Free AI lunches
An hour, lunch included.
Somewhere in Acadiana. One subject explained plainly, and as long as it takes to answer the room.
No dates confirmed
Education. Community. No fee, ever.
Industrial
Leaders of
the Future.
Free AI education for the companies that built Acadiana. We are bringing owners, operators and the people coming up behind them into the same rooms as the technology reshaping their industries. Lunches, workshops and leadership dinners. No fee, no ticket and nothing to buy.
Run and paid for by TMI Tech AI →
that built
Acadiana.
Status
No dates
confirmed
yet.
The list is how you hear first.
A stronger
industry starts
in the room.
Acadiana · 2027
Learn
Plain explanations of what this technology does, from people who put it to work in companies like yours.
Connect
Owners and operators from the same region, in the same room, comparing notes on what is actually working.
Lead
For the people taking these companies over next, as much as for the people who built them.
Three ways
in. All free.
Nothing here is a sales event. Nothing is sold in the room, and joining the list does not put anybody into a pipeline. If you want work done, that is a separate conversation you have to start yourself.
AI workshops
Half a day, hands on.
Your own operation in front of you rather than slides. You leave with something you built, not a handout.
No dates confirmed
Leadership dinners
A table of owners.
People running companies like yours, talking about what is actually working. No speaker and no pitch.
No dates confirmed
Where this
stands today.
The programme is being set up and no dates are confirmed, so this page does not pretend otherwise. There is no schedule to show you yet and no room full of people to photograph. When there is, it will be on this page.
It is run and paid for by TMI Tech AI, a technology management and innovation company in Lafayette, founded in March 2022. This is a programme TMI runs, not a separate entity, and it makes no claim to any nonprofit or tax status.
The first thing to happen will be the first lunch, and the list is how you hear about it.
Fair
questions.
The ones people ask first, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.
- Is it actually free?
- Yes. No fee, no ticket, and nothing is sold in the room. TMI pays for the food, the room and the time.
- So what do you get out of it?
- We work with industrial and family companies, and we would rather the ones near us understood this technology than not. Some of the people in the room will eventually hire us. Most will not, and the lunch is the same either way.
- Who is it for?
- Owners and operators of established companies in and around Acadiana, and the sons, daughters and managers taking those companies over next.
- Do I need to know anything about AI?
- No. Assuming you do not is the entire point. Nothing is pitched at people who already work in software.
- Will somebody call me afterwards?
- Not to sell you anything. Joining the list does not put you into a sales pipeline. If you want work done, that is a conversation you start, not one we start.
- When does it start?
- No dates are confirmed. The first thing to happen will be the first lunch, and the list is how you hear about it.
No fee · No ticket · Nothing to buy
Be in the room
for the first one.
There is no date yet and nothing to buy. Put your name down and you will hear when the first lunch opens, before it is announced anywhere else.
- Free AI lunches
- AI workshops
- Leadership dinners
- Acadiana · Coming 2027