Program Schedule (subject to change)
New Venue:
Founder’s Hall (UW1) and 
North Creek Event Center (NCEC)
University of Washington Bothell
17927 113th Ave NE
Bothell, WA 98011
See map & parking info below
Download: 1-page schedule (PDF): Program Guide (PDF)
SCHEDULE – Saturday, October 26th
| Saturday October 26 |
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| 7:00 – 8:00 AM | Registration, Check-in & Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 9:20 AM | Plenary Session – North Creek Event Center (LB2) |
| 8:00 – 8:05 AM 8:05 – 8:25 AM 8:25 – 8:35 AM 8:35 – 9:20 AM |
Opening Remarks – Dr. Sheree Wen, Event Chair Welcome Keynote – IEEE President 2025, Professor Kathleen Kramer, USD Welcome Keynote – UWB Dean, STEM School, Professor Jennifer McLoud-Mann Keynote – Chair, UWB Computing & Software Systems Division, Professor Michael Stiber |
| 9:20 – 9:45 AM | Networking Break |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 9:45 AM – 5:00 PM | Parallel Workshops (Founders Hall UW1) – see schedule below All workshops start at 9:45 AM, except Nvidia workshop starts at 9:30 AM
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Workshops Schedule
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Founders Hall UW1 Workshops listed by Room Number |
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Time |
Workshops Room I |
Presenters |
| 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM | WTA: Microsoft, AI for ALL-Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, Microsoft Copilot for Cybersecurity and Microsoft Azure AI Studio – Room I
(hands-on, see prerequisites) |
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| 9:45 – 10:45 AM | Exploring Generative AI, Prompt Engineering and Cybersecurity with Microsoft Copilot |
Ankit Masrani and Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Microsoft |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Build your own Copilot using Microsoft Azure AI Studio | Ankit Masrani and Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Microsoft |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 3:45 PM | WTB Microsoft AI Agents – Room I |
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| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Introduction to Generative AI Agents: AutoGen | Ravi Shankar Goli, XiaoYun Zhang and Eric Zhu, Microsoft |
| 2:15 – 3:45 PM |
Developing AI Agents using AutoGen | Ravi Shankar Goli, XiaoYun Zhang and Eric Zhu, Microsoft |
| Time | Workshops Room II | Presenters |
| 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM | WTC: GHL – AI for Global Health – Room II | |
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9:45 – 10:45 AM 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
Principles and techniques to design AI for impact in global health
Workshop 1: AI for Cervical Cancer Workshop 2: AI Ultrasound Saves Lives |
Courosh Mehanian, Olivia Zahn, Sourabh Kulhare, Ishan Shah and Charles Delahunt, Global Health Labs, Inc. |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 3:15 PM | WTD: Netflix – Data & Feature Eng – Room II | |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Data and Feature Engineering | Sreyashi Das, Senior Data Engineer at Netflix |
| 2:15 – 3:15 PM | Designing scalable and high-quality data models for feature engineering | Sreyashi Das, Netflix |
| Time | Workshops Room III | Presenters |
| 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM | WTE: AWS – Gen AI App – Room III
(Hands-on, see prerequisites) |
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9:45 – 10:45 AM 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
Harnessing Serverless Technologies for Generative AI Applications
Part 1: Image Processing Part 2: Event-Driven Data Redaction |
Tejas Ghadge, Senior Engineering Manager, Nithin Vommi, Senior Software Engineer and Tarun Rai Madan, Product Manager, AWS Lambda |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | WTF: AI for Management – Room III | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Using AI for Career Management: Navigating Your Professional Path with Artificial Intelligence | Karthikeyan Gopal, Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Jayashree Sankar Kumar, SDE, Oracle Madhuri Gangadharan, SDE, AWS |
| 2:15 – 4:30 PM | WTG: Prompt Engineering – Room III (Hands-on) | |
| 2:15 – 4:30 PM | Abracadabra for GenAI Models: Learn How Prompt Engineering Works | Prashant Gupta: Software Development Manager at Amazon Arpit Chaudhary, Senior Software Engineer at Apple and Seema Bansal, Product Manager at Microsoft |
| Time | Workshops Room IV | Presenters |
| 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM | WTH: Aero Sup MFG Dig Twin – Room IV | |
| 9:45 – 10:45 AM | Revolutionizing Aerospace Supply Chains with Machine Learning-Powered Digital Twins | Amit Dubey, Data Science Manager, Agilent Technologies, Seattle, WA |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Revolutionizing Supply Chain Fulfillment with Machine Learning and AI | Amit Dubey, Data Science Manager, Agilent Technologies, Seattle, WA |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | WTI: Meta – Unlock LLMs via LLAMA – Room IV
(Hands-on, see prerequisites) |
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| Unlocking the Power of LLMs for Customizable Problem-Solving via LLAMA | Prakash Murugesan and Srihari J, Meta | |
| 2:15 – 3:45 PM | WTJ: Gen AI for Product Dev – Room IV
(Hands-on, see prerequisites) |
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| Generative AI for Product Development and Rapid Prototyping | Ram Joshi, Staff Engineer at The Climate Corporation and Gunjan Paliwal, Product Development & Marketing Leader |
| Time | Workshops Room V | Presenters |
| 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM | Nvidia LLM Train (2 sessions) – Room V | |
| 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
1:30 – 5:00 PM |
WTK-a: Nvidia LLM/RAG Training
(Hands-on; Limit to 20 people.) (See prerequisites) |
Kevin Lee, Deep Learning Institute Team, Nvidia
Suchismita Sahu, Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI, Nvidia |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
1:30 – 5:00 PM |
WTK-b: Nvidia LLM/RAG Training
(Hands-on; Limit to 20 people) (See prerequisites) |
Kevin Lee, Deep Learning Institute Team, Nvidia
Suchismita Sahu, Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI, Nvidia |
| Time | Workshops Room VI | Presenters |
| 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM |
(Hands-on, see prerequisites) |
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| Learn to build AI applications with no code, low code, and using AI powered coding assistant | Ashish Vaidya, Amazon Alexa Abhai Pratap Singh, Amazon Alexa Ramakanth Damodaram and Neha Shetty, Amazon Web Services |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM | WTM: AI on AMD’s Hardware and Software Ecosystem – Room VI |
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| Enabling AI on AMD’s Hardware and Software Ecosystem | Hari Sadasivan, Member of Technical Staff SDE, AMD Kalin Ovtcharov, AI Solutions Architect, AMD Mahesh Ravishankar, Senior Software Development Manager, AMD |
Parking & Map of Venue
Venue: Plenary session: North Creek Event Center, NCEC: 18225 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011, walking distance to Workshops: Founders Hall, UW1, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246.
Directions: From 405 northbound around the intersection to 522, following the sign for the campus parkway, you will drive directly onto the campus parkway inside the campus. You have a choice of free surface parking or $4 for inside garage parking.
Parking: Complementary weekend parking on the surface lot by 180th St NE, short walk across 18225 Campus Way NE to the North Creek Event Center – NCEC (Plenary) and Founders Hall – UW1 (Workshop). See marked campus map.
Interactive Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/UW1,+18115+Campus+Way+NE,+Bothell,+WA+98011