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Work on a defined skill or task with guidance, examples, and time to ask questions.
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Events & conversations
Learn with people who are doing the work.
MAIC events make room for first questions, practical demonstrations, honest limits, and local experience. Come to learn, contribute, or find people for your next step.
Choose how to participate
Join a public conversation
Hear what people are trying, where they are cautious, and what they are learning.
Host learning locally
Use our gathering and collaborative playbooks to build an event around your own community.
Recurring online conversation
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Accessible Zoom conversations for educators, entrepreneurs, technologists, community leaders, students, and anyone who wants a clearer view of AI in practice.
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Southern Spark is a beginning—not the only room.
People learn together at Southern Spark, then carry ideas, relationships, and practical activities back to their own schools, workplaces, regions, and communities. MAIC’s support for the Gulf Coast AI Summit is one example of that local learning taking root.
486 attendees reported through 2025Carry it home adapt shared learning for local people and conditions
Build where you are
Start a collaborative or gathering in your community.
Use MAIC’s ready-to-adapt planning tools, then shape them with the people who live and work locally.
Coverage & records
Read the independent reporting and institutional record.
These links document the gathering from newsroom and partner perspectives.