Dear CincyAI Community Member — 

Today, we have a special offer to share with our CincyAI members:

Enjoy 30% off Ellevate & IBM’s
Generative AI Summit: Transforming Businesses for the Future 
half-day summit for women
taking place NEXT Friday, February 2, from 1-6 pm
at Xavier University Center for Innovation.

Use code “Future” for 30% off the ticket price!

Please forward this to any woman you think would be interested in attending as well.

This will be a great introductory event on AI in addition to diving deeper into risk, compliance, and regulation.

There’s also an opportunity to speak to Krista Sande-Kerback from IBM and learn about their workforce development program and IBM’s framework to scale responsible AI across your enterprise.

There are also speakers from our CincyAI community (bolded in the agenda):

• 1:00 - 1:30 - Ellevate Members Early Access

• 1:30 - 2:00 - Registration

• 2:00 - 2:15 - Welcome and Introductions 

• 2:15 - 2:45 - First speaker: Kendra Rameriz - AI Simplified - Getting Started B2B 

• 2:45 - 3:30 - Panel Discussion Addressing Risk, Compliance, Governance, and Legal 

  • Krista Sande-Kerback (IBM) - Explainable AI

  • Michele Browning-Coughlin (Attorney, Chase College of Law) - Legal Issues Surrounding AI and a Company's IP 

  • Katie Trauth Taylor (Narratize) - Generative AI storytelling 

  • Maddie Bell (Scheduler ai) 

• 3:30 - 3:45 - Break

• 3:45 - 4:00 - Whitney Barkley - The AI Advantage: Elevate Your Business Using AI Tools

• 4:00 - 4:15 - Speed Round 

• 4:15 - 4:30 - Speakers: Helen Todd & Summer Crenshaw - How to Leverage A.I. Avatars to Grow Your Brand

• 4:30 - 4:50 - Q&A

• 4:50 - 5:00 - Wrap-Up Closing

• 5:00 - 6:00 - Networking with light appetizers 

Don’t forget our next CincyAI Meetup is Tuesday, February 6, from 3-5 pm at the UC Digital Futures building in room 140 — sign up if you haven’t already! 

After our February 6 meetup, you’re invited to join us across the street at the iconic 1819 Innovation Hub for an AI and alcohol happy hour taking place from 5:30-7:30 pm. The 'Creators & Cocktails' event, proudly sponsored by Makers Mark, promises to be an evening where art seamlessly blends with technology that you won’t want to miss. This happy hour is from our community partners MidwestCon and Disrupt Now with Rob Richardson at the helm — thank you, Rob!

Thank you for being part of CincyAI! We’re excited for all that’s in store for this year and appreciate you being part of this community.

-Kendra & Helen
Your CincyAI Cohosts
https://cincyai.beehiiv.com 

Sign up for Kendra’s AI Simplified newsletter:

Kendra also has an amazing list of all the upcoming AI events in the area on her website — check it out here!

Sign up for Helen’s Creativity Squared newsletter on AI and creativity:

For our own CincyAI member interviews on Helen’s Creativity Squared podcast, click on over for Ben Nash and Rob Richardson’s interviews. If you’re interested in getting cloned, apply here!

CincyAI LinkedIn Group & Directory

We are so excited to keep the conversations, collaboration, and connections going beyond just our monthly meetups. Here are other ways to stay connected with the CincyAI community:

• LinkedIn Group

  • You voted! And our new digital hub for CincyAI Meetup will be our newly created LinkedIn Group. Please join us there and feel free to introduce yourself and share what aspects of AI interest you, as well as any asks you have for the community. We’ll keep the sharing, connecting, and collaborating going in this space. See you there!

• CincyAI Meetup Directory & Submission Form

  • In the spirit of connecting and collaborating, we’re starting a directory of everyone in the community. Feel free to submit your contact details to be included. This will also be a great resource to audit all of the amazing AI talent and projects that we have right here in Cincinnati! (And we’ll roll out a resource hub next, so stay tuned for that ;)

January Meetup Video

If you missed our last meetup or want to hear what was said again, we've got you covered with this recap video, and you can catch all of them in our CincyAI Video Playlist.

Event Photos

Check out the photos from our last meetup! Feel free to share them and help spread the word about CincyAI. Please add #CincyAI too.

Community News & Updates

• UC & P&G Jan 26-27 2-day GenAI Rapid Research Challenge

• From Ellevate & IBM: Generative AI Summit Transforming Businesses for the Future - The summit is taking place Friday, February 2, at Xavier University Center for Innovation. This is the all-women conference on AI that Helen, Kendra, and Maddie from CincyAI will be speaking at!

• February 8 #StartupCincy Meetup 

• 5 Keys to AI Content Creation Success - The PDF from CincyAI member Jeff Hendrickson

• Ready to be digitally cloned and join the clone club? The next studio date is January 24. Reach out to Helen if you’re interested!

Here’s the “Our T2 Remake” Trailer - stay tuned for updates on when we’ll host a screening of it here in Cincinnati with CincyAI member and A.I. Artist, Ben Nash, who contributed a scene to this project.

Next Meetup: Tuesday, February 6

Our next CincyAI Meetup for Humans will be on Tuesday, February 6 from 3-5pm at the UC Digital Futures building room 140 again.

Know someone else who’d enjoy being part of the CincyAI meetup community? Don’t be shy - share this newsletter or the Evenbrite link with them!

Mark your calendars! All 2024 dates include:

• January — Tuesday, Jan 9: Photos & Video

• February — Tuesday, Feb 6: Sign up!

• March — Tuesday, March 5

• April — Tuesday, April 16

• May — Tuesday, May 7

• June — Tuesday, June 4

• July — Tuesday, July 9

• August — Tuesday, Aug 6

• September — Tuesday, Sept 17

• October — Tuesday, Oct 8

• November — Tuesday, Nov 5

• December — Tuesday, Dec 3

Feedback & Sponsorship Opportunities

• Feedback? Want to help with CincyAI planning?

  • Don’t be shy! We’re here for you and would love your feedback on what else we can do to improve this community and add as much value as possible. We know your time is precious, and we want to ensure this community and our events are meaningful for all those who participate and belong — that’s you! :)

  • We’re also open to anyone who’d love to help us with the planning of these meetups.

  • Reach out to us at [email protected].
    

• Interested in Sponsoring our Upcoming CincyAI Meetups?

  • Our sponsors, like February’s Seven Hills Technology, help make CincyAI meetups possible. Interested in sponsoring upcoming events? Let Helen or Kendra know!