SUNY AI Symposium at Stony Brook: Scaling the NY AI Innovation Ecosystem
SUNY AI Symposium at Stony Brook: Scaling the NY AI Innovation Ecosystem
Day 1: Tuesday, April 14
| Time | Agenda Topic | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 7:45 to 9 am | Check-in and Breakfast | Theater Lobby |
| 9 to 9:30 am | Welcome Remarks |
Lav Varshney, SUNY Stony Brook Andrea Goldsmith, SUNY Stony Brook John B. King Jr. , State University of New York |
| 9:30 to 10:30 am | AI across New York: “The Empire State’s Intelligence: Mapping New York’s AI Future” |
Moderator: Jeff Jarvis, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Michael Carpenter, SUNY Polytechnic Jason D’Cruz, SUNY Albany Sharon Moran, SUNY ESF Shiqi Zhang, SUNY Binghamton |
| 10:30 to 11:45 am | This AI Life: “The Multiscale Intelligence: AI’s Role in Understanding Life Across Disciplines” |
Moderator: Anisha Kumar, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Ivet Bahar, SUNY Stony Brook Heather Lynch, SUNY Stony Brook Joel Saltz, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 11:45 am to 12 pm | Poster Session in honor of President Goldsmith’s Inauguration "A Showcase of SUNY's Next-Gen AI Talent" |
Andrea Goldsmith, SUNY Stony Brook Introduced by Mónica Bugallo, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 12 to 1:30 pm | Lunch / Poster Session | View the list of poster presenters Poster Session: Theater Lobby and East Hall Lunch: Zodiac Lobby and Main Lobby |
| 1:30 to 2:45 pm | Compute, Energy, and People Infrastructure for Scaling AI |
Fernando Gómez-Baquero, Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine Kiran Keshav, Empire AI Catherine Stollar Peters, State University of New York |
| 3 to 4:15 pm | AI drives National Competitiveness: “The Global Race: AI as the Engine of American Strategic Advantage” |
Moderator: Lav Varshney, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Kristen Ellis, United States Department of Energy Andrea Goldsmith, SUNY Stony Brook Jamie Metzl, OneShared.World |
| 4:15 to 4:45 pm | Korea's AI Landscape: "Insights from SUNY Korea" |
Francois Rameau, SUNY Korea Yoon Seok Yang, SUNY Korea |
| 4:45 pm | Closing Remarks |
Day 2: Wednesday, April 15
| Time | Agenda Topic | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 7:45 to 8:50 am | Check-in and Breakfast | Theater Lobby |
| 8:50 to 9 am | Welcome Remarks |
Nina Maung-Gaona, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 9 to 9:30 am | SUNY STRIVE Artificial Intelligence |
Venu Govindaraju, SUNY Buffalo Shadi Sandvik, State University of New York Andrew Singer, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 9:30 to 10:30 am | Keynote: How Science Philanthropy Can Advance AI for Science |
David Spergel, Simons Foundation Introduced by Carl Lejuez, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 10:30 to 11:45 am | AI in Education: "Innovations in the Classroom" |
Moderator: Rose Tirotta-Esposito, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Carlos Colosqui, SUNY Stony Brook Brenden Cusack, Huntington UFSD Christine Fena, SUNY Stony Brook Keith Landa, SUNY Purchase |
| 11:45 am to 12 pm | The New AI Workforce: "Integrating Inclusion, Education, and Cross-Disciplinarity” |
Susan Brennan, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 12 to 12:15 pm | Where AI Innovation Meets Artistic Expression |
Stephanie Dinkins, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 12:15 to 1:15 pm | Lunch / Art Exhibition / Industry Displays | View the list of Industry Display organizations here Lunch: Zodiac Lobby and Main Lobby Art Exhibition: Zodiac Lobby Industry Displays: Skylight Lobby |
| 1:15 to 2:30 pm | Diffusion of AI Across Industry and Society: “The Intelligence Revolution: How AI is Reshaping Industry and Everyday Life” |
Moderator: Samita Heslin, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Sarah Matt, SUNY Upstate Bryan McCann, Anthropic John Smith, IBM Research |
| 2:30 to 3:45 pm | Quantum and AI: "Where AI Meets the Frontiers of Physics" |
Opening Talk: Eden Figueroa, SUNY Stony Brook Moderator: C.R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Hyeongrak "Chuck" Choi, SUNY Stony Brook Krishna Rajan, SUNY Buffalo Ben Verschueren, NYSTAR |
| 3:45 to 5 pm | Neuro-AI |
Moderator: Alfredo Fontanini, SUNY Stony Brook Panelists: Paola Cascante-Bonilla, SUNY Stony Brook Tuhin Chakrabarty, SUNY Stony Brook Alexei Koulakov, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, SUNY Stony Brook |
| 5 pm | Closing Remarks |
Please direct any questions to suny-ai-symposium-sbu@stonybrook.edu