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.

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Rehumanizing the Future: Building a Future-Ready Workforce in the Age of AI

This keynote explores a human-first, tech-powered approach to workforce innovation in an AI-driven world. Lynn Banaszak presents the Future Ready Framework — a model integrating emotional intelligence, trauma-informed design, and ethical AI literacy to create inclusive and resilient systems. Drawing from her leadership experience at Amazon, Carnegie Mellon, and The Caileigh Lynn McDowell Foundation, she challenges attendees to reframe workforce readiness by embedding ethics, empathy, and equity at every level.

Attendee Takeaways:

The Future Ready Framework: a model for building ethical, adaptive, innovation-ready systems
Templates and tools for ethical innovation, including an AI Trust & Ethics Charter and an Equity-Centered Innovation Toolkit
Strategies for embedding empathy, resilience, and psychological safety into talent pipelines
A redefined view of workforce readiness that centers inclusion, trauma-informed leadership, and emotional adaptability

Scaling Rural Tech and AI Pathways to Transform Communities

This session highlights a cross-sector effort in Alabama's Workforce Region 2, where K–12 schools, higher education, industry, and community partners collaborate to create scalable AI and tech career pathways. The presenters share a replicable model for building high-quality job pipelines in rural communities.

Attendee Takeaways:

How to bring tech and AI learning opportunities to rural students
Tools to construct effective pathways in under-resourced areas
Insights into the Collaborative Innovation model and how to engage partners across sectors

Supporting K12 Students in the Age of AI: Practical Strategies Sharing

Hampton Township educators share their district-wide strategy for introducing AI tools and training to both students and staff. With an emphasis on ethics, access, and privacy, this session offers a collaborative look at AI integration, featuring teacher training plans, vetted tools, and resource sharing.

Attendee Takeaways:

Access to professional development materials and AI lesson plans
Examples of vetted tools for both student and teacher use
A collaborative library of shared strategies and resources

Transforming Education: Leading & Learning with AI Tools

This interactive session explores the strategic integration of AI into K–12 systems, from executive-level vision to classroom application. Leaders from CIU 20 share an AI Readiness Checklist, policy considerations, and role-based perspectives on implementation and impact.

Attendee Takeaways:

Free tools and resources for planning and leading AI integration
Case studies from leadership, policy, and instructional perspectives
Best practices for ethical AI use and transformative learning experiences

Untranslated: Reclaiming Voice and Power in the Age of AI

This keynote challenges the idea that leadership requires assimilation. Nayli Russo presents "leading Untranslated™" as a model of authenticity that resists code-switching and self-editing. Rooted in personal narrative and cultural insight, the talk calls for systems that value voice and identity, especially as AI reshapes work.

Attendee Takeaways:

A new perspective on leadership in AI-driven environments
Language to distinguish between healthy adaptation and harmful assimilation
Strategies to reclaim identity as a strength in leadership
Insight into navigating DEI retraction and tech transformation
Empowerment for underrepresented leaders

Verifying Humanness in the Age of AI: Personhood Credentials for the Digital Identity Crisis

As AI-generated content grows, verifying human identity becomes more critical. This session introduces Personhood Credentials (PHCs), which allow individuals to prove they are real people — without revealing personal information. It explores user trust, design considerations, and the future of digital identity.

Attendee Takeaways:

A foundational understanding of personhood credentials
Design insights for trusted, secure identity systems
Considerations for centralized vs. decentralized verification
Applications for AI governance and human-AI interaction

Sessions

Explore the 2025 TGIF Sessions

Rehumanizing the Future: Building a Future-Ready Workforce in the Age of AI

Scaling Rural Tech and AI Pathways to Transform Communities

Supporting K12 Students in the Age of AI: Practical Strategies Sharing

Transforming Education: Leading & Learning with AI Tools

Untranslated: Reclaiming Voice and Power in the Age of AI

Verifying Humanness in the Age of AI: Personhood Credentials for the Digital Identity Crisis

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