Partnership Opportunities · 28 September 2026 · Anchorage

Get there first.

The Last Frontier meets the New Frontier — and the organizations on the leading edge of Alaska's AI era are taking their place now.

AI in Alaska puts your organization in front of the executives, owners, agency heads, and tribal corporation leaders shaping how Alaska adopts AI. This is where the relationships, the visibility, and the competitive advantage compound — for the brands that show up early. The room is filling. The opportunity is real. Your seat at this table starts here.

N · 01 · The Audience
Who you'll be in front of

The leaders arriving early.

Two hundred and thirty seats. One curated room. The senior leaders deciding how Alaska's corporate, tribal, public, and nonprofit organizations move into the AI era. Your sponsorship puts your brand directly in front of the people most worth knowing in the year ahead — and gives you a head-start on the relationships everyone else will be trying to build later.

200+
Standard attendees
Cross-sector executives, communicators, and operators across Alaska — full-day in-person engagement.
30
VIP seats
Premium attendees, post-event reception, direct speaker access — the most engaged room in the building.
4+
Sectors represented
Corporate, tribal, public sector, nonprofit — plus operations, HR, marketing, communications, and finance across each.
100%
Active AI decisions
Every attendee is currently making real AI choices for their organization. No tire-kickers.
Roles in the room

Senior and decision-making.

  • C-suite and senior executives
  • Business owners and entrepreneurs
  • Tribal and Alaska Native organization leaders
  • Public-sector and institutional directors
  • Nonprofit and association executives
  • Education and workforce development leaders
  • Operations, strategy, finance, and HR leadership
  • Communications, marketing, and public affairs leaders
Why they're coming

To leave with a real plan.

  • Strategic frameworks for AI adoption — beyond prompt-writing
  • Practical workflows they can install Tuesday
  • Ethics, governance, and policy starting points
  • AI search visibility for their organization
  • Local case studies they can pattern-match against
  • A 30/60/90-day implementation plan in their hand
  • Peer connections across Alaska's leadership community
NE · 02 · Founding Partners
Already on board

First in the door.

These organizations got in early — three of them as event producers, one as our first signed Access Partner, and the fifth as the team behind the featured speaker. They moved before there was a website to point at, because they recognized what the day represents. Your name could be next to theirs.

Access Partner
PRSA Alaska

The Public Relations Society of America's Alaska chapter — our first Access Partner. PRSA Alaska is bringing member access, promotional reach, and an institutional commitment to professional development for Alaska's leadership community.

Founding Producer
Helvey Communications

Kristin Helvey's Anchorage-based communications firm — co-producing the summit and bringing two decades of strategy work across Alaska's most relationship-dependent sectors.

Founding Producer
Embley Communications

Heidi Embley's Anchorage-based firm — co-producing the summit and bringing deep instinct for how organizations actually operate in this state, across corporate, civic, and tribal contexts.

Founding Partner
Volume PR

The strategic communications firm Elizabeth Edwards founded in 2001. Volume PR brings the national lens, the AI-fluent methodology, and the body of work behind Elizabeth's keynote.

Founding Partner
Engagement Science Lab

The research arm behind Elizabeth's framework — a quarter-century of work at the intersection of human behavior, communications, and intelligent systems. Underwrites the methodology you'll experience all day.

The window for early position closes soon.

Founding-tier partnerships are limited and priced to make sense for the organizations that want to be visibly part of this from day one — before the room fills, before the wider conversation begins. Talk to Sarah about what tier and timing fit your goals.

Start the Conversation
E · 03 · Why Sponsor
The case for partnership

Where Alaska's next moves get made.

Sponsoring AI in Alaska is a strategic position — for organizations whose customers, members, or workforce are in this room, and for brands that want to be visibly aligned with the leaders shaping Alaska's AI future. Early sponsors get the best access, the strongest positioning, and the relationships that pay back long after the day ends.

i.

Position with the right company

The summit lives at the serious end of Alaska's AI conversation — strategy, ethics, application, leadership. Your brand stands alongside national expertise and the cross-sector audience setting the tone. The opposite of a vendor pitch.

ii.

Direct access to the right rooms

You're not buying a banner ad. You're buying a day inside Alaska's executive leadership community while they're actively making AI decisions. Your booth, your signage, your team — in front of the people who matter.

iii.

Bring the day back to your team

The Frontier Partner tier includes a half-day virtual AI training for your team, scheduled post-summit with Elizabeth. That's a meaningful internal benefit — and a cost-justifier — that pure visibility sponsorships can't match.

iv.

Compound the community angle

Scholarship, sector-access, and Access Partner sponsorships let you fund attendance for small businesses, mission-driven organizations, tribal leadership, or rural-serving teams. Visibility plus genuine impact — your sponsorship makes more of Alaska part of this conversation, with your name attached.

SE · 04 · Tier Ladder
Sponsorship Tiers

Six ways to claim your position.

From the limited Frontier Partner tier with post-event team training, through Presenting and Leadership tiers, down to entry-level Supporting and Access Partner roles. Custom packages welcome — pick the level that matches the position you want to hold in this conversation.

Frontier Partner
$18,500 — limited
Lead positioning
  • Everything at the Presenting tier
  • Half-day virtual custom AI training (3 hrs) for the sponsor's team, scheduled post-event with Elizabeth
  • Frontier-tier identity on all materials
  • 2 VIP registrations including reception access
  • Premium-partner reception with Elizabeth (subject to threshold)
  • Optional sector-access subsidized seats
Presenting Sponsor
$10,000
  • Premier logo placement on key materials and on-site signage
  • Curated on-stage recognition
  • Option to facilitate a panel or introduce a session
  • 2 complimentary VIP registrations
  • On-site sponsor table or activation
  • Premium-partner reception access (subject to threshold)
Leadership Sponsor
$5,000
  • Prominent logo placement on key materials and signage
  • 1 complimentary VIP registration
  • On-site sponsor table or activation
  • Approved table or seat materials and giveaways
Supporting Sponsor
$2,500
  • Logo on select promotional materials and event signage
  • 1 complimentary standard registration
  • Approved table materials and giveaways
Access Partner
Custom · limited
  • For associations and membership organizations
  • Reduced-rate registrations for members
  • Organizational recognition and select stage acknowledgment
  • PRSA Alaska is the canonical example — and our first signed Access Partner
Experience Sponsorships
Custom
  • VIP Reception · Breakfast · Lunch · Coffee Break
  • Scholarship Sponsor — subsidizes mission-driven attendees
  • Sector Access Sponsor — rural, nonprofit, or tribal cohorts
  • Technology Sponsor
Frontier & Presenting Tier · Premium Experience

An evening reserved for our top partners.

When enough Frontier and Presenting partners have committed, we'll convene an intimate Friday-evening reception with Elizabeth and the Alaska producing team — the night before the summit, in a curated setting before the public day begins.

It's a small-group conversation among the leaders most invested in shaping how Alaska adopts AI well. Talk to Sarah about whether your organization is the right fit.

S · 05 · VIP Architecture
Two products, two audiences

VIP sponsors get the dinner.
VIP ticket holders get the reception.

A clarification we surface up front so partner conversations and ticket conversations don't collide. These are two different products serving two different audiences — both valuable, both intentionally separated.

Track A · Premium Sponsorship

VIP Sponsors

Organizations at the Frontier or Presenting tier. Their value is access to the room and deep relational time with the speaker — the kind of access that signals they aren't just in the audience, they're inside the work.

  • Premium-partner reception with Elizabeth (Frontier & Presenting tiers, subject to threshold)
  • Post-event team training — Frontier tier only
  • On-stage curated recognition and intro time
  • Sector-access add-on options
  • Opportunity to introduce a session or panel
Track B · Premium Ticketing

VIP Ticket holders

Up to 30 individual attendees who pay a premium ticket for an elevated event-day experience. Their value is the moment after the day ends — small-group time and direct conversation with the featured speaker.

  • Dedicated VIP reception immediately following the summit (4:30–5:30p)
  • Reserved seating during the summit
  • Distinct lanyard and on-site recognition
  • One post-event small-group online session
  • Optional Implementation Cohort opt-in (premium tier)
SW · 06 · Custom Packages
Build something different

Don't see your shape in the standard tiers?

The tier ladder is a starting point, not a ceiling. We're happy to design custom packages that map to specific organizational goals — sector visibility, member benefits, scholarship support, workforce development association, hosted-experience underwriting, or layered combinations.

The cleanest sponsorships are usually the ones built around what the partner actually needs. Tell us what success looks like for your organization, and we'll come back with a structure that earns it.

Custom builds we've designed for prospects
  • Member-benefit Access Partnerships for trade associations
  • Scholarship sponsorships for nonprofit and mission-driven attendees
  • Sector cohort underwriting (rural / tribal / public sector)
  • Hosted-experience sponsorships (breakfast, lunch, reception, coffee)
  • Multi-tier blends combining visibility with workforce development
  • Technology partner integrations and demo opportunities
  • Annual partnership conversations beyond a single event year
Start the Conversation

Take your spot.

Sarah handles all sponsor inquiries and will walk you through the tiers, the timing, and the custom builds that fit your organization's specific goals.

The earlier you start the conversation, the better the position you can claim — and the more we can shape the partnership around what success looks like for you.

Sponsorship Lead
Sarah Erkmann Ward, APR
Sponsorship Director
THOMPSON & CO. PUBLIC RELATIONS
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