BSNS 350 · University of Otago · Summer School · 9 Nov – 12 Dec 2026
You don't read about New Zealand businesses in this paper. You're in the room with them, live, every week.
Work a real case with a real NZ company. Meet the people who live it. Maybe get the job.
Enrol through Otago → Who's in the roomThe lineup
Companies you know. The AI problems they're working through right now. The people making the calls, live.
+ more to be announced
The people running these companies, on the AI decisions they're making this quarter. Not a guest lecture. A live conversation you're part of.
The young people building AI inside these same companies: a step or two ahead of you, not a career ahead. They started where you are.
Five weeks · five real decisions
Decide where you actually stand on AI in business. Then back it, against a real company's position.
Read what the data is telling a real company, and make the call they have to make.
Build a working AI workflow on a real business, with the people already doing it for a living.
Defend your build to leaders who push on what it means for people and for sensitive data.
Employers on what they actually hire for. You, showing them how far you've come.
Live only · never recorded
The lectures are recorded; watch them whenever you like. The conversations with these companies are not. They're live and off the record: nothing posted, nothing replayed. If you want to hear what these leaders really think, you're in the room. That's the whole point.
What you walk out with
"Built and defended a real business decision with a named NZ company, in The AI Room."
A LinkedIn credential, from day one. It names what you did, and who with.
First session · 9 November 2026
The room opens in … days
The basics