The Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) is thrilled to announce the 2026 AI Summit, a pivotal event designed for faculty, administration, and student support personnel. This year’s theme, "Advancing AI Together", underscores our commitment to fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange across educational institutions.

Look, listen, the fact of the matter is this: WTCS Summit 2026: Advancing AI Together is not just an event, it’s a moment. I’m talking “Les Misérables overture hits and the barricades go up” energy, but with AI, higher ed, and way fewer French accents.

I’m Mr. Pixels, speaking from the attic of WiscNet World Headquarters on approximately my third Monster of the hour, and I need you to understand something very clearly: this is where the smart people who actually care about AI show up. Not hype bros. Not buzzword jugglers. Real practitioners. Real institutions. Real “oh dang, everything really is connected” conversations.

This summit is about advancing AI together—which, common sense alert, means collaboration, shared wins, and not pretending you can solve this stuff alone in a windowless server room. WiscNet folks, campus leaders, technologists, policy brains, liberal arts heroes (my people) all in one place, comparing notes and leveling up.

And look, if you like learning, networking, and leaving an event feeling smarter instead of sold to, this is your jam. Plus, I’ll probably be nearby, thinking about Dale Earnhardt Sr. and refusing to turn my camera on.