🍓 It's Hard to Describe - Ya Kinda Have to Be There

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"The organizers created something special: intentional scheduling, relevant sessions, and an environment where everyone felt seen, guided, and supported."

— F.H. CREATE Conference 2025 attendee

Hi Reader,

You will leave CREATE a stronger AI practitioner - for sure.

You will have built agentic infrastructure. You will have honed your AI governance point of view. You will have discussed how you teach, lead, and use AI with women doing serious work in the field.

That is the part we can put on the agenda.

The harder part to describe is what happens around the practical knowledge building.

You meet someone in the Friday Buildathon who has already solved the problem you have been wrestling with for months. A session changes how you think about work you have been doing for years. A dinner conversation turns into a collaboration. You get quiet time in the Analog Art Lab and finally hear yourself think. Dancing it out at the Silent Disco solidifies the learning and reminds you.....yes, we do AI stuff a LOT, but dancing is fun! :)

We care a lot about technical excellence. We also know that some kinds of progress only happen when the right people get together long enough to think, build, question, and make something better. That's why we created the CREATE Conference.

As you ponder how AI shows up in your life and think about jobs of the future, use the AI Authority Builder Gem to help you envision your career options and the opportunities in them.

Register for CREATE 2026
October 16–18, 2026 · Salt Lake City, Utah

Warmly,
Anne

P.S. Here are 5 ways to make the CREATE Conference work for you!

Use your Society rate. Members pay $649 instead of $899 — and Register & Join Society bundles CREATE with your first year of membership for $1,199, saving you $487.
Register early and reserve your room. The CREATE block at the Hilton is $55 off the standard rate, and your booking link arrives with your confirmation.
Ask your organization to sponsor you. A ready-to-personalize justification letter is waiting on the registration page.
Treat it as a business investment. The planning template maps what the trip should produce — meetings, content, partnerships, a launch.
Bring your team. Email hello@sheleadsai.ai before registering and we’ll get your group set up together.

All five, with the letter and the template, live here → https://sheleadsai.ai/create-registration/

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆

Anne is going live with Ashanti Bentil-Dhue — founder of Unpunishable Woman and creator of the Invisible Contracts Framework — for a series of conversations on women, money, and AI between now and the end of September. We held the first one yesterday and you can catch the replay on YouTube: