STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Artificial intelligence will be the focus of the Digital Innovation Summit, theme \u201cLiving Behind the Screen,\u201d Tuesday, April 18, at the Tarleton Fort Worth campus, 10850 Texan Rider Drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The summit, sponsored by the Texas Social Media Research Institute and the Rural Communication Institute as part of their 13th annual Texas Social Media Conference, begins at 3 p.m. with a Texas-style roundtable discussion on the impact of AI on Texas businesses, the education sector, health outcomes, and jobs and economic development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 4 p.m. session will feature live demonstrations of select AI tools followed by a TSMRI member relating her experience in a recent church sermon series focused on how members can be more prepared for AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An AI creation competition where participants use an AI tool to create social media images and posts will conclude the summit. Prizes will be awarded to the winners. Attendees will receive a 2.5 Hour Digital Innovation Summit participation certificate after the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The summit is free for Tarleton attendees and $10 for community participants. Register<\/p>\n\n\n\n
at https:\/\/tarletonstate.us\/TXSMCRegistration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, contact Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards at jtedwards@tarleton.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Artificial intelligence will be the focus of the Digital Innovation Summit, theme \u201cLiving Behind the Screen,\u201d Tuesday, April 18, at the Tarleton Fort Worth campus, 10850 Texan …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":48691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423],"tags":[463,440],"class_list":["post-48689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","tag-ai","tag-college-of-liberal-fine-arts"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/04\/FW-GrandOpening-300x195.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Academics & Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Academics & Research<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Artificial Intelligence<\/a>","College of Liberal & Fine Arts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Artificial Intelligence<\/span>","College of Liberal & Fine Arts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 11 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 12, 2023","modified":"Updated on May 13, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 12, 2023 10:14 am","modified":"Updated on May 13, 2025 9:42 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Campus building with Tarleton State University banners and a clear path leading to the entrance.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53293,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions\/53293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}