Events
Humans in the Lead: Community AI Summit
Date and Time
Thursday, November 5, 2026 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
GVSU Devos Center
401 Fulton St SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Description
Humans in the Lead: Community AI Summit
Building Trustworthy and
Sustainable AI
The community AI summit brings together the community, public officials, business leaders, policymakers, community stakeholders, tech industry professionals, students and professors in conversation around the latest issues in AI.
Conference Topics
Governance and Ethics
- Sustainability
- Surveillance and Public Safety
- Civil and Human Rights: Privacy, Equality, Expression
Upskilling, Deskilling, and Entrepreneurship
- Bridging the AI literacy gap
- Preparing students for an AI-enabled workforce
- Entrepreneurship
- Deskilling and cognitive offloading
Trustworthy AI
- Strengthening trust between communities, business and emerging technologies
- Supporting ethical and responsible AI adoption
- More topics and panels to come!
This conference is free to participants. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
If you would like to be involved or have an idea for a panel, please contact Dr. Mark Richards: [email protected]
RSVP Coming Soon!
Thank you to our sponsors:
GVSU Political Science
Department
GVSU College of Computing
GVSU College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences
GVSU Koeze Business Ethics Initiative
GVSU
Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies
Scales Consulting
https://www.gvsu.edu/polisci/humans-in-the-lead-community-ai-summit-52.htm
This event has been tagged as artificialintelligence, internationalrelations, and politicalscience.
Contact
Dr. Mark Richards
[email protected]
Department of Political Science
1121 Au Sable Hall
616-331-2320
[email protected]