Join us for lunch, networking, and a presentation by James Spellos entitled "Everything You Need to Know About AI...But Didn't Know to Ask." Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other hot technologies are having a significant impact on the tasks and and requirements needed for today’s business. While many are fearful that AI will replace the need for some workers, most organizations understand that is not the case, though the skill sets and tasks required are evolving. 

Attend this session to keep up the various tech tools that will impact your career moving forward. Are You Digitally Secure? Find Out: Today’s high-profile hacks of major organizations and institutions have increased awareness of the issues of digital security, yet most people are compromising their personal and company’s information on a regular basis, which can put their business…and themselves…at risk. Attendees at this session will better understand the digital risks and learn to separate truth from hype about how secure their presence is.

James Spellos is the President of Meeting U. whose mission for over 20 years is to help people become more productive and comfortable with technology.
 
In 2022, Meeting Professionals International included Jim on their most influential list in the hospitality industry in honor of their 50th anniversary celebration. In 2021, Glisser named Jim one of the most influential people in virtual events.

He was a faculty member at New York University for 25 years receiving both their Award for Teaching Excellence and their Outstanding Service Award. In 2015, Jim was named one of the Meeting Industry’s trendsetters by Meetings Today magazine. 

Jim is on the Board of Directors for Rock and Wrap It Up, an anti-poverty, anti-hunger organization which recovers excess food from concerts, sports and other events.  Jim co-created their Whole Earth Calculator app. He also speaks about food recovery and sustainability to groups around the country.  In 2018 & 2019, BizBash named Jim one of their top 500 people in events for his work in sustainability.

Jim is an accomplished musician and songwriter who released his first solo album, Stroke of Genius in 2020. 

He has a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies, is a certified Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine’s Food for Life Instructor, and supports Plant Powered Metro New York in educating people about a healthy diet and lifestyle, which helped to save his own life.