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Top 3 reasons to join Section: 1. Unbeatable community. 2. Education you’ll use today. 3. Alex Witkowski's shirt collection (IYKYK).

Our free full-day virtual conference – AI:ROI – is less than two weeks away 🚀 and we’ve announced new speakers – and new AI research 👀 – since we last shared. Here’s what you can expect: – A new session with General Catalyst’s Managing Director, Marc Bhargava, on how their thinking about their AI investments – A new session with ServiceNow’s Global Head of AI, Michael Park, on the big wins of their AI deployment – A sneak preview of the data from our latest AI Proficiency Survey, measuring AI adoption and ROI in the broader workforce Stay for one session or the whole day – or register just to get the recordings! Link in comments.

Our very own Gregory Shove recently sat down with Writer to discuss his philosophy on AI for leaders. Here's the bottom line 👇 Does AI currently function more like an intern than an exec? Yes. Does that mean it isn't high value for leaders? Absolutely not. Give the podcast a full listen to learn how our CEO is getting his most meaningful gains with AI - and why most of it is just a mindset shift. Link in comments.

Have hard numbers to put on your EOY review. Our AI ROI Calculator will help you quantify the intangible wins of AI and calculate the time and cost savings of your AI initiatives. First it scores the qualitative stuff – like burnout avoided, increased creativity, and higher job satisfaction – and helps you position your score to your boss. Then it takes your rough numbers around time saved, productivity increases, expenditures to create a report of the tangible wins of your AI work. It’s free to download – link in comments to take advantage.

Not only do our Education team’s custom GPTs take weeks off course development, they’ve actually improved the quality of our course content by 20% 🚀 They’ve helped us develop more refined learning objectives to build our courses around, create more relevant course frameworks, and define higher value use cases and learning outcomes. The key to their success? Breaking the process down into individual custom GPTs, limiting unnecessary context, and iterating along the way rather than at the end. Our Education Product Lead, Kyra Atekwana, broke it all down in last week’s Strategy Brief. Link in comments to read the whole thing.

The question mark of AI is no longer around whether it should be used – it’s how you can get your team to use it. We’re solving for that at our AI:ROI Conference. Hear from Brice Challamel and Bhavesh Dayalji on how they’re upskilling their teams with AI and seeing meaningful AI adoption. Then join Edmundo Ortega for a discussion around how to find the highest value AI opportunities in your product or service. It’s free to join – get ahead of your 2025 AI strategy. Link in comments.

Looking for a little free advice on how you should be thinking about your internal AI initiatives? We have a few events you won’t want to miss coming up soon 👇 First, Section COO Taylor Malmsheimer will give you an exclusive first look at the results of our 2nd proprietary AI Proficiency Survey – and what they mean for your team. Then Gregory Shove will join her to walk through how they achieved 100% AI adoption at Section – and what they’ve learned from 100+ conversations with other organizations on how they’re rolling out AI. Finally, Edmundo Ortega is joining Greg to talk about how you can differentiate your products and services with AI – and how to know if your AI idea is *thing* or not. These events are all free to join – link to RSVP is in the comments.

New free AI event 🚀: Alondra Nelson, former Deputy Assistant to the President, is joining us to discuss how we can take a stronger stance on preventing bias, focusing on ethics, and protecting our personal rights in the age of AI. We’ll chew on questions like: – How can we identify and mitigate bias in existing and emerging AI technologies? – What should the government’s role be in regulating AI?  – How do we ensure ethical AI development? Join for free and bring your questions. Link to RSVP in the comments.

Finance pros need to optimize for accuracy, strategy, and clear communication. AI can help with all of those things and without sacrificing security. Glenn Hopper will teach you: – How AI can augment your thinking from budgeting to forecasting, financial modeling to reporting building. – The places where AI can automate financial processes and help you consider all angles when making critical strategic decisions. – How to turn AI-generated data and reports into actionable insights. Join us on October 29th and leave an AI-augmented financial leader. Link in the comments to learn more.

Perplexity (aka AI Google) doesn't get as much air time as other AI tools, but its features have the potential to change how you work. Here are the two we think are their trump cards 👇 1. Focused search – the ability to get tailored research results from relevant sources (that are cited!) in 5 different focus areas – from Academic to Writing. 2. Pages – basically the AI Wikipedia, Pages allows you to turn your research into living articles with citations and relevant visual elements – to share privately or with the world. Personally at Section, Perplexity has replaced 10-20% of our Google searches. Read the whole post to learn why we like it so much and how we get real gains from it: https://lnkd.in/gSyvUx5q