IEEE Women in Engineering AI Leadership Summit

Program

Friday, September 20, 2019

Nokia Auditorium

2000 W. Lucent Lane

Naperville, IL 60563

(Program subject to change)

7:30 AM - 4:00 PMRegistration & Office Hours

Closed at Lunch
8:15 AM - 8:30 AMWelcome

Nokia Auditorium
8:30 AM - 9:10 AMKEYNOTE

Introduction & Overview of AI

Anne Lee
Technology Strategy and Architecture – Nokia Bell Labs CTO
9:10 AM - 9:50 AMKEYNOTE

AI for Smart Cities

Danielle DuMerer
VP of Technology
Shedd Aquarium
09:50 AM - 10:10 AMCoffee Break & Exhibits (20 min)
Track 1:
AI and Society


Nokia Auditorium
Track 2:
Using AI in Your Solution


Nokia Studio
Room 4H-101
10:10 AM - 10:50 AMImpact of AI on Medical Imaging and Healthcare

Dr. Bimba Rao
Director of Engineering
Ultrasound Division
Siemens Healthineers
AI/ML applications to various data mining problems associated with Location Intelligence extraction

Dr. Tessa Berry
Research Engineer
HERE
10:55 AM - 11:35 AMJumpstarting your ML journey in Cyber Security

Melisa Napoles
Solutions Engineer
Splunk
Open Standards for Predictive Model Deployment

Dr. Svetlana Levitan
Developer Advocate
IBM Cognitive Applications
11:35 AM - 12:35 PMLunch

4L-101
12:35 PM - 1:15 PMKEYNOTE
AI in Sports


Dr. Helen Sun
CTO
Stats LLC
Track 1:
AI and Society


Nokia Auditorium
Track 2:
Using AI in Your Solution


Nokia Studio
Room 4H-101
1:20 PM - 2:00 PMEthics in AI

Dr. Katina Michael
Founding Editor in Chief
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering

Director, Center of Engineering, Policy and Society
Arizona State University
AI & Telecommunications

Dr. Veena Mendiratta
Network Reliability and Analytics Research Lead
Nokia Bell Labs
2:05 PM - 2:45 PMAI for Conservation: AI and Humans Combating Extinction Together

Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf
Computer Science Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
AI in the Electric Energy Sector

Nina Selak
Principal Project Manager Grid Modernization
ComEd
2:45 PM - 3:05 PMCoffee Break & Exhibits (20 min)
3:05 PM - 3:45 PMKEYNOTE

Nokia Auditorium

Supercomputing in AI

Amy Gile
CEO
Silverdraft
3:45 PM - 4:45 PMPanel Discussion
Leadership in AI


Dr. Katina Michael
Founding Editor in Chief
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

Dr. Bimba Rao
Director of Engineering Ultrasound Division
Siemens Healthineers

Maria Rios
Founder and CEO
Nation Waste Inc.

Susanne Tedrick
Client Technical Specialist, Communications & CSI
IBM Cloud Platform
4:45 PM - 5:05 PMClosing Remarks

Congressman Bill Foster
11th District of Illinois
Chairman of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence


Congressman Sean Casten
6th District of Illinois
5:30 PM - 7:30 PMNetworking Reception

Chicago Marriott Naperville
1801 N. Naper Blvd.
Naperville, IL 60563