{"id":365376,"date":"2026-08-07T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365376\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:36:07","slug":"free-workshops-on-artificial-intelligence-begin-aug-14-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365376\/","title":{"rendered":"Free workshops on artificial intelligence begin Aug. 14 | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers will begin hosting free workshops on artificial intelligence on August 14.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first session for business owners, presented by the new Human Intelligence\/Artificial Intelligence Hub at the Collaboratory.   The first workshop will run from 9 to 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The organization said that Heidi Cramer of the Florida Small Business Development Center at FGCU and Bruce Kelly of Vivitec will lead the first session.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a WGCU-TV story about the hub.   The story aired this summer on &#8220;Southwest Florida In Focus.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI Fridays gives Southwest Florida business owners practical tools they can use immediately while building the confidence to navigate and increasingly AI-enabled future,&#8221; Dawn Belamarich, president and CEO of Collaboratory, said in a news release.  <\/p>\n<p>AI Fridays also are scheduled for Aug. 28, Sept. 11 and 25, Oct. 9 and 23, Nov. 6 and 20, and Dec. 11.    The Collaboratory said that each session will feature different speakers and topics relating to responsible business use of AI.<\/p>\n<p>The hub is requesting that people register for a workshop.   You can do so by visiting this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collaboratory.org\/event\/ai-fridays-ai-without-the-anxiety-practical-data-security-for-businesses-of-every-size\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/collaboratory.org\/event\/ai-fridays-ai-without-the-anxiety-practical-data-security-for-businesses-of-every-size\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Walcher is a reporter with WGCU News, and also teaches Journalism at Florida Gulf Coast University.   WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wgcu.secureallegiance.com\/wgcu\/WebModule\/Donate.aspx?P=JOURNALISM&amp;PAGETYPE=PLG&amp;CHECK=Fh6V9MuzTVcdN7RxIr2SYb1YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donate<\/a>\u00a0now. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers will begin hosting free workshops on artificial intelligence on August 14. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-365376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}