Our founding story

Preparing the next generation for an AI-powered world

Students shouldn't have to wait until university or their first job to start learning about AI. That's why we built Beyond AI.

Why now

Access to AI grew. AI education didn't keep pace.

Students already have powerful AI tools in their hands. What most of them don't have is guidance: a sense of how these tools work, where they're useful, where they fail, and how to use them well.

Beyond AI closes that gap. Not by handing students another tool, but by teaching them to think with it.

Where we come from

Built inside Ivy & Beyond.

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Beyond AI is an initiative by Ivy & Beyond, an education company in Downtown Beirut built on knowledge, exposure and awareness. Through Ivy Camps and a PhD-mentored research program, it gives students direct access to mentors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, MIT and Stanford.

Beyond AI narrows that model to one subject: how to actually use AI.

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Behind Beyond AI

The people building it.

Diala Turk

Co-founder · Growth & Partnerships

Diala leads Beyond AI’s outreach, school partnerships, sales and student learning experience. With a background in engineering, management, consulting, university teaching and college counseling, she brings extensive experience working directly with students, families and educational institutions. At Beyond AI, she builds relationships with schools and partners, connects families and students to the right programs, and helps ensure the learning journey is clear, supportive and valuable from first contact through program completion.

Jad Boustany

Co-founder · Programs & Operations

Jad leads the systems that make Beyond AI programs work consistently at scale. A physician and education entrepreneur, he has designed and operated hands-on learning programs for young people across Lebanon and the Gulf. At Beyond AI, he oversees program health, delivery quality and the student experience, making sure students are engaged, satisfied and progressing throughout each cohort. He also helps build the operational systems behind the programs and identifies exceptional instructors and talent from around the world to strengthen the Beyond AI community.

Questions parents ask

Straight answers from our co-founders.

“Does my child need to know how to code?” · Diala Turk

“What will my child actually walk away with?” · Jad Boustany

Why Beyond AI

The future belongs to the students who understand it.

We're building a place where students start early, build steadily, and find out what they can actually do with AI.

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