In this episode of The Immersive Lens, hosts Paul and Dave talk with Debora as they debrief the second annual Community Convening.

The landscape of artificial intelligence is evolving at breakneck speed, and staying ahead means understanding both the bleeding-edge models and how they are applied in local communities and classrooms. In this episode, the conversation centers around the recent AI Community Convening at Finger Lakes Community College, moving the discussion from basic chat interfaces to the highly anticipated era of agentic AI and on-device processing. It matters right now because local enterprises, educators, and the general public are moving past the initial shock of generative tech and are now eager to build practical, everyday applications to wear multiple hats more efficiently.

Hosts Paul and Dave, alongside FLCC VP of Strategic Initiatives Debora Ortloff, share their unique perspectives from the ground floor of the event, highlighting the massive community engagement and the democratization of tech skills. The trio's final verdict suggests that next year will be defined by seamless AI integration, where visible interfaces begin to fade away in favor of background agents, offline local models, and wearable smart devices that execute tasks asynchronously.

Second Annual Community Conveninghttps://www.flcc.edu/ai/annual-convening/

Jen O'Brienhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jen-obrien-futurist/

Katie Pullen | Owner | Katie Pullen: Allstate Insurancehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/katiehause/

Sean Murray | Director of Product Management | ITXhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/seangmurray/

Dan Sharp | Senior Product Manager | ITXhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-r-sharp/

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Anthropic suspends new AI models after government directivehttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropic-suspends-new-ai-models-fable-mythos-government-directive-rcna349901

What is Windows ML?https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/new-windows-ml/overview

Introducing Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Modelshttps://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models

Google AI Edge Galleryhttps://developers.google.com/edge/gallery

Google's Gemma 4 31B local modelhttps://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/

The Medium is the Messagehttps://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf

OpenClawhttps://openclaw.ai/

Microsoft Scouthttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-scout/get-started

Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humanshttps://mashable.com/tech/cloudflare-data-bot-traffic-overtakes-human-traffic-on-internet

AI Integration Specialist Micro-Credentialhttps://www.flcc.edu/academics/programs/ai-integration-specialist-microcredential/

Mentions: @MIT @Apple @Samsung @Meta @Android @Google

FLX AI Hub: https://www.flcc.edu/ai/

FLCC New Media: https://newmedia.csc.flcc.cloud/

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