Where Agentic Theory Meets Production Banking
A residential programme built around a single stress test: can an agentic system explain itself to a regulator, an ombudsman, and the customer it affected? Ten days of lectures, sandbox sprints, and a live simulation on the Basque Coast.
Days Residential — lectures, sandbox sprints, governance workshops, and a capstone simulation
Faculty-to-Student Ratio — individual guidance from practitioners actively deploying agentic systems
ECTS Credits — co-accredited by ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland
Live Simulation — the NordBank AG accountability stress test, run inside the Kore Artemis sandbox
Programme Road Map
Ten Days. One Integrating Question.
Not whether banks should deploy agentic systems — but how to design, govern, and defend them when a regulator, an auditor, or an ombudsman comes asking.
Foundations: Agentic Systems in Banking and Finance
Agent anatomy, principal-agent theory, and the regulatory backdrop — EU AI Act, DORA, SR 11-7, SM&CR, and GDPR Article 22 — framed as production requirements, not afterthoughts.
Agentic Systems in Practice
Multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph, tool governance, and hands-on work inside the Kore Artemis sandbox environment.
The NordBank AG Simulation
A fictional Tier 2 automated credit review system, an 88% alignment rate, and an ombudsman investigation it cannot answer under EU AI Act Article 12. Students take on Architect, Governor, or Operator roles.
Industry Governance Workshop
A governance deep dive led by Kore.ai's Chief Strategy Officer, drawing on the Morgan Stanley deployment case study, plus a live platform demonstration of Kore Artemis.
Capstone Sprint
Teams design and defend an accountable agentic architecture inside the sandbox, reviewed by practitioner examiners.
Presentations & Certification
Capstone presentations, peer review, and award of professional certification and ECTS credit.
The Four Dimensions Framework
The analytical spine of every case study and sandbox sprint. Every exercise is examined through four interconnected dimensions, so no aspect of agentic transformation in banking is considered in isolation.
Nature of Work
How agentic systems redefine credit review, risk management, and customer-facing roles — from routine automation to collaborative intelligence.
Skills & Competencies
The human capabilities required to design, supervise, and audit agentic systems operating inside a bank.
Value Creation
How agentic systems generate, redistribute, and can also destroy value for banks, regulators, and customers.
Institutional Accountability
The governance infrastructure agentic systems depend on — anchored by the NordBank AG simulation and its Article 12 reconstruction requirement.
Anglet: A Living Laboratory
The BAI Summer School is designed as a residential programme in which location is pedagogically significant — not incidental.
🏦 NordBank AG
A fictional Tier 2 bank with a live credit-review agent, an 88% alignment rate, and an ombudsman investigation it cannot answer — the programme's keystone accountability stress test.
🤖 Kore Artemis Sandbox
A production-grade agentic platform serves as the sprint environment throughout the programme, taking students from architecture diagrams to a working, governed deployment.
🤝 Human Connection
Students don't just study agentic governance frameworks — they hear directly from the practitioners applying them, including Kore.ai's Chief Strategy Officer and the team behind the Morgan Stanley deployment case study.