
AI Champion Excellence
Recognizes practitioners who lead AI adoption at organizational level. The accredited individual defines AI strategy, establishes governance and risk policies, assesses organizational AI competencies, manages a portfolio of AI use cases, and leads structured deployment.
Requirements
1.5-hour accreditation interview. The candidate must:
- Provide evidence of at least 3 to 5 years of professional AI experience, including at least 2 years in an organizational AI leadership capacity (strategy, governance, or portfolio management).
- Answer 3 questions on AI leadership: organizational AI maturity assessment, governance framework design, risk management, and ROI evaluation of AI investments.
- Provide evidence of having defined or contributed to an organizational AI strategy, including scope, priorities, and success metrics.
- Provide evidence of having established or led the creation of AI governance policies in an organization: acceptable use policies, risk classification, data privacy rules, and compliance mechanisms.
- Provide evidence of having assessed AI competencies across an organization or significant department, including the methodology used and the resulting development plan.
- Provide evidence of managing a portfolio of at least 3 AI use cases: how they were evaluated, prioritized, implemented, and measured.
- Present 2 case studies of leading organizational AI deployments: from opportunity identification through governance, deployment, change management, and measured business impact.
- Provide evidence of having enabled or developed other AI practitioners or specialists in the organization.
- Share self-improvement goals that reflect a strategic and systemic view of organizational AI leadership.