AI-Ready Intuition Webinar Series

Confidently Wrong: Why Your AI Needs Your Data

A 30-minute consortium briefing on why AI agents are only as smart as the data you connect across campus systems.

August 19, 2026
1 PM EST

Why You Should Attend

Everyone’s excited about AI agents. But an agent that can see only the SIS doesn’t know about the financial-aid hold or the LMS disengagement, so it answers confidently, and wrong. The intelligence isn’t in the agent; it’s in the connected data behind it. In this 30-minute briefing, CCF convenes a practical, vendor-neutral look at why data integration across campus systems is the real work behind agentic AI.

What you’ll take away:

  • Why a siloed agent gives confident, wrong answers, and how to avoid it
  • What “one student, one source of truth” actually takes across SIS, LMS, aid, and CRM
  • How integration turns an agent from a demo into something that resolves real issues
  • Where to start if your systems don’t talk to each other yet

About Speakers

Leonard Napolitano
4th Employee at Blackboard
Former CEO of Capture HIgher Ed
Former CRO of Parchment
Chief Value Creation Officer, ElevenX Capital
Raymond Todd Blackwood
Host, The AI-Ready Institution Webinar Series
Former VP of Product ManagementAnthology (Ellucian)
PresidentQuickLaunch

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