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Northeastern University Enterprise Accelerator
One partnership built around what your organization needs next.
Enterprise Accelerator coordinates customized training for employees and leaders, graduate project teams, and applied AI expertise around your priorities, with a focused starting point and room to expand.
What Enterprise Accelerator provides
We bring the right Northeastern University teams together around your priorities.
Enterprise Accelerator is designed for organizations whose priorities span people, projects, and technology. Northeastern University coordinates the work around shared goals instead of treating each engagement as a separate transaction.
A plan that starts where you are
Start with a focused priority and establish a practical sequence for the work ahead.
Access to supported graduate talent
Engage graduate teams backed by faculty and technical experts for defined, time-bound work.
Expertise that can expand
Add employee upskilling, new projects, or technical development as priorities and results evolve.
Ways to work with Northeastern University
Start with the support you need.
Enter through the capability that addresses your most immediate need. Enterprise Accelerator can coordinate two or more workstreams when a broader partnership will produce a stronger result.
Upskill
Develop the people you already have.
Northeastern University's Custom Learning is instructor-led training for employees and leaders, tailored to your organization’s tools, priorities, and business context.
- Workforce AI capability
- Leadership readiness
- AI opportunity identification
- Responsible AI and governance
Build
Add capacity for a defined project.
Working Labs pair interdisciplinary Northeastern University graduate students with faculty advisors and technical experts for time-bound projects with defined outputs.
- Data analysis and dashboards
- Software and technical concepts
- Product and market research
- Process improvement
Solve
Develop AI around your organization.
The AI Solutions Hub helps organizations assess opportunities, prototype ideas, build custom solutions, and prepare them for deployment.
- AI opportunity assessment
- Prototypes and custom applications
- Data and workflow integration
- Deployment and knowledge transfer
How to engage
Start anywhere. Combine what you need.
Enterprise Accelerator does not require an organization to purchase every capability at once. The partnership begins with a focused need and expands only where additional support makes sense.
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Understand the priority
Define the challenge, desired outcomes, people involved, current capabilities, data, and constraints.
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Create the engagement plan
Determine which combination of learning, graduate project talent, and applied AI expertise is appropriate.
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Launch focused workstreams
Establish clear scopes, teams, timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables for the initial work.
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Connect and expand
Use findings from one workstream to inform the others, then add support based on demonstrated needs and results.
One possible pathway
From organizational readiness to a working solution.
Every partnership is different. This example shows how the capabilities can connect when an organization needs to prepare its people while advancing a specific AI opportunity.
Build shared understanding
Prepare leaders to evaluate AI opportunities and guide adoption.
Explore Custom Learning →Scope the opportunity
Use an FDE engagement to assess the need, define requirements, and determine feasibility.
Explore FDE scoping →Test an approach
Use a Working Lab to explore a defined project and produce tangible outputs with a supported graduate team.
Explore Working Labs →Develop and prepare for deployment
Advance the strongest opportunity through the AI Solutions Hub when deeper engineering is needed.
Explore the AI Solutions Hub →Selected results
Results from Northeastern University partnerships.
Examples from custom training, graduate project teams, and applied AI engagements.
Saved per learner each week
Reported by participants following applied generative AI training.
Product conversion
A recommendation engine improved new-product conversion for a financial-services partner.
Potential ROI identified
A data and AI roadmap prioritized opportunities for a high-technology manufacturer.
The Northeastern University network
Access talent and expertise from across the university.
Enterprise Accelerator connects organizations with faculty, graduate talent, and applied teams from across Northeastern University, regardless of location or industry. Select a campus to explore examples of expertise and industry connections concentrated in that region.
Boston Research, responsible AI, health, and life sciences +
University-wide research and faculty expertise.
Boston connects partners with faculty, researchers, and graduate talent across AI, health, life sciences, engineering, business, and responsible technology.
Responsible AI
Governance, risk, evaluation, and responsible deployment.
Health and life sciences
Clinical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, and public-health expertise.
AI, data, and engineering
Faculty and graduate talent spanning technical disciplines.
Leadership and workforce
Learning and organizational support for technology adoption.
Portland · Roux Institute Applied AI delivery, graduate talent, and workforce training +
Applied teams that help organizations move work forward.
The Roux Institute brings together applied AI engineers, faculty, graduate talent, workforce learning, and an innovation ecosystem built around organizational needs.
AI Solutions Hub and FDE
Scope opportunities, prototype ideas, and develop applied AI solutions.
Working Labs
Engage supported graduate teams for defined, time-bound projects.
Custom Learning
Train employees and leaders around their tools and business context.
Innovation ecosystem
Connect with founders, researchers, employers, and regional partners.
Arlington Defense, national security, and dual-use +
Built for work with security and mission requirements.
Arlington connects Enterprise Accelerator with the Kostas Research Institute and the National Capital Region’s technology, policy, security, and defense ecosystem.
Clearance-eligible talent
Access a subset of U.S.-citizen graduate talent eligible for work with security and access requirements.
KRI coordination
Connect appropriate work with Northeastern University's Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security.
Mission-aligned programs
Draw from cybersecurity, security and intelligence, software, analytics, and applied AI programs.
National Capital Region
Work with a campus embedded in the region’s defense and technology ecosystem.
Bay Area Applied AI, healthcare, emerging technology, and clean energy +
Two campuses connected to the Bay Area innovation economy.
Silicon Valley and Oakland contribute graduate talent, faculty, research, and industry relationships spanning AI, healthcare, business, sustainability, and emerging technology.
Healthcare AI
Clinical simulation, medical imaging, decision support, and multimodal sensing.
Human-AI and enterprise systems
Trust, accessibility, responsible adoption, NLP, and model evaluation.
Clean energy and physical systems
Energy, transportation, computer vision, and sustainability applications.
Innovation and business
Short innovation projects, research collaboration, analytics, and technology strategy.
Toronto Financial services, life sciences, and technology +
Talent and applied expertise for technology-driven industries.
Toronto connects organizations with graduate talent and programs in applied AI, analytics, information systems, cybersecurity, biotechnology, regulatory affairs, project management, and logistics.
Financial services and enterprise AI
Analytics, conversational AI, cybersecurity, and data-informed operations.
Life sciences and health
Biotechnology, bioinformatics, regulatory expertise, imaging, and responsible data use.
Technology and digital products
AI, software, information systems, and analytics applied to organizational challenges.
Project delivery and operations
Project management, applied logistics, workforce development, and experiential projects.
Seattle AI, robotics, software, life sciences, and logistics +
Graduate talent connected to Seattle’s technology ecosystem.
Seattle contributes talent and expertise in AI, computer science, information systems, engineering, robotics, analytics, and project management, with strong connections to regional employers.
AI, cloud, and software
Applied AI, information systems, software engineering, and responsible technology.
Robotics and automation
Intelligent systems, sensing, controls, computer vision, and human-centered robotics.
Life sciences and health
Computational health, biotechnology, health informatics, and data applications.
Logistics and project delivery
Operations, supply chains, analytics, and complex technology implementation.
Start the conversation
What does your organization need to move forward?
Tell us about the priority, project, or capability you are working through. We can help determine whether Enterprise Accelerator or one focused Northeastern University engagement is the right place to begin.