Omni-AI Alliance National Gathering 2026

Why Attend?

Build the Future

The traditional factory model is out-of-date and may never have been humanistically designed. Build new models by planning each attainable step to fit the present realities and make your role and institution competitive.

Harness AI

AI is not just for teaching and learning, but the administration of entire institutions. Find out how to envision and build your Omni-AI Core while transforming personalization at all levels of your operation.

Learn to be Super-Human

Are you using AI effectively? What is the main human thinking algorithm? Why were the Gardner Nine Human Intelligences revised to align with new science? Learn how balancing AI means we need to learn more about being human.

Form Leagues

We live in a networked society but our institutions and even classrooms are largely insular and siloed domains of teaching and learning. Explore the future of matrixed teaching, matrixed resource sharing for efficiency and matrixed geographically-dispersed learning. You share and compete teams of learners in sports leagues and academic conferences – now it’s time to use those lines of camaraderie through sharing technologies to do more.

Craft Your Edtech Stack

Omni-AI means the coming together of the enterprise mind – what’s your right mix of all your apps and systems, staff roles and professional development?

Pricing

Educators or Non-Profits:

Individual Education Members: $225

Non-Members: $375

Corporations:

Members: No charge if included in sponsorship

Non-Members: $900

Over member limit: $750 each person

Agenda

April 15–17, 2026 -- Evening start the 15th, 2 Full Working Days 16-17th

Don’t leave early or you’ll miss the brawl Friday at 3pm.

Day 1 – Wednesday, April 15, 2026

4:00 – 4:30 PM - Welcome Reception & Networking

4:30 – 5:00 PM - Opening Lounge Discussion
“The Future of Schooling with Omni-AI”

What will it be like to work in an AI-driven school, what will the experience be like for students?

Planned learning:

• How will AI shift schooling to learning ecosystems, how it’s a co-designed future, understanding AI orchestration, ethics challenges, the turn to dynamic learning pathways (liquid curriculum), augmented teaching, learning intelligence (real-time analytics, adaptive feedback), how AI will create a renaissance of humanity through new curriculum like (CRAFT), and about student learning profiles, skills and creating equity.

5:00 – 7:00 PM - Future Schooling Experience - Cisco

Planned learning: A walk-about guided tour of the future physical learning environment and aspects of networking in an AI schooling shift.

Day 2 – Thursday, April 16, 2026

8:00 – 9:00 AM - Breakfast & Networking (sponsored option)

9:00 – 9:40 AM - General Session
“The Urgency of Schooling Intelligence to Meet Challenges”

Trends are converging to push schools in the direction of Omni-AI, what are the numbers and what is the real challenge now for administrators, tech and instructional staff?

Planned learning:

• Will cite projections by Learning Counsel Research without a shift in schooling utilizing AI-as-Infrastructure including total student attrition from public schools, teacher shortage, absenteeism, growth in homeschooling and private schools, plus information on what the sentiment is within traditional public schools and with outside parent/student consumers. 

9:40 – 10:20 AM - General Session
“The CRAFT Curriculum Imperative - Create • Rig • Apply • Fuse • Thrive”

What are the five pillars of the CRAFT curriculum and why is this new arena an imperative for schools today.

• Create → Invent. Art, design, media, textiles, woodworking, product ideation
• Rig → Structure. Systems thinking, mechanical, electrical, digital, fabrication, restoration
• Apply → Activate. Entrepreneurship, business strategy, financial literacy, trade awareness
• Fuse → Integrate. Tech, culture, craft, culinary arts, construction, digital production
• Thrive → Flourish. Wellness, ecology, community design, ethical living

10:20 – 10:30 AM - Break

10:30 – 11:25 AM - Breakout Sessions – Round 1

• Leadership to New Schooling Model

Planned learning: Leveraging AI-as-Infrastructure. The 5 emerging school models and what they entail for transition leadership - including shepherding shifting staff roles.

• Crafting EdTech Model Architectures

Planned learning: As schools discover AI, they also shift gears on what other tech they need: what to keep and weave into an Omni-AI. The friction of every-lesson-AI-built vs. quality User Interface/User Designed edtech software.  

• Sponsor-Led Session TBD

11:25 – 11:35 AM - Break

11:35 – 12:15 PM - General Session “Moving to Omni-AI: Policy, Ethics, and Guardrails for AI”

Planned learning: The 10 major arenas for policy discussion in schools and how they differ from the use of consumer commercial AI policy with an overview of AI algorithms.

12:15 – 1:30 PM - Networking Lunch (sponsored option)

1:30 – 2:25 PM - Breakout Sessions – Round 2

• Sponsor-Led Session TBD
• Human Intelligence vs. AI - the 9 Domains & 5 Human Characteristics 

Planned learning: Groundbreaking work in human intelligence and human unique characteristics promise to help balance AI provided schools bring forward professional development to highlight the findings.

• Leadership Up from Literacy to Fluency

Planned learning: What exactly is AI Fluency? How does it differ from all the work in digital literacy and what are the competencies expected to be for each stakeholder in education and learners?

2:25 – 2:35 PM - Break

2:35 – 3:20 PM - General Session -  “Transformation Obstacles & Overcoming Them”

Planned learning: The shift away from the ancient factory model, the drive towards total personalization, new roles elevating the humanity of teachers, even a questioning of subjects and such immutables as testing-by-grade bands is up for grabs.  Categorical list of objections raised to real transformation and what the solutions are, plus how can we embrace real transformation anyway? Mentions of seat-time, testing, credit systems, teacher certification, truancy, and more.

3:20 - 4:15 PM - Across the Aisle Exchange - Educators/Edtech - Raconteur-Led 

“Leadership level, Edtech level, Curriculum & Instruction Level”

Everyone joins in this open discussion about AI and schooling transformation. Participants organized by responsibilities. Expect some fun.

4:15 – 5:30 PM - Hosted Conversations - facilitated connect circles, lounge reception 

• Teacher Tips Circle
• Security & Networks Circle
• CRAFT Curriculum Circle
• Staffing Matrix Circle

5:30 – 9:00 PM - Recognition Kickoff Celebration Dinner (Exclusive, Hosted)

Recognition of top AI-driven schools and companies, networking and reflections

Day 3 – Friday, April 17, 2026

8:00 – 9:00 AM - Breakfast & Networking (sponsored option)

9:00 – 9:45 AM - General Session
“Worried about AI”

It’s not just about student cheating and carefulness. A deeper worry is the “black box” nature of AI, a lack of certifications and missing tech standards relevant for the education field. Understand the true depth and what you can do.

Planned learning: Sketches of all 26 missing standards, plus “what to lead” by 1) Superintendents, 2) Tech Chiefs/Directors, and 3) Curriculum & Instruction Executives.

9:45-9:55 AM - Break

9:55 – 10:40 AM - Breakout Sessions – Round 3

1. Tech Standards Cluster 1: Data & AI Standards 

Planned learning:  Ideals of clean data, “look-ins” to enable AI to personalize off of your hundreds of other log-in curriculum sites, curbing recommendations engines, pacing optimization, explainability and auditability in testing, what to do about cognitive modeling and excluding emotional/mood inference. A round to learn and get serious about the language in each of these standards -- defend your ground and offer your insights.

1. Stop Closing Schools - Reframe into Satellite Lounges 

Planned learning: Find out about Time AI and syncing small satellite schools with learners-in-lounges to share live teaching and teachers-on-rotation while being overseen by homeroom leaders and paraprofessionals. A solution to closing schools through a matrix of AI managing time and staffing.

1. Sponsor-Led Session

10:40 – 10:50 AM - Break

10:50  – 11:40 AM - Breakout Sessions – Round 4

1. Tech Standards Cluster 2: Courseware & LMS Standards

Planned learning: Making courseware AI-queryable for adaptive teaching, standardizing read/write for AI agents with human overrides and auditability, metadata to include skills, prereqs, pacing, cognitive load, annotations so AI can reason about content, not just fetch it, and know enough to run recommendations engines.  What it might mean to create a semantic protocol for modular objects. Beyond FERPA/GDPR to specific rules limiting actionable cognitive data. A round to get serious about the language in each of these standards -- defend your ground and offer your insights.

1. The Laws of AI Leadership for Administrators + Build Your Own Workshop

Planned learning: What are the nine “laws” any administrator will find easy to learn and helpful in the start of crafting your own policy and administering schooling without being an AI expert.

1. Sponsor-Led Session

11:40 – 1:30 PM - Networking Lunch (sponsored option)

1:30 – 2:25 PM - Breakout Sessions – Round 5

1. Building a Synthetic AI Fluency Framework & Competency Maps

Planned learning: Why are we saying “synthetic” AI Fluency? Yes, of course we need to build our own framework and competency maps with the handout given, divided by roles in schools.

1. AI Schooling Models - Reimagining Space, Hardware & Networks

Planned learning: Work out how it might be to shift to any of the new AI schooling models for how you would use your physical resources, new hardware and network impacts. Checklist and templates, let’s do this thing! 

1. Sponsor-Led Session

2:25 – 2:35 PM - Break

2:35 - 3:10 PM - “Using AI & Types of Agents” General Session

Planned learning: kinds of teacher use of AI, student use, and the types of Agents probable for schools in other areas of administration.

3:10 - 4:00 - General Session: “Closing Panel Brawl: What to Build, What to Break — AI Transition Priorities”

Yes, a brawl but in the fun verbal sense.  What’s okay to break now that we’re building a new future, and arguments against just that. Everyone wins though. Planned learning:  the sentiment of many of our nation’s leading school and district administrators and why they feel that way.

3:45 – 4:00 PM - Final Wrap-Up & Next Actions for Committees

Don’t skip out early!  Stay put to take your place in the stars (photos and notoriety!)