Full-day working sessions for Clark County business leaders. Each one built around a single discipline. You bring a real problem. You leave with real answers.
AI SOLUTION SESSIONS
It’s not about presentations; it’s about getting things done. You won't sit and take notes off someone's slides. You'll work the problem in the room.
ONE DAY. ONE DISCIPLINE.
YOUR CHALLENGE.
Each session takes on one part of your business. Twelve companies per session, senior leaders only. Small working groups, guided by practitioners who build with AI every day. Not consultants. Not presenters.
BRING YOUR CHALLENGE
Register and tell us what you're dealing with. Don't frame it as an AI problem. Just tell us what's hard.
WORK IT IN THE ROOM
Small groups. A practitioner at your table all day. You'll evaluate real approaches against your real conditions: your data, your team, your constraints.
LEAVE WITH A PATH
Not a finished solution. An honest path forward, specific enough to act on, with a first step you can take within 30 days.
PICK ONE OR MORE DISCIPLINES.
OR ATTEND THEM ALL.
Four sessions, one per month. Each runs 9:30am to 4:30pm at The VIC in Vancouver. Meals included. Register for the one that hits closest to home, or come back for more than one.
Wednesday, Jul.29th
MARKETING
SESSION
Content that takes too long. Campaigns you can't keep consistent. A brand voice that falls apart at volume. Work through where AI actually fits in your marketing and where it doesn't.
Wednesday, Aug.19th
SALES & BIZ DEV SESSION
Pipeline that goes cold. Proposals that eat your week. Follow-up that slips. Work through how AI can carry the repetitive weight of selling so your people can sell.
Wednesday, Sep. 16th
CUSTOMER SERVICE SESSION
Response times you're not proud of. Answers that live in one person's head. The same ten questions, every day. Work through how AI can raise your service without losing your voice.
Wednesday, Oct. 21st
FINANCE & ADMIN SESSION
Reporting that takes days. Forecasts built on gut feel. Contracts and paperwork nobody has time to read. Work through where AI can give you back the numbers, and your time.
THE DAY
9:30 am — Doors open Coffee, introductions. Get oriented. Meet the people you'll be working with.
10:00 am — Level set A grounded look at how AI actually works: security, platforms, models, and data. No hype. Just what you need to have a clear-eyed conversation about your business.
10:45 am — Breakout sessions begin Small groups organized by challenge type — built from your application before the day starts. Floating facilitators come to you. Real work happens here.
12:30 pm — Lunch Provided. The conversations don't stop — they just move to a table with food.
1:30 pm — Afternoon sessions Deeper work. Refine the plan. Answer the hard questions. Figure out what the first real step actually is.
4:30 pm — Wrap Each group shares what they're taking home. You leave with something written down — not just a feeling.
IF YOU'VE GOT A REAL PROBLEM. BRING IT!
This isn't for people who want to learn about AI in the abstract. It's for business owners and senior leaders in Clark County who are sitting on a problem they haven't been able to solve — and who are ready to actually do something about it. We'll follow up with everyone who applies. Not to screen you out. To make sure we set you up right. Good fit:
Business owner or senior leader based in Clark County
Something specific is costing you time, money, or opportunity
You can bring 2–3 people, including at least one decision-maker
You want to actually work, not just hear about AI
You're open to honest answers, even if they're not what you expected
Probably not the right fit:
Looking for a general AI overview or intro course
Hoping to be pitched a product or platform
No specific challenge to work through
THE FACILITATORS ARE PEOPLE WHO'VE ACTUALLY BUILT THINGS.
Our facilitators aren't here to consult or pitch. They rotate into your group when you need them — asking better questions, helping your team move through the hard parts, connecting what you're dealing with to what's actually possible. They've shipped products, run engineering teams, and applied AI to real business problems. That's the difference you'll feel in the room.
Santi Adavani
Co-Founder, S2 Labs
Co-founded S2 Labs to help companies build AI that actually works. PhD in computational science from Penn. Career spent at the intersection of high-performance computing, scientific machine learning, and large-scale data. Was at AWS before going out on his own. Knows the difference between what AI can really do and what it's just been sold as. In the room, he keeps groups honest about where AI lifts and where it lies.
Shanti Adavani
Co-Founder, S2 Labs
Co-founded S2 Labs after 14 years at Intel, where she served as Chief of Staff and led technical program management inside a large engineering organization. Master's in computer science from Iowa. Brings the operational fluency that matters when AI hits the realities of an existing business: budgets, teams, legacy systems, the gap between what's promised and what ships. In the room, she helps groups make that gap navigable.
Sam Keen
Founder Altered Craft
Spent 25+ years building software at Nike, Lululemon, AWS, and startups. Led the GenAI Innovation Lab at AWS, helping teams sort real signal from AI noise. Author of Clean Architecture with Python. Co-founded Portland AI Engineers, a 1,100-member practitioner community. Now researches how AI actually changes the way teams write software and ship products. He's seen the work from every side: building it, leading it, teaching it.
Reggie Willbanks Principal Software Engineer, PacifiCorp
Principal engineer at PacifiCorp, one of the region's largest utilities. Previously VP of Engineering at Thetus, with earlier stops at Geonorth and Energy Trust of Oregon. Knows what it takes to run AI and data systems inside a complex, regulated organization: security posture, data architecture, and code that actually has to work in production. In the room, he helps groups think clearly about the constraints most consultants won't name.
Dave Barcos
Founder, North Bank Innovations
Founder and Executive Director of North Bank Innovations. Has spent his career building the conditions for SW Washington startups to survive, grow, and stay solvent. Works alongside founders across industries to sharpen their thinking, find the right people, and move from idea to traction. At AI Solution Sessions, he brings the connector's view: less about the technology, more about what it takes to actually put it to work inside a real business.
SPONSORS
LET’S TACKLE THE HARD STUFF!
Lunch included. Space for 12 organizations. We'll follow up personally after you apply.
Presented by North Bank Innovations in partnership with CREDC.