AI-Ready Institution Webinar Series

UCLA Presents You Can't Build AI-Ready Alone

A 30-minute consortium briefing on how institutions actually become AI-ready: by pooling capability, not building it all alone.

October 6th, 2026
1 PM EST

Why You Should Attend

This series has walked through the capabilities that make an institution AI-ready: voice, identity, integration, engagement, and retention. Here’s the catch, each one is expensive to build, hard to staff, and impossible to master one campus at a time. Becoming AI-ready across all of them is beyond the budget and hiring capacity of almost any single institution. In this capstone briefing, CCF convenes a practical, vendor-neutral look at how institutions get there anyway: by pooling AI-enabled capability through a shared-services consortium instead of building and hiring for it alone.

What you’ll take away:

  • Why “AI-ready” is a capability problem, not a software purchase
  • Why no single institution can staff or build the full AI stack alone
  • How a consortium pools AI-enabled capability so members get there faster and at shared cost
  • Which capabilities to adopt first, and how to sequence the journey

About Speakers

Tina Austin
Director, AI Education & Learning Systems-Public Interest Technology
UCLA
Raymond Todd Blackwood
Former VP of Product ManagementAnthology
PresidentQuickLaunch