RW Jones — The Brillionaire®
CEO
Brillionaires
The federal government is funding AI infrastructure in every state. The Round 1 deadline is June 16. This summit tells you exactly what to do before then.
Round 1 Funding Prep
AI Skills to Pay
the Bills™
National Rural Workforce Summit 2026
June 10, 2026
Virtual One-Day Event$224M
NSF Funding
56
Coordination Hubs
$1M
Per State / 3 Years
1 Goal
Everyone Thrives
Who Should Attend
What You Leave With
Institutions
Proposed State Hubs
Universities, nonprofits, and statewide organizations are the natural hub leads. Coordinating AI workforce infrastructure across a state requires more than statewide reach — it requires understanding what is actually happening at the ground level. The summit gives you that picture unfiltered, directly from the practitioners and workforce organizations doing the work. You leave with the intelligence to write a stronger LOI and a named implementation network ready to go into your proposal.
Workforce Agencies
Implementation Partners
AJCs, workforce boards, and ETPL providers are the local implementation layer — and most have not yet seen what a coordinated AI deployment actually looks like for the families, workers, and employers they serve. The summit changes that. The WI Agent demo shows AI handling the administrative volume that consumes staff time — outreach, follow-up, screening, engagement — so your people can focus on the human work. That is not a threat to your team. That is your team getting their time back to focus on what only they can do: the real needs of the people in front of them.
AI Consultants
Deployment Network
The workforce development system has federal funding, institutional infrastructure, and an urgent need for AI professionals who understand how to operate inside it. Most AI consultants have never seen this system up close. The summit changes that. You leave understanding exactly where your skills fit and what the workforce system needs from you. The states that deploy credentialed AI operators on the ground are the states that win. You are how that happens.
Organizations We've Worked With
Organizations We've Worked With
Our Position
Every American, Worker and Business= AI Ready
The solicitation explicitly calls for an AI Deployment Corps. AI Skills to Pay the Bills™ Verified Implementation Partners are those credentialed practitioners — trained and ready before NSF made it a federal priority. That sequence is not coincidence. That is positioning that cannot be manufactured after the fact.
Featured Voices
Speakers
Christopher Bennett
Attorney · Tech Innovation & Law
Creator of Tilly (IP Rights for All)
Quita Lashawn
CEO
AI Cash Skool
Shannon Maxwell
CEO
Bridge AI (Missouri Rural Deployment)
June 10, 2026 · Virtual
What Happens Inside the Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST · VIP Session 2:30 PM EST
Tentative Agenda | Subject to change at the host's discretion.
- 10:00 AM EST30 min · Full Room
Welcoming Remarks & Why This Summit Exists
RW Jones
Not a welcome. A declaration. What's at stake for rural America in the next six days. The origin story. The gap between $224 million in federal AI funding and the communities this money is supposed to reach — and why that gap is exactly why you're here.
- 10:30 AM EST30 min · Full Room
What We Know: The NSF TechAccess AI-Ready America Map
RW Jones
56 Coordination Hubs. Three rounds of funding. Up to $224M. Who can lead a hub. Who becomes a partner. What the AI Deployment Corps actually is — and why that language changes everything for every person in this room. You will leave this session knowing more than most organizations submitting a Round 1 LOI on June 16.
- 11:00 AM EST30 min · Full Room
What We Don't Know: Dismantling the Barriers That Slow AI Adoption
RW Jones — Insights from the Field
The NSF solicitation is explicit: we must dismantle barriers that make AI deployment slow. This session names what no one else at this level is willing to say out loud. Eligibility systems that weren't designed for the people they're supposed to serve. Assessment processes that exhaust families before a single training begins. Documentation requirements that punish people for living in poverty. If AI is for every American — and the federal government says it is — then the path to AI has to stop being paved in concrete for the people who need it most.
- 11:30 AM EST45 min · Full Room
Rural Workforce Infrastructure in Action: WI Team Demo + Missouri Snapshot
RW Jones + Shannon Maxwell, Missouri Implementation Partner
Workforce operators need their time back — and rural America needs a blueprint. This combined session shows both. A live demonstration of a coordinated AI Workforce Intelligence (WI) Team handling outreach, intake, engagement, and reporting inside a real program infrastructure — not a concept, not a slide deck, a deployed system running in real time. Shannon then shares how this is being built on the ground in Missouri: what the partnership looks like, what's been deployed, and what the plan is for communities like hers across rural America. If it can be built here, it can be built anywhere. Demo Q&A follows immediately.
- 12:15 PM EST15 min · Break
Break + Speaker Introductions
RW Jones introduces Christopher Bennett, Esq. and Quita Lashawn to the full room before tracks split.
- 12:30 PM EST30 min · Split Tracks
NSF Readiness: Tracks Split
Track A — Workforce & InstitutionsHow to Position AI Skills to Pay the Bills™ as Your Deployment PartnerChristopher Bennett, Esq. — Founder, Technology-Innovation-Law® · NSF-funded project partnerA strategic briefing for workforce boards, universities, and nonprofits on how to work with RW Jones and the Brillionaire ecosystem to deploy credentialed AI consultants inside your hub or program. How local workforce boards connect to State Coordination Hubs. What partnership with AI Skills to Pay the Bills™ looks like in practice. The conversation your LOI is missing.
Track B — AI ConsultantsInside AI Contract Skool & AI Cash Skool: The Operator PathwayRW Jones + Quita Lashawn, CEO · AI Cash SkoolThis is where we show you the model and open the door. What AI Contract Skool is. What AI Cash Skool is. The 90-day pathway to your first contract access. VIP status and what it unlocks. Enrollment opens during this session.
- 1:00 PM EST30 min · Full Room
AI Skills to Pay the Bills Program Overview & The Next 6 Days
RW Jones
June 16 is six days away. This session gives every person in the room one specific, actionable next step — no vague motivation, no generic calls to action. AI Skills to Pay the Bills™ is a 12-week, 300-hour blended workforce training program that moves participants through the full AI-readiness continuum — from foundational literacy to applied proficiency — aligned to the DOL AI Literacy Framework and the NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America initiative. The program delivers three stackable credentials, a 19-tool AI Marketing Toolbox, and live employer-connected campaign execution — producing credentialed AI Deployment Corps Practitioners ready for real workforce placement.
- 1:30 PM EST15 min · Full Room
Summit Q&A
RW Jones + Christopher Bennett, Esq.
Open floor. Your questions, direct answers.
- 1:45 PM EST15 min · Full Room
Closing Remarks + Resource Distribution
RW Jones
NSF Readiness Kit sent to all registrants. Partnership inquiry links shared. Summit recording available within 24 hours.
- 2:00 PM ESTTransition
Summit Conclusion · Transition to VIP Session
General summit concludes. Paid VIP registrants transition into the private VIP room. Enrollment closes at 2:00 PM.
- ★ VIP Session — Paid Registrants Only · Not Recorded2:30 PM ESTVIP · Paid Registrants Only · Not Recorded
Positioning & Protection: What the $47 Actually Buys You
RW Jones + Christopher Bennett, Esq.
Two hours. Two domains. Direct access to a strategist and an attorney in the same room. Not recorded. Not shared. What's said here stays here. RW Jones: positioning your business for workforce contracting opportunities — the next 90 days mapped. Christopher Bennett, Esq.: protecting your intellectual property before your first deployment. Tilly (IP Rights for All) — up close. Runs 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST.
Reserve Your Seat
Choose Your Access
Workforce Boards, AJC's, ETPL Providers
FREE
You are the institutional infrastructure this initiative was designed to fund. Leave with the NSF Readiness Kit six days before the June 16 LOI deadline.
- Full-day virtual access
- NSF Readiness Kit
Most Strategic
Universities, Nonprofits, Statewide Organizations
FREE
You have the statewide reach. We have the operators. Together you have a stronger hub proposal — with the AI Deployment Support section already answered.
- Full-day virtual access
- NSF Readiness Kit
AI Consultants
$47
FREE with promo code: BRILLIONAIRE
The $47 is not a ticket price. It is a positioning decision. You are the implementation layer the hubs cannot function without — and you need to be named before the June 16 Round 1 LOI closes. Enroll in AI Contract Skool within 90 days and you are credentialed before Round 2 closes December 15.
- Full-day virtual access
- NSF Readiness Kit
- VIP session 2:30 PM — RW Jones + Christopher Bennett, Esq. (not recorded, paid registrants only)
Reserve Your Seat
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AI Consultants — FREE with promo code: BRILLIONAIRE
June 10, 2026
10:00 AM Eastern Time
Half-day virtual summit for workforce boards, AI operators, and institutional partners — ahead of the NSF $224M LOI deadline.
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Get In Touch
Have Questions?
Whether you're an institutional partner, prospective speaker, or want to explore how your organization fits into the AI Deployment Corps — let's talk before June 16.