Some takeaways from HESA AI-Cademy 2026

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:42:44 -0700

I spent a few days at HESA’s AI-Cademy at UBC’s main campus this week. This is an attempt to step back and figure out what themes emerged from across the pre-conference and 2 days of the conference proper. This isn’t comprehensive because I had too many pages of notes from all sessions to do a full session-by-session conference post. (yes, I used Claude to help crunch through my many many pages of notes to pull out the key themes across sessions. If I hadn’t, I’d have taken me weeks to write this and it would have been all I’d be doing in my spare time, so yeah. cognitive offloading.)

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Some takeaways from HESA AI-Cademy 2026