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Generative AI and Web3 for Business Leaders Specialization

Generative AI and Web3 for Business Leaders Specialization

Turn AI and Web3 Into Business Value.

Learn how generative AI, blockchain, and agentic systems can shape strategy, trust, and innovation.

Instructors: Douglas Heintzman

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4 course series

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4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

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4 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Explain how generative AI, blockchain, decentralization, and Web3 work together across digital systems.
Evaluate agentic AI, DAO governance, tokenomics, privacy, ethics, and trust in decentralized environments.
Analyze AI and blockchain applications across healthcare, media, commerce, supply chains, and energy.

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Specialization - 4 course series

In this Specialization, you'll build a practical understanding of how generative AI, blockchain, and Web3 can work together to reshape digital systems and business models. You'll begin with the evolution from Web1 to Web3, decentralization, and the six-layer Web3-AI ecosystem. You'll then examine how blockchain can strengthen generative AI through data integrity, provenance, privacy, and transparency, and how generative AI can enhance smart contracts, dApps, digital assets, and network performance.

As you progress, you'll explore agentic AI, DAO governance, AI-driven tokenomics, and the ethical, privacy, and accountability challenges that come with advanced decentralized systems. You'll also analyze applications across healthcare, arts and media, global commerce, supply chains, and energy.

Designed for business leaders and professionals evaluating emerging technologies, this Specialization helps you connect technical concepts with strategic opportunities, risks, and real-world use cases.

By the end of this Specialization, you will be able to:

Explain how AI, blockchain, and decentralization interact across the Web3 ecosystem.
Evaluate how generative and agentic AI can improve decentralized applications, governance, and token economies.
Analyze opportunities, risks, and ethical considerations when applying AI and blockchain.
Assess AI and blockchain use cases across healthcare, media, commerce, supply chains, and energy.

Applied Learning Project

Across the Specialization, you'll apply core concepts through industry examples, case-based analysis, and graded assessments. You'll compare Web1, Web2, and Web3; examine decentralization and the six-layer Web3-AI ecosystem; and evaluate how blockchain can improve AI data integrity, provenance, privacy, and transparency. You'll analyze generative AI uses in smart contracts, dApps, digital assets, and network optimization, then consider agentic AI, DAO decision-making, tokenomics, incentives, ethics, and governance. You'll also assess applications across healthcare, arts and media, global commerce, supply chains, and energy, connecting emerging technologies to practical business opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.

Foundations: AI in a Web3 World

Course 1, 4 hours

What you'll learn

Compare Web1, Web2, and Web3 and explain how decentralization changes ownership, access, and user control.
Explain the six layers of the Web3-AI ecosystem and how they support decentralized applications and AI services.
Evaluate key synergies, challenges, and tradeoffs at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain.

Integrating Generative AI with Blockchain

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

Explain how blockchain improves generative AI through data integrity, provenance, privacy, and federated learning.
Analyze how generative AI improves blockchain through smart contracts, dApps, digital assets, and network optimization.
Evaluate combined AI-blockchain applications across media, real estate, gaming, risk, and supply chains.

Beyond Models: Agentic and Advanced AI in Web3

Course 3, 3 hours

What you'll learn

Explain agentic AI and assess how blockchain can provide security, transparency, identity, and trust for AI agents.
Analyze how AI can support DAO governance through proposal analysis, sentiment analysis, treasury management, and decision support.
Evaluate AI-driven tokenomics, incentive design, and the ethical and governance issues surrounding advanced AI in Web3.

Applied Solutions: Industry Applications and Case Studies

Course 4, 4 hours

What you'll learn

Analyze AI and blockchain applications in healthcare, including personalized medicine, clinical trials, and secure data sharing.
Evaluate blockchain use in media and global commerce for authenticity, payments, digital identity, logistics, and ESG tracking.
Explain how AI and blockchain support energy markets, grid resilience, tokenized assets, and energy-efficiency incentives.

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Douglas Heintzman

INSEAD

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. The Specialization starts with foundational concepts in Web3, decentralization, AI, and blockchain before progressing to more advanced topics. No programming or technical development background is required based on the supplied course content.

You'll learn how generative AI and blockchain can strengthen one another and how agentic AI can interact with decentralized systems. You'll also examine DAO governance, tokenomics, privacy, ethics, and applications across several industries.

The Specialization focuses on technologies and concepts including generative AI, blockchain, smart contracts, decentralized applications, digital assets, agentic AI, DAOs, and tokenomics. You'll examine how these technologies are applied to business and industry scenarios rather than focus on software development.