Workshops Line-up Announced - Innovation Renaissance

We invite you to join Part II of The 140th-anniversary celebration of IEEE-The IEEE New Era AI enablement Workshops in Founder’s Hall Building (UW1) with Plenary sessions in North Creek Event Center (NCEC) at the University of Washington, Bothell Campus (within 20 minutes from Seattle, Redmond, Everett, or Bellevue) on Saturday, October 26th, 2024.

Registration is open; early deadline is 17-Oct. Register at https://attend.ieee.org/newera/register/.

The New Era AI Workshops schedule has been posted here. The workshops open at 7 AM for check-in and breakfast, followed by a plenary session with welcome keynotes by IEEE President 2025, Professor Kathleen Kramer, UWB Dean, STEM School, Professor Jennifer McLoud-Mann and plenary keynote by Professor Michael Stiber, Chair, UWB Computing & Software Systems Division.

The workshops can be categorized by Track or Interest.

The workshops categorized by Track:

We have a line-up of 20 workshops in six parallel tracks:

Room I – All day with Microsoft

Room II – Morning Global Health Lab; Afternoon Netflix
- Principles and techniques to design AI for impact in global health

Workshop 1: AI for Cervical Cancer

Workshop 2: AI Ultrasound Saves Lives

- Data and Feature Engineering
- Designing scalable and high-quality data models for feature engineering

Room III – All day with Amazon
- Harnessing Serverless Technologies for Generative AI Applications (2 part)
- Using AI for Career Management: Navigating Your Professional Path with Artificial Intelligence
- AI-Enabled Corporate Management: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Business Excellence (Cancelled)
- Abracadabra for GenAI Models: Learn How Prompt Engineering Works

Room IV – Morning Manufacturing; Afternoon Meta

Room V – All day with Nvidia
- Nvidia LLM/RAG Training (repeated: morning and afternoon session)

Room VI – Morning Amazon, Apple, Microsoft; Afternoon AMD
- Learn to build AI applications with no code, low code, and using AI powered coding assistant
- Enabling AI on AMD’s Hardware and Software Ecosystem

See detailed schedule online here. Download PDF version here.

Download Workshops detailed program guide (PDF).

The workshops categorized by interest:

A) For people new to AI:

To Introduce and refresh AI/ML basics and applications:

Professor Mike Stiber’s morning keynote speech will include the principles, concepts, and fundamentals of AI/ Machine learning, making it easy to use or build simple applications using AI/ML quickly.

Immerse oneself in workshops without software or Python coding skills, including

WTA, Microsoft AI for All, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, Microsoft Copilot for Cybersecurity and Microsoft Azure AI Studio

WTE, Amazon AWS Workshop – GenAI applications

WTF, Amazon & Oracle, Using AI for Career & Corporate Management

WTG, Amazon AWS Alexa, Building AI Applications

WTI, Meta, Customizable Problem-Solving via LLAMA

WTJ, Generative AI for Product Development and Rapid Prototyping

WTL, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft – Learn How Prompt Engineering Works

B) For people who love to focus on specialized applications, chose from:

WTA, Microsoft -AI for Cybersecurity,
WTC, Gates Global Health Labs, Principles and techniques to design AI for Cervical Cancer and using AI Ultrasound Saves Lives;
WTH, Agilent- Revolutionizing Aerospace and Supply Chains with AI, Machine Learning & Powered Digital Twins

C) For people who are inspired to develop and enhance their capability to build AI models and tools chose from:

WTA, Microsoft- Build your own Copilot using Microsoft Azure AI Studio
WTB, Microsoft-AI Agents, Developing AI Agents using AutoGen
WTF, Netflix -Designing scalable and high-quality data models for feature engineering
WTH, Aerospace- Revolutionizing Aerospace Supply Chains with Machine Learning and Powered Digital Twins
WTI, Meta -Customizable Problem-Solving via LLAMA
WTL, Nvidia – LLM/RAG Training (1/2 day, repeated)
WTN, AMD Enabling AI on AMD’s Hardware and Software Ecosystem