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Navigating AI Together: Your SBDC AI Interest Group & Latest Trends
Connect with peers dedicated to navigating AI for small business advising. Greg Chanese (Albany SBDC) will introduce the SBDC AI Interest Group - your support team for your AI journey. Kevin Norvell (Kentucky SBDC) will provide an AI landscape update focused on SBDC-relevant developments. Gain resources, guidance, and support to confidently integrate AI into your advising practice, regardless of your current AI familiarity.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Beyond AI: Why SBDC Advisors Are More Essential Than Ever
AI can generate insights, automate tasks, and provide recommendations — but it can’t replace human expertise, intuition, and experience. In this session, we’ll explore the limits of AI and why SBDC consultants remain critical for small business success. Meghan Hillegas from the Pennsylvania SBDC will show you how to interpret and apply AI-generated insights, spot hidden risks AI may miss, and ensure your clients make informed decisions.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Experience AI in Action: Real-Time Solutions for SBDC Advising
Curious how AI can help you tackle your most common advising tasks—and empower your clients to overcome operational challenges? Join us for a live, interactive demonstration where we put leading AI platforms and custom prompts to the test using real SBDC scenarios. Watch as we address essential advising needs—like client intake, market research, financial projections, business plan reviews, and automating repetitive processes by developing AI assistants such as GPTs.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Is it the Real World, or is it AI? A “101” Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Creating Custom GPTs + Repositories for Business Advising
Learn to build custom AI assistants (GPTs) for specific advising (and other) tasks with no coding required. This presentation provides a proven, step-by-step framework for building and deploying your GPT, allowing you to automate routine business tasks, boost operational efficiency, and save valuable time. By leveraging these tools, you can deliver hyper-personalized client support and insights at scale, while also ensuring consistency and security through effective GPT branding and maintenance.
Empower your advising with AI-driven precision and personalization!
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Expert Q&A Session + ChatGPT Demo
Bring your questions and challenges so AI Experts from the AI Interest Group can help you answer them. NEW THIS YEAR! Watch a ChatGPT Demo and how it can enhance your SBDC work.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
AI Agents - Part 1
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Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
AI Agents - Part 2
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Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Expert Q&A Session + Claude Demo
Bring your questions and challenges so AI Experts from the AI Interest Group can help you answer them. NEW THIS YEAR! Watch a Claude Demo and how it can enhance your SBDC work.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) + Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO)
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Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
Expert Q&A Session + Gemini Demo
Bring your questions and challenges so AI Experts from the AI Interest Group can help you answer them. NEW THIS YEAR! Watch a Gemini Demo and how it can enhance your SBDC work.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
AI Productivity Tools
See AI put to work — not in theory, but in practice. This session demos live workflows currently running at NorCal SBDC, including streamlined SBA 641 and Milestone/Attribution forms that eliminate manual data entry across multiple systems, and a website-to-chat tool that pulls 60–70+ network events directly into an AI assistant — making it easy for staff to match clients to the right opportunities or generate branded social and email content in one click.
Walk away with a practical roadmap for building similar tools in your own network.
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
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Coming Soon
AI U Live Session 1: Navigating AI Together: Your SBDC AI Interest Group & Latest Trends
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
[PLACEHOLDER] AI Marketing
Hosted by: America's SBDC AI Interest Group
[PLACEHOLDER] AI Finance
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[PLACEHOLDER] AI Social Media Overview
Hosted by: [PLACEHOLDER]
[PLACEHOLDER] AI-Power Social Posts
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[PLACEHOLDER] AI Design Basics
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