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Monday, Mar 30th
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
AI for the Newsroom: A Hands-on Guide to NotebookLM & Pinpoint
Location: Salon C3-4 (Lower Level)
Speaker: Iain Christie (he/him/his) – Google News Initiative
Technology and Product
Monday, Mar 30th
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
News Product Meetup
Location: Salon D (Lower Level)
Technology and Product
Monday, Mar 30th
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Scaling Small: What We’ve Learned from 27 AI Projects in Local News
Location: Salon A2 (Lower Level)
Moderator: Liam Andrew – American Journalism Project
Speaker: Matthew DeFour (he/him/his) – Wisconsin Watch
Speaker: Eve Lacivita (she/her/hers) – City Bureau/Documenters
Speaker: Cynthia Tu (she/her/hers) – Sahan Journal
Technology and Product
Monday, Mar 30th
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Steal This: AI Projects Newsrooms Actually Shipped and How They Got It Over the Line
Location: Salon C3-4 (Lower Level)
Moderator: Emily Brown (she/her/hers) – Microsoft
Speaker: Aaron Brezel (he/him/his) – ProPublica
Speaker: Tristan Loper – The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Speaker: Aron Pilhofer – Chicago Public Media
Technology and Product
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Monday, Mar 30th
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT
From Principles to Practice: Building Open Publishing Platforms for Responsible AI Adoption (By invite only)
Location: Salon C5-6 (Lower Level)
Speaker: Alan Smodic – WordPress VIP
Speaker: Tyson Evans – ProPublica
Technology and Product
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Tuesday, Mar 31st
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
More AI Tools That Won't Get You Fired
Location: Salon A1 (Lower Level)
Speaker: Mike Reilley (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Chicago
Technology and Product
Tuesday, Mar 31st
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
Preserving the Past, Securing the Future: Strategies for Newsroom Archives in the Digital Era
Location: Salon A3 (Lower Level)
Speaker: Justine Tobiasz – Chicago Public Media
Speaker: Allison Schein, MLIS, CA – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Technology and Product
Tuesday, Mar 31st
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
Reading the Signals. How AI Is Reshaping Media in 2026
Location: Salon A2 (Lower Level)
Speaker: Nikita Roy (she/her/hers) – Newsroom Robots Lab
Technology and Product
Tuesday, Mar 31st
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
ONA AI Innovator Collaborative IRL + AI Professionals Meetup
Location: Salon D (Lower Level)
Technology and Product