2025 KABA Annual Meeting
The Kenosha Area Business Alliance (KABA) cordially invites you to its 2025 Annual Meeting of Investors.
Southeast Wisconsin is a Hub of Artificial Intelligence Innovation – Here’s How Your Business Should Harness the Power of AI
This year’s event will feature a keynote address from Matt Kirchner. Kirchner is an international speaker, author and podcast host on topics of interest to educators, public policy makers and private employers. He will share his insights on powerful innovations and how Wisconsin is playing a leading role as artificial intelligence (AI) changes the world. Kirchner will make the case for Wisconsin taking a “just start” approach to using AI, rather than waiting for technical perfection. See his bio below.
Nowhere is this leadership in AI more apparent than in Southeast Wisconsin. Our region is where Microsoft chose to build a marquis data center and related training academy. Our region claims the origin of the first bachelor’s and associate’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence. Our region is home to the manufacturing focused co-innovation lab and is the birthplace of the applied AI movement in K-12 education.
During the rapid rise of AI across every economic sector, many organizations have embraced this technology and are already shifting their business models to leverage the power of AI, a power accessible to everyone.
As host of the #1 podcast in STEM and Technical Education and president of the Midwest’s leading provider of applied artificial intelligence learning systems, Matt Kirchner engages firsthand with the world’s most fascinating AI leaders, innovators and public policy makers. Learn how AI is disrupting our entire economy, how every organization can and must harness the power of AI, and how Southeast Wisconsin is leading the U.S. in Artificial Intelligence.
The annual meeting will also include board of directors election results and an update on the KABA organization and Kenosha County economic development initiatives.
Join us to learn, network, support KABA, enjoy a delicious breakfast, and be a part of the conversation!
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
7:15 a.m. Registration & networking; 7:45 breakfast; 8:15 program; 9:45 program concludes
UW-Parkside Student Center Ballroom, 900 Wood Road, Kenosha, WI 53144
$60 for KABA investors; $75 for general public
Please register at the link below by Friday, February 28. Questions? Please contact KABA at 262.605.1100 or info@kaba.org.
KABA would like to thank its generous sponsors for their continued support!
MEET OUR SPEAKER
On a mission to secure the American Dream for the next generation of STEM and Workforce talent, MATT KIRCHNER hosts the weekly TechEd PodcastTM and serves as President of ATS/LAB Midwest, the leading distributor of world-class curriculum, eLearning and training equipment.
Kirchner writes monthly leadership columns appearing in Products Finishing and Production Machining magazines and is the author of “Teaching the Industrial Internet of Things: Preparing Students and Learners for Industry 4.0.”
Previously Kirchner led three world class manufacturing companies during a 20+ career as an industrial CEO. He Kirchner serves on the boards of directors of several American companies and among his many volunteer activities is currently the First-Past President of the Education Dealers Association and holds a seat on the board of the Smart Automation Certification Alliance. He is a graduate of the Marquette University School of Business.