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