Silicon Valley AI Study Tour

THE SILICON VALLEY AI IMMERSION

AI Leadership and Strategy for Boards and Executive Teams

A small number of times each year, Soulaima personally designs and facilitates private learning journeys in Silicon Valley for boards, executive teams, scaleups, private equity firms and investors. Each journey is built around the organisation’s most important strategic questions. The purpose is to help leaders understand how AI is already affecting their industry, test their assumptions with people working directly in the field and leave with a clearer plan for the next 12 months. Soulaima brings participants into direct conversations with founders, researchers, investors, operators, academics and senior executives with practical experience building, funding and deploying AI at scale.

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What the Programme Includes

A private three- to four-day executive immersion in Silicon Valley, tailored to the needs of the participating organisation to help leaders examine what is changing, what matters to their business and what should happen next.

Why Leadership Teams Invest

AI is fundamentally altering enterprise economics, operating structures, and competitive moats across every sector. Leadership teams leverage this immersion to:

  • Test strategic assumptions
    Identify relevant technologies and partners
  • Understand where AI may improve margins, speed and service quality
  • Examine risks, governance and organisational readiness
  • Explore investment, acquisition and partnership opportunities
  • Build a practical 12-month action plan

Unrivaled Access to the Silicon Valley Ecosystem

Soulaima Gourani curates private conversations with the people most relevant to the organisation’s goals.

Depending on the programme, participants may meet:

  • Founders building AI-native companies
  • Executives deploying AI in large organisations
  • Investors deciding where capital is moving
  • Researchers working on emerging technologies
  • Academics studying productivity, leadership and work
  • Policy and governance experts
  • Operators who have implemented AI in practice

The individuals and organisations involved vary from programme to programme.

What Participants Leave With

Each organisation receives a structured set of outputs designed for use after the journey.

This may include:

  • A 12-month AI action plan
  • Board-ready recommendations
  • Priority opportunities and risks
  • Relevant company and partner introductions
  • Governance considerations
  • Session notes and strategic reflections
  • Internal materials for leadership and wider teams

The goal is to return better informed, more capable in AI, better connected across Silicon Valley, and ready to act on a practical 12-month plan.

The 3-Phase Execution Model

  1. Strategic Audit (1–2 Hours): An executive diagnostic call to pinpoint your organization’s highest-value opportunities, threats, and core strategic goals.
  2. Custom Architecture & Immersion (4 Weeks): Soulaima curates a bespoke, sector-specific itinerary, handles high-level host alignment, and personally leads your 3 to 4 days of intensive Silicon Valley meetings, keeping every discussion focused on your strategic output.
  3. Strategic Follow-Through: Rapid post-journey synthesis delivering your board-ready recommendations, session intelligence, and immediate execution frameworks.
  • Tailored for private corporate cohorts (C-Suite, Board of Directors, PE Portfolios, and Scaleup Executives). Custom scope and pricing available upon request.
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Selected Organisations and Contributors

The organisations and individuals listed below have participated in, hosted or contributed to learning journeys, conversations and programmes designed by Soulaima Gourani. 

This does not constitute endorsement

Frontier Tech & AI:
OpenAI • Google • Google Cloud • Google DeepMind • Anthropic • Apple • Meta • Microsoft • Amazon • Uber • Uber Eats • Instacart • Zoox • Robot.com • IDEO • Emotiv • Niantic • Roblox • Mozilla • You.com • OpenWeb • Raive AI • Songsheet AI • Spectrum Labs • Tezign • Haptik • Pixar • Oculus VR • Penrose Studios

 

Venture Capital & Investment:
Lightspeed • Kleiner Perkins • Fusion Fund • DCVC • Blitzscaling Ventures • C1 Ventures • Cortado Ventures • Benhamou Global Ventures • At One Ventures • Morgan Stanley • J.P. Morgan • Bank of America Merrill Lynch • Temasek • Warburg Pincus • Apis Partners • Lupa Systems • E14 Fund (MIT) • One Away Partners • Janngo Capital • LIP Ventures • TrueNorth Capital

 

Global Corporations & Enterprise:
PayPal • Siemens • Eli Lilly • Reitan Group • Eurocash • Auchan • Technogym • NCSOFT • Bright Money • Gainsight • Databook • Learnerbly • Cloudmersive • BellaNaija • UnitedMasters • Ringier • NBC News • CNBC • Phoenix TV • DKV Mobility • Bossard • PZU • PKO BP

 

Climate, Energy & Sustainability:
Agrosmart • Brightseed • Apeel Sciences • Pachama • H2GO Power • IORA Ecological Solutions • GreenLight Biosciences • Earth Technologies/Planet2049 • BASF ECO+ Foundation

 

Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences:
Humane Genomics • MLP Care • Nutripharma • Caliz.bio • Blueberries Med • Cradle • CUHK Laboratory of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery

 

Innovation & Research:
Stanford HAI (Erik Brynjolfsson, Chris Re, Amir Goldberg, James Landay, Melissa Valentine, Joon Park, Marc Gough) • Stanford Graduate School of Business • Apple University • Harvard University • MIT • University of Oxford • Cambridge • Georgetown University • Carnegie Mellon University • INSEAD • Wharton • World Economic Forum • San Francisco City Attorney’s Office • Norwegian Consulate

 

Consulting, Advisory & Impact:
BCG Digital Ventures • SpencerStuart • PWC • GreenLight • Stellar Capacity • Filecoin Foundation • Equilibrio • Pano AI • Sunshine (Marissa Mayer) • World Bank Group • USAID • UN Environment Programme • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Rockefeller Foundation • Royal Academy of Engineering • Royal Commission for Riyadh City (RCRC)

 

Mobility & Infrastructure:
JetSetGo • Airbus • Vikua • La Wawa

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