Agenda

Doors open: registration, check-in, exhibit hall

Doors open at 8:15. Pick up your badge and settle in. The welcome session starts at 9:00. Bring a phone, tablet, or laptop signed in to your AI account so you can follow along.

Welcome, What to Expect, Prize Raffle

AI in the Wild: Can Your Governance Keep Up?

AI is no longer limited to chatbots and office tools. It is showing up in everyday workflows, customer interactions, meeting assistants, AI agents, and even wearable devices. As these tools become more embedded in daily operations, organizations need governance that moves beyond written policies and into real-world decision-making. This session will explore timely AI governance issues including shadow AI, wearable AI, AI agents, data exposure, human oversight, accountability, and operational risk. Attendees will be guided through practical, real-world AI scenarios designed to help them think critically about what should be allowed, controlled, escalated, or restricted in their own organizations. Participants will leave with a practical governance framework they can use as a starting point for strengthening AI oversight, risk management, and responsible adoption. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of the most relevant AI governance risks today and walk away with a practical framework for managing AI use in real business environments.

Turn Your Old Customer List into New Booked Jobs

30-50% of qualified leads fail to close due to bad timing. Most businesses are sitting on work they've already earned: old leads that never closed, past customers due for service, and customers who've only hired you for one thing. The hard part is knowing who's ready to buy right now. In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a simple AI helper with Claude that finds those opportunities and tells you who to contact today, why now, and what to say. What you'll learn: - How to turn a messy customer list (spreadsheet, invoices, or phone contacts) into a ranked call list - How to spot who's ready right now using timing signals like season, weather, and time since their last job - How to find cross-sell opportunities, like the one-time customer who needs a second service - How to set it to run on its own so a fresh list shows up without extra work You'll leave with a working AI helper, a call list for this week, and a free guide with ready-to-use templates. No tech skills needed. Just bring a laptop.

OpenAI Dots: Meet Your New Assistant

We'll be focusing on OpenAI's new assistants called DOTS, which, in my opinion, is one of the most powerful and simplest tools for business owners. Here's what you'll learn: - How to use AI as a personal assistant instead of just a chatbot. - How AI assistants can connect to everyday business tools and help complete real tasks. - What AI skills are and how to teach an assistant to perform tasks your way. - How to identify the first task in your business worth delegating to AI. - How to create and test your first reusable AI skill, even without technical experience or an expensive AI subscription. You will leave with a practical AI skill tailored to your business and a clear understanding of how to start putting AI to work.

10X Return: Rank Your Priorities for Impact

Most people pick their first AI project by excitement, then wonder why it stalls. Todd Youngblood, co-founder of T2 Consulting and creator of the Chilipad, shares FFF for AI, a simple lens for deciding which work AI should take over first. You’ll learn to spot the work AI is built for by testing it for Frequency, Friction, and Forgiveness, then score your candidates to find the one with real 10X potential. This is a working session: bring a laptop or phone signed in to your AI tool. You’ll leave with a ranked list of your AI opportunities and a working first step on the top one.

The AI Advantage for Owners Who Operate: Stop Trying to Do It All. Fix One Thing.

Small-business owners do not need more AI tools. They need more capacity. Dr. Tara Youngblood shows how to find one repeated workflow that slows the business down, match the right kind of AI to it, and test a small, safe improvement. Drawing on her experience building a connected-sleep AI workflow, she shares a practical way to set boundaries, keep human judgment where it matters, and measure whether the work actually improved. Attendees will leave with a five-step plan to choose one friction, name an owner, run a bounded test, define success, and decide what to do next. Key takeaways for attendees: 1. Start with the human outcome, not the technology. AI is useful when it improves a result people actually care about. Tara’s connected-sleep story makes this tangible: the objective was a better night, not more data or a more impressive model. 2. Choose the workflow before the tool. The best first use case is not “use AI everywhere.” It is one repeated friction that consumes attention: finding information, producing a first draft, capturing scarce expertise, preparing a decision, or following through after a decision. 3. Know what kind of AI you are using. Rules-based systems follow instructions. Predictive AI finds patterns. Generative AI produces a first version. Agentic AI can take multiple permitted steps. The question is always: which kind is doing which job, with whose oversight? 4. Autonomy needs an envelope. Before an AI system acts, define one job, approved information sources, limited tools, a stop point, and one accountable human owner. This is the difference between useful support and avoidable operational risk. 5. Treat trust as workflow design. Privacy, security, accuracy, fairness, employee adoption, and unclear return on investment are practical operating questions. Start with safe data, restricted scope, read-only or draft-only work, and a clear review step. 6. Pilot the smallest useful thing. Establish a baseline, test one bounded workflow, measure an outcome, and make an explicit decision to expand, hold, redesign, or stop. A good pilot earns trust through evidence rather than promises. 7. Make reclaimed time intentional. The value of AI is not simply doing more. It is creating capacity to lead, coach, improve the business, recover, and enjoy being an entrepreneur.

Lunch

Lunch break. The Summit does not provide food. Attendees can use the break to visit nearby restaurants or independent food vendors at their own expense.

Prize Raffle

Stop Losing Deals You Already Quoted: Create Your Own AI Sales Manager in 20 Minutes

- How to give ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot your sales stages and the rules for moving a deal forward, so it stops giving generic advice and starts reviewing your deals the way a good sales manager would. - How to review your pipeline from a screenshot or a voice note and see which quoted deals are stalled, why, and what to do next. - How to turn a 30-second recap after a sales call into the exact CRM updates and a follow-up message you can send the same day. - Where the gaps are in your own sales process, because the review will show you what your CRM should have been tracking all along.

Get More Customers From the Website You Already Have

• Discover why your website isn't showing up when buyers ask AI for recommendations, plus a real customer story • Audit your own page, turn the gaps into a brief • Rewrite a section, then build a quick way to check future pages against it • Share, Monday action, Q&A

Bringing Your People Along: The Human Side of AI Adoption

AI adoption succeeds when people understand what is changing, why it matters, and how they can participate. Explore a practical approach to reducing resistance, building trust, and helping employees become active participants in change.

From AI Curious to AI Capable: Understand. Use. Build. : How the Dottie Rose Foundation is Putting AI Into Practice

Apply the Understand → Use → Build framework — Leave with a simple roadmap for moving from AI literacy, to practical adoption, to creating new AI-powered experiences and solutions. Recognize opportunities to build, not just consume: See how organizations can move beyond prompting existing tools to experimenting, designing, and building with AI. Identify their next AI move: Walk away with questions and strategies they can use immediately to assess where their organization is on its AI journey and determine what comes next.

Claude 101: The AI Assistant You Should Already Be Using

Learn how to set up Claude and use it for everyday business work, starting from the basics. We’ll cover how to write prompts that get useful answers the first time, how to upload documents, spreadsheets, and PDFs and get summaries or analysis back, and how to use Projects to keep Claude working with your business context so you’re not re-explaining yourself every time. We’ll also look at drafting emails, proposals, and marketing copy in your own voice, building simple tools and documents without writing code, and connecting Claude to apps you already use like Google Drive and Gmail. You'll leave with a short list of powerful prompts you can use the next morning.

Recoup Your AI Investment in 3 Easy Steps: The AI for ROI Framework

Most teams are already paying for AI, yet few can show leadership what it has returned. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn the AI for ROI™ Framework (Align, Integrate, Scale) and apply each phase to one real task from your own week using the free AI for ROI™ Jump Start, so you leave with a dated 14 or 30 day pilot and the recoup math to take to your leadership. You’ll leave able to: -Pinpoint the one recurring task with the fastest payback, and set guardrails before choosing a tool -Design a 14 day pilot inside the AI tools your company already pays for, with a human owner and a measurable goal -Calculate value back, cost in, and weeks to recoup, so you know exactly what to report on Day 15 What to Bring: laptop (tool is free, runs in the browser, no login).

Agentic AI: From Acronyms to Applications

With the rise of Agentic AI, Uncle Ben’s “with great power comes great responsibility” warning has never felt more relevant. AI agents can gather information, use tools, make decisions, and take action with limited human direction. Everybody’s talking about them, but ask 10 people what an agent is and you’ll get 10 different answers. So, what makes a system agentic? What separates Agentic AI from Generative AI and ordinary automation? And where does human responsibility still lie? Depending on the audience and format, participants either investigate AI agents through a game or build one themselves. Each game round reveals an agent’s goal, prompt, and seemingly successful output, then challenges the room to uncover the failure, risk, or human effort behind it. General audiences get AI remixes of real business disasters, while technical audiences get cited engineering incidents. In the hands on version, participants interact with a working agent, write its instructions, choose its tools, and try to get it onto a shared live feed. By the end, participants understand LLMs, RAG, MCP, RLHF, context, and context windows through firsthand experience. They see what Agentic AI can do, where it falls short, and why the growing field of AI Engineering still needs humans in the loop.

Before You Spend Another Dollar on AI

Most companies buy AI tools before they can explain where the return will come from. This practical session gives founders and business leaders a decision framework for identifying the AI opportunities most likely to create revenue, margin, capacity, or risk reduction. Drawing on the operator experience of using AI to help double a B2B services company’s revenue to nine figures in 12 months, Danny will show attendees how to estimate value at stake, test adoption readiness, identify the operating constraint, and decide whether to fund, fix, or kill an initiative. Attendees leave with a ranked shortlist and a 90-day first-test plan, not another list of tools.

Wrap Up and Prize Raffle

Doors open: registration, check-in, exhibit hall

Doors open at 8:15. Pick up your badge and settle in. The welcome session starts at 9:00.

Welcome, What to Expect, Prize Raffle

AI Mastermind: Big Ideas, Small Wins, and Real Stories From the AI Front Lines

Pull up a chair and join the conversation! AI is changing how we work, run businesses, and build careers. But what's actually working in the real world? AI Mastermind is a casual, open discussion where speakers and attendees from all tracks come together to share real experiences, success stories, lessons learned, and ideas worth trying. Whether you've used AI to land a job, save hours at work, grow a small business, or solve a big company challenge, we want to hear about it. No slides. No lectures. No sales pitches. Just real people sharing real wins, asking questions, swapping ideas, and learning from each other. Come with a story, a question, or just an open mind. You might leave with your next big AI breakthrough!

Find a New Job While You Sleep: Automate Your Job Search with AI

What if you could literally search for jobs while you sleep? Discover how to automate a big part of your job search with AI and "stand out from the crowd" in today’s competitive job market. In this fast-paced, interactive session, you’ll learn how to use AI to strengthen your résumé, start searching on autopilot, uncover opportunities, and get noticed by employers. Apply powerful AI prompts and discover which parts of your job search to automate, and where the human touch matters most. Please bring: • A fully charged laptop • Two hard copies of your résumé (for résumé reviews) • One digital copy of your résumé (for live editing)

Vibe to Video: Create AI Ads That Pop

Join James Turner for a hands-on introduction to Vibe Directing: turning ideas into AI video ads and other creative projects. "Vibe to Video: Create AI Ads That Pop" is for attendees interested in using AI for visual storytelling, business promotion, or creative exploration. The focus of this workshop is learning how to direct an idea toward an AI-generated video creation. Bring a phone, tablet, or laptop so you can follow along. Specific tools, account requirements, and preparation details will be announced.

Four Things to Watch in Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Enterprise AI is moving beyond individual copilots, chatbots, and proofs of concept. As adoption grows, a new infrastructure layer is emerging around the recurring technical problems that every AI application should not have to solve independently. In this session, you will learn about four pieces of enterprise AI infrastructure that are likely to shape how organizations build and operate AI at scale: 1. See how "Model Infrastructure" is evolving to handle hosting, inference, routing, capacity, governance, and cost management. 2. Learn what "Agent Infrastructure" needs to provide for identity, permissions, state, observability, and lifecycle management. 3. Explore how "MCP Infrastructure" can create a governed and reusable way for agents to discover and access enterprise tools. 4. Discover why "Context Infrastructure" is becoming critical for supplying AI systems with trusted enterprise knowledge, semantics, provenance, permissions, and operational state. Along the way, you'll see how Microsoft, AWS, Google, and the broader AI ecosystem are beginning to implement these patterns, where the technologies overlap, and where they solve different architectural problems. Leave with a practical framework for identifying these four emerging infrastructure categories, understanding the problems each one addresses, and deciding where they fit within your enterprise AI architecture.

Claude Instant Apps: 3 Free Tools You Can Build In Minutes to Get More Customers

What attendees will learn: - What an “instant app” is, in plain words: a working tool Claude builds from your description, that runs on any phone and can be sent as a link. No code, nothing to install. - How to describe an app so Claude builds the right thing. The five parts every app is made of (things, state, actions, rules, feedback) and the five questions that get you there. - Why a one-sentence prompt gives hit-and-miss results, while a five-part prompt gives you exactly what you asked for. You’ll build both and see the difference. - What your prospects actually need to charge per hour to hit their income goal, using a calculator you build using THEIR numbers. Most people find out they’re undercharging. - How to turn a tool you use into a tool that brings you customers: the Ask. Add one question (“what do I want them to do next?”) and a calculator becomes something a customer uses on your website at 9 pm and then texts you. - The two things that stall beginners (Claude asking too many questions instead of building & a button that doesn’t work) and the one sentence that fixes each. - What these apps can’t do yet so you don’t waste time on them. - Where to go next: Six "instant app" starter ideas for service businesses, each buildable in ten minutes or less. Attendees leave with: * Three working apps on their phone * A one-page handout with the prompts * The six questions to build your own six instant apps BRING: A phone, tablet, or laptop with the Claude app installed.

Sell by Chat: Build Your First AI Sales Agent

Leads go to whoever replies first. In this hands-on session, professionals and business owners learn another level of lead management and the sales pipeline. Then each person builds a working AI sales agent in Claude, ChatGPT or others, step by step. It will answer questions, qualify leads, handle common objections and book calls, while you keep control of pricing and closing. You'll test it as a real customer would and leave with an agent ready to use. No technical skills needed.

Lunch

Lunch break. The Summit does not provide food. Attendees can use the break to visit nearby restaurants or independent food vendors at their own expense.

Prize Raffle

From Brain Dump to Action Plan: Create Your Personalized Productivity Dashboard

Sometimes a to-do list is hard to start because every item looks big or has too many subtasks to keep track of in your head. In this session you'll learn how to take everything from your list from inside your head and turn it into a personal dashboard that shows your progress visually. It will automatically create a daily checklist that breaks your plan into small steps, so you can see each win along the way to achieving your goals. What you will learn: How to turn a brain dump of personal and professional tasks into a crystal clear plan with a dashboard and daily action that you can save on your computer and your cellphone. It's synced so you can update it no matter where you are!

Stop Re-Explaining Your Business to AI: Build Your First AI Team Member

Most small business owners use AI like a temp worker. Every chat starts from zero, so they keep re-explaining their business and get generic answers back. I fixed this in my own business by building a small AI team. Each “team member” has one job, a written role guide, clear rules, and a human who approves the work. None of them make final calls. In this hands-on session, you’ll build your first one, live. I’ll show my real setup, what broke, and what I’d do differently. You’ll learn: * How to pick the one role worth building first * How to write a one-page role guide AI can follow * Where AI should stop and a human should decide * How to test it on real work before you trust it You’ll leave with a working AI team member and a role guide template. Bring a laptop signed in to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini (preferably a paid plan to one of them). No tech skills needed.

Meet Your New Video Ad Team: Your Clone, Your Spokesmodel, and Your Mascot

Learn to create your own scroll-stopping ads using Ai tools. You'll take a selfie, meet your Ai clone, and use Google Gemini and Google Flow to build a three-scene marketing video: one scene with your own clone, one with a spokesmodel, and one with a fun mascot. One scene each, so there's no editing to do. No experience needed. For the best results, bring your phone with a Google AI Pro account installed ($20/mo at https://one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans).

Open Sales Discussion with AI

Market Visible: How to Get Named When Your Customers Ask AI Who to Hire

Your next customer is already asking ChatGPT, Claude, or Google’s AI who to hire. Will it say your name? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll ask AI about your business live, see what it says, and start fixing what it gets wrong. You’ll work through three steps: check how AI describes you today, write one clear sentence about who you help and why they should choose you, and make sure your website, Google Business Profile, and LinkedIn all tell the same story. You’ll leave with a tested description of your business, a checklist for getting recommended, and a 30-day plan you can start Monday. No technical skills needed. Bring a laptop.

From Missile Launchers to AI Agents: What It Really Takes to Make AI Mission-Ready for Critical Business Work

What can missile-launcher engineering teach us about deploying AI agents across an enterprise? More than you might think. As organizations move beyond standalone AI tools to interconnected agent systems, the challenge shifts from making individual agents work to ensuring the entire system delivers reliable business outcomes. Drawing on principles from mission-critical engineering, this interactive workshop takes attendees inside a realistic enterprise environment where multiple AI agents work across business applications to identify risks, coordinate actions, and support executive decisions. But what happens when every agent completes its assigned task and the overall business workflow still fails? Through a compelling demonstration, attendees will investigate an integration failure, examine the requirements and acceptance criteria, and see how the system is corrected and retested. You'll leave with a practical framework for defining critical business use cases, designing integrated AI workflows, establishing measurable acceptance criteria, and validating that AI systems deliver the intended results. Because a successful AI demo doesn't mean the system is ready for business.

Mind Games: How AI Is Changing Us

Explore the psychology of AI and how it is affecting us today in this panel moderated by Kendra King. Mind Games: How AI Is Changing Us focuses on the human side of a technology that is becoming part of everyday life. This session is for attendees curious about their own relationship with AI and its wider influence on people. The aim is to encourage thoughtful reflection on how we engage with AI. Additional panelists and detailed discussion topics will be announced.

Wrap Up and Prize Raffle