AI Super Boost
Three days to change what you can do with AI.
Many founders begin by asking who they can delegate AI to. They assume they are not technical enough to work with it themselves and should find somebody else to handle it.
AI Super Boost starts from a different position. You do not need to become a developer, but you do need to provide the purpose, judgement and business direction that nobody else can provide for you. I show you how to turn that direction into something AI agents and bots can work from, while keeping the decisions that shape your company in your hands.
Over three days, we establish shared business context, build with AI agents, create an AI management team and work through the security, compliance and legal concerns that affect what you should do next.
What participants say
Coming from the non-IT background, I thought cyber security subject would be alien for me. But Mikko is just freaking awesome and stole the show!
Participant, AI for Leaders: Leveraging Data Analytics for Business, 2025
The hands-on approach rocks! But more importantly, Mikko's delivery style is awesome for a heavy topic.
NUS course participant
Cool lecturer and really good materials. Mikko really made me think and ask the right questions.
Participant, Leading with Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning, 2019
Mixes humor in his class, and goes straight to the heart of the issue in an easy to understand manner
NUS course participant
Deadpan humour is rare nowadays and he delivered! The greatest takeaway is he makes us think about risk instead of telling us what to do or scaring us with worst possibilities.
NUS course participant
Terrific sharing! Wish the lecturer had shared more—there’s still so much to learn and explore! Please update me when there's future programme by Mikko.
Participant, AI for Leaders: Leveraging Data Analytics for Business, 2025
Enjoyed the session. Was informative and concise, with good examples that we can easily apply to our work context.
NUS course participant
Prof Mikko's session was extremely enjoyable and eye-opening. He encouraged us to rethink our perceptions and to go outside the box. He also gave us a better appreciation for the different levels of the web and how people could take advantage of it. I also thoroughly enjoyed his humour which truly drove his points home. Also he has really nice shoes.
NUS course participant
An eye-opening session for cybersecurity for non-IT people.
NUS course participant
I was particularly impressed by the real-world applications and case studies he provided. The pace of the lesson is just nice.
Participant, AI for Leaders: Leveraging Data Analytics for Business, 2026
Complex ideas made simple.
NUS course participant
the session effectively connected cybersecurity risks to business and governance decisions, making the learning highly relevant.
Participant, AI for Senior Executives (Emeritus / NUS Business School), 2026
Dr Mikko brings practical knowledge and explained AI and security concepts very well! His deep expertise in the subject matter naturally keeps me attuned and attentive.
Participant, AI for Leaders: Leveraging Data Analytics for Business (Corporate SingHealth), 2026
Fascinating to hear a hacker’s perspective. Very enlightening
Participant, Leading with Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning, 2018
Extremely relevant and useful session. Mikko had a great sense of humour that made the session even more interesting.
NUS course participant
Dr Mikko is a very engaging speaker with extensive knowledge on AI security. Very insightful sharing today. Thank you!
Participant, AI for Leaders: Leveraging Data Analytics for Business, 2026
Great job; best approach to teaching complex topics in a simplified way, with examples.
NUS course participant
Great insights in Cybersecurity, the practical hands-on is extremely useful.
NUS course participant
The session was really interesting I wish it was longer, it was my favourite session.
NUS course participant
Very helpful in both work and personal life
NUS course participant
Mind-opening. Extremely valuable part of the course!
NUS course participant
Making security real. Mikko has done a good way to make security real.
Participant, DBS-NUS Business Leaders Programme, 2018
Very interesting and eye opening presentation that helped me to have a better appreciation and understanding of cyber threats to businesses and individuals.
NUS course participant
A real eye opener for me. Having someone with actual hacking experience to share the truth and provide insights to cyber risks and security lends a deeper and unknown dimension to the issues. Great session
Participant, Leading with Big Data Analytics & Machine Learning, 2018
the description on different sources and types of breach in security is enlightening for a non-tech, non-it professional like myself.
AI for Senior Executives participant
i love this weeks learnings. learnt a lot from the prof and lecture felt engaging even though it was online.
AI for Senior Executives participant
the live session gives me a better understanding by having discussion with real life examples instead of just purely theories.
Participant, AI for Senior Executives (Emeritus / NUS Business School), 2026
the use of an actual scenario helped narrow the focus on how to assess ai impact, including its implementation risk.
AI for Senior Executives participant
very useful information delivered very succinctly
AI for Senior Executives participant
Why three days?
In my evening, half-day and one-day sessions, the most consistent request has been for more time. The participant comments on this page include the same message: the subject opened possibilities people wanted longer to explore.
Three days give us time to understand the ideas, see them working, try them and return to what happened. That return matters. Misalignment and weak assumptions are often easier to recognise once there is a real result to examine.
This is not three days of listening to presentations. It is enough time to begin changing how you work.
You set the direction
Your business vision, priorities and judgement cannot be delegated to an AI system. You understand why the company exists, what it is trying to become and which compromises would undermine that direction.
We begin by making this context explicit in a Bot Operations Manual. It gives agents and bots a shared account of the company's purpose, priorities, commitments and authority. Instead of repeatedly explaining the business from the beginning, you establish common ground that can guide AI-assisted work across the company.
During the course, I show you how to create the manual. If you decide to make one, a useful first version can usually be created in 5–15 minutes. It can then evolve with your business and your use of AI.
The three days
The programme moves from founder direction and building to bot management and informed decisions about risk.
Change how you work and start building
The first half-day addresses the largest obstacle: believing that AI must be handed to somebody more technical before you can use it meaningfully. We examine what founders should direct themselves, how to communicate business intent clearly and how to establish the shared context AI needs.
We then move into building with AI agents. I first show what can happen when a loose instruction is handed to a building agent, then compare it with work directed through the Builder and Auditor method. You see why independent review matters and how a founder can direct and judge the result without becoming the developer. The examples change, and opportunities to experiment make the principles concrete.
Learn from the build and establish your AI management team
We return to the building work in the morning. Distance often makes misalignment easier to see, so we examine what happened, where the agents misunderstood the objective and how to correct the process rather than repeatedly correcting individual outputs.
We then move from individual tasks to ongoing responsibility. You learn how to establish bots as managers, give them defined areas of work, connect them to appropriate information and tools, and create a dependable way for them to report results and bring important decisions back to you.
Make informed decisions about risk
The final day deals directly with the questions that can prevent founders from acting: Is this secure? What information can the AI access? What authority should it have? What are the compliance and legal implications?
You learn how to turn those concerns into structured assessments, examine the supporting evidence and decide what can proceed, what needs safeguards and what requires further investigation or specialist advice.
Security is not postponed until Day 3. Appropriate boundaries apply throughout the course. Day 3 gives you a systematic way to assess the wider questions and make defensible decisions.
Join in at your own level
No coding experience is required. If you already have AI tools that can build software or run bot-managed work, bring them and try the methods with guidance. If you are new or do not want to set anything up during the course, follow the demonstrations, ask questions and take notes. You can put the ideas into practice later.
Every practical activity is optional. The building work is there to help you understand the principles, recognise what goes wrong when direction is weak, and see how independent audit changes the result. Some participants will build alongside me, some will experiment selectively and others will observe. Participation at all of these levels is valid.
The same applies to the AI management team: you can begin establishing one during the course or learn how it works and do it afterwards. No particular AI subscription is required to follow the course. The examples and tools evolve with the technology and lessons from practice; the underlying progression remains the same.
Ready to explore AI Super Boost?
Tell me what you would like to achieve with AI and where you are starting. We can discuss whether AI Super Boost is the right next step for you.
Email Mikko