A 90-minute intensive from the Harvard Data Science Initiative

Your first move on agentic AI.

A free 90-minute intensive with Prof. Suraj Srinivasan from Harvard Business School — and the twin operating model reshaping how senior leaders make decisions about agentic AI.

With Prof. Suraj Srinivasan Harvard Business School · Dirk Hofmann DAIN Studios

Your first move, in writing. A one-page brief naming the workflow in your own work most ready for agentic AI — the one you can take to your team, your board, or your next exec meeting.

Cost Free

Capacity 200 attendees

When Jun 4Thursday · 12pm ET

The intensive

Three parts. One brief at the end.

An intensive in three parts — prep, live, work. Each part feeds the next. The whole thing is built around one outcome: your first move on agentic AI, written down and ready to share.

Prep · the moment you register

Meet your AI tutor.

Your AI campus opens as soon as you sign up. Spend 15 minutes telling our AI tutor about your role — what you do, what frustrates you, where the bottlenecks live. The conversation tunes the rest of the intensive to your work.

~15 minutes · self-paced

Live · Thu, Jun 4

60 minutes with Prof. Suraj Srinivasan.

Suraj walks through the twin operating model — what's actually changing about knowledge work as agentic AI moves from pilot to production. Dirk Hofmann introduces DAIN Studios' A.G.E.N.T. framework — a five-phase lens for evaluating where agentic AI fits in your operating model, where it doesn't, and what has to be true before you start. You'll use it on your own workflow afterward.

60 minutes · live in your campus · no software to install

Work · within 5 days of the session

Build your opportunity brief.

Return to the AI tutor and apply the framework to a specific workflow from your own work. The conversation produces a one-page brief you can share with your team — naming the workflow, the agentic AI opportunity, and a starting point for what to do next.

~15 minutes · self-paced

What Suraj covers in the live hour

A working session, not a lecture.

The twin spectrum. From avatars to knowledge twins to cognitive twins — what's already deployed inside companies like Delphi, Work Fabric, and Meta, and why most senior leaders are tracking the wrong layer.
The multiplayer demonstration. What it actually looks like when four AI twins collaborate on a single proposal in real time — generating 15 comments across six sections, working through the same draft as a team would. The moment most senior leaders realise this isn't a future problem.
The real question. Not whether to adopt AI, but whether your operating model holds up when half of knowledge work can be done by twins. What that means for hiring, governance, consent, and the workforce you're building right now.
Live Q and A. Bring the workflows from your own work. Suraj and Dirk Hofmann work through them in the room.

Your faculty

Led by Harvard Data Science Initiative and DAIN Studios.

Two people who've spent years on the gap this session closes: how senior leaders move from generic AI exposure to a defensible operating-model position — and a first move worth making.

Prof. Suraj Srinivasan

Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Business School

Suraj leads HBS work on AI strategy for knowledge-intensive organizations. His research and teaching focus on the operating-model question senior leaders face: as agentic AI moves from pilot to production, what changes about hiring, structure, governance, and the work itself. His current research includes the AI twin spectrum — from avatars to knowledge twins to cognitive twins — and how organizations should think about restructuring around autonomous agents.

Dirk Hofmann

HDSR Board Member & Author

DAIN Studios

Dirk works with practitioners across industries to translate agentic AI from strategic concept into specific workflow decisions. His work focuses on the analytical motion that moves senior knowledge workers from understanding the technology to identifying where it fits in their own work — the foundation of the A.G.E.N.T. framework that anchors this session and the 2.5-week Agentic AI Intensive.