AI Summit 2025 Returns to UBalt
Last summer, UBalt’s CELTT, CEI, and CD3C organized the inaugural UBalt AI Summit. This event sparked vital conversations across disciplines, bringing together over 150 participants from higher education, local industry, and beyond. With sessions led by faculty, thought leaders, and students alike, the event offered a rare space for open dialogue about the opportunities and challenges presented by generative AI.
What emerged was clear: UBalt is ready to lead. But like all transformative work, leadership requires iteration. This year’s AI Summit builds on those lessons and returns in a new format—a one-day, in-person event focused on action and impact. Open to all UBalt students, faculty, and staff, the 2025 AI Summit will explore AI’s grand challenges through a cross-sector lens, engaging local leaders, university partners, and national voices who are shaping the ethical and practical landscape of AI.
Faculty who attend will find a refreshed agenda designed to help you do more than just keep up. You’ll walk away with insight into how to help your students navigate an AI-driven future. Sessions will explore topics like AI and human rights, workforce development and automation, and how community-based organizations are adapting to the rapid pace of change. Speakers represent diverse sectors, including representatives from the Bezos Earth Fund, Ithaka S+R, and local Baltimore organizations.
Why should you come? Because your role as an educator is already evolving. According to the AI Alliance’s Guide to Essential Competencies for AI, faculty are uniquely positioned as “AI Navigators”—those who help others gain foundational AI skills while modeling responsible use themselves. You don’t need to be a programmer to lead these conversations. What matters most is fluency in ethical use, data limitations, and how AI shows up in everyday tools and decisions. By attending the summit, you’ll strengthen your own literacy while contributing to a learning community that’s preparing students for jobs that don’t even exist yet.
The AI Summit 2025 isn’t just a conference. It’s an opportunity to align your teaching with UBalt’s mission of Knowledge That Works. The conversations you start in the classroom have the power to shift how students see themselves, their futures, and their place in a rapidly changing world.
Registration is open now. Space is limited, so reserve your spot today!
