Recommended Actions
Specific, actionable steps for each of the Blueprint's twelve key elements. These are working recommendations that will evolve as the ecosystem grows.
1. Research, Risk and Responsible AI
Advance cutting-edge AI research while ensuring ethical, safe, responsible, and transparent use.
- Build ecosystem network
- Create an ecosystem scorecard; publish results quarterly
- Create AI policy templates for typical organizations in the ecosystem
- Provide Responsible AI training
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Establish a Responsible AI research consortium
- Conduct and publish research beneficial to regional stakeholders
- Launch a risk assessment lab
- Share open-source explainable-AI tools
- Create an AI incident registry
- Develop procurement guidelines for “responsible” models and tools
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
2. Education
Integrate AI literacy across K–12, vocational, and higher education systems for long-term growth.
- Build ecosystem network
- Create AI policy templates for typical organizations in the ecosystem
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Accelerate integration of AI literacy and adoption into K–12 curricula
- Develop and support school AI clubs and labs
- Provide teacher AI training
- Create an AI educator toolkit
- Collaborate with the Workforce team to develop AI skill certifications
- Develop AI library programs
- Co-create AI camps (after-school, weekend, summer, etc.)
- Provide open-access AI education resources
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
3. Workforce Development
Build an inclusive, AI-ready workforce through upskilling, reskilling, and career pathways.
- Build ecosystem network
- Create an ecosystem scorecard; publish results quarterly
- Create AI policy templates for typical organizations in the ecosystem
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Partner on development of internships and apprenticeships
- Partner on development of microcredentials
- Create and expand bootcamps
- Host an annual AI career fair for the region
- Support displaced-worker training
- Co-create skills training with trades and vocational schools
- Create and enhance AI mentor programs
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
4. Government Operations and Policy
Modernize public services and guide AI adoption through forward-thinking governance.
- Build ecosystem network
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Pilot AI in public services
- Form an AI policy task force
- Establish ethical AI use guidelines
- Develop audit mechanisms
- Implement chatbots
- Promote data-driven policymaking
- Build GovTech research partnerships
- Host civic-tech hackathons
- Develop accessibility standards
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
5. Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Environment
Deploy AI to improve urban systems, digital capacity, sustainability, mobility, and public safety.
- Build ecosystem network
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Share an AI use case for traffic and transit
- Share an AI use case for predictive infrastructure maintenance
- Share an AI use case for flood and air monitoring
- Share an AI use case for energy optimization in buildings
- Share an AI use case in grid management
- Share a waste-management AI use case
- Share an AI use case for water-quality monitoring
- Coordinate smart-neighborhood pilots
- Organize planner AI training
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
6. Healthcare
Leverage AI for diagnostics, patient care, access, and health-equity innovation.
- Build ecosystem network
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Share an AI use case for diagnostics
- Share an AI use case for data-sharing frameworks
- Share an AI use case for health equity
- Share a use case for remote AI healthcare pilots
- Share a use case for mental-health crisis prediction
- Provide AI literacy training for clinicians
- Promote healthcare AI research in the region
- Create an AI ethics review board for the region
- Lead an AI efficiency committee
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
7. Business Community
Drive AI adoption and partnership across industries to boost productivity and regional competitiveness.
- Establish a Business Community liaison role
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Create a Business AI advisory council
- Conduct AI-readiness surveys
- Conduct AI literacy and adoption training
- Share AI use-case best practices (potentially from local firms)
- Develop sector-specific guides
- Host AI workshops
- Share a supply-chain AI use case
- Share a best-practice AI policy template
- Share best-practice Responsible AI frameworks
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
8. Startup Community
Foster an ecosystem of AI-driven entrepreneurship, innovation, and local investment.
- Establish a Startup Community liaison role
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Survey to understand the needs of startups in the region
- Participate in “Welcome to Startup Ecosystem” (Startup Cincy)
- Support startup/corporate partnerships
- Support ecosystem pitch and demo events
- Develop a regional AI startup sandbox
- Support VC/startup matchmaking
- Provide AI mentors for startups at regional incubators and accelerators
- Digitally promote regional startups and the startup ecosystem
- Partner in leading an annual summit (Startup Cincy Week)
9. Non-Profit Community
Enable mission-driven organizations to use AI for social impact and operational efficiency.
- Establish a Non-Profit Community liaison role
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Host nonprofit AI literacy and adoption workshops
- Develop low-cost/no-cost AI tools and templates for nonprofits
- Develop shared resource models
- Share an AI use case for fundraising
- Share an AI use case for nonprofit service delivery
- Share AI governance best practices
- Coordinate pilot AI implementation projects
- Host ecosystem hackathons
- Develop an impact scorecard and report quarterly
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
10. Arts, Culture and Media
Support creative applications of AI in storytelling, cultural heritage, and public engagement.
- Establish an Arts, Culture and Media liaison role
- Host quarterly ecosystem meetups
- Coordinate AI art exhibitions
- Provide AI literacy and adoption training for artists
- Share best practices for AI in media
- Share best practices for ethics in AI art
- Coordinate AI-curated exhibits
- Host an annual ecosystem summit
11. Networking and Collaboration
Unite stakeholders across sectors to accelerate learning, alignment, and shared progress.
- Regional ecosystem meetup
- AI collaborative council
- Knowledge-sharing platform
- Ecosystem directory
- Industry–academia partnerships
- Multi-city / multi-state collaboration
- Working-group meetups
- Annual ecosystem leaders summit
- Shared data projects
- Annual Cincinnati AI Week conference
12. Citizen and Community Engagement
Ensure AI benefits all communities through transparency, inclusion, and public participation.
- Organize community AI town halls
- Conduct AI for Older Adults training
- Create a Community AI Ambassador program
- Host a Future of AI and Society meetup
- Run an “AI for All” campaign
- Lead Cincinnati Region AI adoption storytelling
- Build AI partnerships with regional media
- Create myth-busting resources
- Create a digital-equity program
- Coordinate annual Cincinnati Region AI Week community events