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How AI is Transforming From Standards Documents to Standards Intelligence: How SDOs Can Use Governed AI to Find, Compare, Apply, and Interpret Standards
Tuesday, August 04, 2026, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Category: Webinars
CESSE August 2026 Webinar

For standards development organizations, the most valuable AI question isn't "can AI help write standards?" — it's "how can governed AI can make standards knowledge easier to develop, retrieve, compare, apply, interpret, teach, and improve?"

This session will explore how source-bound, permission-aware AI (meaning AI that only answers from your authoritative content and respects who can see what) can support the full standards lifecycle. That includes assisting committee research, surfacing related clauses, identifying downstream impacts of proposed changes, helping users find the right standard in plain language, comparing versions, triaging interpretation questions, and supporting education or certification workflows.

The session will focus on practical use cases that preserve human judgment, standards authority, and accountability. Attendees will leave with a framework for identifying high-value AI opportunities in their own standards ecosystem and scoping a safe, useful first pilot.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify practical AI use cases across the standards lifecycle beyond content drafting.
  2. Evaluate the differences between general-purpose AI tools and AI systems designed for authoritative, source-bound knowledge environments.
  3. Apply a scoping framework for evaluating AI pilots based on workflow fit, source corpus, human review, and success metrics.
  4. Identify governance guardrails for AI-supported retrieval, comparison, application, and interpretation of standards.
  5. Outline a candidate first pilot for AI in their own standards ecosystem.

Attendees will earn 1 CAE credit. CESSE is also a CMP preferred provider.

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Meet Your Presenters

Thomas Altman

Thomas Altman, CIO and co-founder of Betty:AI, is a data scientist, association expert and entrepreneur. His first introduction to the world of associations was a decade ago when he took a job implementing AMS solutions right out of graduate school. With a degree in applied statistics and machine learning, he immediately saw a gap in what associations were doing with data and what was possible. He saw data either go unused or used to create flashy dashboards that had no impact on helping associations deliver on their missions. Thomas quickly realized that analytics that don't lead to measurable action are, at best, entertainment and, at worst, a waste of resources. He's dedicated his career to changing that and helping associations create data-driven action plans so they can know what needs to be done and know that it's working.

Rob Barnes, CAE, AAiP

Rob Barnes, CAE, AAiP, is CEO and co-founder of Betty:AI, the AI Knowledge System for Associations. Born in Papua New Guinea, Rob started in association management at nineteen with Surf Life Saving Australia and has spent three decades working across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, including Country Manager roles at Aptify and Higher Logic. His core argument: associations are the best-positioned organizations in the world for generative AI, because they already hold the most trusted knowledge in their fields. The challenge isn’t a shortage of knowledge — it’s findability.
Rob co-authored The Association Knowledge Cycle, speaks regularly at ASAE, state SAEs, digitalNow, and AuSAE and Associations Forum (Australia), and writes for Betty’s widely-read blog. He’s also the author of the children’s picture book Benjamin Allsorts Likes All Sorts of Sports (2019).

Contact: [email protected]