Huntersville elected officials will kick things off with a welcome to membership and a brief Q& A about how government communicators and elected officials can work together effectively.
Fern Blair, Graphic Designer with Guilford County, will tackle the topic that's quietly become more urgent: The Darkside of AI. Your staff, leadership and volunteers are likely already using AI tools, whether there's a policy in place or not. Fern will walk through how to spot the red flags, avoid the security risks nobody talks about until it's too late, and, maybe most importantly, how to actually start the policy conversation at your organization before it becomes a crisis of its own.
Rainah Davis, founder and executive creative strategist at Raindrop Creative, knows what it means to be a communications team of one, to lead a small team, and to answer to multiple departments at once, because she's done all three. Her session on content planning and triage will help you move timely information, keep your creative pipeline alive, and build a content calendar that actually earns trust.
