2026 AI Summit – Schedule
2026 SUMMIT SCHEDULE
Note: Schedule is subject to change
Summit Registration
8:00 – 8:30 AM
Registration Desk, Lobby, 1st Floor
Coffee and Pastries, Atrium, 2nd Floor
Morning Sessions
8:30 – 10:20, Auditorium, 2nd Floor
8:30 – 8:50 AM | Welcome and Summit Overview
8:50 – 9:05 AM | Featured Plenary – Workforce 2030: The AI Skills Imperative, Beth Rugg, Chief Workplace AI Officer, OneIT
9:05 – 9:35 AM | Featured Student Panel
- Moderator: Premkumar Pugalenthi
- Lily Ahdieh, Graduate Student, CHESS
- Varshita Yarabadi, Graduate Student, CCI
- Gabe Perry, Undergraduate Student, CHESS/COED
- Eric Fackelman, Undergraduate Student, CCI
- Scarleth Bonilla-Hernandez, Undergraduate Student, COA&A
9:35 – 9:50 AM | AI Use Case – Story Segment 1
- Can AI Read the Construction Drawings? Gongfan Chen, Saniya Pritchett
- ‘Use Cases’ Creates Havoc for Administrator, Steve Carter
9:50 – 10:20 AM | Featured Industry Panel
- Moderator: Patrick Madsen
- Richard Bowman, Nascar
- Marcus Britt, Under Armour
- Bhakti Liyanage, First Citizens Bank
- Diego Torres, Microsoft
- Kyle Bowen, Arizona State University
10:20 – 10:30 AM | Break
Featured Workshops
10:30 – 11:15 AM
ROOM 901 | Using Adobe Express, Todd Taylor, Jim Babbage, Adobe
ROOM 905 | Re-imagining Meaningful Social Connection in the Classroom Utilizing AI, Megan Smith
ROOM 906 | AI Research: AI Tools for Finding and Analyzing Scholarship: Uses, Strengths, and Weaknesses, Megan Keaton
ROOM 1101 | The Co-Creative Classroom: Partnering with AI for Pedagogical Innovation, Premkumar Pugalenthi, Daniel Maxwell
ROOM 1102 | Co-Creating Classroom AI Policies, Aileen Benedict, Jordan Blekking, Sandra Watts
ROOM 1104 | From Repetitive Tasks to AI Assistants: Building Custom Gems with Google AI, Katherine Bennett, Kara Hite, Beth Rugg
Lunch and AI Exploration Zone
11:15 – 12:15 PM, Atrium, 2nd Floor
Pick up your boxed lunch, visit all 6 booths, collect stamps, and submit your stamped nametag at the end of the day to win a prize!
Create +
AI Imagination
Adobe AI
Escape Room
AI,
Architecture,
and Art
AI for Poetry,
Pictionary
and Play
Student
AI Literacy
Course
Afternoon Sessions
12:15 – 1:25 PM, Auditorium, 2nd Floor
12:15 – 12:30 PM | AI Use Case – Story Segment 2
- Joining Forces: How I Found My Best Technical Peer in a Text Box, Marie Vrablic
- Resigning from the AI Police Force: Embracing Instructional Growth, Debbie Baker
12:30 – 1:10 PM | Keynote, Kyle Bowen, Deputy CIO, Arizona State University
1:10 – 1:25 PM | Afternoon Remarks and Group Photo
AI Exploration Zone
1:25 – 2:10 PM, Atrium, 2nd Floor
Visit all 6 booths, collect stamps, and submit your stamped nametag at the end of the day to win a prize! Open through Lightning Talks and Panel Sessions
Create +
AI Imagination
Adobe AI
Escape Room
AI,
Architecture,
and Art
AI for Poetry,
Pictionary
and Play
Student
AI Literacy
Course
Lightning Talks and Panel Sessions
Session 1 | 2:10 – 2:30 PM
ROOM 501
Academic Integrity: Now With 80% More Robots
Kaela Lindquist
ROOM 502
From Curriculum to Gemini: How We Used ADDIE and AI to Redesign Inclusive K–12 STEM Learning
Ya-Ping Wu
David K. Pugalee
Premkumar Pugalenthi
ROOM 504
Helping Students Get Unstuck, One Recipe Step at a Time
Nadia Najjar
Adam Whaley
ROOM 506
When the Boss Is Wrong: Practicing Moral Advocacy Through AI Role-Play
Tiffany Gallicano
Casey Nash
ROOM 906
From Scenarios to Solutions: Boosting Elementary Teacher Competencies with Case-based Learning and AI-Augmented Differentiation
Kirsten Abel
Tracy Rock
Karen Kopitsky
Adriana Medina
Ji Yae Bong
ROOM 901
50 min Panel
2:10 – 3:00 PM
The AI Plagiarism Problem
Gordon Hull
Min Jiang
Manuel Pérez-Quiñones
Session 2 | 2:40 – 3:00 PM
ROOM 501
You Can’t Put That There: Security & Privacy Considerations for AI Usage
Branden Rosenlieb
ROOM 502
AI-Assisted Divergent Thinking: A Model to Support Students’ Design Metacognition
Robert Loweth
ROOM 504
The Digital Peacekeeper: Transforming Polarized Student Debates Through AI-Mediated Dialogue
Carrie Wells
Jane Walsh
ROOM 506
From Passenger to Pilot: Reframing AI Literacy Through Human Judgment and Collaboration
Jennifer Adelhardt
ROOM 906
Reimagining Course Design, Facilitation, and Instruction with Generative AI: A Systematic Review of Pedagogical Innovations and Learning Outcomes in Higher Education
Ayesha Sadaf
Ji Yae Bong
Katherine Jiawen Ren
Judson MacDonald
Delandrus Seales
Session 3 | 3:10 – 3:30 PM
ROOM 501
Bridging the Gap—Leveraging Generative AI for Inter-disciplinary Faculty Connections
Alex Chapin
ROOM 502
AI Hallucinated Sources: Reining in AI’s Overactive Imagination in Research
Natalie Ornat Bitting
ROOM 504
How Can We Analyze and Address Generative AI Usage by Students in an Undergraduate Computer Science Classroom?
Miranda Parker
Lolo Aboufoul
Braxton Haight
ROOM 506
Reproducing Racial Stereotypes? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Generative AI-Produced Reading Passages
Alex Dornburg
Shuai Shao
Jue Wang
ROOM 906
Supporting Students in the Age of AI: What Their Stress, Confidence, and Dependence Tell Us
Stella Kim
Delandrus Seales
Martyna Wasilewska
ROOM 901
50 min Panel
3:10 -4:00 PM
Efficiency or Ethics? A Panel on AI-Assisted Grading and Course Preparation
Cori Faklaris
Tiffany Gallicano
Justin Cary
Session 4 | 3:40 – 4:00 PM
ROOM 501
From Campus to System: Scaling AI Literacy Through Workplace and Faculty Development Initiatives
Beth Rugg
Jules Keith-Le
ROOM 502
Reimagining Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences with Generative AI
Alex Dornburg
Aditi Babar
Kristin Davin
ROOM 504
Impact of an AI Chatbot on Student Engagement and Learning in Online Courses
Beth Oyarzun
Daniel Maxwell
ROOM 506
Cui Bono? Decolonizing Artificial Intelligence Through Historicized AI Literacy
Richard Lockton
ROOM 906
Human–AI Partnerships: From Learning About AI to Learning with AI in Higher Education
Lufei Young
Candace Brown
Apryl Alexander
Boyd Davis
Diti Patel
Meredith Troutman-Jordan
Ticola Ross
Abbey Thomas
AI Exploration ZONE ENGAGEMENT Raffle
Submit your stamped nametag to the AI Exploration Zone Creativity Booth with all five (5) booth stamps and be entered into the raffle to win a prize! 3 winners will receive an email post-Summit.