# Twin Cities AI Skills Jam Event Playbook

## Verified event details

- Date: September 16, 2026
- Location: Heritage Center of Brooklyn Center
- Program: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CDT
- Optional practice and Q&A: 12:00–1:00 p.m. CDT
- Hosts: OpenAI Academy, Senior Planet from AARP, and Senior Community Services

Official listing: https://academy.openai.com/public/events/ai-skills-jam-for-older-adults-twin-cities-mn-rnt55ha8bt

## Purpose

Demonstrate how a disabled creator can turn lived experience into documented systems knowledge, a bounded prototype, and a partnership invitation—without publishing medical records, private correspondence, or another person’s identity.

## Bring on the iPad

- This repository landing page
- The privacy-protected case study
- The 30-second introduction below
- Three questions for a facilitator
- A private blank contact note
- A charger and any needed accessibility supports

Do not open health records, mailbox screenshots, or private collaborator material during the demonstration.

## 30-second introduction

> I’m Dominique Devereaux, a disabled founder and systems architect at Loptr Lab. PIXIE began when I recognized that creative technology was transferring avoidable memory and organizational labor onto the person using it. I used ChatGPT to recover structure after a difficult collaboration, then documented what the agent could help with, where it failed, and why qualified humans remain essential. I’m looking for the appropriate product, accessibility, research, or community contact to review the method.

## Three-minute demonstration

1. Show the homepage promise: the person describes intent; the system handles machinery.
2. Show one synthetic private-health state to explain consent and local-first boundaries.
3. Open the case study and name one useful AI contribution and one failure mode.
4. Show the opportunity-creation path.
5. End with one bounded ask: a 30-minute review or a warm introduction.

## Questions for a facilitator

1. Who is the best product, accessibility, research, or community contact for a privacy-protected review?
2. What evidence would make this useful to an accessibility or human-computer-interaction team?
3. What is the appropriate route for compensated lived-experience participation?

## Contact capture

Ask permission before recording a name or contact method. Record only what the person authorizes. Do not add anyone to a mailing list or publish their name without separate permission.

## Follow-up

- Within 24 hours: send a concise thank-you with the repository and the agreed next action.
- Within seven days: make one respectful follow-up if no response arrives.
- Before accepting compensation: confirm benefit-reporting and tax implications with a qualified benefits counselor.