Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence

Murray Center for Women in Technology

Get ready for change! Explore how AI will transform your life—the way you learn, the way you earn, even the way you vote.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)--The Campus Center Atrium

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:The 2024 WDF Conference is being hosted by NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology, in partnership with the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective (NJECC), an ADVANCE Partnership project that addresses gender and racial equity issues in academic technology commercialization (NSF award HRD 212941). Conference co-sponsors include NJIT’s Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Ying Wu College of Computing, the Martin Tuchman School of Management, the College of Science and Liberal Arts, and IEEE Women in Engineering (Princeton Chapter).

Agenda

Conference Agenda

8:30-9:00 		Registration & Coffee/ Light Breakfast
9:00-9:25 		Welcomes

SESSION #1: 		Getting Ready for Change: How AI Will Transform the Workplace

9:30-9:50		Conference Co-Host: Grace Wang, Distinguished Professor of Computer 
Science & Associate Dean for Research, Ying Wu College of Computing, NJIT	
9:50-10:15	Keynote: Jane Oates, Senior Policy Advisor at WorkingNation
10:15-10:35	Rashmi Jain, Professor, Information Management and Business Analytics, Montclair State University
10:35-10:55		Asha Saxena, Founder & CEO of Women Leaders in Data & Ai (WILDA) and  Author of The AI Factor.
11:00-11:30		Panel Discussion and Q&A


Welcomes & Session #1

SESSION #2: 		Making Technology work for ALL of Us: How AI may Increase Systemic 
Inequities and Subvert Democratic Processes

11:30-12:00	Ilana Beller, Organizing Manager, Democracy Campaign at Public Citizen
12:00-12:30	Keynote: Fay Cobb Payton, Professor Emerita, Information Technology/Analytics, North Carolina State University	
12:30-1:00 		Lunch Pick Up and Break
1:00-1:30		Panel Discussion and Q&A



Session #2

SESSION #3:  	Future Opportunities for NJ Entrepreneurs

1:30-2:45		Panel Discussion and Q&A moderated by Judith Sheft, Executive Director of 
the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation, and Technology
			Panelists Include:
Deborah Perez Fernandez, Executive Director of Technology Transfer, Rutgers University
Karin Calvinho, Co-founder & CTO of RenewCO2
Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; Director, Machine & Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Center (MAVRC); and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University

Session #3

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MARCH 22 WDF CONFERENCE AGENDA (tentative)

8:30-9:00 		Registration & Coffee/ Light Breakfast
9:00-9:25 		Welcomes

SESSION #1: 		Getting Ready for Change: How AI Will Transform the Workplace

9:30-10:00		Conference Co-Host: Grace Wang, Distinguished Professor of Computer 
Science & Associate Dean for Research, Ying Wu College of Computing, NJIT	
10:00-10:30	Keynote: Jane Oates, Senior Policy Advisor at WorkingNation
10:30-11:00	Rashmi Jain, Professor, Information Management and Business Analytics, Montclair State University
11:00-11:30		Panel Discussion and Q&A


2024 WDF Conference Agenda: Welcomes & Session #1

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