AI 101: Getting Started with Everyday AI Tools
Explore practical ways AI can support everyday tasks at work, school, and home. This beginner-friendly session introduces common AI capabilities, smart prompting basics, and strategies for getting useful results. No technical experience required.
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Chatbots: It’s Easier than You Think. Really.
Learn how simple it can be to create your own chatbot for customer service, education, internal support, or community engagement. This session introduces the core concepts of conversational AI and demonstrates approachable ways to build useful chat experiences without advanced programming skills.
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Facilitated Conversation: Environmental Impact
AI technologies raise important questions about energy use, sustainability, infrastructure, and environmental impact. This facilitated conversation will explore current events, emerging concerns, and competing perspectives on AI’s environmental footprint.
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From Information to Insight: Using AI to Build Better Materials & Presentations
Learn how AI can help transform complex information into clearer, more engaging communication materials. The session focuses on using AI as a collaborative thinking partner rather than a replacement for expertise.
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From Uncertainty to Clarity: Evolving Work in the Age of AI Agents
Drawing on original research from the American Marketing Association, this session is designed to move you from uncertainty to clarity. Futurist and researcher Jen O'Brien shares data-based insights into the seismic shifts reshaping work; which jobs are declining, which are growing, and which are just emerging; and which skills remain distinctly human.
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Generating Movies, Music, and Images with AI
Discover how AI can help create original visual art, music, video, and multimedia content in minutes. Participants will learn about the strengths, limitations, and creative possibilities of modern generative AI tools through demonstrations and examples.
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What does leadership look like in the age of AI? This 2-page handout explores how leaders can guide teams through technological change while keeping people, ethics, and culture at the center.
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How to Get Better Results: Advanced Prompting Strategies
Learn how to use metaprompting, panel-prompting, Socratic prompting, and a host of other high-end, eye-popping, jaw-dropping prompts that amplify what you do! We’ll also look at other paradigms (like Projects and Skills) that can save you time and lead to better results.
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Monitor & Improve Your Generative Search Visibility
Learn practical ways to improve your organization’s visibility in AI search tools and answer engines. We’ll cover how to review your current content, identify gaps that may limit AI visibility, and make targeted edits to make your pages easier to understand, summarize, and cite.
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Smooth Sailing in a World of Headwinds and Undertows
In this closing session of the 2026 annual convening, Dave Ghidiu pulls back the lens to look at where we go from here. AI adoption doesn't fail because people lack tools or training. It fails because of opposing forces: headwinds and undertows. Dave will challenge you to return to your organization and be bold. To go back as someone who doesn't just follow the AI story but shapes it.
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