March 21–23, 2027 • Daytona Beach, Florida
AI Convergence
A working community for higher education leaders exploring how AI can strengthen learning, human capability, and institutional practice.
Registration includes Sunday, March 21, starting at 4:00 p.m.; a full day on Monday, March 22; and Tuesday, March 23, through 1:00 p.m. All times are local to Daytona Beach.
The 2027 Convening
March 21–23, 2027, at the Mori Hosseini Student Union at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The partnership is led at Embry-Riddle by Dean Goon, Dean of Academic Innovation and a member of the AI Convergence Advisory Board, with planning support from Chris Pfeifer, Manager of Strategy and Operations. The collaboration supports the Division's work to strengthen teaching, learning, and academic innovation.
Learn about the Division of Academic InnovationInstitutional registration includes two leadership partners: $1,500 for community colleges, $2,500 for non-R1 and international universities, and $3,500 for R1 institutions. Teams can add a student for $250. Registration includes scheduled meals, working materials, and one year of Transformational Leadership Circle membership.
Registration options and inclusions · Travel and venue details · Frequently asked questions
Who This Is For
Presidents, provosts, deans, associate deans, AI champions, and colleagues responsible for putting institutional priorities into practice. Bring an implementation partner who can help carry the work forward.
Institutions arrive with different missions, resources, and experience. You do not need a finished AI strategy. Bring a consequential question, a willingness to examine assumptions, and an interest in learning with peers.
Work on a Priority That Matters
Choose a track focused on the student journey; learning, assessment, and faculty practice; or institutional strategy, governance, and operations. Plenaries and cross-track conversations connect these perspectives.
Working sessions help your team develop a focused 90-day action plan: a priority to pursue, people to involve, conditions to address, and evidence to examine. Peer conversations continue through Transformational Leadership Circles after the convening.
Explore the tracks and working format · Learn about ongoing community participation
Our Approach
Educational value depends on more than what a tool can do. We ask what people should learn, which decisions need human oversight, and what institutional conditions support responsible experimentation.
Our framework offers shared language for examining leadership, experimentation, Human+AI collaboration, institutional context, infrastructure, and student agency. It supports reflection and development across different institutional settings.
People and Perspectives
Founded by Sandeep Krishnamurthy and Tawnya Means, AI Convergence brings together academic leaders, selected technology partners, and invited industry experts. The advisory board contributes perspectives from higher education, teaching and learning, technology, and institutional leadership.
Technology partners participate in the shared work through an application process. Industry experts contribute by invitation. Explore partner and industry participation.
Returning to Miami 2026?
With deep gratitude to Miami Herbert Business School, our inaugural host, and the leaders who joined us in June 2026. The relationships and conversations begun there continue in Daytona Beach.
Revisit the June 21–23 agenda, worksheets, presentation materials, and institutional action plans. Attendee-only materials require sign-in; the historical agenda is open to view.