The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development (ORIED) and the UTK Office of Innovative Technologies (OIT) in partnership with the Tennessee Tech’s Machine Intelligence and Data Science Center, will be hosting the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Across Tennessee Symposium as a hybrid meeting. Their will be a panel, presentations, and discussions about AI research across the state of Tennessee with the goal of informing a team investigating the activities to be enabled, the need, and the specification of a AI resource available for use by the researchers of the public universities across the state.
The 2024 AI Across Tennessee Symposium will be July 18th, 2024 and will be a hybrid meeting with the in person location at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville and the remote videoconference via Teams Town Hall format. The in person location will be Bruner Hall room 228 on the Tennessee Tech campus. Parking available next to Bruner Hall.
Registration is now available. Please fill out registration here. In person registration will end close of business July 5th. Remote registration will close at the close of business July 16th.
All times Central Time Zone
All sessions will be recorded.
| Time (Central) | Presentation/Session Title | Presenter/Moderator |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Symposium Welcome/Introduction Teams Town Hall Link 1 | Dr. Zhanjiang “John” Liu, Tennessee Tech
Vice President Research and Economic Development Victor Hazlewood, UTK |
| 9:00 a.m. | AI Across Tennessee Panel Teams Town Hall Link 1 | Dan Harder, UTK Doug Talbert, Tennessee Tech Joshua Phillips, MTSU Vinhthuy Phan, University of Memphis Moderator: Victor Hazlewood, UTK |
| 10:00 a.m. | AI Tennessee Initiative, AI at UT, Exploring AI resources Teams Town Hall Link 1 | Dr. Vasileios Maroulas Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Deputy Director AI Tennessee Initiative, & Professor Mathematics Victor Hazlewood Associate CIO and Director, OIT HPSC |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:45 a.m. | AI at Tennessee Tech Teams Town Hall Link 2 | Doug Talbert Brad Cohen Steve Anton Muhammad Ismail |
| 11:15 a.m. | AI at MTSU Teams Town Hall Link 2 | Josh Phillips |
| 11:45 a.m. | AI at Tennessee State Teams Town Hall Link 2 | TBD |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | – |
| 1:15 p.m. | AI at University of Memphis Teams Town Hall Link 3 | Brian Evans Srikar Velichety |
| 1:45 p.m. | GOVerning AI: The State of AI at APSU Teams Town Hall Link 3 | Chad Brooks Scott Shumate |
| 2:15 p.m. | AI at ETSU Teams Town Hall Link 3 | Biju Bajracharya |
| 2:45 p.m. | Room transition time | |
| 2:50 p.m. | Round Table Sessions (3 of them) RT1: Research Activities Teams Town Hall Link 4 RT2: AI Resources Teams Town Hall Link 5 RT3: State-wide and Broader Impact Teams Town Hall Link 6 Zoom links TBD | Round Table Chairs RT1: Josh Phillips, MTSU RT2: Victor Hazlewood, UTK RT3: Biju Bajracharya, ETSU |
| 3:35 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Round Table Sessions Reports Teams Town Hall Link 7 | Session Chairs RT1: Josh Phillips, MTSU RT2: Victor Hazlewood, UTK RT3: Biju Bajracharya, ETSU |
| 4:15 p.m. | Management Plan Overview Teams Town Hall Link 7 | Victor Hazlewood, UTK |
| 4:30 p.m. | Symposium Wrap Up Teams Town Hall Link 7 | Victor Hazlewood, UTK |
| 4:35 p.m. | Symposium Closes 4:35-5pm Any BOFs or team meetings |
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