Hear from Tulane President Mike Fitts as he takes questions from the Tulane community and discusses the bold future of the University. Pre-submit your questions online at: https://president.tulane.edu/homecoming-town-hall-questions
The Canvas Gradebook is getting an upGRADE beginning in January 2020. There are additional features in the new Canvas Gradebook that may be beneficial to you and your course. Join our Instructure CSM Kelly Farr and get insider tips about the new features as well as features that will be missing in the new semester.
Speaker: Tara Madhyastha, Amazon Principal TBDM Research Scientist
Join us as we discuss how Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used throughout the research lifecycle—supporting faster time to science, advanced data analysis and machine learning, collaboration, and reproducibility. Dr. Madhyastha will provide some examples of how AWS has been used in research so far and describe what is possible at scale.
2:00 p.m. Race Room
Speakers:
Jeremy Dean, Hypothes.is Director of Education and Lukman Ramsey, Google Cloud Solutions Architect for Machine Learning
2:00 p.m. Stibbs Room
Speaker: Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman, Microsoft Azure Data Platform and Analytics Architect
Join Microsoft’s Power BI platform architect and author of Crushing the IT Gender Bias for a discussion of her experience in Information Technology and a question and answer session on the role of women in technology.
1:00 p.m. Race Room
Speakers:
Soundarapandian Pandidurai, Hexaware Data Scientist; Adrienne Garber, Dell Senior Higher Education Strategist; and Nick Brigman, CompuCom Vice President of Digital Strategy
1:15 p.m. Stibbs Room
Speakers: Representatives from Hexaware
Our experience of the world is shifting. Each day information becomes more visual, mobile, and vocal. What does this mean for the future of the university experience? Our partners at Hexaware will discuss industry trends related to Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Chat and Smart Assistants, Virtual Classrooms, and more.
12:15 p.m. Stibbs Room
Speakers:
Patrick Norton, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Noel Wong, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Please join Noel Wong and Patrick Norton for a special session to discuss the future of technology in higher education, including strategies for leadership, innovation, enterprise and research data management, and the digitized evolution of Tulane’s business processes. A question and answer session will follow.
Our keynote panel features representative data evangelists from some of the major players in this space Tara Madhyastha who focuses on neuroimaging of the brain (Amazon), Lukman Ramsey who focuses on Machine Learning (Google), Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman author of Crushing the IT Gender Bias and Power BI platform architect (Microsoft) as well as Tulane Law School’s McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law Kristin Johnson (who focuses on financial risk management as it relates to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning). We’ll have a spirit conversation about what thes
On Monday, September 30 at 3pm, the Tulane Department of Political Science is proud to present Shauna Gillooly, Doctoral Candidate from the University of California, Irvine. She will be giving a talk entitled: A Woman's Place is at the Negotiating Table: Gender and Negotiations Peace Negotiations in Colombia. The talk will be held at Gibson Hall, Room 310.
