Stop Using AI Ineffectively: How Small Businesses Waste Time with Helpful Tools
NGLCCNY is partnering with Verizon Small Business Digital Ready to provide education, insights, workshops, and virtual events through the free-to-use platform. Register here or copy and paste the URL below to set up your free account.
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"The goal of AI isn't to create more content; it's to create more time." If your experience with AI so far feels like managing a high-maintenance intern—constantly checking its facts, rewriting its generic emails, and spending more time "prompting" than producing—you are suffering from The AI Efficiency Gap. Most small businesses are layering AI on top of broken processes, creating more work instead of less. This webinar is a hard-reset on your AI strategy. We’re moving away from "chatting" with bots and moving toward building automated systems that actually move the needle.
Loralyn Mears, PhD is a social entrepreneur inspired by acts of kindness. She has held executive leadership roles in marketing and innovation for three Fortune 100s and several tech startups. Along the way, she’s launched dozens of products, startups, and Centers of Excellence. A recognized author and a National Gold Medal book winner, she applied her passion for driving sustainable change to launch STEERus. As a social entrepreneur, she focuses on enabling underserved communities, particularly those with special needs through her nonprofit, HELPipedia, which is powered by the STEERus platform as the "Hub for HELP."
Date and Time
Thursday Sep 24, 2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
Location
This virtual event is through the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready platform.
Fees/Admission
This virtual event is free to attend.