AI Squared – win with and by AI!
How to win in business with AI?
Get answers to questions like “Is AI inevitable?” and “Can you win in business without AI?”
Get insights into how AI will change business, companies and management.
Learn where opportunities are and which concrete steps you need to take today and which tomorrow to seize those opportunities.
How to think about investing in AI?
Understand “How to think about investing in AI?”
Learn how AI “native” opportunities differ from AI “augmented” incumbents from an investment (and business) perspective.
Who are we?
Darko Butina
Darko Butina is the author of the book “Management in AI powered world”, available in both English as well as German language (“Management in einer KI-getriebenen Welt”). He is also the Managing Partner of M&A strategy advisory company DG180 from Zurich and General Partner of venture capital fund daFUND.
He gathered 20+ years of experiences as a proven strategic leader and executive with entrepreneurial background and with focus on strategy development and implementation using digitalization and new business models and technologies, including AI and ML.
Darko has also invested in a number of high-tech companies, both personally as well as with daFUND and in his other leadership roles.
With his extensive and broad experiences and his interest in business, entrepreneurship and investing topics, Darko is always open to discuss new opportunities and challenges.
Julien Pache
Julien Pache has over a decade of experience on both sides of the table as a venture capital investor and as a digital startup C-level operator.
He co-built Verve Ventures which is one of the most active deep-tech VC firms in Europe. Julien has invested in more than 30 early-stage deep-tech and SaaS companies. He has focused on sectors like the digitalization of real estate and health.
As CCO at Bring! Labs – a category-leading grocery shopping list app – he led revenue growth, sales, and business development. He co-developed and sold new advertising products based on unique data for CPGs and large retailers.
During the last 1.5 years, he has been focused on making sense of the impact of GenAI on enterprises and consumers from an investor point of view.
Julien is also a partner at Ethix Lab, a Think-Tank & boutique advisory firm on digital ethics. Ethix Lab advises organizations on corporate digital responsibility and AI ethics.
AI Workshop
For companies that want to win the future!
With AI Workshop you will know what your next steps are – and how you and your company will be able to win in the AI powered world.
What can you expect from AI Workshop?
- We first organize the discovery discussion with the CEO. Then we gather relevant inputs for the workshop, such as company details, proprietary data available, digitalization and AI readiness score and any identified AI related scenarios of the company.
- After we gather all the required inputs, we facilitate a half-day workshop with key people from your company. During the workshop we jointly develop strategic scenarios and identify the most promising one.
- When the workshop is over and you receive the final report and presentation from us, you will understand how AI can transform your business and how you should guide your company through the process.