The AI skills no one is teaching you

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AI is already shaping school, work, and everyday life but teens are not being taught how to use AI properly. This session fills that gap. Learn how AI actually works and how to use it effectively. Through live demos and real examples, you will see how AI tools work, where they help, and where they can mislead. Walk away with a practical “AI toolkit” you can use for learning, creativity, and future career paths.

Presenter Bio:

Jennifer Hufnagel, AI Educator & AI Readiness Consultant and Principal of Hufnagel Consulting, brings 25+ years of professional experience with a focus on corporate training, instructional design, facilitation, software, business analysis, and system and process improvement. She has spent the last 3 years honing her skills in the AI space and is one of the top AI Educators in Canada with a background in L&D. To date Jennifer has delivered training presentations to 4000+ users in person or online (to a worldwide audience). She is a sought after speaker on AI delivering sessions at VIEA, RIEP, COO Alliance, WeBC, AWE, AFOA-BC and an AI facilitator with the New School of Fundraising. She is the lead facilitator for the AI Upskilling for Business for Small Business Program in the Central Island and the AI facilitator for The New School of Fundraising and CampTech.

She has had the privilege to hold corporate roles at some of the top companies in Canada. As a Learning & Development Specialist at 1-800-GOT-JUNK? (now O2E), Manager of Training & Franchise Support (Men in Kilts) and Learning & Development Consultant (Frogbox). Additional roles include working at QuickMobile (CVENT), Qtrade (Senior Advisor Training Specialist), as a Senior Training and Enablement Specialist and a Sales Enablement Training Specialist at Hootsuite. Her audiences have ranged from internal teams, entrepreneurs, franchise owners and operators, to international enterprise Fortune 100/500 companies including Walmart, Whirlpool, KPMG, Intuit and VISA.

As the General Manager of Innovation Island, she co-created the DER3 program successfully scaled to 1750+ business in British Columbia. She worked directly with chambers, nations, community future offices, and economic development agencies.

Originally from Sointula, Malcolm Island, she holds Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurship from the University of Victoria, training and instructional design certifications from the BCIT, VCC and Langevin Learning. She is also a certified AI Futurelab Mastermind Trainer. She is a winner of the Nanaimo Chamber Women in Business Award for 2025 and the Women of Influence in STEM award for 2026.