Speaking / AI talks and classes
Where he has spoken.
Keynotes, panels, and hands-on classes. The rooms below are the ones a host or his own site has published.
- PanelistGRIT Conference
“AI & The Creator: Friend or Foe”
Savannah Civic Center · February 29–March 1, 2024
- KeynoteSavannah State University
73rd Southern Regional Press Institute
March 1, 2024, 12 p.m. · King Frazier Ballroom, Savannah. The institute’s theme was Artificial Intelligence in the Media and Pop Culture.
- Insight sessionProfessional Outdoor Media Association
The AI (re)Evolution
March 19, 2024 · 3 p.m. CDT
- KeynoteProfessional Outdoor Media Association
The AI (re)Evolution: Transforming Outdoor Media from Survival to Revival
Annual Meeting · May 6–8, 2024 · Pinewood, South Carolina
- Hands-on classSouthwest Power Pool
External Affairs Conference
June 13, 2024 · Kansas City
- Virtual sessionsElectric Power Research Institute
Repeat AI training sessions
- UpcomingVAUSA
Free AI workshop
December 1, 2026
From a workshop
I can’t recommend Bud’s speaking services highly enough – he’s an exceptional educator with a genuine passion for helping people thrive, especially now, in the AI-driven world.
Christina Blanarovich, business owner and homeschool podcaster
01
Practical AI for small businesses.
The talk is one job a business already does every week. Bud maps that job, sets rules for what can go into a tool, and writes the steps so someone on the team can run them the next morning. Same material he teaches to small businesses, wedding professionals, and conference rooms.
02
AI for families and homeschool dads.
Bud is a homeschool dad of four. He married Sarah in 2007. The line in their house is builders, not browsers. This talk is for families, and for dads teaching at home, who want a real project on the table and a person still deciding what gets made.
03
Using AI to upgrade your life.
In 2024 he wrote about using ChatGPT as a trainer while he got in shape. He gave it context a generic plan never has: how he ate, a sugar addiction, his weight and measurements, and his bloodwork. He set specific goals: bigger arms, and waking up feeling well, rather than an aggressive plan built for a healthy 20-year-old. Once a week he came back with new numbers, what worked, and what did not. His back was not growing, so the plan shifted to work he could do without stressing it before it was ready. He is not a doctor, not a nutritionist, and not your trainer. The talk is that loop: context, a clear goal, and a weekly check.
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