Honorable Maria Cantwell
The United States Senator
Chair, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced the Future of AI Innovation Act of 2024 which promotes strong partnerships between government, business, civil society, and academia to advance AI research; the bipartisan Small Business Artificial Intelligence Training and Toolkit Act of 2024 that would authorize to create and distribute artificial intelligence (AI) training resources and tools to help small businesses leverage AI in their operations and AI Education Act of 2024 to expand scholarship and professional development opportunities to study artificial intelligence and quantum. These bills will open doors to AI for students at all levels, and upskill our workforce to drive American tech innovation, entrepreneurship and progress in solving the toughest global challenges and create jobs.
Keynotes
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas,
CTO of Technology & Society, Google
Dr. Peter Lee,
President, Microsoft Research
Thomas Coughlin,
IEEE 2024 President
Ramesh Menon,
CTO on AI, US DOD
Dr. Juan Lavista Ferres,
CVP, Chief Data Scientist, AI For Good Lab
Prof. Chirag Shah,
UW & Co-Founder, RAISE
Prof. Steve Brunton,
NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems
Prof. Blake Hannaford, ECE, ME and Surgery, UW
Dr. Kristin Lauter,
Sr. Dir. FAIR Labs, Meta
Dr. Bill Dally
Chief Scientist at Nvidia Research
Stefano Soatto
VP, AWS AI Labs
Dr. Sheree Wen
Organizer and Chair, New Era AI
Sheree Wen, organizer and chair, New Era AI. After getting her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Sheree worked at IBM, making vital contributions to the first MIPS High-speed mainframe computer. Dr. Wen then built companies with factories in the United States and Asian countries which developed, manufactured, and distributed OEM brands of IBM, AT&T, Unisys, and Wen products worldwide. Her companies also serviced and supplied products to Federal, State, and local governments. Sheree is also deeply committed to the public good. She served as a United States National Commissioner to UNESCO and is the Founder and President of UNESCO Washington State. Sheree has chaired and served on various commissions, committees, and councils in state, regional and local governments. She has worked closely with IEEE, serving as the chair of the Humanitarian Partnership Committee, the Communication and Cybersecurity Policy Committee, and Region 6 Government Relations and Women in Engineering. Currently, Sheree serves on various national and local boards. Sheree was honored as the young scientist of the year and Gold medal by AIME, Award of Excellence by United States Small Business Administrators, top women entrepreneurs by The New York Times, and featured in 20th Century Asian Professional Women by Japan Asahi News.