1.      Use efficient generative AI prompting strategies to gain maximum benefit from their AI interactions

2.      Identify 20+ AI tools that can support your work

3.      Understand how current AI technology will continue to evolve, including Agentic AI

James Spellos is the President of Meeting U. whose mission for over 25 years is to help people become more productive and comfortable with technology.   

In 2024, Meetings Today magazine named Jim one of the Meeting Industry trendsetters, for his “AI Education with Integrity” commitment.  In 2022, Meeting Professionals International included Jim on their most influential list in the hospitality industry in honor of their 50th anniversary celebration.

He was a faculty member at New York University for 25 years, receiving both their Award for Teaching Excellence and their Outstanding Service Award. Jim was previously named one of the Meeting Industry’s trendsetters by Meetings Today magazine in 2015.

Jim is on the Board of Directors for Rock and Wrap It Up, an anti-poverty, anti-hunger organization which recovers excess food from films, tv productions, concerts, sports and other events.  Jim co-created their Whole Earth Calculator app. He also speaks about food recovery and sustainability to groups around the country.  In 2018 & 2019, BizBash named Jim one of their top 500 people for his work in sustainability.

Jim is an accomplished musician and songwriter who released his first solo album, Stroke of Genius in 2020.  He has a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies, is a certified Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine’s Food for Life Instructor, and supports Plant Powered Metro New York in educating people about a healthy diet and lifestyle, which helped to save his own life.  Jim was named Plant Powered Metro New York’s Grassroots Champion in 2024.