Masterclass · 1 day

Ship AI Adoption, Skip the Theater

In one day you find which of the 5 levels of AI adoption your team is actually on, and you leave with the two or three KPIs that prove the value at that level.

Most AI adoption stalls in pilot purgatory or drowns in dashboards that show activity and no delivery. This places you on the ladder and hands you the numbers that move you up it.

14,900 CZK per seat · from 150,000 CZK in-house

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Not for

  • Individual contributors who want prompting technique. Wrong room, wrong altitude.
  • Anyone who wants a tool demo. This is about which KPI proves value at your level, not which button to click.
  • Leaders who want a six-month transformation program. This is one day: find your level, leave with the numbers, move.

Who it is for

  • Engineering Managers whose team ran an AI hackathon two quarters ago and shipped nothing from it. You need to know if that is normal Level 1 or a dead end.
  • Tech Leads and Heads of Engineering who say “we are doing AI” in board prep and have no number behind the sentence.
  • VPs of Engineering watching Copilot and Claude bills climb while delivery stays flat, and finance has started asking what it bought.

The program

The 5 levels of AI adoption. Find yours, prove the value.

  1. Escape pilot purgatory.

    Your hackathon demos never shipped. You leave knowing which pilot to kill, which to ship, and the one number that proves this quarter was not wasted.

  2. Reskill the team, without the reorg circus.

    AI changes who does what. You leave with a skills map of your team, the roles that change first, and a 90-day plan you can defend to HR.

  3. Prove the money before finance asks.

    This is where AI spend outruns delivery. You leave with the two or three KPIs that show real efficiency, priced on your own numbers.

  4. Move AI from toy to pipeline.

    AI stops being a side tool and enters how you build. You leave with your delivery pipeline redrawn for AI-native work, first change already scheduled.

  5. Find the 2027 edge first.

    You are AI-mature, and so is everyone else. You leave with a read on where the next advantage sits and what to bet on before the market catches up.

Engineering leaders in conversation during a workshop break

From where you are, to where you walk out.

Before

Three AI pilots, a hackathon, a demo day. Nothing in production and the enthusiasm is fading.

After

You know which pilot to kill, which to ship this quarter, and the one number that says the quarter was not wasted.

Before

You know the team needs to reskill and every plan you draft turns into a reorg fight with HR.

After

You leave with a skills map of your team, the roles that change first, and a 90-day plan you can defend without a reorg.

Before

AI spend is outrunning delivery and you have no answer when finance asks what it bought.

After

You leave with the two or three KPIs that show real AI efficiency, priced on your own numbers, ready for the next budget review.

Before

AI is a side toy your engineers open in a second tab, not part of how the team actually builds.

After

You leave with your delivery pipeline redrawn for AI-native work and the first change already scheduled.

Before

You got AI working, and so did everyone else. The edge you had last year is gone.

After

You leave with a read on where the 2027 advantage sits and what to bet on before the market closes the gap.

What you walk out able to do.

  • Name your team’s level on the AI adoption ladder, from pilot purgatory to AI-mature, without kidding yourself.
  • Pick the two or three KPIs that actually prove value at your level, not vanity AI-usage dashboards.
  • Decide which pilot to kill and which to ship, with the number that justifies each call.
  • Draft a 90-day reskilling plan for your team you can defend to HR without triggering a reorg.
  • Answer finance when they ask what the AI spend bought, with efficiency numbers priced on your own delivery.
  • Name your next-level move and the one bet that gets you there before your competitor.
Engineering managers reviewing AI delivery data in a training room
Close-up of engineering leaders working together at a session
A large audience of engineering leaders at an ELC event
A packed room at an Engineering Leaders meetup

Format

Format and price.

  • One day, in person. Walk in not knowing your level, walk out knowing it and the two or three KPIs that prove it.
  • Your seat comes with membership in the 2,000+ engineering leaders community and an invite to the next monthly meetup, 120+ in the room.
  • Small room. You work on your team’s real adoption state, not a tidy case study.
  • Ready for the full rebuild? The AI-Native Engineering Manager, 3 days, rebuilds your whole operating rhythm around AI.
  • Multi-year −15%. Founding rate: first 5 companies −20%.
Open-enrollment seat14,900 CZK per seat
In-house cohortfrom 150,000 CZK in-house
Company yearly leadership programMasterclass access from the Team subscription

Prices in CZK, excl. VAT. Published, not on request.

Faculty

Our Lecturing Masterminds

Our team is unique. We are not consultants selling academic theories or empty certificates. They have built multiple unicorn companies and helped organizations scale from startups to scale-ups to established corporates.

Marian Kamenistak, Engineering Leaders Community

Marian Kamenistak

Engineering Leaders Community

Time to Value, Release cycle, Software talent, Team autonomy, Scalability

In-house cohorts

Tailored Leadership Training for Your Ambitions

No two organizations are the same. That is why our learning designers have crafted a selection of sessions focused on the key challenges faced by today's leaders. We work together to customize these sessions specifically to your needs. Our experts do the heavy lifting throughout the process and craft the program that is just right for your organization.

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Full-room energy at an Engineering Leaders event

What nobody else offers

The parts a competitor cannot copy in a quarter.

01

Every “AI training” teaches prompting. This maps where you actually are.

Tool demos and prompt tricks never tell a manager if the team is stuck at Level 1 or stalling at Level 3. The ladder does.

02

The KPIs come from real engineering orgs, not slideware.

Most frameworks hand you a maturity model and no numbers. You leave with the two or three metrics that prove value at your level, priced on your own delivery.

03

Nobody else sells the brake.

Everyone pushes adoption. Level 3 is where you learn to tell real efficiency from AI theater, before finance asks what the spend bought.

04

Built from 3,400+ mentoring sessions, not a webinar.

The failure modes at each level come from 300+ leaders in 17+ countries hitting them. A competitor can copy the slides, not the sessions.

05

The Czech market has no AI adoption masterclass for engineering leaders.

One day, engineering-specific, in Czech or English, with the numbers to take back to your board.

“You stop guessing where your team is with AI, and start proving it with numbers.”

Proof, honestly labeled

What we can stand behind today.

  • Companies that trained their managers with us: Rohlík, Košík, Mews, Kiwi.com, Česká spořitelna, Trezor, and Apify.
  • 9.3/10 average from 21 participant reviews of the sibling Engineering Leaders Academy courses this one grew out of.
  • Trusted across the Engineering Leaders community: partners include Microsoft, Barclays, Productboard, and Ataccama.
  • Cheap seats fill a room with tourists. This is a 14,900 CZK seat, not a 490 CZK one, and the room shows it.

The 9.3/10 is from the sibling courses, not this masterclass yet. First-cohort quotes and outcomes replace these lines as they land.

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