AI in Action | Year-round resources for practical AI adoption

Keep the AI in Action Momentum Going

The AI in Action Business Summit is one day. The work continues all year. Explore practical AI resources, hear from industry and Northeastern experts, and connect with the teams helping organizations move from AI interest to AI implementation.

Find the Right AI Starting Point for Your Organization

AI adoption does not always start with a big build. The right first step might be a working session, team training, a data readiness review, a Working Lab project, or a scoped technical build. Start with the path that matches your organization’s needs now, then build from there.

Develop AI-Ready Talent

Build practical AI, data, and digital skills through customized, instructor-led learning experiences designed around your team, tools, and business goals.

Leverage and Build AI Solutions

Work with Northeastern’s applied AI teams to identify opportunities, prototype tools, build production-ready solutions, and strengthen internal capability.

Run a Working Lab Project

Pair faculty-guided graduate student teams with your organization to tackle a defined business challenge, develop prototypes, analyze data, or create actionable outputs.

Connect with Research and Innovation

Engage faculty, researchers, students, and applied teams around AI challenges tied to health, life sciences, operations, climate, workforce, and more.

Build a Talent Pipeline

Bring emerging AI and data talent into your organization through co-ops, experiential projects, and applied student collaborations.

Entrepreneurship & Venture Creation

For founders, startups, investors, and innovation teams building what comes next. Connect with Roux entrepreneurship programs, founder resources, mentorship, venture pathways, and Maine’s startup community.

Engage the Maine Innovation Ecosystem

AI in Action is part of a larger ecosystem of partnership at The Roux Institute. Explore ways to connect with talent, research, entrepreneurship, custom learning, AI solutions, and regional innovation partners throughout the year.

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Get practical answers from Northeastern’s AI experts

Ask an AI Expert

Have a question about how AI could apply to your organization, your team, or your industry? Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI brings together data scientists, applied AI experts, responsible AI practitioners, researchers, and experiential co-op talent to help organizations think through what is possible and what is practical.

Whether you are exploring AI strategy, employee adoption, responsible AI, data readiness, technical feasibility, or a specific use case, we can help route your question to the right expertise.

Submit your question and we’ll help identify the best next step.

Continue Exploring Practical AI

Use this page as a starting point for AI ideas, examples, and next steps you can bring back to your team. Explore recent coverage, stories, courses, case studies, degrees, and applied AI support from across Northeastern and the Roux Institute.

AI in the Media

Read recent media coverage and expert perspectives on artificial intelligence from the Roux Institute and Northeastern network.

Read AI media coverage

Stories from the Roux

Explore stories about AI, innovation, learning, research, and partnership across the Roux ecosystem.

Explore AI stories

AI Solutions Hub

See how Northeastern helps organizations move from AI ambition to working solutions through opportunity mapping, prototyping, build, deployment, and support.

Explore the AI Solutions Hub

Bangor Savings Bank Case Study

See how Bangor Savings Bank partnered with Northeastern to strengthen data fluency, expand responsible AI adoption, and identify high-impact AI opportunities.

Read the case study

AI Custom Learning Courses

Browse AI-related custom learning options, from AI-ready workforce development to AI strategy, use-case identification, and productivity with generative AI.

Explore AI courses

AI and Machine Learning Degrees

Explore graduate learning pathways for professionals and students interested in deeper AI and machine learning expertise.

Explore AI degrees

Bring AI in Action to Your Team

The summit brings together practical examples, expert guidance, and industry conversations. Northeastern can help bring that same approach inside your organization through IdeaJams, custom learning, applied AI projects, and responsible AI support.

Host an IdeaJam

Bring leaders and teams together to surface AI opportunities, clarify barriers, and identify practical next steps worth exploring.

Train your team

Build AI confidence and practical tool use across teams through customized, instructor-led learning experiences.

Build or test a solution

Explore prototypes, dashboards, automation, internal tools, predictive models, or other applied AI opportunities with Northeastern’s AI Solutions Hub.

Support Small Business Growth

Through immersive learning, mentorship, and access to top-tier university resources and expertise, we help both new and established Maine small businesses unlock growth, adapt to change, and achieve measurable results.

Interested in Partnering on AI in Action?

AI in Action brings together business leaders, public-sector partners, researchers, entrepreneurs, and workforce leaders focused on practical AI adoption. If your organization wants to support next year’s summit, sponsor a session, host a workshop, or collaborate on year-round programming, we would be glad to connect.