https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/09/19/larry-magid-conference-focuses-on-regional-impact-of-ai/

I’ve been covering tech from my perch in Silicon Valley since the early 80s, and when I went on the road, it was typically for tech conferences in places such as New York, Las Vegas, Austin and Berlin. But I spent two days last week at the RegenAI Summit in Ashland, Oregon, a city of 21,000 in the mostly rural Rogue Valley, about 15 miles from the California border.

What distinguished this event from other conferences I’ve attended is that it was largely focused on the needs of local communities. Even its name, RegenAI, is a play on three words: region, regenerative and generative, as in finding ways to use generative AI to help regenerate this rural region of southern Oregon,