Speaking · Keynotes · Workshops · Panels

Talks that leave the room with a plan.

No hype and no doom. Kris shares what a real district learned putting AI to work, and leaves audiences with frameworks they can use on Monday.

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Kris Hagel on stage at Bridges in New York City

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Keynotes & workshops since 2023: 51+
National webinars: 12
States & counting: 10
Years inside K-12: 25+

01 · Signature talks

Five talks, each tailored to your room.

Talk 01AI leadership

From Policy to Practice: Building a District-Wide AI Framework That Works

How Peninsula School District went from blanket worry to a working AI framework: guidance, training, tools and governance. Leaders get the playbook, the missteps, and a maturity model to see where their own system stands.

Delivered at

AASA AI Super Summit, Tampa

WSSDA Annual Conference, Spokane

Best for

Superintendents, cabinets, school boards

02 · Formats

Main stage or cabinet room.

Keynote

Opening or closing a conference, setting the frame for the day.

Hands-on workshop

Prompting, chatbots, data and AI agents. Everyone leaves having built something.

The AI Agent Building Workshop

Panel & fireside

Panelist or moderator, from CoSN to Stanford HAI.

Leadership sessions

Private sessions for cabinets, principals and school boards.

03 · Featured workshop

Build an AI agent in an afternoon.

A hands-on half day where administrators stop asking AI questions and start handing it work. Everyone leaves with an AI agent skill built around a workflow from their own job, ready to use the next morning.

In person, half day (3.5–4 hours)
Up to 50 participants; 25–35 is ideal
No technical background required
Also offered for chambers of commerce and small-business groups

Bring it to your organization

Delivered for Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA), May 2026

Part 01
The aha moment
A live demo of an AI agent working through a real administrator workflow on its own, across multiple steps.
Part 02
The mental model
How agents work, and what Agent Skills are: document how something gets done once, and any agent can do it from then on.
Part 03
The build
Each participant builds their first Agent Skill around a pain point they bring with them, with structure and support in the room.
Part 04
The bridge to Monday
How to expand what they built, connect skills together, and where this is heading.

What participants build

Communication skill
Summarizer skill
Reviewer skill
Preparer skill
Responder skill

Agent Skills is an open standard supported across Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Workspace and more, so what participants build isn’t locked to one tool.

04 · Recent stages