Empowerment Through AI: Creating Value Today, Mastering Tomorrow

Eric Bye, Erictron AI

This talk explores how generative AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT can empower you to unlock opportunities, improve your skills, and achieve ambitious goals in education, work, and life.

Learn how to go beyond just doing things faster, and how to harness AI as both an assistant and an accelerator to thrive in an AI-driven future.

• A brief introduction to the technology behind Copilot and ChatGPT

• Discover how AI can deliver immediate value as a personal tutor, coach, or creative partner

• Learn practical ways to integrate AI into your daily tasks for greater efficiency and innovation

• Understand why mastering AI fluency is essential for staying competitive in the future of work and learning

3 things I love about Generative AI - and 3 things I don't

Dr Kardi Somerfield

• Using AI for Research, Planning and Structure 

• Life Admin, Work Admin - how AI can help 

• Understanding alternative perspectives using AI

• Dodging the Uncanny Valley - Where the humanity and skill come in

• Ethics and Transparency

• Advocacy and the challenges of change

Kardi is a senior lecturer in digital marketing and member of the University of Northampton AI Steering Group. She brings her point of view of working with AI and introducing ethical use of Gen AI into academic work with her students and colleagues. Expect practical tips and existential crisis…