Duration
Four (4) Full-Day meetings
Online
Federal Gov. Employees: You may be eligible for program reimbursement via an approved SF-182 training form. Click here to download the form and here to download the instructions.
AI Horizons: Strategic Foresight for the Future of Artificial Intelligence
See Farther. Think Bigger. Lead Across the AI Horizon.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every industry, from public policy to global security, healthcare, finance, and beyond. Professionals must be ready to anticipate its implications, navigate uncertainty, and build strategies that thrive.
AI Horizons is built for you. Understand where AI is headed, develop forward‑looking strategies, and position yourself to capture new opportunities—boosting impact, efficiency, and long‑term value.
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What is Strategic Foresight?
"Strategic foresight is not about predictions of the future. In a complex and uncertain world accurate prediction is a fiction.”
Strategic foresight is about:
• Being prepared for different futures that are all possible, plausible and preferred.
• A systematic analysis of driving forces and trends of change before the development of strategies or plans.
• Finding solutions and responses that are likely to best suit the (evolving) mission and/or organization.
Why AI Horizons Is Different?
Most AI programs promise future‑focused leadership—we deliver it:
- A complete futures toolkit, not just basic scenario planning
- Hands‑on, cumulative learning, not theory alone
- Accessible pricing without sacrificing depth or impact
And unlike programs that separate AI technology from strategy, AI Horizons integrates both—combining advanced foresight tools with a deep understanding of the AI technology stack and the emerging technologies shaping tomorrow.
The result? A high‑impact, practice‑driven learning experience that empowers leaders to not just anticipate the future—but actively shape it.
Why choose us?
Partnership
As part of American University’s Executive Education and Lifelong Learning Programs, AU has partnered with DMS International, a leader in strategic foresight consulting, education, and public policy simulations to offer this program in strategic foresight.
Where Forward‑Thinkers Belong
Ideal for professionals at all levels and in all sectors—no technical knowledge required. If AI is part of your organization’s future, this program is your next step.
Earn a respected joint certificate from American University and DMS International and acquire the confidence to shape the future of AI rather than react to it.
Learn from World‑Renowned Experts
Participants are taught and mentored by leading global scholars in foresight and AI, bringing decades of experience in technology futures, public sector leadership, innovation strategy, and global foresight systems. Learn About the DMS scholars.
A Commitment to Experiential Learning
Experiential Learning (learning by doing) has always been an integral part of an American University Education. When DMS approached us to partner for this program, we saw how the use of immersed in realistic case studies, group exercises, role-play, simulations, and scenarios, in an experiential laboratory experience aligned with beliefs that instruction and application must go hand in hand.
Your Journey Through AI Horizons
Across four immersive days, you will engage in expert‑guided workshops, interactive activities, and applied foresight exercises.
Participants will meet virtually twice a week for a total of 4 full-day live-online sessions that can be accessible from anywhere with a device that has access to a stable high-speed internet connection, a camera & microphone.
We limit our cohort to 30 students each term and spaces are reserved on a first-come first-served basis. Register Now
Time
10:00AM-5:00PM
Eastern
10:00AM-5:00PM
Eastern
Tuition
$4,000
$4,000
Summer 2026 Dates | Online
Session 1: Tue, June 9th
Session 2: Tue, June 16th
Session 3: Tue, June 23rd
Session 4: Tue, June 30th
Registration Process
Registering for our AI Horizons: Strategic Foresight for the Future of Artificial Intelligence Program is a simple process.
- Go to the registration website
- Click Enroll Now
- Create your account
- Follow the checkout process to pay for the course
- After payment is complete, you will be registered for the program
Invoicing and Purchase Orders
If you will be sponsored by your company. We have worked with employers, organizations, and agencies to handle most invoicing and vendor registration processes. You can contact us with any questions about these matters at executiveed@american.edu.
Agenda
Day 1: Foundations of AI & Foresight
- Explore the AI landscape and sociotechnical stack
- Learn key concepts, frameworks, and methods of strategic foresight
- Use AI for scanning to find key insights, weak signals, trends, future possible events that might affect your AI plan
Day 2: Methods of Foresight & Introduction to AI Futures
- Apply futures wheels, cross‑impact analysis, and characteristics matrix for alternative scenario construction
- Dive into AI technology and application, including trajectories, risks, and regulatory frameworks
- Examine factors that might influence your AI plan and complete your scenario characteristic matrix
Day 3: Exploring AI Futures Through Scenarios
- Examine factors influencing your AI plan and status of characteristics matrix
- Scenario development workshop including crafting plausible future scenarios, scenario types, and alternative scenarios.
- Examine societal impacts, disruptions, and innovation opportunities
Day 4: Strategy, Policy, & Final Presentations
- Monitor signals and indicators for your plan
- Present your foresight‑informed plausible AI futures
- Receive expert feedback and insights
Your final project and presentation ensures you leave with an actionable roadmap tailored to your organization or sector.
Facilitators
Inna Baron, PhD
Inna Baron (PhD. Harvard) is a Principal at the MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) where she specializes in emerging technologies adoption and strategic competitiveness, to include developing AI readiness assessments, strategy and roadmaps for U.S. federal agencies and other organizations. In this capacity, Dr. Baron works with senior executives seeking to capture benefits from emerging and rapidly developing technologies at the forefront of sociotechnical change.
Dr. Baron leads MITRE AI Strategy & Policy Technical capability area and is one of the co-authors of key frameworks that are used to shape responsible AI implementation: AI Maturity Assessments, AI Capabilities Advancement Framework, and AI Governance Implementation at an enterprise and system level.
Her background spans a variety of industries – management consulting, financial technologies, private equity, and national security. Building on this multidimensional experience as a practitioner and scholar, she is a sought-after speaker on the topics of emerging technologies governance and adoption, national competitiveness, and sociotechnical foresight.
Jerome Glenn, PhD h.c.
Jerome Glenn is the CEO of The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank with 70 Nodes around the world, which produces the State of the Future reports for the past 25 years. He is the lead editor of Futures Research Methodology 3.0 the largest collection of internationally peer-reviewed futures methods.
He invented the Futures Wheel and concepts such as conscious-technology, transInstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security and collective Intelligence.
He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s in his book Future Mind, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in 29 developing countries which was key to low-cost access to the Internet. More recently he has conducted a global assessment of the five foresight elements of UN reform in Our Common Agenda by the UN Secretary-General and exploring global governance options for the transition from artificial narrow intelligence to artificial general intelligence.
He has published over 150 future-oriented articles, spoken to over 1000 organizations, written several books (Future Mind, Linking the Future, and co-author of Space Trek: The Endless Migration), and has conducted 58 futures research studies.
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Non-credit courses are not recorded in American University transcripts. No credit is earned from these courses and grades are not posted. Learners enrolled in Non-Credit courses will not receive an AU ID or have access to services and or facilities reserved for AU students. Access to the AU library system will be available to all members of the greater Washington DC area through visitor services. For information click here.
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Learners will be eligible for a refund (minus any non-refundable fees) if they drop a course and request a refund no later than 10 business days before the date the course starts as per the dates in Canvas and/or Canvas Catalog platforms. The learners will be eligible for a 75% refund (minus any non-refundable fees) if they drop the program later than 10 business days before the date the course starts. If a learner registered for a course drops said course on or after the start date, they will be ineligible for a refund.