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Speaking & Resources

Welcome! We've curated a list of speaking engagements, expert POVs, AI sites-to-know, and GenAI tools to support you on your journey with AI.

Speaking Engagements

The AI Horizons Conference, Miami, Florida, Feb 24-26, 2025

Creativity 2.0: Ride the AI Wave—and Turn Time into Creative Impact

Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor of The Strategist Blog and 'Making GenAI Work for Work' and Founder and Managing Partner of Expera Consulting

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Idaho National Laboratory, November 2024

Ride the AI Wave: Become AI-Savvy Communicators

Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor of The Strategist Blog and 'Making GenAI Work for Work' and Founder and Managing Partner of Expera Consulting

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The GenAI Conference, Athens, Greece, November 2024

GenAI Strategy Getting Hands-On

Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor of The Strategist Blog and 'Making GenAI Work for Work' and Founder and Managing Partner of Expera Consulting

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Elevance Health, Spring 2024

Maximizing the Creative Potential of Your Private LLM

Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor of The Strategist Blog and 'Making GenAI Work for Work' and Founder and Managing Partner of Expera Consulting

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AI for Agencies, September 2024

Practical Strategies Using AI 

Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor of The Strategist Blog and 'Making GenAI Work for Work' and Founder and Managing Partner of Expera Consulting

 

The GenAI Conference, Athens, Greece, March 2024

Empower Yourself: How to Go from Doer to Observer in the Era of GenAI

Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor of The Strategist Blog and 'Making GenAI Work for Work' and Founder and Managing Partner of Expera Consulting 

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AI Certificate Course, Ragan, March 2024

Course Session: Content Generation: Upskill Your Writing and Multimedia Creation with AI

Presenters: Catherine Richards, Jennifer Clemente, Steve Mudd

Expert POVs

One Useful Thing | Ethan Mollick | Substack

Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Almost Timely News

Christpher Penn,Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at TrustInsights.ai

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The AI Breakdown Podcast

Daily Artificial Intelligence News and Discussions

A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. 

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The Artificial Intelligence Show Podcast

Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput

The Artificial Intelligence Show (formerly The Marketing AI Show) is the podcast that helps your business grow smarter by making AI approachable and actionable. 

 

Beyond the Prompt

A podcast about how to apply AI efficiently to your work

 

AI Edge for Enterprise Marketing Podcast

This podcast aims to help other marketers navigate the complexities of scaling AI tools within their organizations.

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CISO SOS | Karen F Worstell | Substack

Writing to share with CISOs, cyberpros, corporate boards, and the C-suite all I can about navigating cybersecurity risk management and CISO well-being.

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On with Kara Swisher Podcast

“Smart people,” says Kara, “like difficult questions.”

Twice a week, award-winning journalist Kara Swisher gets to the heart of the story through no-holds-barred interviews with power players across business, tech, media, politics, and beyond.

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AI
Sites-to- Know

The Marketing AI Institute

AI resources for modern marketers

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SmarterX

AI research and consulting firm

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OpenAI Blog

Blog by the creators of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other groundbreaking GenAI models, offering announcements, research breakdowns, and thoughtful discussions on the field.

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Google AI Blog: Generative AI

Google's official blog with technical papers, news, and insights on their latest advancements in generative AI research.

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Hugging Face Blog

Community-driven platform with accessible tutorials, explainers on AI models, and practical guides for using GenAI tools.

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Jasper Blog

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GenAI Tools

Multi-Purpose Frontier Models

 

ChatGPT

Company: OpenAI

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Gemini

Model: Gemini/Imagen/NotebookLM

Company: Google AI

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Claude

Company: Anthropic 

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Meta.ai

Company: Meta

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Search Assistant

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Perplexity.ai

Perplexity AI is an advanced search assistant powered by LLMs. It bridges the gap between traditional search engines like Google and conversational AI systems, offering a hybrid experience that delivers contextually accurate, sourced, and natural-language insights.

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Research Assistant

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NotebookLM

NotebookLM is a Google AI-powered tool that helps users synthesize information, generate insights, and explore ideas by leveraging large language models directly within their documents.

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Enterprise Grade

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Jasper.ai

Company: Jasper AI

AI writing assistant with a strong focus on marketing copy, blog content, and creative text formats.

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Writer Enterprise GenAI 

Company: Writer

AI content generation platform tailored for businesses and teams, providing features like custom style guides and brand-specific writing.

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Image Public

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Bing Image Creator 

Model: Microsoft's image generation tech

Company: Microsoft

Create unique images from text descriptions directly within Bing Search.

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DALL-E 3

Company: OpenAI

Creates realistic images and artwork from detailed text descriptions.

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Stable Diffusion

Model: Stable Diffusion

Company: Stability AI

Open-source image generation tool with extensive flexibility and customization.

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Midjourney

Model: Midjourney

Company: Midjourney

Generates highly stylized, artistic images, primarily accessible through Discord.

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