AI-Powered Data Analytics

Harness the power of AI-driven data analytics to better recognize opportunities, more effectively guide innovation and make smarter, more profitable choices to remain competitive in a quickly-evolving world.

Counts toward the Management Development Certificate
Counts toward the Certificate in Leadership & Management

Upcoming Dates

Program Dates

Format

Time Commitment

Program Fee

11-14 Nov 2025

In-Person, Charlottesville, VA

4 days

$9,400.00

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Overview

Functional competence with artificial intelligence is a foundational capability for leaders across all industries to remain relevant and competitive in an ever-changing world. Explore how AI is driving superior organizational performance through better forecasting and more informed decision making.

Apply state-of-the-art forecasting approaches, such as machine learning and regression analysis, to quantify risks and rewards in uncertain environments.
Better understand how large-language models (like ChatGPT) work and how companies are using them to improve performance.
Hone your awareness of what matters to the bottom line and transition from intuitive to more data-driven thinking.
Harness AI to make smarter, more profitable decisions.

Intended For

Team Leader, Senior Management, Executive

Focus

Management Competencies

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Organizations today recognize that AI provides many possibilities to improve performance. However, they are struggling to figure out exactly how AI can do this for their specific organization. This highly interactive program will provide you with “hands-on” opportunities to use some of the most common AI tools while focusing on how they can be most effectively employed to support better decision making — including regression analysis, machine learning and large-language models.

Darden's New Home for Lifelong Learning

The Forum Hotel at the UVA Darden School of Business in Charlottesville is now open! We’re excited to welcome our EELL participants to learn and stay with us in this dynamic new meeting place.

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Schedule & Topics
The program begins at 6pm the first day with a welcome reception and dinner. The following two days run from 8:15am-7pm and 8:15am-5pm, wrapping up at 11:30am on the final day. Featured activities & session topics include:

Overview of what comprises AI today

How does AI "decide" using Expected Value

Data analysis through regression

How AI uses Machine Learning to make forecasts and predictions

Data visualization

How large language models like ChatGPT work within machine learning analysis

Strategic integration of AI for organizations

Individual and cultural obstacles to using AI effectively
Impact & Outcomes
Gain a better understanding of what AI encompasses, its fundamental concepts and tools, and what it can and cannot do.

Consider frameworks that enable your team to funnel the power of AI analysis tools into surfacing opportunities, guiding innovation and making smarter decisions.

Recognize your own preferences and hesitations, and the impact of cultural differences, to help overcome barriers to effective implementation of AI.

Learn from how other organizations are seeing success with AI and how these applications of AI can be adapted to your organization's unique circumstances.
Participant Profile

This program is designed for leaders who are responsible for helping their organizations improve their use of AI, especially in leveraging AI-powered analytics to make their organization more competitive, identify opportunity and improve the quality of their decision-making amidst uncertainty and risk.

In order to be awarded full credit hours, you must be present for the entirety of the program.
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Sponsorship
UVA Darden Executive Education offers continuing education credits as part of our commitment to encourage lifelong learning.

Instructional Delivery: Group Live

CPE Credits: 18.0

Fields of Study: Personal Development, Statistics

Program Level: Intermediate

There are no prerequisites for participation. Advanced preparation includes case study readings. The selected case studies will be sent prior to the program for all participants to read and prepare for discussion on the first day of the course.

Refund/Cancelation/Concern Resolution Policy:

All cancellations and transfers must be received in writing. Submit your request via email to Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu with the name of the program, followed by "cancellation" or "transfer" in the subject line. Cancellation or transfer fees may apply. Visit our Registration & FAQ page for full details on transfers and cancellations.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, please contact us at 1-434-924-3000 or Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu to resolve your issue.

UVA Darden School Foundation - Executive Education is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Concerns regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
Location & Accommodations

Location

Darden School of Business
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

As a participant of this program, materials and some meals are included in your program fee.

Accommodations

Lodging will be provided at our new on-Grounds hotel for participants of this program as part of your program fee. If you register within 30 days of the program start date, accommodations at The Forum Hotel cannot be guaranteed. Alternate lodging would be provided. We encourage you to register early to reserve your spot!

The Forum Hotel
Kimpton Charlottesville
UVA DARDEN
540 Massie Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Enjoy access to all the hotel’s perks during your stay, including morning coffee and tea service, on-site fitness center, Birch & Bloom steakhouse, The Good Sport craft beer bar and large outdoor terrace.

Anchored by the beautiful Tahja Arboretum and LaCross Botanical Gardens with outdoor learning and reflection spaces, as well as state-of-the-art indoor classroom and event spaces, The Forum Hotel is the new home for Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programming.

The program begins at 6pm the first day with a welcome reception and dinner. The following two days run from 8:15am-7pm and 8:15am-5pm, wrapping up at 11:30am on the final day. Featured activities & session topics include:

Overview of what comprises AI today
How does AI "decide" using Expected Value
Data analysis through regression
How AI uses Machine Learning to make forecasts and predictions
Data visualization
How large language models like ChatGPT work within machine learning analysis
Strategic integration of AI for organizations
Individual and cultural obstacles to using AI effectively

Gain a better understanding of what AI encompasses, its fundamental concepts and tools, and what it can and cannot do.
Consider frameworks that enable your team to funnel the power of AI analysis tools into surfacing opportunities, guiding innovation and making smarter decisions.
Recognize your own preferences and hesitations, and the impact of cultural differences, to help overcome barriers to effective implementation of AI.
Learn from how other organizations are seeing success with AI and how these applications of AI can be adapted to your organization's unique circumstances.

This program is designed for leaders who are responsible for helping their organizations improve their use of AI, especially in leveraging AI-powered analytics to make their organization more competitive, identify opportunity and improve the quality of their decision-making amidst uncertainty and risk.

In order to be awarded full credit hours, you must be present for the entirety of the program.

UVA Darden Executive Education offers continuing education credits as part of our commitment to encourage lifelong learning.

Instructional Delivery: Group Live
CPE Credits: 18.0
Fields of Study: Personal Development, Statistics
Program Level: Intermediate

There are no prerequisites for participation. Advanced preparation includes case study readings. The selected case studies will be sent prior to the program for all participants to read and prepare for discussion on the first day of the course.

Refund/Cancelation/Concern Resolution Policy:

All cancellations and transfers must be received in writing. Submit your request via email to Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu with the name of the program, followed by "cancellation" or "transfer" in the subject line. Cancellation or transfer fees may apply. Visit our Registration & FAQ page for full details on transfers and cancellations.

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, please contact us at 1-434-924-3000 or Darden_ExEd@darden.virginia.edu to resolve your issue.

UVA Darden School Foundation - Executive Education is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Concerns regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Location

Darden School of Business
100 Darden Blvd.
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

As a participant of this program, materials and some meals are included in your program fee.

Accommodations

The Forum Hotel Kimpton Arboretum & Gardens

Lodging will be provided at our new on-Grounds hotel for participants of this program as part of your program fee. If you register within 30 days of the program start date, accommodations at The Forum Hotel cannot be guaranteed. Alternate lodging would be provided. We encourage you to register early to reserve your spot!

The Forum Hotel
Kimpton Charlottesville
UVA DARDEN
540 Massie Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Enjoy access to all the hotel’s perks during your stay, including morning coffee and tea service, on-site fitness center, Birch & Bloom steakhouse, The Good Sport craft beer bar and large outdoor terrace.

Anchored by the beautiful Tahja Arboretum and LaCross Botanical Gardens with outdoor learning and reflection spaces, as well as state-of-the-art indoor classroom and event spaces, The Forum Hotel is the new home for Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programming.

Stephanie Vatalaro, SVP of Marketing & Communications at the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, shares how the insights were valuable for people with varying analytics backgrounds and how it will help her make better decisions.

Earn Your Certificate

AI-Powered Data Analytics counts as one program toward a noncredit Darden Certificate in Leadership & Management. Complete this program and three additional programs within a four-year period to earn your certificate.

Faculty

Robert L. Carraway

Yiorgos Allayannis Distinguished Associate Professor of Business Administration

Robert L. Carraway

Yiorgos Allayannis Distinguished Associate Professor of Business Administration

Data Analytics and Decision Sciences

Carraway is an authority on the appropriate and constructive use of quantitative analysis in making important decisions. He focuses on the relationship between intuition and rational analysis and how the two can complement one another, as well as on the role analysis can play in innovating more effectively and efficiently.

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Michael Albert

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Michael Albert

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Data Analytics and Decision Sciences

Albert's research focuses on combining machine learning and algorithmic techniques to automate the design of markets. His work has appeared in leading artificial intelligence and machine learning venues such as the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

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Rupert Freeman

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Rupert Freeman

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Data Analytics and Decision Sciences

Freeman's research focuses on eliciting and aggregating information in areas such as probabilistic forecasting, resource allocation, and voting, with a particular focus on designing systems that are both fair and robust to strategic behavior by participants.

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