Lori Ryan
Bio
Lori Ryan helps entrepreneurs and businesses make sense of AI without the overwhelm. She’s not here to geek out on algorithms—she’s here to show you how AI can be your brainstorming buddy, problem-solver, and secret weapon for working smarter. With a background in tech, media, and business strategy, she keeps things practical, fun, and refreshingly real. Through her company, Lorignite, she helps people see AI as the sidekick they didn’t know they needed.
Presenting Sessions
Participating Sessions
- AI as My Thought Partner: Gaining Courage and Perspective 24/7
- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: Why Artists and Creatives Will Shape the Future of AI
- Relax, Robots Won’t Steal Your Job: How AI Can Bring Back Humanity at Work
- Startup 2.0: AI Agents Meet 'The Sims'
- If No One Remembers You, Do You Even Exist? The REPEAT Framework for Making Your Message Stick
- AI Told You So: The $1M Business I Actually Built Using ChatGPT
- 🔓Unlocking Our Brain’s Power to Innovate 🧠
- Deepfakes 101: What’s Real, What’s Not, and What to Do About It
- Managing Your IT Career v16 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- Recruiting Hacks 2.0: Tips for Leaders, Hiring Managers and Senior Team Members to Boost the Talent Hunt
- The most important verb of the 21st century: Curation
- GenAI 101
- Beyond Hourly Rates: How Service Providers Build Wealth Through Shared Success Agreements
- UX Office Hours
- Tech Together Podcast Recording
- Human Intelligence Movement
- Negotiating your compensation
- So, you want to be a consultant?
- Open Source Technology and The Future of Civic Tech
- I Made Every Marketing Mistake So You Don’t Have To (You're Welcome)
- Enabling Disruptive Thinking with Generative Intelligence
- Designing for Crisis: ‘This information can save lives’
- The IKEA Effect: Why Your Team Can’t Follow What’s Only in Your Head
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Eliminate busywork with automation (& other ways) to give your team hours back every week
- Session 0 feat. Dr. AnnMarie Thomas!
- Lunch in Sandy's Place! 🍕
- Meet Our Community Partners!
- Newbie Table
- Second Annual Charles Edge Social Hour in Sandy's Place