Designing Your Future: Setting AI Goals That Matter
We’re thrilled to announce our next Ales & AI meetup—this time in partnership with the SC AI Collaborative!
📍 When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
📍 Where: Venture X at Plush Mills, Greenville, SC- Special thanks to Joey Loman and SynergyMill
📍 Time: 6:30 PM
Given the hands-on nature of the topic and the strong engagement we’ve seen, we’re limiting attendance to 30 to keep the conversation meaningful and inclusive.
🎯 Theme: Setting Goals Around AI
This session will explore how we, as creators, builders, educators, and leaders, can set clear, purposeful goals around how we’re using—and planning to use—AI in our work and lives.
We’re excited to have Josh Heller and Nathan Freystaetter from the SC AI Collaborative facilitating our Challenge Spotlight for the evening. They’ll help guide us through practical approaches to aligning intentions with tools in this ever-evolving landscape.
What’s on Tap
⚡ Lightning Rounds:
Bring your insights, projects, or half-baked experiments. 5-minute shares, real talk, no slides required.🎯 Challenge Spotlight: Setting AI Goals
Led by SC AI Collaborative co-founders Josh & Nathan—expect insights, frameworks, and reflection prompts designed to help us move from exploration to focused action🧩 Cross-Functional Breakouts:
Rather than split by domain (e.g., marketing, dev, teaching), we’ll experiment with mixed groups—so a creative, coder, and founder might tackle a challenge together. Let’s cross-pollinate ideas.🔁 Group Roundback:
We’ll close by surfacing takeaways, potential partnerships, and ways to support each other’s AI journey heading into 2026.
Why This Gathering Matters
Ales & AI was founded on the belief that real learning happens in informal, welcoming, cross-disciplinary spaces. Partnering with the SC AI Collaborative brings fresh perspective, deeper insight, and new community energy to this mission.
Together, we’re creating something uniquely Greenville—grassroots, warm, and ready to grow.
Got a Lightning Round idea? Want to plug in more deeply?
Reply here or drop me a note at [email protected]
Looking forward to seeing you all on the 16th.