Archives: Presentations
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Josh Fleig, LED Chief Innovation Officer (Fireside Chat)
Join Greg Bresnitz, CEO of Friends with Benefits, for a fireside chat with Josh Fleig, Chief Innovation Officer at Louisiana Economic Development (LED). This conversation will explore how Louisiana is positioning itself as a national leader in emerging technologies—especially AI—through bold investment strategies, public–private partnerships, and innovation-driven infrastructure. Josh will share how LED is building…
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The AI-Powered Developer: What Your Job Will Really Look Like by Dustin P Gaspard
Will dev jobs exist in the future? It’s not a binary question. We’ll explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping software development and what this means for the next generation of developers and engineers. Drawing on the history of technological abstraction—from transistors to cloud computing—the talk frames AI not as a threat but as the next…
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The Entangled Defense: Cultivating Resilience in the Age of AI by Amanda Hartle
This talk explores how we can use this principle to build resilient digital ecosystems that can adapt to new challenges. We’ll explore a real-world incident where a modern threat taught us a profound lesson about trust and communication. This isn’t a lecture on fear; it’s a positive, biomimetic guide to building digital resilience. We will…
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LLMs for Civic Transparency by Aron Culotta
I’ll talk about ways in which the Center for Community-Engaged AI at Tulane is partnering with local organizations to design and deploy AI tools that expand access to civic processes and strengthen public oversight. Current projects include improving transparency and accountability in criminal court proceedings and city council meetings.
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Rebuilding the LA Economy with Intelligence by Robert Ayala
Throughout history, transformative technologies—from the printing press to the internet—have redefined how societies work, learn, and grow. Today, artificial intelligence, data, and automation represent the next great leap. But this isn’t just a tech story—it’s an economic one, and it’s unfolding here in Louisiana. And the clock is ticking. Louisiana faces urgent issues and the…
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No Robot! Teaching toddlers about AI by Blake Bertuccelli-Booth
Even toddlers can learn about AI. “No Robot! Teaching Toddlers about AI” is a presentation about a children’s book where a silly robot learns words like real AI — hearing, remembering, and then making funny mistakes. The book helps toddlers build vocabulary, laugh at the robot’s mix-ups, and begin to understand that AI also makes…
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Engineering in a Post AI World by Daryl Roberts
Engineering in a Post-AI World explores what Applied AI Engineering looks like in this new era where state-of-the-art models are at our fingertips, ready to be adapted and integrated into real-world systems. Rather than being bogged down by every detail of gradient descent or traditional data science principles, this talk focuses on understanding the core…
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Panel: AI in K-12 Education
Join leading educators, curriculum creators, and school leaders in a discussion on the state of AI in K-12 Education. Panelists include: Rebecca Gaillot (Ben Franklin High School), Vanessa Beget (LSU Cane), and others.
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The Evolution of Education, From Push to Pull in an AI World by Blaine Steven Fisher
Education is moving from a push model, content delivered in fixed sequences, to a pull model where learners retrieve, verify, and apply knowledge on demand. AI accelerates this shift. The argument is simple, AI literacy now belongs beside reading, writing, and math. This session gives leaders and faculty a practical blueprint. We translate concerns about…
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Hacking AI by Gant Laborde
While AI can recognize faces under masks, track purchases, and watch you sleep, there’s still hope when the Great Robot Revolution kicks off! Hacking software was cool in the 90s, but hacking data against AI will be cool tomorrow. We’ll discuss some of the mechanics for data bias, image perturbation, and jailbreaking that are emerging…