Agenda & Line Up

March 26th, 2026

Morning - beginning at 8:30am Pacific

  • Welcome

  • Keynote #1 - Uma Karmarkar - School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

  • Keynote #2 - Bob Williamson - Principal Investigator, Tübingen AI Center

  • Plenary Roundtable - Casey Mock, Tierra Tanksley, Olaf Kramer with Laura Lindenfeld moderating

Lunch - provided

Afternoon - beginning 1:00pm Pacific

  • Panel #1 - National Security, AI, and Persuasion Panel

  • Panel #2 - AI, Mass Persuasion, and the Entertainment Industry Panel

  • Keynote #3 - Jesse Grey Eagle - Founder Indigenous Futures OS

  • RhetAI Annual Report Release Highlights

Networking Reception to follow at 4:30pm Pacific

Location: The Cove @ UCI Beall Applied Innovation

University of California, Irvine - Beall Applied Innovation

For complete details about our location, hotels and other arrangements, please visit our Summit Planning page

Keynote Speakers

Bob Williamson

University of Tübingen

Professor, Foundations of Machine Learning

Principal Investigator, Tübingen AI Center

Uma Karmarkar

University of California, San Diego 

Associate Professor, Rady School of Management

and School of Global Policy and Strategy

Plenary Roundtable Reunion

Casey Mock

Senior Policy Director

The Anxious Generation

Tiera Tanksley

UCLA Research Fellow

Jesse Grey Eagle

Indigenous Futures OS

Founder and Chief Executive Officer    

Olaf Kramer

Director of the RhetAI Center

University of Tübingen

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend

AI Developers

AI Engineers

AI and Technology Ethicists

Prompt Engineers

CIOs

Public Interest Technologists

Chief Responsibility Officers

Policy Experts and Officials

Public Policy Makers

Public Action Campaigns and Organizers

Election Integrity

Mis- and Disinformation Investigators and Researchers

DoD AI Researchers and Policy Makers

Rhetoric Researchers and Practitioners

Computational Rhetoricians

Rhetoric and Technology Faculty

Computational Linguists

Computers and Writing Faculty

Rhetorical Theorists

Argumentation and Persuasion Experts