City of Cincinnati Proclaims June 8th AI Day to kick off Cincy AI Week 2026
City of Cincinnati · Proclamation · June 8, 2026
AI Day in
Cincinnati.
The City of Cincinnati proclaimed June 8th AI Day in Cincinnati to kick off Cincy AI Week 2026, a civic declaration that the Queen City intends to help lead the AI era, not just react to it.
The Proclamation
Presented on behalf of the Mayor and City Council.
Councilmember Meeka Owens represented the City of Cincinnati at Cincy AI Week, presenting the proclamation on behalf of Mayor Aftab Pureval and the Cincinnati City Council. Accepting for Enterprise Technology Association were co-founders Zack Huhn, Co-Founder and Chairman of ETA, and Summer Crenshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of ETA and Executive Director of Women in AI and Business.
City of Cincinnati · Official Proclamation
June 8th, 2026 is AI Day in Cincinnati
Proclaimed to kick off Cincy AI Week 2026 and recognize the region's leadership in AI education, workforce development, and economic growth.
Presented by Councilmember Meeka Owens
On behalf of Mayor Aftab Pureval and Cincinnati City Council
Accepted by Zack Huhn and Summer Crenshaw, Enterprise Technology Association
In the Room
Every level of government, at one table.
What made the moment notable was not just the proclamation. It was who showed up for it. City, county, state, and federal representatives participated in the event, a rare alignment around a shared goal: positioning Greater Cincinnati and Ohio at the forefront of the AI economy.
City
City of Cincinnati
Councilmember Meeka Owens, on behalf of Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Council.
County
Hamilton County
County representatives in attendance and participating in the event.
State
State of Ohio
State representatives engaged alongside JobsOhio's statewide AI readiness efforts.
Federal
Office of Senator Jon Husted
Representatives from the Senator's office in attendance and participating.
The Momentum
Moments later, the proclamation became a program.
The announcement came just moments before JobsOhio's Payal Thakur took the stage to announce the expansion of the AI Ready Ohio program in southwest Ohio. The sequence said everything: a civic declaration, immediately backed by a workforce program with real numbers behind it.
1,000
Southwest Ohio residents to be upskilled and certified with timely, important AI skills through the AI Ready Ohio expansion
What It Signals
Proclamations set the tone. Programs do the work. On June 8th, Cincinnati delivered both in the same hour.
AI Day, in a sentence
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