The Experience
This is not a conference. It's a working engagement where you and your implementation partner build your institution's AI strategy together.
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.
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.
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
Track A
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 from basic prompting to agentic workflows, creating psychologically safe experimentation cultures, and navigating shared governance.
Track C
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.
Plenary sessions bring all participants together. Working sessions are facilitated within leadership pairs. Track sessions organize participants by their primary track focus for deeper, context-specific discussions.
The AI Insight Confab
Opening Remarks: The AI Convergence Philosophy
Dazzling Demo #1: AI Tools Every Leader Should Know
Experience frontier AI capabilities firsthand. We'll demo tools that are reshaping how work gets done: NotebookLM for knowledge synthesis, Elicit for research, BoodleBox for educational AI, Anthropic Claude for analysis and coding, and ChatGPT's voice and agent capabilities. This isn't observation—you'll use these tools yourself.
Reception and Networking Dinner
Facilitated introductions by institutional type and track selection.
Breakfast and Orientation
Plenary: The AI-Transformed University
An honest look at AI's trajectory—from current large language models to agentic systems—and what it means for institutional strategy. Five essential AI use cases every university must address.
Working Session 1: AI Readiness Diagnostic
Leader pairs assess their institution's current AI capabilities against the AI Convergence Standards. Map where AI is embedded, where experiments are underway, and where gaps persist.
Track Sessions: AI Implementation Case Studies
Institutions further along share concrete examples: the AI advising pilot that scaled, the faculty development program that overcame resistance, the governance structure that resolved "who owns AI" disputes.
Lunch
TBD
Technology Perspectives: What's Next in AI
Conversations with technology thought leaders on emerging capabilities: agentic AI, multimodal systems, AI tutoring at scale. Honest dialogue about what's real and what's overhyped.
Industry Perspective: The Changing Face of Careers
How is AI reshaping the jobs our students will enter? What do employers actually need from graduates? Industry voices share hiring shifts, new skill requirements, and what differentiates graduates who thrive.
Working Session 2: AI Strategy Design
Leader pairs develop a 90-day AI action plan that starts from where you are—not where we think you should be. Identify your next frontier: the highest-impact challenge you're ready to tackle now.
Plenary: Leading AI Transformation
What does it take to lead when AI capabilities shift every few months? Concrete strategies for AI-specific challenges: making decisions with incomplete information, building coalitions among skeptics, developing your own AI fluency while leading others.
Day 2 Reflection and Evening Assignment
Structured reflection on the day's AI insights. What surprised you? What challenged your assumptions? Come to Day 3 ready to share.
Dinner
On your own
Breakfast and Reflection Sharing
Table discussions where leaders share insights from their evening reflection: What AI capability or challenge are you now taking more seriously? What shifted in your thinking?
Opening: The Implementation Partnership for AI Implementation
How will you drive AI transformation together after returning to campus? Who owns what? What authority does the implementation partner have to act? Setting clear expectations for accountability.
Working Session 3: 90-Day AI Action Plan Finalization
Pairs finalize their action plan—whether launching something new or breaking through a barrier on work already underway. Identify Week 1 actions, governance approvals needed, and community support.
AI Commitment Circle
Each pair shares their primary AI commitment: What will you advance in the first 30 days? What will be different in 90 days? Public accountability strengthens follow-through.
Closing: Your AI Leadership Journey Continues
Introduction to Transformational Leadership Circles, the Fellows Program, and ongoing community resources. You're not leaving with a plan—you're joining a community.
Closing Lunch and Departures
Review pricing and register your interest for the inaugural convening.
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