The curriculum dedicates 75% to applied AI, including Generative and Agentic AI, responsible AI use, and hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools, while the remaining 25% covers core innovation and entrepreneurship principles.
Participants engage in prompt engineering exercises, gain access to advanced AI resources, and learn how to apply AI to real-world challenges.
With AI accelerating product development, the focus shifts from implementation to ideation—emphasizing the importance of identifying the right problems to solve and leveraging domain expertise.
The program is evenly split between entrepreneurship and practical AI training, with participants conducting 25 interviews and learning key concepts like market segmentation, beachhead markets, and unique value propositions, while also gaining hands-on experience with AI tools for product design, testing, and iteration.
At its core, Validate empowers students to use AI to uncover real market needs, reduce risk, and chart a clear path forward for their ventures.
The program equally emphasizes entrepreneurship and AI product development: participants build and refine business and financial models—including market segmentation, customer acquisition, and go-to-market strategies—while using generative AI tools to create, test, and iterate a proof-of-concept product.
Through hands-on experience and feedback-driven iteration, teams learn to integrate AI into their workflows and emerge ready to formally launch and scale their ventures in an ultra-lean, high-impact way.
