Step into the future of business with the Stanford & Silicon Valley Immersion Program, an educational initiative between the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and the Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education.
This immersive in-person executive education program offers a custom curated curriculum designed to equip you with the indispensable tools, profound insights, and expert skills needed to spearhead the evolution of AI-powered enterprises and successfully scale up into the next stage. Guided by world-class faculty from CKGSB and Stanford University as well as visionary industry experts, you’ll grasp the intricacies of AI integration and tackle challenges facing fast-growing companies.
Immerse yourself in cross-cultural dialogues, delve into tangible AI and robotics labs, and foster collaboration with peers representing diverse backgrounds united by a shared commitment to pioneering growth. As you embark on this transformative journey, you’ll emerge as a trailblazer of technological innovation, exploring uncharted territories, forging invaluable connections, and unlocking the full potential of AI-driven solutions for your business.
Learn and engage with world-class faculty from East and West as well as key decision-makers across public and private sectors, influential investors, and global innovators.
Immerse yourself in the world of Silicon Valley and exchange best practices with entrepreneurs and unicorn founders to supercharge your business with innovative strategies.
Join a global cohort of accomplished peers who are driving socially responsible growth.
Gain exclusive access to Silicon Valley tech giants with insider visits, unlocking invaluable insights for your unicorn journey.
In the unlikely event that a program is cancelled, participants will receive a full refund of any tuition paid, or may choose to transfer their enrollment to a future session or another CKGSB open-enrollment program, based on availability.
Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Under his leadership, CKGSB has evolved from a fledgling school to one of the most influential business schools in China with a global reputation since 2002.
Dr. Chen Hong is Professor of Management Science at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). He is one of the founding faculty members of CKGSB and the Associate Dean for Americas. He is also the director of the Research Department on Clean Energy and Carbon Neutral Development in CKGSB.
Ming Zeng is currently Chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, an e-commerce, retail, and technology company, based in Hangzhou, China. He served as Chief Strategy Officer of the company from 2006-2017. He has been working closely with Jack Ma, and played an important role in shaping the strategy of the Alibaba Group. Zeng was the founding faculty and former professor of Strategic Management in Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB).
Yi Cui is the Fortinet Founders Professor and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering, and Photon Science at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at Woods and a Professor, by courtesy, of Chemistry. Cui studies the fundamentals and applications of nanomaterials and develops tools to better understand them. His research interests include nanotechnology, batteries, electrocatalysis, wearables, 2D materials, environmental technology (water, air, soil), and cryogenic electron microscopy.
Michael McFaul is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 and is a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow. His research focuses on U.S.–Russia relations, democracy promotion, and American foreign policy. He is a prominent commentator on international affairs, contributing to major outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs.
Ruizhe Jia is an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His research sits at the intersection of financial technology, market microstructure and mechanism design, with a particular focus on decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain-based trading: how financial markets work, and how they can be redesigned to be more efficient and fair. He works closely with industry and regulators on digital assets. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University.
Ilya A. Strebulaev is The David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and founder and director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative. An expert in venture capital, innovation financing and corporate innovation, he led the largest survey of venture capitalists to date and co-developed a valuation framework showing that unicorns are overvalued by 50% on average. He advises business and government leaders worldwide on the Silicon Valley ecosystem.
James Landay is a Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and co-founder and Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). A specialist in human-computer interaction, he previously directed Intel Labs Seattle and co-founded NetRaker, acquired by Keynote Systems in 2004. He is an ACM Fellow and a winner of the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.
Mehran Sahami is Tencent Chair of the Computer Science Department and the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Before joining Stanford he was a Senior Research Scientist at Google. His research covers computer science education, artificial intelligence and ethics. He co-chaired the ACM/IEEE-CS task force that set international curriculum guidelines for computer science, and was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the state's Computer Science advisory panel.
Timothy A. Bouley, MD, is Managing Director for Biological Solutions, Food, and Agriculture at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, where he turns Stanford research into scalable technology and policy solutions. Across 20 years in biotechnology, medicine, food systems and the environment, he founded BioFeyn, a Harvard-based life science company, and at the World Bank established its first programs on climate change and health and authored the first UN-World Bank framework on One Health.
C. Karen Liu is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Her research spans computer graphics and robotics, including physics-based animation, reinforcement learning and computational biomechanics, from modeling natural human movement to learning control policies for humanoid and assistive robots. She previously taught at Georgia Tech. Her honors include an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Technology Review's Young Innovators Under 35 and the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award.
Ruike Renee Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where she directs the Soft Intelligent Materials Laboratory. Her group develops shape-morphing soft materials and robotic systems, with applications in soft robotics, robotic surgery, biomedical devices and origami-inspired structures. A native of Xi'an, she holds a PhD in Solid Mechanics from Brown University. Her honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35.
Bill Jia is a Google engineering leader responsible for the infrastructure that takes AI models, including Gemini, from research into production, spanning hardware, machine learning frameworks, and training and inference services. He previously led AI and data platforms at Meta, and holds a PhD in operations research from the University of Southern California.
Established in Beijing in November 2002, CKGSB is China’s first privately-funded and research-driven business school. CKGSB aims to cultivate transformative business leaders with a global vision, sense of social responsibility, innovative mindset, and ability to lead with empathy and compassion. CKGSB stands apart for its world-class faculty, research excellence, China insights and unparalleled alumni network. More than half of its 55 faculty members previously held tenure or senior professorships at top schools like MIT, Wharton, and Yale. Over half of its 22,000 alumni are at the CEO or Chairman level and, collectively, lead one fifth of China’s most valuable brands.
The Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education is the global and online education unit within Stanford Engineering and the operator of Stanford Online, the School of Engineering’s portal for academic, professional, and lifelong education offered by schools and centers throughout Stanford University. CGOE (formally known as Stanford Center for Professional Development) has been a leader in global, online, and extended education since 1995, working closely with faculty across Stanford University to design and deliver educational programs to learners worldwide. CGOE extends access to Stanford credit-bearing graduate courses and degrees, credentialed professional and executive education, and lifelong learning to a global audience. https://cgoe.stanford.edu/
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