10/20/2026
In two weeks, 250 Charlotte business owners, professionals and teams will open a laptop and actually build things with AI.
The AI Friendly Summit | November 4-5, 2026 | The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City
You won't just hear about AI. You'll walk out having built:
- Your first AI sales agent that answers questions, qualifies leads and books calls (Samuel Kern)
- A helper that turns your old customer list into new booked jobs (Raph Thomas)
- A website that shows up when buyers ask AI for recommendations (Caitlin Castevens)
- A marketing video starring your own AI clone and mascot (Jess Moore)
- AI video ads from just an idea in our Vibe to Video workshop (James Turner and Shrav Krishna)
- A governance plan for shadow AI, agents and data exposure (Delethia Johnson)
- A real action plan and daily checklist from your messy brain dump (Sherrii Webb)
Plus keynotes and sessions from Tara and Todd Youngblood, Dr. Sharon Torrence Jones, Blaize Stewart, Kendra M. King, Jennifer Schneider and more, with Abigail Merrill as our MC.
Tracks for Small Business Growth, Career Growth and Enterprise Growth, plus hands-on workshops. Bring a phone or laptop signed in to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini and follow along.
Early-bird General Admission is $99 through October 31. Code SOCIAL50 takes $50 off.
https://aifriendlysummit.com/go/tickets?code=SOCIAL50&ticket=ga
Presented by the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce in association with Kynex.
