An AI future everyone can participate in
Why we do this, who we do it with, and what it's for.
The mission runs through partners
A selection from our community partners across the Triangle and beyond.
All Things Open
Community & Ecosystem
CED — Center for Entrepreneurial Development
Community & Ecosystem
Connecting founders with the people who'll help them build.
NC State University
Education & Research
Also working with us
NC State Data Science and AI Academy
Raleigh
Training the business leaders of tomorrow, led by Rachel Levy.
AI Tinkerers — RTP chapter
RTP
Hands-on community learning for people building with AI.
State and local government
North Carolina & the Southeast
Workforce and economic development partnerships.
Plus more than a hundred meetups, universities, nonprofits, and community groups we work with across the Triangle and the Southeast all year.
Browse all community partnersWhat we believe
AI is the most important technology shift of our time. We think that's true, and we also think it's dangerous on its own. Without real awareness, understanding, and training at every level of society, this technology widens the gap between the people who have access to it and the people who don't.
So we work toward an AI future everyone can participate in: well-informed leaders, business people, and everyday users who apply AI effectively and ethically — and the better jobs, better medicine, and better products that follow.
The mission is bigger than All Things AI. That's why so much of it runs through other people: universities, nonprofits, sponsors, and state and local government, organized around one shared outcome — economic impact where we live.
Learn, build, connect
Three ways to take part, wherever you're starting from.
Learn
Start with talks from past All Things AI conferences, or see how our scholarships and training work.
Build
One day. One agent. Built by you, for your job. No programming experience required.
Connect
Meet people working through the same questions at meetups around the Triangle and online.
One weekend is the excuse, not the reason
Every region that ever became a technology capital did it the same way. Not with a single event, but with enough smaller things clustered around one week in the calendar that the week eventually stood for the place. Austin managed it in March and never looked back.
That's what we're building here, on a longer clock and in our own register. A sold-out conference every year. Meetups every month. A Launchpad in Durham, an Agent Hackathon that opens the week, webinars in between, and more than a hundred partner organizations keeping the thread from breaking between gatherings. The goal is a Southeast where the AI work, the AI jobs, and the AI talent are in the same place — and where people plan a trip around more than one conference badge.
For-profit, but not coin-operated
We should say this plainly: All Things AI is a business. Tickets and sponsorships pay for the venue, the speakers, the staff, and the scholarships.
We're not coin-operated. We believe this is something we need to do for our community, so that our business and everyone else's can thrive. Investment in business and community together is the only way to build a workforce and an economy that last decades instead of quarters. When we have to choose between a check and the room, the room wins — that's why sales presentations aren't permitted on any of our stages, at any sponsorship level.
If you want in
If you run a program that trains people, moves capital, or hires — universities, workforce boards, economic development offices, nonprofits, employers — there's almost certainly a version of this you can plug into. Tell us what your program can do and we'll build the mechanism to match it.
Start a conversation or see how the scholarships and training work.