A Week of AI Learning, Exploration, and Connection: October 12–16, 2026
Join UCLA Digital & Technology Solutions, campus experts, and leading technology partners for a week of hands-on learning, practical AI applications, demonstrations, and conversations designed for the UCLA community.
Discover how AI can support learning, teaching, research, and work while connecting with the tools, resources, and expertise available across UCLA.
Explore. Learn. Apply. Together.
UCLA AI Exchange brings together UCLA expertise and leading technology partners to help our community build practical AI skills, explore real-world applications, and better understand how AI can support teaching, research, learning, and work across campus.
Throughout the week, the UCLA community can participate in hands-on workshops, demonstrations, panels, pop-ups, office hours, and opportunities to learn directly from UCLA experts and technology partners.
What to Expect
Tools and Training
Participate in hands-on workshops, live demonstrations, and skill-building sessions designed to build confidence using AI tools.
Practical Applications
Explore real-world applications across teaching, research, student learning, and operational work.
Peer and Expert Perspectives
Hear from UCLA faculty, staff, and campus experts alongside technology partners working with AI.
Campuswide Engagement
Choose from programming designed for the distinct interests and needs of students, faculty, staff, and the broader UCLA community.
Students
Build skills. Explore what is possible.
Discover AI tools through hands-on experiences, demonstrations, and skill-building opportunities. Explore practical applications that can support learning, creativity, and career-relevant skills.
Faculty
Explore AI for teaching, research, and academic practice.
Engage with practical approaches to AI in teaching, assessment, research, academic writing, accessibility, and course design. Learn from UCLA colleagues, campus experts, and technology partners.
Staff
Discover practical applications for your work.
Learn ways to use AI effectively in day-to-day work through practical demonstrations, productivity sessions, technical learning, and opportunities to connect with AI experts.
UCLA Community
Connect, learn, and explore together.
Participate in campus-wide programming that brings together students, faculty, staff, UCLA experts, and technology partners to share ideas, explore emerging practices, and learn how AI is being used across UCLA.
Upcoming AI Exchange Events
Keep checking back. More events coming soon.
Join us to learn how Gemini can help you ramp up for your best school year yet with tools that can deepen your learning and boost your productivity.
Deep dive into advanced workflows, multi-file reasoning, AI agents, and prompt engineering for experienced developers.
Join us to learn how Gemini can help you ramp up for your best school year yet with tools that can deepen your learning and boost your productivity.
Faculty Workshop | Teaching & Learning: Create Process-Based Assessments – Google AI Educator Series
Discover how Gemini in Google Workspace and Gemini Notebook can help streamline your daily tasks, elevate teaching, and scale academic research.
Discover how Gemini in Google Workspace and Gemini Notebook can help streamline your daily tasks, elevate teaching, and scale academic research.
Hands-on exploration of building and deploying grounded AI agents for experimentation and real-world application development.
Advanced session on the full feature set available to licensed users, including premium capabilities for institutional workflows.
Faculty Workshop | Teaching & Learning: Create Process-Based Assessments – Google AI Educator Series
Discover how Gemini in Google Workspace and Gemini Notebook can help streamline your daily tasks, elevate teaching, and scale academic research.
Showcase of Copilot Chat and capabilities included for every M365 user, with practical examples for students, faculty and staff.
Discover how Gemini in Google Workspace and Gemini Notebook can help streamline your daily tasks, elevate teaching, and scale academic research.
Workshop and discussion of generative AI, its impact on academic research and writing, and comparison to traditional research methods
Introductory session on using GitHub Copilot to write code faster, with GitHub Student Developer Pack activation.
Learn new skills and approaches for advancing digital accessibility in this faculty workshop.
AWS home base for demos, swag, 1:1 conversations, Skill Builder and AWS program information.
Special event for students highlighting UCLA's AWS Cloud Club
This in-person workshop supports instructors in drafting a course policy on GenAI use that is aligned with their disciplinary learning goals and context.
Special event for students to get hands-on experience with AWS tools and resources.
Learn more about Kiro from AWS in this special hands-on workshop for students.
Join us for a panel discussion with UCLA instructors sharing how they are evaluating, integrating and navigating AI for teaching and learning.
Special workshop for faculty on Amazon Quick.
AWS home base for demos, swag, 1:1 conversations, Skill Builder and AWS program information.
Hosted networking event with prizes, giveaways, AWS team conversations, and informal Q&A for faculty and staff.
Faculty share how they are currently using AI in their research and day-to-day work, including locally hosted models and the smaller tools beyond the big frontier models. Graduate and undergraduate students are welcome.
1:1 conversations on research collaboration, AI tools for teaching/administration, Amazon Quick follow-up and campus AI strategy.