Identity, Trust, and the Transformation of Work
Experience Cape Town — a living laboratory for agentic governance — while mastering the design, governance, and institutional implications of AI systems that act on our behalf.
Days Residential — lectures, case workshops, industry dialogue, and capstone project
Strategic / Technical — analytical rigour bridged with real-world management application
ECTS Credits — certified by ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland
Global Alumni — working across financial services, technology, consulting, and public sector
Programme Road Map
Ten Days. Six Modules. One Integrating Question.
Not whether to deploy agentic systems — but how to deploy them in ways that are trustworthy in the specific, legal, and institutional sense that regulators, citizens, and courts require.
Foundations: Identity, Trust & Agentic Transformation
From agent anatomy and Zero Trust principles to principal-agent theory and accountability by design.
Agentic Systems in Practice
Multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph, tool governance, and regulatory frameworks including the EU AI Act and POPIA.
Value Creation and Governance
Trust-preserving workflows, explainability tooling, and designing accountable roles for the agentic era.
Public Sector and Digital Infrastructure
Credential wallets, interoperability standards, and the MyMzansi deep dive into African governance realities.
Capstone: Trust by Design
Integrated design workshop with Kore.ai industry case and student-designed governance architectures reviewed by practitioners.
Integration and Reflection
Synthesising technical and governance choices — what trustworthy agentic deployment requires from the system and the institution.
The Four Dimensions Framework
The analytical spine of every case study and applied project. Every case, industry dialogue, and student project is analysed simultaneously through four interconnected dimensions — ensuring no aspect of agentic transformation is considered in isolation.
Nature of Work
How agentic systems redefine tasks, roles, and workflows across sectors — from routine automation to collaborative intelligence.
Skills & Competencies
The human capabilities required to design, govern, and work alongside agentic systems in practice.
Value Creation
How agentic systems generate, redistribute, and destroy value for organisations, markets, and individuals.
Institutional Context
The identity, trust, and governance infrastructure that agentic systems depend on — and disrupt. Anchored by the MyMzansi Digital ID case study and South Africa's live digital public infrastructure rollout.
Cape Town: A Living Laboratory
The BAI Winter School is designed as a residential programme in which location is pedagogically significant — not incidental.
🏛️ MyMzansi Digital ID
South Africa's national Digital ID rollout offers one of the most significant live cases of agentic infrastructure being constructed at national scale — the programme's anchor case study.
🏙️ Smart City Agenda
Cape Town's smart city initiatives and a growing ecosystem of AI governance and fintech innovation make it a living laboratory for the questions the Winter School asks.
🤝 Human Connection
Students will not only study these developments — they will encounter the practitioners and policymakers leading them, including contributors to South Africa's digital transformation.