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Good Morning SLO is our platform for sharing ideas, news and inspiration. A monthly program that brings community leaders, business owners, nonprofit executives and staffers together, and enables us to reconnect, engage and learn from each other.
Our goal is to provide insight into business, community and legislative issues and share the stories of those making a difference. We want audience members to leave with ideas and information about how to better their personal and professional lives.
Good Morning SLO happens on the fourth Thursday of every month except November when it is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Thank you to this month’s featured sponsor:
This month’s speaker lineup:
FACTUAL RESULTS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
At a time when inaccurate AI-created information presented as news is pushing society further into chaotic skepticism, AI can also represent a response to these concerns. Journalism professor Kim Bisheff will join us to highlight one example that helps people find source-supported truth, the recently deployed innovative FactBot developed in partnership between Cal Poly’s Digital Transformation Hub, Amazon Web Services and Snopes.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF BUSINESS
Young People’s Networking Group, or YPNG, has been connecting and engaging local young professionals with community activities, volunteer opportunities and social networking functions since 2006. Rachel Lippa, YPNG Board President, will join us onstage to share more about what the organization is doing to connect and invigorate young professionals in our community.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO CRISIS INTERVENTION
By pairing behavioral health-trained licensed psychiatric technicians with crisis intervention-trained law enforcement officers, SLO County’s Behavioral Health Community Action Team brings an innovative new set of tools to mental health crisis intervention. Division Manager Samantha Parker will join us to share how this specialty-trained co-response approach positively impacts outcomes for people in crisis and has become a model for CAT teams in our county and beyond.
THE HOTHOUSE’S NEW HOME
Cal Poly recently announced that they will be relocating the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship/Hothouse to a new location in Downtown SLO. We’ve invited Karen Tillman, Interim Executive Director of the Cal Poly C.I.E., to share where the new facility will be going and what the plans are for the new location.
A SECURE ELECTION
As we work to dispel rumors of election insecurity that are running rampant throughout our country and community, we’ve invited Elaina Cano, San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder, to tell us about the logistics of the upcoming election, the strict procedures in place in our county and state, the rigorous training poll workers go through and why you should feel good about casting your vote.
GIVING VETERANS NEW LIFE
More than 22 veterans die by suicide each day in the United States, and New Life K9s is working to lower that staggering number locally. Rhys Jansen will join us to share more about the organization that trains service dogs through a rehabilitation program at California Men’s Colony and provides them to Veterans and First Responders with PTSD at no cost to them.
OPERA SLO
We’ll close out the morning with a performance from Brian Asher Alhadeff ahead of Opera San Luis Obispo’s performance of Carmen on October 19 and 20 at the Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo.
Thank you to all the Good Morning SLO Annual Sponsors for 2024:
