Ready to dive into valuable conversations at the Emerging Tech Dialogues? Breakout sessions create opportunities for colleagues across Cornell to share ideas, lessons learned, and practical solutions. These sessions serve as launching pads to discover and debate new approaches, ask questions, and bring fresh perspectives back to your teams and special interest groups. 

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Expect to learn through dialogues, not lectures. The most successful breakout sessions are less about polished presentations and more about sharing ideas, lessons learned, and approaches that others can adapt in their own environments. Several of the October 13, 2026 sessions focus on communication, engagement, and information sharing, illustrating the spirit of Emerging Tech Dialogues while highlighting how Cornell teams connect people with resources, explore new solutions and systems, and strengthen the flow of information across the university.

One session, Marketing Cloud Playground: Learn, Explore, Connect, brings together co-workers from Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York to introduce commonly used features in the new customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Engaging polls and candid discussions about real-world experiences, including successes and frustrations, will demonstrate how co-workers and teams can learn from one another in a collaborative environment. Led by Carlyn Chatfield, Alina Morgade, Cynthia Morel, Bridget McFadden, and Vanessa Puig, the session emphasizes exploration and peer learning while helping participants discover new possibilities for communications and engagement, including how to create live polls in an email newsletter.

Practical applications of artificial intelligence will also be on display. In AI-Assisted KB Article Management: Building a Production Utility with Claude, Anthony Jones of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will share a developer's journey from concept to deployment, demonstrating how AI can support both knowledge management and software development. By exploring how a custom utility was built to analyze and improve knowledge base articles in TeamDynamix, participants will gain insight into a practical, human-guided approach to AI adoption, one that emphasizes productivity while keeping people firmly in control of the process.

For those interested in seeing a broader range of innovation across the university, the AI Showcase, facilitated by Sylvie Honig, provides a forum for colleagues to share projects, ideas, and discoveries with one another. Rather than focusing on a single solution, the showcase highlights the variety of ways Cornell teams are experimenting, learning, and applying new technologies in support of their work. 

Together, these sessions demonstrate how innovation grows through curiosity, experimentation, and a willingness to share what works. Whether participants are exploring new ways to connect with audiences, improve access to information, or apply emerging technologies to everyday challenges, they will leave with ideas, perspectives, and practical approaches they can take back to their own teams.