The Experience | AI Convergence

Designed for Academic Decision-Makers

AI Convergence is designed for presidents, provosts, deans, associate deans, AI champions, and other academic leaders who are shaping how their institutions respond to AI. Higher education leaders in these roles—and others positioned to influence consequential academic decisions—are encouraged to register.

Technology partners are selected for their fit with the institutional challenges and learning goals of the convening. Industry and talent leaders participate by invitation. This keeps every contribution relevant to the work of higher education and preserves a candid, action-oriented environment for academic leaders.

We welcome participants from different institution types, functions, and stages of AI readiness. What matters is a willingness to engage deeply, share honestly, learn across institutional boundaries, and turn the experience into action.

Who Should Attend

Presidents, provosts, deans, associate deans, and other academic decision-makers.
AI champions and leaders responsible for strategy, curriculum, faculty development, student experience, operations, or institutional change.
Academic leaders who can connect ideas across their institution and mobilize colleagues after the convening.
Participants ready to work openly with peers and leave with a focused 90-day action plan.

You do not need to arrive with all the answers. You do need to be ready to ask consequential questions, contribute your perspective, and help move your institution from AI activity to meaningful impact.

Convening Composition

Each convening is intentionally sized and composed to maximize value for all participants:

Institutional Pairs

35–45

Senior leaders and their implementation partners from diverse institution types—R1 universities, regional comprehensives, community colleges, and professional schools

Technology Partners

8–12

Carefully selected founders, product leaders, and engineers whose expertise fits the institutional challenges in the room—no sales pitches

Industry Experts

10–15

Invited employer, talent, and workforce leaders sharing how AI is reshaping the world our students will enter

Three Connected Tracks

Track A

Designing the AI-Ready Student Journey

Reimagine the full student lifecycle—from recruitment and admission through learning, student success, career readiness, and alumni engagement. Center student voice, wellbeing, access, and employer trust as you identify a focused opportunity for action.

Track B

Redesigning Learning, Assessment, and Faculty Practice

Explore how students can build judgment before automation, how curriculum and assessment can evolve, and what faculty need to integrate AI responsibly—including fluency, incentives, support, and space to experiment.

Track C

Building the AI-Ready Institution

Turn AI ambition into institutional capability through strategy, governance, enterprise architecture, data, procurement, risk, operations, and the human side of change.

Choose the track that best matches the challenge you want to advance. Plenaries and cross-track conversations keep the larger institutional system in view.

Draft 2027 Agenda Plan

March 21–23, 2027 • Mori Hosseini Student Union • Daytona Beach, Florida

This is a draft planning framework. Session sequence, times, speakers, and room assignments will be updated as the program is finalized.

Ready to Join?

Join us March 21–23, 2027, at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.

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