"The future is what you make it. So make it a good one." - Doc Brown, Back to the Future

This year at Tech Day we will be looking to the future of the university experience. Big data and artificial intelligence sound like science fiction but they are today’s reality. Join us and meet some of the thinkers and practitioners who are making these technologies accessible in your classroom, research, and beyond. We have some ideas but we need your input to make them real. Join us to meet some of our new partners and experience the future today. 

Welcome

10:30 a.m. Stibbs Room

Speakers: Robin Forman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Noel Wong, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer

Followed immediately by: Thinking Big: How Artificial Intelligence, the Cloud, and Machine Learning are Changing Research and the World (Panel)   The keynote panel features representative data evangelists from some giants in the tech industry:

• Tara Madhyastha Amazon  Principal TBDM Research Scientist;
• Lukman Ramsey Google Cloud Solutions Architect for Machine Learning;
• Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman Microsoft Azure Data Platform and Analytics Architect and author of Crushing the IT Gender Bias; and
• Kristin Johnson Tulane Law School’s McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law—focus on financial risk management as it relates to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. 

We'll have a spirited conversation about what these technologies are allowing us to do now and how we should prepare for the future.