Small by design.
Civico Ventures runs experiential AI programmes for senior leaders: the Venture Residential for executive-education cohorts and the Civico AI Academy for leadership teams. The people you meet on the first call are the people in the room.
Jakub Wachocki
Founder · Programme director
Designs and directs Civico's programmes and runs the residentials in Vietnam. Trained in architecture and engineering, he built strategic partnerships at Bentley Systems and has founded digital-transformation businesses. Imperial College Business School MBA; has lived and worked in six countries.
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Alvin Ng
Faculty
Leads the teaching, coaching and judging on Civico programmes. Alvin teaches AI leadership to senior executives and MBA cohorts, with the focus on decisions leaders can defend.
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Senior leaders learn to lead AI by doing real work, not by being taught about it.
We run short, intense programmes where leaders take a real problem from framing to a funded decision, with AI as a partner, in places where innovation runs at speed.
Where this goes. The study tour and the AI course give way to programmes judged by decisions that held up.
Six principles every programme holds to.
Learning lives inside the work
Participants bring a real workflow, project or venture idea. Nobody works on a case study.
The problem decides what to learn
Frameworks are pulled in when the problem needs them, not delivered in advance.
AI is a partner
Used in the room on their own problem in every build session, never taught as a topic.
Judge decisions, not usage
We assess the framing, the evidence and the decisions that held up.
Context at speed
The experiential part runs where innovation moves at speed, starting with Vietnam.
No session without an output
Every session ends in an artefact, a decision or a plan.
Clear lines, so you know who does what.
Not a study-tour operator
We run programmes where participants build, test and pitch. Travel logistics stay with your school's agency.
Not a degree or certificate issuer
Credits and certificates stay with the school.
Not an investor
Venture here means venturing. Civico invests in nothing.
Not a consultancy
We coach your team to a decision it owns. If you want the work built afterwards, that is a separate contract with a delivery team.