To give UC Davis MSBA students a practical view of building a career in AI and taking AI products from concept to revenue.

Distilled lessons from go-to-market roles at Reka AI, Renesas, and Micron into a structured talk covering the AI industry landscape, career paths, and enterprise sales strategy.

Microsoft PowerPoint.

Shows the ability to translate real field experience into teaching material and communicate AI strategy clearly to a graduate business audience.

To practice deep interviewing, AI prompt engineering, and AI system design by building a working Speaker's Bureau booking bot as a graded team project.

Interviewed teammates to uncover their passions beyond the resume, used generative AI to write rousing TED Talk introductions and professional speaker profiles, compiled the profiles into a knowledge base, and built a booking agent in Google AI Studio with a strict system prompt grounded only in that data. The team then produced the marketing and process infographics entirely with AI tools and demonstrated the bot live in class with unscripted audience queries.

Google AI Studio, generative AI assistants for interview synthesis and speaker profiles, AI image generation for both infographics.

Proves hands-on skill in prompt engineering, grounding a chatbot in custom data, and pairing a working AI product with AI-generated marketing, from discovery interviews to a live demo.

To trace the evolution of artificial intelligence from its origins to today's generative AI era and understand the breakthroughs behind modern machine learning.

Researched the key milestones, papers, and inflection points in AI history, then organized them into a clear chronological visual presentation.

Microsoft PowerPoint and AI research assistants.

Shows the ability to distill decades of technical history into an accessible narrative and demonstrates foundational AI literacy.