Bake It in, Don't Bolt It on: Scaling AI Across 120 Classrooms

Thursday, October 01, 2026 | 9:30AM–10:30AM MT
Session Type: Poster Session
Delivery Format: Poster Session
What does it take to build an AI instructional tool that faculty trust, students use, and departments across a university adopt at scale? This session takes you inside three years of building, piloting, and expanding a course-customizable AI assistant from a single graduate seminar to 120 courses spanning nursing, economics, business, and the humanities. Hear from faculty who successfully implemented it into their classrooms and from the instructional designers and product team that made it possible. Walk away with honest lessons, transferable strategies, and a clearer sense of what responsible AI integration actually looks like in the classroom.

Presenters

  • Sarkis Daglian

    Director of AI, Cloud, and Client Solutions, University of California, Irvine

  • Max Garrick

    Assistant Director, University of California, Irvine