You're Invited! Choose a Better Future with AI: Thrive in Life, Learning, and Work
KQED | April 16, 2026 | 10am - 2pm PDT
Share your voice in a provocative set of conversations on the choices needed to ensure that AI plays a positive role in our future. We must shape the future of AI or AI will shape us.
Together, we will go deep into the choices ahead across the future of learning, work, and other critical dimensions of life. This is a proactive, multi-generational group of thinkers and doers dedicated to making the active choices needed to author a positive, human-centered future with AI.
The experience includes presentations from leading AI thinkers, along with interactive charrettes where you will engage with others to explore the threats, choices, and actions shaping how we learn, work, and live. You will be in dialogue with participants across three generations in rich, candid conversation.
Presenters include: Dave Toole, Outhink; John Hagel, Beyond our Edge; Andy Billings, Future Ready; Gary Bolles, Singularity University; Jorge Costa, Arizona State University; Tim Olson, KQED; Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Editor in Chief KQED, Kevin Kelly, California Community Colleges: Tara Mandrekar, Our Media; Adam Dobrer, Deloitte; Marin Wilts, We Make Noise; Christian Bolles, Author. Brooklyn Littell, Microsoft and Computer Science.
Be heard. Be informed. Choose to act.