James “Jim” Spellos, President of Meeting U., will be at VenueConnect24 to present “Everything You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence…But Didn’t Know to Ask.” For over 20 years, his mission has been to help people become more productive and comfortable with technology.
Jim has won many awards throughout his career. A faculty member at New York University for 25 years, Jim received both their Award for Teaching Excellence and their Outstanding Service Award. In 2015, he was named one of the Meeting Industry’s trendsetters by Meetings Today magazine, and Meeting Professionals International included him on their “Most Influential” list in the hospitality industry in 2022. In 2021, Glisser named Jim one of the most influential people in virtual events.
On the Board of Directors for Rock and Wrap It Up – an anti-poverty, anti-hunger organization which recovers excess food from films, tv productions, concerts, sports and other events – Jim co-created their Whole Earth Calculator app. He also speaks about food recovery and sustainability to groups around the country. In 2018 & 2019, BizBash named Jim one of their top 500 people for his work in sustainability.
Jim is an accomplished musician and songwriter and released his first solo album, Stroke of Genius, in 2020. He has a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies, is a certified Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine’s Food for Life Instructor, and supports Plant Powered Metro New York in educating people about a healthy diet and lifestyle, which helped to save his own life.
Read on for our Q&A with Spellos.
What can VC24 attendees expect to learn at your session?
Attendees will be able to understand the how and why of how generative AI works, and how it applies to their jobs. They’ll also learn how to best prompt the generative AI tools to be able to obtain the best, most accurate information. And, they will be able to see external services that extend the use and functionality of generative AI across all of the tasks they perform.
What is the best advice you’ve received?
Question everything.
What’s the last book you read?
I’m too busy devouring content on AI to read many books, though the last one I read was Dr. Michael Greger’s How Not to Age.
Please join us at VC24 for this session!
- Everything You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence…But Didn’t Know to Ask
- Tuesday, July 30 | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Not yet registered? Visit venueconnect.iavm.org today!
