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[Caleb Bryant]

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Issued 2025-11-06

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AI COMMUNITY Newsletter

Welcome to the AI COMMUNITY Newsletter. In keeping with the enhanced format, this edition is all about community, teamwork, and collaboration

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Join the Dialogue

Welcome to the latest addition to the AI Newsletter. In an effort to better come together in one place, as a community, this dialogue section has been added. The dialogue section is just a safe place to post comments, authored or anonymous, to keep the conversation going about all of our AI and IT journies. While this is an AI Newsletter, we want to encourage all IT students, faculty, and community members to post here. All IT niches are AI related.

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Lift-Off

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

— Helen Keller. An American author and activist who, despite being deaf and blind, became a global symbol of perseverance and the power of communication.

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

— Henry Ford. The founder of Ford Motor Company, who revolutionized manufacturing with the moving assembly line and made cars accessible to the public.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

— African Proverb.

“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”

— Steve Jobs. The visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., known for blending technology and design to shape the modern era of personal computing and digital innovation.

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”

— Ken Blanchard. A leadership expert and co-author of The One Minute Manager, celebrated for teaching the value of servant leadership and teamwork in organizations.

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Upcoming Events

Event 11/10/2025 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Build Your AI Toolkit: When to use AI, When to Stay Human — Free Online

Here’s the real problem: ​It’s not that AI tools don’t work. It’s that no one’s given you a framework for:WHEN to use them: WHAT to automate and…WHEN to keep things human.​Jacob is here to help!​What You’ll Learn​In this 30-minute session, you’ll walk away with a practical, three-step framework for making smart decisions about AI tools:​→ When to use AI as a thinking partner (not a replacement)→ When to automate parts of your workflow (without sacrificing quality)→ When to build custom tools (and when NOT to)

Source: https://www.mketech.org/event/build-your-ai-toolkit-when-to-use-ai-when-to-stay-human/

Event 11/11/2025 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

AI Executive Lab: Transform Billable Hours into AI-Powered Products — Free Online

Growth in the AI revolution will not come from billing more hours — it will come from re-engineering how expertise is delivered.The AI Executive Lab is a hands-on, evidence-driven environment where leaders of professional services firms can safely explore new models for creating scalable value.

Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-executive-lab-transform-billable-hours-into-ai-powered-products-tickets-1872389821359?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Event 11/12/2025 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Build Prototypes Faster: AI Workflows for Designers — Free Online

Bridge the design-to-development gap with an AI workflow using tools like Cursor or Claude Code that turns Figma mockups into functional web experiences. This session will walk through how designers and product teams can use AI to create high-fidelity prototypes without writing code from scratch.

Source: https://www.mketech.org/event/build-prototypes-faster-ai-workflows-for-designers/

Event 11/12/2025 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Making AI Useful: Writing, Scheduling, and Organizing — Free Online

Learn practical ways to use AI at work. Get comfortable with LLMs, write better prompts, and connect AI to real tasks.

Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-ai-useful-writing-scheduling-and-organizing-tickets-1926214131319?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Event 11/12/2025 5:15 PM-8:15 PM

November Global AI Milwaukee User Group Meeting — WCTC 800 Main Street Pewaukee, WI

In this talk, you'll learn how to use the latest Generative AI tools to accelerate your development flow and get stuff done. You'll learn how to:- Spot bottlenecks that slow you down- Apply the right AI tools to remove friction and speed up delivery- Learn how to effectively leverage AI tools- Automate the boring stuff so you can focus on innovation

Source: https://www.meetup.com/global-ai_milwaukee/events/311444849/?eventOrigin=home_page_event_from_group_you_are_in

Event 12/02/2025 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Global AI Community Milwaukee AgentConf2025 — WCTC 800 Main Street Building AJN Pewaukee, WI

Join us for the AI Agents World Tour, a global series of one-day conferences designed exclusively for developers building the future with autonomous AI agents. From San Francisco to Singapore, we're bringing together leading engineers, researchers, and creators to explore the cutting edge of AI agent design, deployment, and integration. Whether you're building intelligent assistants, autonomous systems, or next-gen developer tools, this event is your fast track to practical knowledge, hands-on demos, and real-world insights.

Source: https://www.meetup.com/global-ai_milwaukee/events/310929445/?eventOrigin=home_page_event_from_group_you_are_in

Event 12/04/2025 8:30 AM-4:00 PM

ProdCon Wisconsin by Nvisia — Brookfield Conference Center 325 S. Moorland Rd, Brookfield, WI 53005

Join us for this one-day conference featuring over 30 speaking sessions across six focused tracks. Each track is designed to offer practical insights and real-world examples from peers leading technology initiatives across industries:Software Architecture & Engineering, Data & Artificial Intelligence, Platform, DevSecOps & Cloud, User Experience, Product Management & Agile, Leadership & CultureThis event brings together senior IT and engineering leaders for open, thoughtful discussions. It’s a chance to step away from the day-to-day, hear how others are tackling similar issues, and walk away with ideas you can bring back to your team.

Source: https://www.nvisia.com/prodcon-wisconsin-12.4.25

In the News

News Google History — Google

From the garage to the Googleplex

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. read more

News 10/31/2025 — livescience.com

China solves 'century-old problem' with ne analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs

Researchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs. read more

Caleb Bryant · cbry...@my.wctc.edu · (414) 458-1971

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