Agenda

Doors Open & Check-In

Doors open at 8:00. Pick up your badge and settle in. First classes start at 8:30. Bring a phone, tablet, or laptop signed in to your AI account so you can follow along.

AI for Career Growth — Session 1

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 1

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Career Growth — Session 2

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

Gemini Notebook: Turn Business Documents into Training, Websites and Games

Teachers and small business owners are buried in documents: lesson plans, handbooks, SOPs, contracts, customer emails. In this hands-on session, you will see how Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) turns your own materials into an AI assistant that only answers from what you give it, with source citations. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and one or two non-confidential documents to try. We will build a notebook live, then generate study guides, FAQs, training outlines, and an audio overview that sounds like a podcast about your content. You will leave with a working "notebook" and 3 ready-to-use workflows for your classroom or business. No tech background needed.

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.

AI for Small Business Growth — Session 3

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Small Business Growth is for small-business owners, nonprofit teams, and people working in local service businesses. Planned track themes include sales, marketing, operations, and customer service. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Career Growth — Session 3

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 3

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

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.

AI for Career Growth — Session 4

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 4

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

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.

Outdoor Lounge & Music

Outdoor Lounge & Music is open from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern, alongside the scheduled sessions.

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.

Opening Panel

This is a reserved main-stage panel slot. The panel topic, moderator, panelists, and discussion details have not yet been announced. Session-specific information will be added when confirmed; please check back before planning around a particular topic.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Networking Party

Evening networking party in the outdoor area. Open to all attendees.

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

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 pile" 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.

AI for Small Business Growth — Session 2

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Small Business Growth is for small-business owners, nonprofit teams, and people working in local service businesses. Planned track themes include sales, marketing, operations, and customer service. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

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.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 2

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Career Growth — Session 3

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Small Business Growth — Session 3

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Small Business Growth is for small-business owners, nonprofit teams, and people working in local service businesses. Planned track themes include sales, marketing, operations, and customer service. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 3

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

Outdoor Lounge & Music

Outdoor Lounge & Music is open from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern, alongside the scheduled sessions.

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 #3

AI for Career Growth — Session 4

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 4

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Small Business Growth — Session 4

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Small Business Growth is for small-business owners, nonprofit teams, and people working in local service businesses. Planned track themes include sales, marketing, operations, and customer service. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

Workshop

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI Hands-On Workshops is for attendees who want to practice using AI through guided activities. The track focuses on applying AI to practical and creative work. Bring a phone, tablet, or laptop so you can follow along; tool and account requirements will depend on the workshop. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

Clicks, Clients & AI

Explore the role of AI in sales and marketing in this panel moderated by Jennifer Schneider. Clicks, Clients & AI brings the conversation back to the work of reaching customers and building client relationships. For business owners, marketers, and sales professionals, the session offers a place to consider what AI could mean for their customer-facing work and the questions to ask as they evaluate its use. Additional panelists and detailed discussion topics will be announced.

AI Hands-On Workshops — Session 6

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI Hands-On Workshops is for attendees who want to practice using AI through guided activities. The track focuses on applying AI to practical and creative work. Bring a phone, tablet, or laptop so you can follow along; tool and account requirements will depend on the workshop. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Small Business Growth — Session 6

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Small Business Growth is for small-business owners, nonprofit teams, and people working in local service businesses. Planned track themes include sales, marketing, operations, and customer service. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Enterprise Growth — Session 6

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Enterprise Growth is for people considering AI across an organization. Planned track themes include privacy, governance, ethics, cybersecurity, automation, agents, knowledgebases, and ROI. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

AI for Career Growth — Session 6

Session details forthcoming. The exact class topic, presenter, and learning activities for this slot have not yet been announced. General track context: AI for Career Growth is for people exploring AI in their working lives. Planned track themes include productivity, job readiness, personal AI workflows, communication, management, and a personal capstone. These are themes for the overall track, not a confirmed curriculum for this individual class.

Session 7: Keynote

Main stage keynote. Speaker to be announced.

Wrap Up and Prize Raffle