Towson University Educators Summit

Centering the Human: Creativity and Our AI-Shaped Future

Registration and Call for Proposals

TU Educators Summit

Monday, January 11, 2027

Title: Centering the Human: Creativity and Our AI-Shaped Future

Please register for the summit and save the date! The keynote speaker is Ken Goldberg – pioneering UC Berkeley roboticist, artist, and National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow. Additionally, if you have a perspective to share with our campus community, consider submitting a proposal.

The TU Educators Summit Planning Committee seeks engaging, interactive session proposals that keep humans at the center of AI-shaped work. Proposals are welcome from faculty and staff in every college, division, and office. The committee is especially interested in how colleagues are applying, questioning, adapting to, or deliberately setting aside AI in their teaching, research, creative work, services, and daily operations. Strong sessions will: put human skills first, engage participants actively, travel across campus, and provide participants with something usable to take away with them. 

Learn more about the summit and submit your proposal today!

Proposals due by 5:00 p.m., December 4, 2026

Summit Program

Title presenter
Introduction
Luis Engelke, Department of Music
Hymn of Acxiom
Welcome
Provost Melanie Perreault
Keynote Address Ken Goldberg
Panel Discussion TU Faculty and Staff 
AI Showcase and Networking   TU Faculty and Staff
Breakout Sessions TU Faculty & Staff Presenters
Concluding Thoughts Marc May, Department of Film, Audio, Media Arts