Sessions

Explore the 2025 TGIF Sessions

Get ready for hands-on, thought-provoking, and collaborative sessions designed to spark real conversation - not lectures. Every session is built to be interactive, participatory, and focused on co-creating solutions for a future shaped by AI, automation, and evolving workforce needs.

Whether you're an educator, industry professional, policymaker, or entrepreneur, you’ll find sessions that challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and move ideas into action.

Check back soon...more sessions are being added regularly!

Find By:

AI and the Law: What Do Educators Need to Know?

Led by an educator and attorney, this session explores the legal implications of AI in schools, covering privacy, compliance, and guidelines like COPPA and FERPA. It equips educators with tools to responsibly integrate AI into their classrooms.

Attendee Takeaways:

Understand key guidelines (COPPA, FERPA, etc.) for classroom AI use
Learn how to assess compliance when selecting digital tools
Explore common AI platforms through a legal lens
Receive templates and resources to support school AI integration

AI for All: Play, Code, and Connect Across Borders

This hands-on session reimagines AI literacy through interactive play and global collaboration. Participants will explore coding activities designed to make AI concepts more accessible, and engage with a second-location group to experience how AI learning can foster cross-border connection and inclusion.

Attendee Takeaways:

Gain hands-on experience with AI concepts through playful coding activities
Learn how AI systems make decisions, detect bias, and process data
Participate in a real-time virtual challenge that models global AI collaboration
Explore strategies for inclusive and adaptable AI education
Discover scaffolded learning models for all technical levels
Leave with actionable ideas to implement AI literacy in curricula and community programs

AI-Ready Workforce Hubs

This session highlights KINBER’s initiative to launch AI-Ready Workforce Hubs in rural Pennsylvania. These hubs provide digital training, AI literacy, and career navigation to strengthen economic resilience and prepare communities for AI-supported job markets.

Attendee Takeaways:

Gain insights on using AI career navigation tools to enhance rural workforce readiness
Learn strategies for integrating AI productivity tools into community programs
Explore frameworks for community-driven digital training and literacy initiatives

Becoming the Learner: Developing Trainings for AI Literacy Through Scenario-Based Roleplay

This interactive session puts attendees in the role of learners using AI tools in realistic scenarios. Participants will explore training design, experiment with avatars and prompts, and leave with customized materials to build their own AI literacy programs.

Attendee Takeaways:

Practice using AI tools from a learner’s perspective
Experience scenario-based roleplay for training development
Learn to create avatars and scenarios with prompt templates
Receive handouts with templates, tool lists, and planning guides
Leave with a personalized outline for AI training

Beyond AI Literacy: Algorithmic Literacy as the Future of Workforce Readiness

This interactive session challenges participants to go beyond AI literacy and build algorithmic literacy and durable skills. Through roleplay and real-world simulations, attendees will learn how AI affects the workplace and how to prepare for the future of work.

Attendee Takeaways:

Understand why algorithmic literacy is essential for the modern workforce
Identify and develop critical durable skills (communication, ethics, critical thinking)
Explore how AI impacts hiring, leadership, and decision-making
Participate in real-world simulations of AI workplace dilemmas
Leave with a roadmap, toolkit, and guides for implementing AI literacy

Building the AI-Ready Generation: Skills, Mindsets, and Systems That Scale

By 2030, 30% of today’s jobs could be disrupted by AI — yet many high school students have never used AI tools in the classroom. This keynote explores what it means to be part of an AI-ready generation, and how schools, employers, and communities can evolve to meet this moment. Lindsey Dixon, a national leader in career education and AI innovation, shares real-world examples of students using AI tools like KnoPro to solve problems and develop future-ready skills. Attendees will also hear from students themselves about the mindsets they’re building. This session is not about adding AI to a lesson — it’s about transforming systems to scale readiness.

Attendee Takeaways:

A clear definition of “AI-ready” and what it means for students today
Real examples of student-led AI projects and problem-solving
Scalable strategies for embedding AI literacy and ethics
Insights into student mindsets and how they confidently engage with AI
Frameworks for cross-sector collaboration to build future-ready systems

Sessions

Explore the 2025 TGIF Sessions

AI and the Law: What Do Educators Need to Know?

AI for All: Play, Code, and Connect Across Borders

AI-Ready Workforce Hubs

Becoming the Learner: Developing Trainings for AI Literacy Through Scenario-Based Roleplay

Beyond AI Literacy: Algorithmic Literacy as the Future of Workforce Readiness

Building the AI-Ready Generation: Skills, Mindsets, and Systems That Scale

Legal Statements