The Experience

Designed for Action

This is not a conference. It's a working engagement where you and your implementation partner build your institution's AI strategy together.

A Curated Community

AI Convergence is not open registration. We intentionally curate each convening to ensure every participant is fully committed to the work—leaders who are ready to engage deeply, share honestly, and follow through on commitments.

This selectivity is what makes the room valuable. When every person is "100% locked in," as one of our advisory board members put it, the conversations go deeper, the peer learning is richer, and the accountability is real. Like building a cohort in our educational programs, we seek leaders who bring different perspectives, institutional contexts, and expertise to create a powerful group learning environment.

We're building a community of innovative leaders who share a mindset about AI's importance and a commitment to action—not a conference that maximizes attendance.

What We Look For

  • Senior higher education leaders with decision-making authority over AI strategy, curriculum, faculty development, operations, or student experience.
  • A collaborative dyad with the bandwidth and authority to drive change.
  • Willingness to engage in honest conversation about challenges, not just successes.
  • Commitment to follow through on the personalized action plan developed at the convening.
  • Openness to joining AI Convergence on an annual basis.
  • Participation in a Transformational Leadership Circle (TLC).

The leaders who thrive in this community are those ready to be beginners again—regardless of how far along their institution already is. If you're looking for a passive conference experience, this isn't the right fit. If you're ready to work, we want you in the room.

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

Founders, product leaders, and engineers bringing frontier AI expertise and honest perspective—no sales pitches

Industry Experts

10–15

Employer voices and workforce leaders sharing how AI is reshaping the world our students will enter

Three Tracks

Track A

AI for Student Experience and Career Readiness

AI-enhanced pedagogy, building student AI fluency, rethinking assessment, AI advising and career coaching tools, and closing the "employer trust gap."

Track B

Building Faculty AI Fluency and Integration

Building faculty AI fluency from basic prompting to agentic workflows, creating psychologically safe experimentation cultures, and navigating shared governance.

Track C

AI Infrastructure, Governance, and Operations

Enterprise AI platform decisions, data governance, AI policy development, resolving "who owns AI" disputes, and operational AI applications.

Attendees select their primary track during registration but receive exposure to all tracks during plenary sessions.

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Seattle agenda coming soon

We're building the agenda for our next convening, September 13–15, 2026 at City University of Seattle. Check back soon.

In the meantime, explore the full agenda from our inaugural convening in Miami.

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