CEWIT2019 Conference Schedule

Thursday, November 6, 2019

The CEWIT2019 Conference will consist of multiple panels, discussions, and individual talks. The series of individual talks will be fifteen minute presentations by distinguished breakout speakers doing a deepdive into their area of expertise along with Q&A.  

Time

Speaker

Talk Title

7:30am Continental Breakfast & Check-In  
8:15am
Interim President Michael A. Bernstein, PhD-  Stony Brook University
Opening Remarks 
8:30am Shantenu Jha, PhD- Brookhaven National Laboratory The Power of Many: The Next Frontier
8:50am Tomi Teikko- Tieto Corporation Empathic Reality (ER) - human-centric content in virtual and augmented reality
9:10am Achille Fokoue- IBM Unifying Learning and Reasoning
9:30am
Peter Beling, PhD- University of Virginia
A Systems Theoretic Perspective on Transfer Learning
9:50am Hidekazu Taoka, PhD- DOCOMO Healthcare, Inc. Expectation and Reality of Japanese Health Tech Market
10:10am BREAK
 
10:30am Ambassador Ido Aharoni- New York University, Emerson Rigby, Ltd Marketing in the Age of the New Participant
10:50am Joseph Jankowski, PhD- Henry Ford Health System What it Will take to Realize the Promise of Big Data, Connectivity and Machine Learning in Healthcare
11:10am Daniel Holewienko- Henry Schein Inc.  The Drive to Healthcare 4.0 through Big Data, Analytics, ML, Cloud, and IoT Enablement
11:30am
Steve Skiena, PhD- Stony Brook University
Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning Models
11:50pm LUNCH  
1:00pm
Florence D. Hudson- FDHint, LLC
Harnessing Advanced Technology Innovations Today and into the Future 
1:20pm Pekka Abrahamsson, PhD- University of Jyvaskyla Implementing Ethics in AI
1:40pm Steve Rogers- IBM Blockchain in Practice - Beyond the Hype
2:00pm
Dan Wang, PhD- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Industry AIOps: Case Studies and Experiences in Data Driven Industry Operations
2:20pm
Voramon Dheeradhada, PhD- GE Global Research
 Machine Learning Method for Parameter Development
2:40pm BREAK  
3:00pm Pat Narendra, PhD- Zebra Technologies Augmented Reality Extended: Beyond games and novelty to creating value in the Enterprise
3:20pm Raju Gottumukkala, PhD- University of Louisiana at Lafayette VAStream: A Visual Analytics System for Fast Data Streams
3:40pm Ali Asmari, PhD- ULC Robotics Utilizing Machine Learning to Solve the Challenges of the Energy Industry
4:00pm James Xiaojiang Du, PhD- Temple University e-SAFE: Secure, Efficient and Forensics-Enabled Access to Wireless Implantable Medical Devices
4:20pm Panel Moderated by The New York Academy of Sciences

A.I. and Climate Change: Improving Prediction, Measuring Impact, and Driving Adaptation

Jennifer Cotstley, PhD- New York Academy of Sciences ♦  Minghua Zhang, PhD- Stony Brook University ♦ Tian Zheng, PhD- Columbia University ♦ David Rolnick, PhD- University of Pennsylvania

5:20pm Networking Reception  Join us in the CEWIT Lobby for a Networking Reception with great food!