Workshop Schedule

Program Schedule (subject to change)

New Venue:
Founder’s Building (UW1) & Discovery Hall (UW2)

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
7:00 – 8:00 AM Registration, Check-in & Breakfast
8:00 – 9:20 AM Plenary Session – Discovery Hall (DISC) 162
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

 

Workshops Schedule

 

Time

Workshop (click for description)
Founders Hall UW1

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)

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
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
9:45 AM – 12:00 PM WTC: GHL – AI for Global Health – Room II
 

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
9:45 AM – 12:00 PM WTE: AWS – Gen AI App – Room III

(Hands-on, see prerequisites)

 

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 – 3:15 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 – 3:15 PM AI-Enabled Corporate Management: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Business Excellence Karthikeyan Gopal, Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon
3:30 – 5:00 PM WTG: Prompt Engineering – Room III (Hands-on)
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
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)

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)

Generative AI for Product Development and Rapid Prototyping Ram Joshi, Staff Engineer at The Climate Corporation and Gunjan Paliwal, Product Development & Marketing Leader
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)

WTK-b: Repeat: Nvidia LLM/RAG Training

(Hands-on; Limit to 20 people)

Kevin Lee, Deep Learning Institute Team, Nvidia

Suchismita Sahu, Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI, Nvidia

9:45 AM – 12:00 PM

WTL: Building AI Applications – Room VI

(Hands-on, see prerequisites)

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
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 3:15 PM WTM: AI on AMD’s Hardware and Software Ecosystem – Room VI
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

Parking: Complementary weekend parking on the surface lot by 180th St NE, short walk across NE 180th St to the Discovery  Hall – UW2 ( 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