May 1 schedule

AI Leadership Panel, AI Innovation Research Presentations and Google Workshop

8:30 am - 9:00 am Registrations and Networking

9:00 am - 9:15 am

Opening Remarks

9:15 am - 10:15 am Panel Discussion: Reimagining Atlantic Canada through the Lens of AI  (NS Government, NS Heath, Google, Empire and EY. Moderated by Dr. Michael Zhang)

10:30 am - 3:00 pm AI Research Presentations (more to come):

  • Generative AI in Business Decision-making: Do LLMs Show Biases Similar to Human?
    Xichen Zhang (SMU), Hasan Cavusoglu (UBC)
  • Operationalizing AI Ethics 
    Stephanie Kelly (SMU)
  • Harnessing Agentic AI for Secure and Efficient Confidential Data Analytics
    Yigit Aydede (SMU), Chukwuemeka Nwankwo (novastorms.ai)
  • Human vs. AI: The Creative Battle Transforming Marketing 
    Hadi Eslami (SMU)
  • From Algorithms to Transparency: Ethics, Politics, and the Public Understanding of AI
    Robert Thacker (SMU)
  • Are LLMs a Good Model of Human Thought? The Challenge of Compositional Learning
    Hassan Sajjad (Dal)
  • AI Applications in Intra-Logistics and Logistics

    Uday Venkatadri (Dal)
  • Connecting the Dots: Clinical Genomics, AI, and the Future of Precision Medicine

    Victor Martinez (Dal)
  • Advancing Machine Intelligence Through Reinforcement Learning

    Janarthanan Rajendran (Dal)
  • AI for Sustainable Livestock Farming ~ Advancing Welfare, Efficiency, and Climate Resilience
    Suresh Neethirajan (Dal)
  • AI in Ocean Technology

    Christopher Whidden (Dal)
  • Real-time REM Sleep Stage Detection using Deep Learning
    Danny Silver (Acadia)
  • Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Securing Sensitive Data in AI
    Lydia Bouzar-Benlabiod (Acadia)
  • Cybersecurity Gets Smart: How AI is Changing the Game

    Amir Eaman (Acadia)
  • Investigating Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Enhance AI Model Performance in High-Level Computer Science Courses
    Shadi Aljendi (UNB)
  • From Paperwork to Patient Care: How can we better leverage LLMs to support occupational therapy documentation?
    Kristina Kupferschmidt, Gus Skorburg, Brendan Wylie-Toal, Kieran O’Dohert (UPEI)
  • Fact Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs through Semantic and Contextual Attention
    Enayat Rajabi (CBU)

Networking Lunch: 12:00 pm– 1:00 pm with Keynote Speaker Chief Data Officer NSH

Afternoon Workshops: 

  • Google AI Research and Applications (Chief Information Security Officer Google Cloud)