desired format and process
- Tweak - Tool-specific options and refinements
- From Zero to Hero – Prompt Enhancement
- Zero shot - No examples. Just instructions.
- One shot - Include an indicativeexample or template.
- Few shots - Demonstrate several desired outputsand use cases.
- Chain of thought - Guide it how solve complex problems with reasoning.
- The GPT Store
Exercise - In pairs: 1. Choose a work process you’d like to analyze. 2. List the key steps or tasks in the process. 3. Come-up with ideas for GenAI boosting in each step. 4. Elaborate on one idea. 5. Share with another participant * Optional – use a GenAI Productivity Booster Advisor with custom ChatGPT.
Exercise - Practice your prompting * Your goal – to create a great LinkedIn post about the AI Masterclass 1. Choose one of the AI Chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot…) 2. Open 2 separate browser tabs with it: * In one – write a basic prompt for writing the post * In another – use advanced prompting techniques 3. Post the result you like most on LinkedIn, tag @Amir Elion and @Innovation Pioneers
Two paths for creating value to customers, users, and stakeholders with Generative AI:
- Create value through enhanced services, for example:
- AI-powered support chatbot, connected to your organization's knowledge and to customer data
- Customized training materials - adapted to the user's skill, language, preferences, etc.
- Highly personalized sales, marketing and communication
- Create value byadding GenAI capabilities into your products, for example:
- Creating draft text suggestions for users in fields
- Allowing users to generate new scenarios and flows for their needs
- Putting generative capabilities in users' hands, allowing them to use generated music, voice, images, and videos in their outputs
Use generative AI capabilities to add the following to your services and products:
- Personalization: Integrate individual data, tailor communication & recommendations, making each journey unique.
- Interaction: Dynamic interaction via chatbots, virtual assistants, and personalized content delivery.
- Emotion: Emotionally intelligent engagements with sentiment analysis, AI personas and moods.
- Experiences: Build continuous and evolving customer experiences across channels and products.
- Stories: AI-powered multi-modal storytelling, with brand voice and messaging, and audience adjustment.
Exercise - Interact with Data Go to the NotebookLM Create a new Notebook Add or discover sources Interact with the data: - Set the desired output language - Create a podcast - Create FAQs, Summary, Study aid, Timeline - Advanced – jump into the podcast
Exercise - Value Creation Ideas Exercise Use NapkinAI or UX Pilot Think of ideas for creating value with Generative AI at your company by: -- Enhancing services -- Adding GenAI features to your products Create a visualization of it for a presentation or a demo - Optional – use the AWS PartyRockStoryboard Generation tool to visualize one of your ideas
Two paths to discover disruption opportunities (or risks):
- Examine existing value chains, business and operating models, to identifyAI disruption opportunities - for your organization or for potential competitors or alternative solution providers
- Use Generative AI to open the market up to non-customers and new value creators - allowing services to be offered to a much larger scale audience or add new value creators to the value-chain
Exercise - Create an AI-Avatar Story - Think of a message you’d like to deliver - Go to Heygen - Generate a video with an avatar or influencer – in English - Optional – translate it to Swedish with a click of a button
Exercise - Build an AI-powered application Think of an application you’d like to build Build it with one of the following: - AWS PartyRock (free) - Base44 (free + coupon AmirBase44)
Add the coupon code under billing to get 25 more credits for messaging the Base44 agent:
- The EU AI Act
- Lists of AI tools:
- Amir's online courses:
Recommended Podcasts - English
Podcast | Description | Typical cadence & length | Listen |
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The AI Daily Brief (ex-“AI Breakdown”) | 20-minute weekday news recap that distils the flood of AI headlines into business implications, hosted by analyst NLW | Daily ≈ 20 min | https://pod.link/1680633614 |
Everyday AI | Jordan Wilson’s live-stream-turned-podcast gives “here’s how I used X tool today” walk-throughs | Daily 40-70 min | https://youreverydayai.com/podcast |
The Cognitive Revolution | Weekly long-form interviews with founders, VCs and researchers about AI strategy and market shifts | Weekly 60-90 min | https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai |
How I AI | Brand-new (Apr 2025) show from Lenny Rachitsky; each 30-min episode demos a concrete workflow that boosted productivity 10-40× | Weekly ≈ 30 min | https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/introducing-how-i-ai |
Digital Transformation and AI for Humans | How technology intersects with leadership, innovation, and most importantly, the human spirit. | Several episodes per month ≈ 30-60 min | https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkckRzyFR-iHylORaekw8Z8VFn5Df3vJS&si=0kuFb_trgoMDgnr2 |
Hard Fork | NY Time's Kevin Roose & Casey Newton unpack the week’s biggest AI/tech stories in plain English and with humour | Weekly ≈ 65 min | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034 |
Practical AI | Changelog’s veteran hosts focus on making AI “practical, productive and accessible”; recent episodes zero in on agents, GenAI ROI and governance | Bi-weekly 45-60 min | https://changelog.com/practicalai |
Artificiality | Helen & Dave Edwards bring a cross-disciplinary lens (behavioural econ, design, philosophy) to help execs reason about AI impact and ethics | ~2× month 30-50 min | https://www.artificiality.world/podcast |
Me, Myself, and AI | MIT Sloan + BCG interview C-suite leaders who have successfully scaled AI | Seasonal 25-35 min | https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio-series/me-myself-and-ai/ |
Recommended Podcasts - Swedish
Podcast | Description | Typical Cadence & Length | Listen |
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AI-podden | Sweden’s most-downloaded AI show; host Ather Gattami grills entrepreneurs, policymakers and researchers on practical adoption | Bi-weekly ≈ 30 min | https://pod.link/1450813116 |
AI Sweden Podcast (tidigare AI för ledare) | Focuses on what Nordic execs need to know about AI strategy, data quality and real use-cases, produced by national center AI Sweden | 2× month 40-50 min | https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1554984951/ai-sweden-podcast |
Digitalsamtal | Veteran tech journalist Anders Thoresson places AI trends in a wider business context; episodes on trust, regulation and public-sector AI | Irregular 30-45 min | https://digitalsamtal.se |