Kevin Rank
I use Generative AI to learn better, do better, and be better—because efficiency is just weaponized laziness. | Lecturer, Boise State University
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Kevin Rank is an AI Fellow at Boise State University College of Business, an Institutional AI Catalyst for the Idaho State Board, and a lecturer teaching Generative AI, Business Intelligence, and data-driven decision making. He brings over 30 years of IT industry experience and focuses on how emerging technologies actually change the way people work… when they’re used intentionally.
Kevin’s work centers on practical AI adoption. His approach is simple: use Generative AI to learn faster, work smarter, and free up time for higher-value thinking. Rather than treating AI as a theoretical concept or a novelty, he focuses on real workflows that reduce friction, improve decision-making, and compound over time.
He teaches Boise State’s first dedicated Generative AI courses, where students learn how to collaborate with AI responsibly while building durable skills they can carry into any field. He also works with faculty, professionals, and organizations to help them move beyond experimentation toward repeatable, trustworthy AI systems.
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The most powerful AI tool you’re not using is trained on your own knowledge — build it live.
Bring your laptop and build an AI trained on your own knowledge. Learn how to structure sources, chat with your data, and turn documents, videos, and notes into a personal intelligence system using NotebookLM.
Most AI tools start with the internet. This workshop starts with your knowledge. NotebookLM lets you build an AI that is grounded entirely in your own documents, videos, notes, and links—no drifting, no hallucinating, no guessing. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll bring your laptop and build a working NotebookLM system live.
We’ll cover what content you can load, how to structure a clean context layer so the AI actually understands your material, and how to turn PDFs, YouTube videos, transcripts, and scattered notes into a coherent, queryable knowledge base. You’ll learn how to chat with your knowledge, control scope, adjust personality and tone, and use the Studio features to generate summaries, mind maps, reports, audio, and visual outputs powered by a reusable prompt library you can take with you. The session finishes with real workflows, including building an AI “board of advisors,” running sentiment analysis on feedback, and transforming dense information into creative outputs all grounded in your sources.
This workshop is accessible enough to jump in as a beginner, and by the end, you’ll be working with expert-level use cases and workflows. No hype. No slides-only demo. You leave with a system you’ll keep using.
Kevin Rank
I use Generative AI to learn better, do better, and be better—because efficiency is just weaponized laziness. | Lecturer, Boise State University
Boise, Idaho, United States
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