Discover Generative AI

Discover opportunities in generative AI

Discover Generative AI is an inspiring hands-on workshop to identify opportunities for innovation with generative AI.

4900 € + VAT

Discover Generative AI

Discover Generative AI is an inspiring hands-on workshop for teams working on customer experience. After the workshop, you’ll know the five most promising experimental pilots to start with generative AI.

The workshop combines training on the foundations of generative AI, illuminating case examples, and ideation on the most promising use cases for your organization.

4900€ + VAT

Your team wants to uncover the potential of generative AI but doesn’t know where to start.

The world of AI is exciting but moving so quickly that it’s hard to pinpoint the truly useful opportunities for you.

This workshop will help your team start uncovering the opportunities of generative AI.

Is this your team?

After the workshop, your team will have..

  • A clear understanding of the foundations of generative AI

  • Excitement for the specific innovation opportunities of generative AI for your organization

  • A sense of practical realism of what can and can’t be achieved with generative AI

  • An understanding of how to implement generative AI safely and responsibly

  • Clarity on the five generative AI pilots to be developed in the future

Unpacking Discover Generative AI

Training and ideation workshop

The Discover Generative AI workshop will combine gen AI training with ideation for your challenges.

Innovation based on challenges

We’ll ideate innovations based on your real identified key business and customer challenges.

Generative AI Pilots

After the workshop, you’ll receive a visualized presentation with your five pilots to be further developed.

Support during project

You’ll get support access to me during the project with Slack and email as needed.

Clear pilot roadmap

After the workshop, we’ll have a follow-up session to review and prioritize your pilots into a roadmap.

100% Value Guarantee

If you don’t feel the workshop has provided enough value for your organization, you’ll receive a full refund.

Project steps

  • First, we’ll have a 30-minute initial call for introductions and questions to ensure the workshop is valuable to your team.

  • We’ll have a 1-hour meeting with your core team to plan the workshop and define the key challenges of your customers and internal stakeholders.

    We’ll also discuss all the relevant logistics and communications around the workshop.

  • The workshop is a 3-hour exciting and practical dive into generative AI.

    In the workshop, we’ll cover:

    • Training to understand the foundations of generative AI

    • Inspiring case examples relevant to your industry

    • Ideation on possible use cases based on your customer's and internal stakeholders' key challenges

    • Prioritization of use cases based on feasibility, desirability, and viability



  • After the workshop, we’ll have a 60-minute follow-up meeting with the workshop participants.

    In the follow-up, we’ll:

    • Present each pilot use case with a one-page crisp concept slide

    • Review and iterate on the five most promising pilot use cases

    • Discuss the next steps to implement the identified pilot use cases

  • After our collaboration, you can further develop the identified pilot use cases. You’ll have a crisp starting point with the identified use cases and their concept summaries.

    You can develop the pilots further on your own or we can shape a custom service design project to take them further.

Meet your trainer and innovation coach

I’m passionate about exploring how generative AI is changing the design world.

I’ve helped over 300 people from companies like KONE and Futurice uncover the opportunities of Generative AI for innovation. I also publish a weekly newsletter on Innovation with Generative AI.

For 15 years, I’ve helped global brands like Philips, Cisco, and Audi design experiences for their customers. My client work has been featured in Wired, TechCrunch, and Fast Company.

Before starting my own design studio Vaara & Co, I was a Design Director at the international design agency Idean (now part of frog)

Matias Vaara

Discover the opportunities of Generative AI

Identify the best use cases for generative AI in your organization
4900 € + VAT

100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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Testimonials

Expriences from my generative AI training and coaching

Lotta Buss
Head of Service and Digital Design KONE

The workshop was overall very valuable to our team. We have been exploring different AI tools in our daily work, but the workshop gave us more "flesh on the bones", a broader perspective as well as some beneficial tips and tricks.

I also value that AI was put into a historical perspective to understand the paradigm shift we are living in.

Hanna Oksanen
Senior UI/UX Designer
Futurice

The workshop had useful tips for using AI for design research. There was nothing to improve, it was perfect. Matias is a clear and concise presenter.

Verneri Leimu
Creative&Strategist, Co-Founder
358

I really liked the demos - they were eye-opening in terms of the opportunities of AI. The tone of the training was very approachable and well spoken!

Elina Laitinen
Senior design expert
KONE

I liked a lot the very concrete instructions on what is important when using chat GPT for design.

Timo Saarnio
Senior UX Specialist
KONE

First of all, the presentation content was first class! I learned how in practice the ChatGPT can be used to iterate from early outputs to more nuanced answers.

Also, I got a better understanding of what it is currently good for and on what it is still a bit unreliable. I really liked that the workshop schedule allowed deep discussions on ethical topics, as those are very important part of any good AI discussion.

Niina Mäki
Senior service designer
Futurice

It really opened my eyes on different ways one can use Gen-AI as a designer in different parts of the design process.

Harri-Pekka Savolainen
Graphic Designer
358

I found it valuable that the presentation had a very practical point of view.

Common questions

  • The workshop is tailored for teams working on innovations in customer experience and looking for tangible opportunities in generative AI.

    Case examples will be tailored based on the organization's industry.

  • The workshop can be run in person or remotely.

    Outside southern Finland, travel expenses will be invoiced separately. The preparation and follow-up meetings will be remote outside the Helsinki region.

  • The cost of the workshop, it’s preparation, and deliverables is 4900€ plus VAT (if applicable).

  • This workshop is intended as a starting point for finding the opportunities of generative AI.

    It’s less valuable for companies with deep maturity and investments in generative AI.

  • Not at all.

    We’ll cover the foundations of what generative AI is on a high level. We won’t go deep into the technical aspects of AI.

  • The aim of this collaboration is to identify the most promising use cases for generative AI in your organization.

    At the end, you’ll have a deck of visualized and prioritised brief concepts of how to use generative AI.

    The detailed design and development of these pilots will happen after this collaboration.

  • If you feel like you didn’t receive adequate value from the collaboration, I will provide a 100% refund. All you have to do is email me at matias@vaara.co

  • To ensure the best possible experience for all, the workshop is recommended for a maximum of 30 people per training.

More questions?
Get in touch at matias@vaara.co

Discover the opportunities of Generative AI

Identify the best use cases for generative AI in your organization
4900 € + VAT

100% Satisfaction Guarantee
Limited availability