Board and executive management
What is AI worth to us, what do we risk and who answers for it?
BORDONARO AI ACADEMY · FROM THE BOARDROOM TO THE RACK
Most AI trainings end with a certificate. Ours end with something that works on Monday.
From the board that answers for the investment to the team that runs models, data and agents in its own datacenter. Role-based. Lab-tested. On your platform if you wish.
8x Microsoft MVP in a row · 800+ professionals trained as a Microsoft Certified Trainer · 2,516 CPU cores in our own enterprise lab · 30 years in IT
CHOOSE YOUR ROLE
Tell us who you are. We'll show you where to start.
Six roles, six entry points. Every card leads straight to the matching tracks.
Leadership and transformation
How do I lead teams where humans and assistants work together?
Employees and power users
How do I work safely and noticeably more productively with AI?
Governance, privacy and security
How do we make AI use provable, classified and attack-resistant?
Architecture and engineering
How do I build RAG, agents and evaluation that survive production?
Platform and operations
How do I run models and GPUs, connected to disconnected?
THE MATURITY PATH
Between the first prompt and safe AI operations lies an entire organization.
Five stages show where you stand and what carries next. Every track maps to one or more stages.
Safe AI use
Everyone knows what models can do, what they can't and which data may go where.
AI with company knowledge
Assistants answer from your documents and sources, not from the internet.
Role-based assistants
Every role has tools with clear rights, rules and quality controls.
AI on business processes and systems
AI works on real processes and systems, with evaluation and approvals.
Orchestrated agents with human responsibility
Agents take over process chains, humans keep decisions and escalation.
FOUR LEARNING PATHS
Learning to prompt does not yet build an AI-capable organization.
Four paths cover the whole organization. Each leads from the first hour to a result that keeps working inside your company.
TRACK CATALOG
18 tracks. One system.
Filter by role, path, duration, format and focus. Every card shows the essentials, the full agenda lives on the detail page.
18 tracks
AI-LIT-LABEmployees
AI Literacy Hands-on Lab
Up to 20 people leave the lab with an assistant they set up themselves, data rules practised on real cases, and a passed transfer check.
- Duration
- ½ day
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €3,950flat
AI-WORKEmployees
Working Safely and Productively with AI
Three genuinely improved workflows with before-and-after measurements, personal prompt and review templates, and team rules the team has agreed on.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €7,900flat
AI-CONTEXTEmployees · Engineering
Prompt and Context Engineering
Reusable context patterns, structured outputs with quality controls, and a tested prompt library for your team.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-EXECBoard
Sovereign AI Executive Briefing
A documented decision picture covering value, risk, sovereignty and operating model, plus the next 90 days with names and dates on a single page.
- Duration
- ½ day
- Role
- up to 8 people
- €4,900flat
AI-LEADLeadership
Leading in the Human-Agent Organization
Every manager leaves the room with a delegation matrix, an escalation model and a 90-day adoption plan for their own team.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-VALUELeadership · Board
Use Case and Business Case Sprint
A prioritized use case portfolio with a value-risk matrix, conservatively calculated economics, one owner per use case and a 90-day plan for the top candidates.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-CHAMPEmployees · Leadership
AI Champions Program
Up to ten enabled champions with a use case pipeline, an internal community, ready-to-use guides and measurable transfer after 90 days.
- Duration
- 4 on-site days + 90 days of office hours
- Role
- up to 10 people
- €34,900flat
AI-GOVGovernance
EU AI Act and AI Governance
A populated AI inventory, a role model, a literacy plan, a policy draft and a control calendar, all built on your real systems.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-RISKGovernance · Leadership
AI Risk Classification Lab
Your real use cases are sorted into prohibited, high risk, transparency obligation or minimal, with documented criteria and control need per case.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €7,900flat
AI-SECGovernance · Engineering
Secure GenAI and Agent Threat Modeling
A threat model, a data flow diagram, a catalogue of concrete protective measures and a test plan for a real GenAI or agent application of yours.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-DATAEngineering
AI-ready Data and Knowledge Architecture
A prioritized knowledge map of your organization with an ownership matrix, source assessment and a retrieval and permission concept strong enough to carry a RAG project.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-RAGEngineering
Enterprise RAG Engineering
A working RAG prototype on our lab environment with an ingestion pipeline, hybrid retrieval, reranking, an evaluation set, a permission model and honestly documented limits.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €23,700flat
AI-EVALEngineering · Platform
Evaluation, Observability and Guardrails
A golden dataset, automated quality metrics, tracing, cost and latency budgets and defined release gates that catch regressions before your users experience them.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €15,800flat
AI-AGENTEngineering
Agentic Systems Engineering
A self-built agentic workflow with tool integration, an explicit state model, human-in-the-loop gates, evaluation and abort and escalation logic, signed off in a live stress test.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €31,600flat
AI-PLATFORMPlatform · Engineering
Sovereign AI Platform Engineering
A referenceable platform architecture from GPU sizing to operations handover, built and measured in the lab and documented as a blueprint.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €39,500flat
AI-OPSPlatform
LLMOps for Connected, Disconnected and Air-Gapped Environments
A tested promotion process from dev through test to prod, an offline update concept with signature verification and an incident and rollback runbook rehearsed in the lab.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €23,700flat
AI-ARCPlatform
Azure Arc and Azure Local as a Hybrid Control Plane
A well-founded Arc resource model with a policy and GitOps foundation, plus a reasoned decision picture of when connected and when disconnected is the right operating model.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Role
- up to 12 people
- €23,700flat
AI-RESIDENCYPlatform · Engineering · Board
Sovereign AI Architecture Residency
A customer-owned architecture and operations design whose critical assumptions were validated on real hardware, with a tested slice, a prioritized backlog and an executive readout.
- Duration
- 5 days in the lab
- Role
- up to 8 people
- €44,500flat
ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS
When one course is not enough: four programs with a start, an end and a result.
Clearly more than single courses: programs combine qualification, work on your real cases and handover into daily operations.
AI Literacy Evidence Sprint
from €19,90030 days
From shadow AI to documented competence in 30 days.
Included
- Assessment and role matrix across your organization
- Executive briefing for the decision level
- Employee enablement in groups
- Governance foundation and policy draft
- Evidence package and management readout
Needed from you
An internal coordinator, access to the relevant role representatives and two management sessions.
Not included
Tool rollout, system integration and ongoing operations. Price varies with organization size and locations, hence from-pricing.
Sovereign AI Academy
from €59,00090 days
Role-based learning paths for the whole organization, with transfer measurement.
Included
- Learning paths for leadership, employees, governance and engineering
- Champions training as an internal multiplier core
- Lab days on real enterprise hardware
- Office hours across the full duration
- Transfer measurement and final readout
Needed from you
Named champions, released time per module and a sponsor at leadership level.
Not included
Platform build and production operations. Price varies with role mix and group count, hence from-pricing.
Agent Factory Bootcamp
from €89,00012 weeks
From the selected use case to an evaluated agent prototype.
Included
- Use-case selection plus data and risk work
- Architecture and prototype on lab or customer environment
- Evaluation with golden dataset and release gates
- Operations preparation with runbook draft
- Executive demo at the end
Needed from you
A product team with time budget, access to anonymized sample data and decision-making at sprint cadence.
Not included
No production promise without a separate technical acceptance. Integration depth drives the final price, hence from-pricing.
AI Operating Model
from €149,0006 months
Governance, platform, teams and qualification as one coherent transformation.
Included
- Governance and portfolio build-up
- Platform target picture and operating model
- Team and process design
- Qualification across all roles
- Metrics and steering logic
Needed from you
A mandate from executive management, an internal core team and access to the relevant system owners.
Not included
Implementation of third-party systems and license costs. Scope is cut per organization, hence from-pricing.
All program prices net plus VAT. From-prices because organization size and integration depth define the scope. The proposal makes the cut transparent up front.
SECTOR OVERLAYS
Same tracks, your cases.
Instead of a flood of courses, overlays enrich existing tracks with the cases, risks and data models of your industry.
Healthcare and medical IT
Treatment-related data, professional secrecy and availability pressure. Grounded in operating medical IT for more than 200 dialysis clinics in the company history.
Public sector and critical infrastructure
Evidence duties, registry thinking and NIS2 responsibility as continuous exercise cases.
Defense and highly regulated environments
Separated networks, strict approvals, preparable for requirements up to VS-NfD. Defense project history exists under NDA.
Hospitality
Guest data, booking systems and service communication as practice cases.
Manufacturing, OT and edge
Production proximity, OT separation and edge inference at the line.
Professional services
Mandate and confidentiality logic, knowledge work and document processes.
Overlays do not change prices. They are agreed for in-house deliveries and prepared with your anonymized examples.
THE LAB IS THE PROOF
Every architecture flies in the lab first. Only then does it touch your production.
The BORDONARO IT enterprise lab lives in Datacenter Rhein-Neckar II (PFALZKOM), a TÜV/tekit-audited availability class 4 facility. Architectures are built, deliberately broken and repaired there before they touch a customer system. Documented reference values, no live telemetry.
Rollouts run on our own Disconnected Operating Framework (DOF), proven in defense, critical infrastructure and healthcare environments.
2.516
CPU cores
24 TB
RAM
3.400 TB
storage
200 Gb/s
network fabric
WHO TEACHES HERE
Not a trainer who reads slides.
Dino Bordonaro is a principal, lab operator and translator between the boardroom, architecture and operations: almost 30 years in IT, Microsoft MVP for eight consecutive years, Microsoft Certified Trainer, more than 800 professionals trained. He built, operated and deliberately broke the infrastructure underneath AI before explaining it.
- Every exercise runs on real enterprise hardware, not on slides
- A direct line into Microsoft's product organization, evidenced by public recommendations from product engineering leads
- Training in German or English, remote, in-house or in the lab
„It's great to work with Dino. He is very professional and has outstanding technical knowledge!“
Thomas MaurerEMEA Global Black Belt Sovereign Cloud, Microsoft„Then I experienced him as a speaker, where he shares his profound technical expertise in provocative talks that make people think. When Dino takes on a task, you can consider it done.“
Philip SemmelrothBusiness author, MBAVerbatim, publicly visible LinkedIn recommendations: LinkedIn ↗
PRICE AND SERVICE LOGIC
One pricing logic, no surprises.
| In-house tracks | Flat rate per delivery, from 4 participants up to the stated group size, remote or on site |
|---|---|
| Price anchor | €7,900 per training day and group, half-day formats pro rata, the lab residency at €8,900 |
| Lab formats | Delivered in the enterprise lab in Mutterstadt, no travel costs on our side |
| Enterprise programs | From-prices, scope made transparent in the proposal before commissioning |
| All prices | Net plus VAT. Travel costs only for on-site dates outside the region, stated up front |
Certificates and audit-proof training records are included in every track and support your competence evidence under Art. 4 EU AI Act.
Frequently asked questions
Do the tracks fulfil our duties under Art. 4 EU AI Act?
Since February 2025, Art. 4 requires role- and context-appropriate AI literacy without prescribing a specific certificate. Our tracks deliver documented, role-specific building blocks for it. What is appropriate depends on your systems and roles, which is exactly what the diagnosis helps with.
Can you train on our own platform?
Yes. Exercises run either on our lab environment or on your tenant or on-prem environment if the track's prerequisites are met.
What distinguishes the academy from consulting?
Tracks qualify your people and deliver reusable artifacts. Analysis, implementation and operations are separate BORDONARO AI services and are offered clearly apart.
Are prices negotiable or are there extra costs?
Prices are fixed, net plus VAT, per delivery. Travel costs only apply for on-site dates outside the region and are stated in the proposal.
In which language do tracks take place?
German or English, mixed by arrangement. Materials exist in both languages.
ACADEMY DIAGNOSIS
Seven questions. At most three recommendations.
No email required, no countdown, no trick. You answer seven questions, we show the tracks that carry now.
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