7:00 – 7:55 AM

Doors open — registration, continental breakfast, exhibitors/sponsors, poster viewing

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM

Opening welcome — Marijo Rommelfaenger, PhD, RN, CNE, WLN President

8:15 – 9:00 AM

Morning Session 1  (0.75 contact hour)

What Practice Expects: How AI Shows Up for Nurses at the Point of Care

Presenter: Dr. KC Thompson Morton, DNP, FNP-BC

APRN Nursing Professional Development Specialist, ANA Enterprises

Adjunct Professor, Purdue Global University

Founder and Clinical Lead, Optimal Wellness, LLC

Brief: what new graduates will actually meet (ambient documentation, generative messaging, decision support); what employers now expect nurses to question and verify; where tools help judgment vs erode clinical judgment

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Short transition break

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

Morning Session 2 (0.75 contact hour)

What Educators Can Build: AI Avatars, Simulation, and Human Judgment

Presenter: Dr. KC Thompson Morton, DNP, FNP-BC

APRN Nursing Professional Development Specialist, ANA Enterprises

Adjunct Professor, Purdue Global University

Founder and Clinical Lead, Optimal Wellness, LLC

Brief: How faculty design coursework and clinical experiences using AI-supported input and tools that still require clinical judgment. 

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Break — exhibitors, sponsors, poster viewing

11:00 – 12 noon

Morning Session 3 (1 contact hour)

Ethical Use of AI in Nursing Practice: Lessons from Long-Term Care

Presenter:

Evelyn Marshall-King, MSN-NE, RN, WCC

Assistant Director of Clinical Services / Director of Clinical Education & Development 

Waters Edge Health & Rehabilitation Center, Kenosha, WI

Brief: The interface with AI and nursing re: consent, privacy, over-reliance, documentation tools, resident-centered judgment. Translate ethical imperatives into something faculty can teach.

12:00 – 12:45 PM

Grab-and-go lunch — exhibitors, sponsors, posters

12:45 – 1:00 PM

DAISY and Scholarship Award Presentations

1:00 – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session 1 (1 contact hour)

What Educators Can Build: Practical AI Strategies for Teaching, Assignments, and Academic Integrity

Presenter:

Lane Sunwall, PhD

Teaching, Learning & Technology Consultant, UW Milwaukee

Brief: AI as a teaching assistant; designing assignment using AI; academic integrity and syllabus language; AI literacy habits of students; include healthcare examples from the perspective of educational best practices.

2:00 – 2:15 PM

Short transition break

2:15 – 3:15 PM

Afternoon Session 2 - Panel Discussion - Across the Generations: How Nurses at Every Career Stage Are Using AI in Practice

Moderator:

Mary McMahon Bullis, PhD, RN, CCRN

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing UW Eau Claire

Panelists: Dr. KC Thompson Morton, Evelyn Marshall-King, Dr. Lane Sunwall

3:15 – 3:30 PM

Wrap-up, evaluation, contact hours.

Marijo Rommelfaenger, PhD RN CNE

WLN President