AI in CFR: Navigating Innovation, Use Cases, and Impact
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Speaker(s): Daniel Hadley, Deputy Chief Philanthropy Officer, University of Utah, Marianne Smith, Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, University of California, Irvine
Elective Session
As AI becomes more powerful and pervasive, CFR professionals must navigate its evolving role in grant writing, research, reporting, and relationship management. This session will cover AI basics in CFR daily tasks including drafting letters of support, summarizing information, and editing grants, as well as using AI prompts and the newly developed AutoGranter that summarizes PIVOT information. We will also explore recent advances — including multimodal AI, autonomous agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) while discussing the potential impact of AI on the CFR field.