The AI Edge Virtual Summit returns to empower professionals to move from experimenting with AI to building with it.
Fresh off the success of AFROTECH™ Conference 2025 — which brought together more than 40,000 attendees to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX, from Oct. 27-31 — the summit will expand on the AI track that engaged founders, venture capitalists, students, professionals, and government leaders.
Carrying forward the conference’s theme, “Building What’s Next,” the AI Edge Virtual Summit — powered by AFROTECH™ and which drew more than 4,000 participants in August — will guide attendees on building, automating, and scaling with AI to drive innovation and impact across their careers and industries.
During the August summit, Blavity Inc. founder and CEO Morgan DeBaun shared her vision for how professionals can approach AI.
“I’m sure you’ve also seen the news that says, ‘AI is taking people’s jobs,’ and the CEOs who are saying, ‘We’re going to replace 30%, 40% of our workforce with AI.’ As much as some of those things may be true for some of those companies, I want you to remember that the goal of this is because we are human beings and these are tools,” DeBaun told attendees.
“So, you should figure out for yourself how to use these tools in your day-to-day life to make your life easier, to make you more productive, to empower you to be able to create and generate new ideas, new concepts, new ways of problem-solving. That is our goal today,” she added.
The next AI Edge Virtual Summit will be held on Friday, November 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. PST. Programming will feature establishing brand authority through audio, localized campaigns, AI-powered storytelling using ElevenLabs, and becoming a builder using Cursor without being an experienced coder.
Blavity Inc. co-founder and COO Jeff Nelson will return and host a live demo on agentic AI. Previously, he spoke on how AI’s rapid accessibility creates unprecedented opportunities for creators, operators, and entrepreneurs.
“I am a techie. I’m a coder. I build things,” Nelson said in the August session.
“I actually get in the weeds, write code on a day-to-day basis, build systems, and architect scalable infrastructure that can power the technological revolution that we’re all witnessing now. So, this is really, really exciting for me. What’s even more exciting is watching AI become more accessible. Watching not only people use AI, but using it to build things that they never could have built by themselves before,” he continued.
“And this is really, really powerful. It’s powerful for developers like me, but also for creators and operators and entrepreneurs across the board,” he added.
Register Today
For those looking to elevate their skills in AI, be sure to register for the AI Edge Virtual Summit.
A link to the summit will be sent Tuesday Nov. 18.
