Venue: The Collective Seattle
400 Dexter Avenue North
Seattle, WA
(Parking entrance off Harrison)
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| Saturday August 24 | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 AM | Registration & Check-in |
| 8:30 – 10:15 AM | Morning Keynotes |
| 8:30 AM | Welcome, Sheree Wen, New Era AI Chair |
| 8:35 AM | Keynote/welcome, Tom Coughlin, IEEE 2024 President |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome, Tim Lee, IEEE-USA 2025 President-elect |
| 9:05 AM | Grand Keynote, Ramesh Menon, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, US DIA |
| 9:30 AM | Grand Keynote, Dr. Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research |
| 9:55 AM | Grand Keynote, Dr. Bill Dally, Chief Scientist, Nvidia |
| 10:20- 10:35 AM | Break |
| 10:35 AM | Grand Keynote, Dr. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, CTO of Technology & Society, Google |
| 11:00 AM | Grand Keynote, Honorable Senator Maria Cantwell |
| 11:20 AM – 12:00 PM | Panel – Perpetual and Boundless AI |
| Honorable Senator Maria Cantwell, leader | |
| Dr. Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research, panelist | |
| Dr. Kristin Lauter, Sr. Director FAIR Labs, Meta, panelist | |
| Dr. Chirag Shah, Co-Founder RAISE, UW, panelist | |
| Dr. Blaise Agüera Arcas, CTO of Technology & Society, Google, panelist | |
| Dr. Sheree Wen, President, UNESCO Washington, moderator | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch & Research Breakthrough Showcase |
| Building AI solutions that fit the jigsaw puzzle, Sourabh Kulhare, Global Health Labs | |
| AI and Accessibility: Risks and Opportunities, Dr. Jennifer Mankoff, Paul G. Allen School of CS | |
| Real-to-Sim-to-Real: A Scalable Data Diet for Robot Learning, Dr. Abhishek Gupta, Paul G. Allen School of CS | |
| 1:00 – 4:15 PM | Afternoon Keynotes |
| 1:00 PM | Dr. Chirag Shah, Co-Founder RAISE, UW |
| 1:30 PM | Dr. Stefano Soatto, VP, AWS AI Labs and Professor, UCLA |
| 2:00 PM | Dr. Kristin Lauter, Sr. Director FAIR Labs, Meta |
| 2:30 PM | Dr. Juan Lavista Ferres, CVP, Chief Data Scientist, AI For Good Lab |
| 3:00 – 3:15 PM | Break |
| 3:15 PM | Prof. Steve Brunton, NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems |
| 3:45 PM | Prof. Blake Hannaford, ECE, ME and Surgery, UW |
| 4:15 – 4:30 PM | Break |
| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | Lightning Talks |
| Data Quality in Intelligent Systems, Sreyashi Das, Senior Data Engineer at Netflix | |
| PartyRock: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in a Playground, Karthikeyan Gopal, Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon | |
| Building Trustworthy AI – Guardrails for a responsible future, Ashish Vaidya, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon | |
| Artificial Intelligence for Sales and Marketing, Harshita Asnani, Applied Data Scientist, Amazon | |
| SLIs for ML Models, Sunandan Barman, Production Engineer, Meta Platforms | |
| Revolutionizing Organizational Security with Microsoft Copilot’s AI Capabilities, Ankit Masrani, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Security | |
| Speeding Up Product Innovation: Leveraging Generative AI for Rapid Product Development and GTM Strategies, Ram Joshi, Staff Engineer at The Climate Corporation, and Gunjan Paliwal, Sr. Product Development & Marketing Manager | |
| Bridging the Chasm: How Software Innovation is Outpacing Hardware in the AI Revolution, Dr. Harisankar Sadasivan, Member of Technical Staff SDE, AMD | |
| Building Product Strategy for Modern Times, Seema Bansal, Product Manager, Microsoft | |
| 6:00 – 7:30 PM | After Party Networking Reception & Lightning Talk Awards |
Workshops have been delayed to the Fall. Be on lookout for announcement for a detailed update.
Details of workshops can be found here.
Check out our lineup of distinguished speakers.
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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.
After making her remarks; Sen Cantwell will join a panel moderated by Dr. Sheree Wen with Dr. Peter Lee President of Microsoft Research, UW Prof. Chirag Shah and Dr. Kristin Lauter of Meta. |
Keynotes
Distinguished Industrial keynotes include Dr. Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Research; Dr. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President, Fellow, and CTO of Google; Dr. Juan LaVista Ferres, Corporate vice president and Chief Data Scientist, AI for Good; Dr. Kristin Lauter, Senior Director of FAIR Labs, Meta; Dr. Bill Dally, Chief Scientist at Nvidia Research, Dr. Stefano Soatto, VP AWS AI Labs and Ramesh Menon, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, US DIA.
Outstanding institutional and academic leaders who will share their unique insights on historical AI breakthroughs research and Human ethics, values, and responsibilities. These leaders include Prof. Steven Brunton, NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, UW Prof. Chirag Shah, Co-Founder of RAISE and UW Professor Blake Hannaford, who uses AI with touch feelings that can do robotic operations on nerves to remove brain tumors and more.
See Details on the Speakers Page.
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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. |
Look at who is speaking in our Research Breakthrough Showcase.
See details on our Lightning Talks.
The 2024 IEEE New Era summit is sponsored by the IEEE Seattle Section, IEEE Region 6, IEEE Industry Engagement Committee, IEEE-USA and UNECSO Washington State Center. Technical sponsorship by IEEE Region 4 and IEEE Canada.