ROW EDITION · updated Aug 8, 2026
Final format: three standalone 50-minute workshops in Fountain Room 3
9:00 Cool Tools · 10:00 AI in Action · 11:00 Know the Rules
The Rules, Hands-OnBuild Your First 30 Days of AI Governance
9:00 AM–12:00 PM · August 11, 2026 · Wenatchee Convention Center
You won't watch this session. You'll build it. Seven tables, seven worlds, one checklist you write yourselves.
7
persona tables
4
hands-on labs
95
minutes of table work
1
checklist you take home
Seven tables, seven worlds
Find your table
You'll sit with people who share your world — and spend the morning solving your problem, not watching someone solve theirs. Pick the table that sounds like your Tuesday.
Teacher
AI takes the four hours of paper-pushing; you keep the judgment, the relationship, and the spark.
Student
AI that spars with you makes you sharper. AI that writes for you makes you invisible. Learn the difference and prove it.
School administrator
Turn the 40-page AUP nobody reads into five sentences everybody follows — with receipts.
City council & local government
Staff reports, public comment, records requests. Faster with AI — and provably fair, or not at all.
Small business owner
AI does the invisible painful work. You keep every customer-facing moment.
Utility & data center
The valley's grid runs on trust. Outage comms, compliance lookups, and what the data centers moving in mean for all of us.
Tribal members
Data sovereignty, language, culture. AI that doesn't reach everyone isn't worth the electricity.
5–7 minutes each
The four labs
Same format as the mini-camps: script → tool → likely good outcome → likely bad outcome → teachable moment. Your table does the work; the facilitators ask the questions.
| Lab | You will | The teachable moment |
|---|---|---|
| Break it yourselves | Paste an innocent-looking document into a chatbot and watch it obey text you can't see (white-font prompt injection). | Check what the machine sees, not what you see. |
| Sort the failures | Take 8 real AI failures — Chevy Tahoe, Air Canada, Workday, CIGNA, Hugging Face — and sort them onto the 6 layers of AiGovOps. | Every famous failure is a layer nobody owned. |
| Your persona's mini-camp | Run the 5-minute lab built for your table's world — then produce the bad outcome on purpose. | The tool is the easy part. The habit is the rule. |
| Score your own harms | HARMS-assess the exact AI use you just performed: who's affected, worst case, defense, owner, receipt. | Reducing risk is a human thought process. You can't hand it to the AI. |
The product of the morning
What you leave with
Not notes. A one-page governance plan for your world, written by the people who have to live with it — plus the tools to keep going on Wednesday morning.
Open the First-30-Days ChecklistFirst-30-Days Checklist
Completed by your table, for your world — six rows, one page.
Open the pageThe 30-day getting-started guide
What to do in week one, week two, and the rest of the month. Workshop edition, draft v0.9.
Download PDFThe HARMS worksheet
Blank and reusable — score the next AI use the same way.
Download PDFAn invitation to sign the Pledge
Seven commitments, signed in the room at the afternoon plenary.
Read the pledge
You came in as an audience.
You'll leave as your community's
first governance team.
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