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SUMMARY:AI in the Real World: What Economists Need to Know
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Stewart will provide an insider’s view on how organizations are adopting AI\nAI investment is projected to hit $2.5 trillion globally in 2026\, yet 84% of companies haven’t redesigned how they work around it. Brandon Stewart\, Partner at Caravan\, draws on firsthand experience training small groups inside companies to separate the signal from the noise. He’ll walk through what’s happening inside organizations adopting AI — from IT policy gaps and workforce fears to the rise of autonomous agents — and why the next 12 months matter more than the last three years combined.\nBrandon Stewart is a Partner at Caravan\, an AI training and implementation firm based in Birmingham. Caravan works hands-on with companies to upskill their teams on applied AI tools\, training 12-14 people per session with a focus on practical\, day-two readiness. Brandon’s background spans business operations and technology\, and he has spent the past eight months deeply embedded in the AI builder ecosystem — coding\, deploying agents\, and working directly with companies navigating the AI transition.
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SUMMARY:AI in Action Business Summit
DESCRIPTION:AI in Action: Business Summit\nReal use cases. Real results. Real next steps. \nApril 10\, 2026 | UAB Collat School of Business \nJoin business leaders\, faculty\, and students for a one-day\, highly practical summit on how organizations are using AI right now and what comes next. AI in Action cuts through the hype with real use cases\, lessons learned\, and the leadership decisions behind measurable results. \nYou’ll hear from speakers including Shegun Otulana (Harmony Venture Labs)\, Anurag Banerjee (Quilt AI)\, Thea Ducrow (Bird’s AI View)\, Vitale Hardin (Vitale & Co.)\, Austin Senseman (Birmingham AI)\, and Steven Stith (Shell) with additional AI-forward companies\, hands-on breakouts\, and more to be announced. \nExperience AI throughout the day with interactive activities including an AI-powered fragrance installation and image-to-poetry\, then stay for a networking happy hour featuring an AI bartender app that generates personalized recipes. \nDon’t miss the Live Builds. Real businesses submit real challenges\, and the engineering team at KEYSYS builds solutions in real time while walking through the approach\, key decisions\, and what they deliver. \nIf your organization is facing a challenge you believe AI could address\, you may apply to have it considered for a Live Build. Selected participants will receive a working solution they own and can deploy within their organization. \nWhat you’ll walk away with \nConcrete examples of AI use cases\, including the problem\, approach\, solution\, and business impact.\nCandid adoption insights\, including what worked\, what didn’t\, and what they’d do differently.\nPractical ways to start\, including frameworks and questions leaders can use to experiment responsibly. \nWho Should Attend”\nLeaders and teams from organizations looking for practical AI applications.\nFaculty and students who want a front-row seat to what’s working in industry.\nAnyone interested in stronger industry-university collaboration shaping the future of business education. \nExpect a lively mix of talks\, live builds\, and hands-on sessions designed to leave you thinking\, “I see what’s possible\, and I know my next step.”
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and The Law with Michael DeBow
DESCRIPTION:“During many years on the Cumberland faculty\, I have taught our required courses in property and business organizations\, and in both classes\, I have tried to explain the larger capitalist framework that these areas of law help to support. This Article collects a number of illustrations and explanations I have used in my classes and expands upon them to offer law students what I hope is a useful orientation to capitalism as an institution… I hope to convince the reader that: (1) being a “business lawyer” is in fact a noble calling\, and (2) capitalism is well worth defending against its critics and enemies.”\nCurious to hear more? Please join us on Friday\, August 22\, at UAB’s Collat School of Business.\nMichael DeBow joined the Cumberland faculty in 1988. He regularly teaches courses in Property\, Business Organizations\, Administrative Law\, Legislation\, and Local Government.\nProfessor DeBow is a native of Tupelo\, Mississippi. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Alabama (1976\, 1978). He graduated from the Yale Law School in 1980\, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.\nDeBow’s career included a stint in private practice in Washington\, D.C.\, followed by a judicial clerkship with Judge Kenneth W. Starr of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1983-84. DeBow then served as an attorney-advisor to Federal Trade Commission chairman James C. Miller III (1984-85)\, and a special assistant to Assistant Attorney General Douglas Ginsburg\, in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1985-86). He began his teaching career at the University of Georgia business school\, where he taught for two years prior to coming to Samford.\nFrom 2000 to 2004\, DeBow also acted in a part-time capacity as special assistant for legal policy to Alabama attorney general Bill Pryor. He was a visiting professor of law at George Mason University in 1999. He was a (nonresident) Salvatori Fellow of The Heritage Foundation during 1993-95\, and a member of the executive committee of the Association of Private Enterprise Education during 1995-99. DeBow attended summer institutes in quantitative methods for law professors (George Mason Law & Economics Center\, 1990)\, Austrian economics (NYU Department of Economics\, 1997)\, and the study of freedom (Templeton Foundation Freedom Project\, 2000). In 2008 he was named an Adjunct Fellow of the Alabama Policy Institute.\nProfessor DeBow has taught several undergraduate courses at Samford\, including one which received a supporting grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Most recently\, he taught an undergraduate course in law and economics for the Samford’s Brock School of Business. He has also taught public health law for the UAB School of Public Health on several occasions.\nDeBow’s articles have appeared in such journals as the Texas Law Review\, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy\, Regulation\, Policy Review\, The Freeman\, and the Journal of Law & Politics. He co-edits the Federalist Society’s Pre-Law Reading List and its annotated bibliography of conservative and libertarian legal scholarship.
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