Joint AI Summit

The opening keynote explores the current landscape in AI with a view towards dispositions, challenges, and opportunities that lie ahead in higher education. As we look toward the fifth academic year since AI's emergence, the session encourages faculty to rethink assessment and navigate the concerns AI represents for learning.

A structured, community-wide dialogue building on the morning keynote's themes.

Faculty, staff, and institutional leaders examine what responsible engagement with AI looks like in higher education — covering embedded values and biases, acceptable use policies, environmental sustainability, data privacy, transparency, vendor relationships, and responsible stewardship.

Arnell Millhouse · CEO, yconicAI

Participants are oriented to the goals, structure, and timeline of the hackathon — a collaborative, design-focused experience inviting faculty to rethink teaching and learning in the context of AI. Emphasis on creativity, experimentation, and values-aligned design.

Dr. Rupendra Paliwal · Provost & CAO, Bryant University  |  Dr. Manyul Im · Provost & VP for Academic Affairs, Rhode Island College

Arnell Millhouse · CEO, yconicAI

A faculty-centered, hands-on session grounded in shared teaching design challenges. Participants explore, experiment with tools, and develop teaching-focused design ideas aligned with course goals — with support from IT, the Library, and the Center for Teaching and Learning throughout.

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres — an opportunity to unwind, continue conversations sparked by the day's panels, and celebrate the creative energy of the hackathon.

John Boccuzzi, Jr. · President, ISG Research

Drawing on global research at the intersection of technology, business, and AI, the keynote examines how roles, skill expectations, and career pathways are evolving — and how higher education can play a defining role in preparing graduates to thrive. Boccuzzi leads a global organization of 200+ research professionals and shares front-line insights on how organizations are rethinking talent, reimagining work, and integrating AI into everyday practice.

Alumni from technology, business, healthcare, and sports industries share how AI is shaping their professional work — reflecting on how they're encountering, using, and adapting to AI in real-world contexts, where gaps remain, and what current students need in order to thrive.

A collective synthesis of the three days — bringing together key themes, tensions, and insights from keynotes, panels, breakouts, and the hackathon. The facilitated conversation shifts from sense-making to action, inviting participants to articulate individual and institutional next steps and translate the summit's ideas into concrete plans and sustained momentum.