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Spring 2026 Hybrid AI Leadership Academy schedule

Two - two-hour virtual workshops & In-Person at NERCOMP 2026 in Providence, RI (see below for details)

Monday, March 2 (3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST)
AI Leadership Academy - First virtual session - AI Fundamentals + Use Cases
What AI is (and isn't), why it matters now, including issues of ethics, bias, and responsible use

Thursday, March 5 (3:00 pm - 5:00 p.m. EST)
AI Leadership Academy - Second virtual session - Leading Change & Overcoming Resistance
Frameworks to navigate change, addressing change dynamics, and overcoming inertia

In-Person Monday, March 9

8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:30 am AI Leadership Academy - Generative AI Tools in Practice
Advanced prompt engineering, using the tools effectively with hands-on exploration of text, image, code, search, and agentic AI tools – what's useful today

10:30 am - 12:00 pm AI Leadership Academy - Moving AI Ideas to Solutions
Project Scouting, Scoping, Evaluation, and Implementation

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Finalize Leadership Academy and prep for Applied AI Studio

Applied AI Studio
Monday, March 9 (1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST)
Graduates of the Academy will apply what they have learned by working on concrete projects from across the NERCOMP community. NERCOMP will extend a call for proposals to identify challenges and opportunities that community members can work on in small teams of Academy graduates to design and apply AI-enabled approaches.

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