Teaching
Teaching at the intersection of complex systems, technology, and business. Guest lectures, executive workshops, and full courses delivered to postgraduates, executives, and researchers — in English and Chinese (with interpreter), online and in person.
What audiences say
"Remarkably insightful." · "Useful for my work." · "Gave me a new perspective." · "Really fun."
Entrepreneurship — 8-week experiential course and placement
One lecture per week, paired with thematic homework completed alongside a real startup so the knowledge is practical and useful. Designed to be coupled with office hours with active startup operators. Suitable for postgraduate and executive audiences.
- Introduction to the concept
- Converting ideas into ventures
- Startup and market evaluation
- Customer discovery and validation
- Business modelling
- Fundraising and financial structuring
- Leadership and teamwork
- Growth and scaling
- Pitching and storytelling
Digital Technology in Business — 6–15 hour modular series
Around six hours of refined material on advanced digital technology applied to modern business, extensible to 15 or more hours by drawing on prior lectures and published papers to create cutting-edge content at the frontier of ecosystem-based business technology.
- Complex Networks in Alternative Finance — sectors of alternative finance (venture capital, supply chain financing); mathematics of networks and network effects.
- AI in Supply Chains (most refined and most-requested talk) — definition, problems, and solutions of supply chain; definition, application, implications, and background of AI.
- Risks of AI — detailed case studies of AI failure in business, causes, and mitigations.
- Interactive Supply Chain Management Game — hosting "the beer game", an interactive game illustrating the challenges and dynamics of supply chain management.
- AI in Entrepreneurship — how to create new AI businesses; landscaping the venture ecosystem and how participants leverage AI.
- Innovation Ecosystemics — cutting-edge methods and theory in developing innovation hubs; blockchain technology, cultural management, scaling, and organisational dynamics.
Recently delivered
Venture Scholar Studio — Cohort 0 (2025)
Two months of intensive teaching co-delivered with Nuray Salina, structured as
one-week sprints across ideation, market evaluation, customer discovery, value
capture, finance, leadership and teamwork, scaling, and pitching. Each sprint gave
students real insights into two active startups — Linkly (Kazakhstani digital
SME-influencer marketplace) and Global Cambridge Institute (Cambridge think tank).
Students drawn from Iceland, the UK, and Kazakhstan.
Engineering Mathematics in Business Lectures and workshops for executives, students, academics, and private companies, delivered in English with Chinese interpretation. Topics have included Supply Chain AI and, most recently, Complex Networks in Financial Infrastructure — covering how supply chains and finance intermingle, cascade dynamics, decentralised control models, complex-network-driven measurement, alternative financial networks, and psychology.
Bespoke commissions
Existing lectures can be delivered as-is, but bespoke material is equally welcome. Since the underlying expertise sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of complex business systems, technology, and mathematics, any permutation of these can be formed into a coherent body of literature — built on, recombined from, or entirely new from the existing portfolio.
Enquiries
For guest lectures, executive workshops, or full courses, please get in touch via LinkedIn.