Teaching Amid AI Conference 2026

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Co-Creating the Future of Higher Education: Human Prescence in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

Virtual Conference hosted by the University of Guelph, in partnership with the University of Toronto, Western University, University of Windsor, McMaster University. 

June 10-11, 2026

Sign up HERE to be notified when registration opens in March. 

Generative AI has acted as a stress test for the higher education sector, stripping away the veneer of our traditional practices to reveal the conditions underneath: both those that are cracked and those that are worth preserving. It has illuminated the structural weaknesses in how we assess, how we trust, how we teach and how we learn: weaknesses that existed long before the technology arrived. It has also affirmed the strengths and foundational essence of relationality in learning to one another and to our world. 

Now that generative AI has made the cracks in the foundations impossible to ignore, we face a choice. This is a moment where we can co-create our desired future across all levels of the institutional community: educators, administrators, students, and staff working individually and in concert. There is a part for each of us to play in this transformation.

This conference is your opportunity to imagine, plan and create your part in making this change toward a relational future.

Conference themes will explore the public purpose of the university, sustainable practices in a sustainable world, equity and inclusion in our structures and approaches, human presence in both teaching, learning and assessment, data sovereignty and sovereign systems, and broadening participation in knowledge creation.

This year, the University of Guelph is convening this critical conversation on the necessary transformation of our sector. Featuring partners from Western University, McMaster University, University of Toronto, and the University of Windsor this virtual gathering invites you to draft the blueprints for what comes next.

Speakers

  • Gus Skorburg, University of Guelph
  • Stephanie Verkoeyen, McMaster University
  • Mark Daley, Western University
  • Hazel Farrell and Ken McCarthy, South East Technological University
  • Lindsey DuPre, University of Saskatchewan
  • Olivier St-Cyr, University of Toronto
  • Esraa Abdelhalim, University of Windsor
  • Bill Turkel, Western University
  • Sarah Elanie Eaton, University of Calgary
  • ...and more