Cleveland AI & Data

Cleveland AI & Data kicks off the new year with an energizing evening at the Greater Cleveland Partnership, bringing together practitioners, innovators, and leaders shaping the region’s rapidly expanding AI ecosystem.
This event features two spotlight talks from rising voices in applied AI:

• Ben Nyx — sharing insights from the frontier of modern AI development, with a focus on practical techniques, emerging capabilities, and what rapidly evolving models mean for builders and businesses in 2026.
• Caden Kacmarynski — offering a deep dive into real-world AI adoption, including lessons learned from deploying intelligent systems, navigating data challenges, and designing solutions that scale.
• Lauren Burke-McCarthy — Sharing a product- and user-centric approach to AI, including designing hybrid human–AI systems, evolving AI risk management, and an iterative design-to-dev pipeline that's shipped AI that’s responsible, valuable, and governable for F500s

Whether you’re an engineer, researcher, product leader, entrepreneur, or simply AI-curious, this is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and engage with one of the country’s fastest-growing AI communities.
Join us on January 12th at the Greater Cleveland Partnership as we explore the technologies, strategies, and breakthroughs shaping the next era of AI.