The AI Roundtable
Welcome to the AI Roundtable, your platform for harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to advance your company, team, career — and life!
AI moves fast. The AI Roundtable helps you keep up and think more clearly about what it means for your work.
Every month, a cross-industry group of business leaders, founders, technologists, and practitioners spends an hour on a focused AI topic.
No recordings, no sales pitches, no panels. It is candid conversation with people who are genuinely engaged with where AI is going and what it takes to work with it well.
It's free. It's virtual. And the room is full of people worth knowing.
What Happens in the Room
Each session centers on a specific topic — governance, workforce impact, responsible use, scaling, ethic — and opens into facilitated breakout conversations. You'll hear how people across roles and industries are actually approaching AI: what's working, what isn't, and what questions don't have clean answers yet. That mix of perspectives — a founder next to a data engineer next to a CTO — is what makes the conversation worth showing up for every time.
The AI Collective Partnership
The AI Roundtable is affiliated with the AI Collective, a global nonprofit community of more than 200,000 builders, founders, researchers, and practitioners working to advance generative AI responsibly. The partnership connects our community to a broader global conversation — which means the thinking in the room draws from a much wider pool than any single city or industry.
Registration
One registration covers every monthly session in 2026. Save the link in a recurring calendar event, or use the Google Calendar invite, which includes your personal session link.
2026 AI Roundtable Summaries
Click the topic title of the month to go to the LinkedIn post about the AIR.
2/9/2026
AIR #20
From Pilot to Platform: What It Really Takes to Scale AI
Host and Moderators
Kelly Byrnes, Founder and CEO of Voyage Consulting Group, created and hosts the AI Roundtable. Kristina Sorrelli and Alex Colley serve as moderators. All three were founding members of the Kansas City AI Club Steering Committee in 2023 and have been active in the AI community ever since. A planning team of engaged community members helps shape each year's topics.
Join the AIR Community
Want a practical foundation to go alongside the AI Roundtable conversations?
The Basics of Gen AI is the guide Kelly Byrnes wrote for professionals who want to understand AI clearly and apply it without waiting for someone else to hand them a roadmap.
It covers the fundamentals, real-world use cases, and the decisions leaders and practitioners are navigating right now—including guardrails, policies, and security.
Participation in the AI Roundtables is voluntary. By attending or participating in the AI Roundtable in any manner, you acknowledge that all insights, resources, and chat contributions are for informational purposes only. Voyage Consulting Group, its representatives, and fellow participants are not liable for how information is interpreted or used. Participants assume full responsibility for their own decisions and actions and agree to indemnify Voyage Consulting Group and all individuals involved.