The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, in partnership with William & Mary, will host the AI Summit May 1–2, 2026, featuring a fireside chat, keynote, industry panel and Hack-a-Thon.
The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business will host the 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 who want practical approaches for teaching and preparing students in an AI-driven world.
The program includes a fireside chat, keynote, industry panel and a Hack-a-Thon design sprint focused on building curricular and co-curricular models for AI fluency.
Friday evening includes a fireside chat moderated by Tawnya Means, founding partner and principal of Inspire Higher Ed. The conversation will feature Casey Evans, associate dean for undergraduate programs and student services at American University’s Kogod School of Business; Hussein Issa, associate professor at Rutgers Business School; and Stephen Walls, assistant dean for instructional innovation at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.
Saturday morning opens with a keynote address, “Higher Ed Reckoning,” from Anuj Mehrotra, dean of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The session will examine how business schools are adapting to rapid technological change and evolving employer expectations.
An industry panel will follow, offering perspectives on what employers expect from graduates entering AI-enabled workplaces. Panelists include AI leaders from Gartner, Bank of America and Microsoft.
Saturday afternoon features a Hack-a-Thon Team Design Sprint. Mixed teams of faculty from different institutions, including Elon University and William and Mary, will build a curricular or co-curricular AI fluency model, then present their concepts during final presentations.
For Haya Ajjan, dean of the Love School of Business, the summit reflects a broader responsibility across higher education.
“This summit is about business educators and industry coming together to build a shared approach to what students need next,” Ajjan said. “AI is not a single-course conversation. It’s a cross-disciplinary responsibility.”
Additional details, registration information and sponsorship opportunities are available on the AI Summit website.