The Martha & Spencer Love School of Business, in partnership with William & Mary, will host the AI Summit on May 1-2, 2026, featuring fireside chats, keynotes, industry panels, and a hack-a-thon.
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The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business will host an AI Summit on May 1 and 2, 2026. Hosted in partnership with William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business, the summit is designed for educators and higher education leaders seeking a practical approach to teaching and preparing students for an AI-driven world.
The program includes fireside chats, keynotes, industry panels, and a hack-a-thon design sprint focused on building curricular and co-curricular models for AI fluency.
Friday evenings will include a fireside chat moderated by Tawnya Means, founding partner and principal of Inspire Higher Ed. This conversation features Casey Evans, associate dean for undergraduate programs and student services at American University’s Kogod School of Business. Hussein Issa, Associate Professor, Rutgers Business School. and Stephen Walls, associate dean for educational innovation at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.
Saturday morning begins with a keynote address, “Calculating Higher Education,” by Anuj Mehrotra, dean of Georgia Tech’s Scheller School of Business. This session examines how business schools are adapting to rapid technological change and evolving employer expectations.
An industry panel will then join us to provide insights into what employers expect from graduates entering the AI-enabled workplace. Panelists include AI leaders from Gartner, Bank of America, and Microsoft.
A hack-a-thon team design sprint will be held on Saturday afternoon. A mixed team of faculty from various institutions, including Elon University and William & Mary, will build a curricular or co-curricular AI fluency model and present the concept in a final presentation.
For Haya Ajan, dean of the Love School of Business, the summit reflects broader responsibilities across higher education.
“This summit aims to bring business educators and industry together to build a common approach to what students need next,” Ajan said. “AI is not a single-course conversation; it is a cross-disciplinary responsibility.”
Additional details, registration information, and sponsorship opportunities are available on the AI Summit website.
