ROW EDITION · updated Aug 8, 2026
Final program format: three 50-minute workshops
9:00 Cool Tools · 10:00 AI in Action · 11:00 Know the Rules · Fountain Room 3
Cool Tools.
Cool Schools.
The Rules.
A one-day community gathering on how North Central Washington uses AI well — for our students, our small businesses, and our towns. We don't ban it. We don't blindly trust it. We govern it like we engineer it.
August 11, 2026 · Wenatchee Convention Center
Coming to the Expo on August 11? Register on Eventbrite — free, and it reserves your table for the morning workshop.
300
attendees
4
breakouts
35
mini-camps
7
pledge commitments
Five scenarios, one rule
A camp for everyone who walks in the door
Thirty-five hands-on mini-camps, built from five real NCW scenarios. The human stays in the driver's seat. AI does the painful work. Always truth-grounded. Two more lanes — utility & data center, and tribal members — get their own tables at the morning workshop.
Gifted goes deeper
AI hunts sources, spars, and critiques — the question, the argument, and the voice stay the student's.
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Challenged keeps up
A patient tutor that never tires — re-explains as many times as it takes while the student does the learning.
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Burned-out teacher
AI does the four hours of paper-pushing so the relationship, judgment, and spark stay human.
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Small business owner
AI does the painful invisible work; the owner keeps every customer-facing moment.
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Community leader
AI researches, drafts, and visualizes; the leader keeps the listening, the trust, and the room.
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The grid keeps its promises
AI drafts the outage notice, checks the WAC citation, and writes the commission minutes — the engineer keeps the judgment call and the community keeps the lights. With Sabey and friends building in our valley, NCW writes the rules before the racks arrive.
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Sovereignty includes data
AI researches treaty context, drafts the trilingual notice, and captures the elder's story in her own words — the tribe keeps the data, the language, and the decision. AI that doesn't reach everyone isn't worth the electricity.
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Two futures
Maria's future, or Jake's future
Both are real. Both are happening in American schools this year. Which one North Central Washington gets is not automatic — it depends on the tools we choose and the rules we write.
Maria
8th grade · Wenatchee
Her AI tutor asks questions instead of giving answers. With Khanmigo she's up +23% in mastery and wants to be an engineer at Rocky Reach. She thinks she can — and she's keeping the receipts.
See how the day makes Maria's future
Jake
same school · no policy
A chatbot wrote his last seven essays. He shared a deepfake of his classmate Sara. His ability to spot fake news dropped −15.3% in four weeks — in a school with no rules and no one keeping the receipts.
See what went wrong, and why
The difference between them isn't talent or money. It's a human in the loop, a written policy, and the habit of keeping the receipts.
The shape of the day
Schedule at a glance
One plenary that sets the stakes, then four breakouts that run twice so you can catch the two that matter most to you. Close it out by signing the pledge — together, in the room.
See the full plan & room gridDoors & coffee
Wenatchee Convention Center lobby
Centerpiece plenary — AI as Partner in Education
Maria vs Jake · the evidence · a live Deep Think + Model Council demo
The Rules, Hands-On (workshop rooms)
Seven persona tables build their First-30-Days AI Governance Checklist. Grab a seat →
Breakouts, round 1
Cool Tools · Cool Schools · Build It in 60
Breakouts, round 2
Cool Tools (repeat) · The Rules · Build It in 60 (repeat)
Plenary Q&A & the pledge signing
Sli.do questions · sign v1.0 in the room
After the Expo
Keep learning — the community courses
One day sets the stakes; the habit is built over time. Short, hands-on learning paths from the AiGovOps community carry the same idea forward — capabilities, the read/act line, and turning a principle into a control you can run.
Browse the coursesThose courses live on the AiGovOps community platform, alongside the people running this same playbook in other small places. Join the community
The story we tell about AI in NCW
will be the story we wrote — together.
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