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Session Details

Session 1: Practical AI Magic – Gaining Your Advantage in Everyday Life

Description

Experience the practical magic of Artificial Intelligence and discover how you can gain a tangible advantage in your daily life and work. This interactive session is a beginner-friendly exploration of AI tools that offer surprising capabilities – feeling almost like magic, yet entirely practical and accessible. We won't get bogged down in complex technical details or lengthy workflows. Instead, we will tour a variety of AI applications across different modalities, including text, image, and audio, showcasing how these tools can simplify tasks, spark creativity, and enhance productivity. See live examples using popular types of AI helpers like conversational assistants (such as Copilot) and smart information gatherers (like Perplexity). We'll also peek into the future with the exciting concept of AI agents – personalized digital allies that could redefine how you interact with technology. Join us to see the magic in practical AI and learn how to start using these tools to your advantage every day.

Facilitator: Patricia McManus, MMkt, MBA Ecommerce, MScMIS

Objectives
  • Recognize the presence and potential of AI tools in everyday life and work.
  • Witness demonstrations of practical AI capabilities across text, image, and audio.
  • Observe examples of how tools like conversational AI (e.g., Copilot) and research AI (e.g., Perplexity) can provide an advantage in daily tasks.
  • Understand the emerging concept of AI agents as personalized digital assistants.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage different types of AI tools for personal and professional benefit.
  • Feel empowered to explore and experiment with practical AI tools to gain an advantage.

Session 2: Aligning Innovation with Industry: Sponsor Panel on AI in Practice

Description

Join representatives from IACET’s AI sponsoring organizations as they share how their tools, services, and innovations align with AI implementation in CE/T. This panel will highlight use cases, success stories, and lessons learned from integrating generative AI into products and learning experiences, empowering you with a comprehensive, competency-focused perspective for the current state of AI across multiple industries.

Session 3: The Learning Professional’s Guide to AI

Description

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the way people live, learn, work, and collaborate. This interactive session equips participants with practical knowledge of the emerging dilemmas, risks, and opportunities associated with AI technologies for education and training professionals. Participants will learn from interactive demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and practical techniques for responsibly using AI technologies to enhance learning, collaboration, and productivity.

Facilitator: Bucky Dodd, Ph.D.

Objectives
  • Examine emerging dilemmas, risks, and opportunities related to AI use in professional education and training.
  • Explore emerging AI platforms and technologies and their use cases.
  • Explore tips and techniques for building AI skills.
  • Enhance education, learning, and work processes using generative AI technologies.
  • Use prompting techniques that enhance the value and effectiveness of AI tools.

Session 4: Where We Go From Here: The Future of AI in Continuing Education

Description

Hear directly from members of IACET’s AI Task Force about future priorities, ethical frameworks, and the rollout of the new AI in CE/T White Paper. Gain insight into how these tools and recommendations can be adopted in real-world settings and influence broader workforce development efforts, exploring how your organization can implement competitive policies, processes, and programs from the start.

Schedule Overview

When Session
10:30 AM Kick-Off
10:45 AM1 Session 1: Practical AI Magic - Patricia McManus
12:00 PM Panel Discussion (Sponsor Perspectives)
12:45 PM Break
1:15 PM Session 2: The Learning Professional’s Guide to AI – Dr. Bucky Dodd
2:15 PM Panel Discussion (IACET AI Task Force)

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