AI & The Culture IRL | Plan Your Best Year With AI
🎉 AI & The Culture Is Back — In Person at Salesforce
We're back for another edition of AI & The Culture IRL in partnership with Salesforce. This is yet another incredible in-person gathering, hosted at the Salesforce offices in New York City and sponsored by Boldforce.
This Month We Present...
Plan Your Best Year With AI
Join the community for an interactive planning session to reflect on the past year, identify your biggest opportunities, and build an AI-powered roadmap for the year ahead.
Before we rush into a new year with another list of goals, let’s get clear about what we’re actually building.
What worked this year? What didn’t? What deserves more of your energy? And where could AI help you turn those intentions into action?
For our final AI & The Culture meetup of the year, we’re bringing the community together for an interactive planning and reflection session designed to help you look back, think forward, and build a roadmap for what comes next.
This isn’t about asking AI to magically plan your life. It’s about using these tools as thought partners—to help you reflect, uncover patterns, explore possibilities, make decisions, and turn big ambitions into actionable next steps.
Together we’ll explore:
✨ How to use AI to reflect on your wins, lessons, challenges, and unfinished business from the past year
✨ Prompts that help you identify opportunities you might be overlooking
✨ How to turn big goals into realistic projects, milestones, and next steps
✨ Ways to use AI as a strategic thought partner for your creative work, career, business, or personal projects
✨ How to identify where AI and automation can give you back time in the year ahead
✨ Building a personalized AI-powered roadmap you can actually use after you leave the room
And because this is AI & The Culture, we’re making space for something AI can’t replace: community.
You’ll have an opportunity to reflect alongside other creatives, founders, educators, artists, technologists, and curious minds—to exchange ideas, share what you’re building, and potentially meet the people who can help you move it forward.
The goal isn’t to leave with 47 resolutions.
It’s to leave with clarity, priorities, and a plan.
Who Should Attend?
• Creators and content makers
• Filmmakers, writers, artists, and storytellers
• Educators and community builders
• Entrepreneurs, founders, and solopreneurs
• Marketers, strategists, and creative professionals
• Technologists and AI enthusiasts
• Anyone ready to be more intentional about what they’re building next
Whether you already have your next year mapped out or you’re still staring at a blank page wondering where to begin, you’re welcome here.
Come Ready to Build
This one is especially hands-on, so come prepared to participate.
💻 Bring your laptop
📝 Bring a notebook or something to write with
💭 Bring a few goals, ideas, or questions you’ve been thinking about for the year ahead
🤝 Bring your curiosity and a willingness to share
We’ll be working through reflection exercises, AI prompts, and planning activities together—so you can leave with the beginnings of a roadmap, not just another page of notes.
Come ready to reflect. Come ready to plan. Come ready to build.
About AI & The Culture
AI & The Culture is a growing movement exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and culture.
Founded by Shirley Vernae Williams and King Willonius, we connect creatives of color, innovators, and culturally rooted creators through events, education, storytelling, and community.
We’re building spaces where the people shaping culture can also help shape the future of AI.
This gathering represents the next chapter of AI & The Culture — grounded in community, focused on real-world use, and centered on learning together in the room.
Pull up with curiosity. Let's have the important conversations.
Let’s build — together. 💛
About Your Hosts
Shirley Williams-Toney is an award-winning storyteller, AI technologist, and co-founder of AI & The Culture. Her work sits at the intersection of culture, technology, and creative systems, with a focus on helping people use AI tools in ways that support clarity, productivity, and real-world execution.
About King Willonius
King Willonius is a creative technologist and cultural strategist exploring how emerging tools can support storytelling, workflow, and creative expression. Through demos, experimentation, and community-based learning, Will focuses on making AI feel approachable and useful — especially for creatives and innovators who want practical applications without technical overwhelm.
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