From you
Your employee
- Free seat in the program — no tuition
- Full Ignite participant, same requirements and diploma
- Works at their own employer throughout the year
Ignite Alliance
Train your own AI experts — while we deliver together.
Alliance is a commercial model where your employees participate in Ignite for free — in exchange for hiring an Igniter from us in the same pair. One from you, one from us. We go through the program side by side and deliver a real AI project inside your organisation. Scales 1-1, 2-2, 4-4 — as many pairs as you want.
"Én fra dere, én fra oss. Paret lærer sammen og leverer sammen — verdi på begge sider av bordet fra første dag."
Ignite Alliance-modell
The model
How Ignite Alliance works
One employee from you + one Igniter from us = one Alliance pair. The pair is the foundation of the program: they learn together, deliver together, and graduate together.
From us
Capgemini Igniter
- Hired as a consultant — billable from day 1
- Full Ignite participant in the same cohort
- Works on-site at the client on the pair's delivery case
Together
Ignite Alliance
- Goes through all 42 gatherings and 42 courses in parallel
- Delivers one real AI project in the client's organisation
- Both graduate as Ignite Certified Consultants
Honest, not marketing
How the program actually affects a week of client delivery
Ignite is designed to run alongside client work — courses are placed during the workday and form part of the work week. Here is what to expect in terms of time.
Every other Wednesday, daytime
90 min (15:00–16:30)Masterclass
Main delivery of course content. Recordings available, but live attendance unlocks peer learning.
One Thursday per month, late afternoon
90 min (15:00–16:30)Dojo
Reflection circle where Ignitere share real cases from client work. Mandatory.
Distributed across the week
1–2 hoursSelf-study
Reading, recorded walkthroughs and exercises for the active courses. Flexible — in breaks, between meetings, or after hours.
The load is distributed and predictable. Masterclass and courses run during the day (every other Wednesday 15:00–16:30), and dojo runs in the late afternoon (Thursday 15:00–16:30). On average the total lands at three to four hours per week of working time.
Courses have been moved from evenings to daytime because we see that people fall off when learning becomes evening fatigue on top of full delivery. For leaders that means the Igniter spends ~10% of their work time on skill-building — the rest of the week they deliver on the client project as normal. It is a real investment, but a distributed and predictable one.
These items do NOT add to the work week
- Frontier Friday — lunch, 1 hour per month (optional)
- Onboarding 31 Aug – 1 Sept — two days run as normal working days
- Graduation in June — two days run as normal working days
- Lab weekends — two weekends per year, Saturday–Sunday (weekend time, not working days)
Either part of normal working hours, or weekend time that does not touch client delivery.
Scale as needed
As many pairs as you want — we match
Want to send one or fifteen employees through? The model scales symmetrically. For each employee you send, you hire an Igniter in the same pair. 1-1, 2-2, 4-4 — always paired.
- 1 – 1Pilot pair
For enterprises that want to test the model on one concrete AI initiative. Fastest way in.
- 2 – 2Team pair
Two of your employees, two Ignitere from us. Covers multiple roles and gives redundancy in the delivery.
- 4 – 4Strategic investment
A cross-functional team building AI culture across departments while delivering on multiple initiatives.
Bonus at strategic commitment
From 4 pairs and up: the program runs on your own data and cases
At strategic commitment we open up the program so every task and project throughout the year is anchored in your own data and real business cases — not generic AI exercises. Your employees and the Igniters solve concrete problems inside your organisation from day one, and the capability built is directly applicable in your context.
How it works
From signing to finished delivery
- 01
Matching
Capgemini matches an Igniter with a client employee at program start in August. The client's employee participates as a full Ignite member — same sessions, same requirements, same diploma.
- 02
Shared learning journey
The pair goes through all six phases together. They share Dojo, Frontier Friday and lab weekends. Same mentor access, same portfolio requirements.
- 03
The Alliance case
From November the pair begins building a real delivery at the client. This becomes the graduation case for both — evaluated by jury in June 2027.
- 04
Graduation and handover
Both graduate as Ignite Certified Consultants in June. The client then has internal AI capability AND a finished delivery ready to continue operating.
What you as a client walk away with
Alliance is the shortest path to building internal AI capability — without bearing the whole training cost alone, and without losing momentum while the learning happens.
- 01
An Ignite Certified Consultant on your payroll
At graduation you have an employee with the same diploma, method and quality standard as our billable consultants. Capgemini quality, your address.
- 02
A finished AI delivery ready for production
The Alliance case is co-built and co-operated by the pair, on real data in your systems. Not a pilot — a production delivery.
- 03
Full Ignite method anchored in your organisation
The whole Ignite methodology — evals, observability, cost model, adoption measurement, EU AI Act documentation — transferred directly to your employees through the pair's daily work.
- 04
Early warning on emerging AI trends
Your employees sit in Frontier Friday and Dojo every month. You learn what's moving long before it becomes common practice.
- 05
Strategic access to Capgemini's AI organisation
Through the pair you get a door into the whole Ignite community, Capgemini's deep delivery expertise, and priority access when you want to scale further.
- 06
Reduced training cost
Your employees participate for free. You only pay for the Igniter's time as a project consultant — same as a regular engagement, but with training included on top.
What the Igniter brings to the pair
- Real delivery at an engaged client from day 1
- Deeper domain understanding than ordinary consulting work
- Strategic network building at the client
- A co-learner and colleague in the pair all year
Is Alliance right for you?
- 01You have a real AI ambition and at least one concrete initiative ready to build
- 02You can release one or more employees for 10 months as full participants
- 03You accept the Ignite delivery standard — evals, observability, documentation
- 04You accept a mutual non-poach agreement between the pair during and after the program
Get in touch
We limit Alliance seats per cohort to ensure matching quality. Reach out early — we plan pairing from February to June 2026.