Exploring Frontiers: AI, Innovation and Emerging Technologies

Audience: Industry and healthcare professionals, research and higher education faculty, students and broader community members

Overview

This symposium brings together nationally and internationally recognized experts from cognitive neuroscience, education, sustainability and energy, business analytics, healthcare, cybersecurity and computer science to examine how AI is transforming their fields. Designed for industry professionals, academics, students and the broader community, the program features presentations from domain leaders alongside opportunities for networking and collaboration through breakfast, lunch and dinner receptions.

Why Attend?

Attendees will engage with current research and applications spanning AI in clinical practice, environmental systems, educational innovation, enterprise strategy and security while connecting with peers and experts shaping these disciplines. 

 
Agenda and Speakers 

Time

Activity

Location

8-8:30 a.m.

Registration & Breakfast

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
8:30-8:40 a.m.

Welcome & Introductions
Dr. Eric Baumgartner, president, MSOE

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
 

Minds and Machines:
Reimagining How We Think with AI

 
8:40-9:25 a.m.

The Flipside of the Human Interface: As Our Tools Evolve to "Think" with Us, We Must Ask, "Who Will Retain the Ability to Think?"

Keynote Presenter: Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D., research scientist, MIT Media Lab, and visiting faculty researcher, Google

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
9:30-10 a.m.

When Copilot Becomes the Pilot, How Can We Fly Safely?

Larry Zhiming Xu, Ph.D., assistant professor of strategic communication and information systems, Marquette University

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
10-10:15 a.m.

Break

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
 

Care Intelligence:
AI's Transformation of Health

 
10:15-10:45 a.m.

AI in Neuroimaging: Challenges and Opportunities (virtual presentation)

Max Wintermark, MD, professor and chair of radiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
10:45-11:15 a.m.

Brain and Prostate Cancer Radio-Pathomics at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Peter LaViolette, Ph.D., vice chair of radiology research, Medical College of Wisconsin

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
11:15-11:45 a.m.

Reimagining Healthcare Workflows Using AI

  • Liz Jensen, Ph.D., MSN, RN-BC, clinical director, Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center
Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Lunch and Networking

 
 

Building the Future:
AI Innovation, Disruption and What's Next

 
12:30-1 p.m.

MSOE AI Club: Student Research and Industry Engagement

Networking

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
1-1:45 p.m.

Insights from Working at the Center of AI

Keynote Presenter: Luke Leonhard, chief of staff, Google DeepMind

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
1:45-2:15 p.m.

AI, Deepfake and the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape

Aaron Pritz, CEO, principal consultant and co-founder, Reveal Risk

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
2:15-2:30 p.m. Break Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
2:30-3 p.m.

AI Ambition: Tech, Talent and Transformation in Manufacturing

Tim Dickson, chief digital and information officer, Regal Rexnord

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
3-3:30 p.m.

Powering Growth

Richard Stasik, vice president of regulatory affairs, WEC Business Services

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
3:30-4 p.m.

A Little Closer to AGI Every Day at MSOE

Jeremy Kedziora, Ph.D., associate professor and PieperPower Endowed Chair of AI, MSOE

Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)
4:15-6 p.m. Networking Reception Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center (ITC)