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,