If you haven’t heard of the AI Accelerator yet, here’s the short version. It’s a working day for MSP owners and executives who want to stop experimenting with AI and start actually running it. No slide decks, no theory. You leave with real automations, a documented plan, and a clear next step for Monday morning. We’ve run it quarterly all year as a standalone program, and this August, we’re bringing that same experience to Day 3 of Build IT LIVE 2026, on August 5, at the Hyatt Regency in Jersey City.
If you’re joining Build IT LIVE for the first time, here’s everything you need to know about how the day works.
It starts before you even arrive
Every attendee completes a short pre-event assessment called the AI Index. It scores your business across various dimensions, including vision and leadership alignment, team readiness, workflow automation maturity, data governance, service delivery integration, and revenue architecture. Your score determines which track and which sessions fit your business, so you’re not guessing your way through the agenda.
Two tracks, one working day
August 5 opens with a mainstage keynote and an AI panel built around real MSP implementations, not vendor demos. From there, the room splits by role.
| Track | Built for | What you leave with |
| Owner-Operators | Leaders personally building AI into their own stack | Automations mapped inside your PSA and RMM, ready to deploy |
| Senior Executives | Leaders directing strategy and implementation teams | A cohort rollout plan and governance model your team can execute |
Three hands-on workshop blocks run through the day, covering ticket triage and routing, dispatch optimization, and agentic workflows, the kind of automation that’s now doing real work inside service delivery rather than sitting in a pilot folder. Governance and security get built in early too, so decisions around risk and accountability aren’t an afterthought once things scale.
What you actually walk out with
Every attendee leaves with a documented 90-day roadmap built around their own environment, sourced directly from their pre-event AI Index results. Past cohorts have used this structure to map ten production-ready automations, assign clear ownership, and sequence rollout so the work doesn’t stall once the conference badge comes off. Four virtual follow-up sessions run through October to keep the roadmap moving instead of sitting in a drawer.
What it would normally cost you
Run on its own, this exact program, the AI Index, the working day, and the four follow-up sessions, is a $2,500 seat, the same investment as our quarterly in-person Mastermind sessions. Folded into Build IT LIVE, it comes with your conference ticket.
| Standalone AI Accelerator | Build IT LIVE 2026, all 3 days | |
| Price | $2,500 per seat | $1,495 |
| AI Accelerator (Day 3) | Included | Included |
| Full conference: keynotes, breakouts, dinners | Not included | Included |
| Coaching Corner 1:1 sessions | Not included | Included |
| NYSE closing night | Not included | Included |
That $1,495 covers all three days in Jersey City: the keynotes and breakout sessions, the Coaching Corner one-on-ones with MSP leaders speaking at Build IT LIVE who’ve already solved what you’re working through, the topic-based sponsor dinners on Tuesday evening, and the Great Gatsby closing night at the New York Stock Exchange trading floor.
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to move AI from a side project to something your business actually runs on, August 5 is that moment, and it comes with two extra days of a conference built around the same goal.
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