Archives: Presentations
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Ruth Messinger, In Conversation
Ruth Messinger is this year’s keynote speaker. With the American Jewish World Service, Ruth has granted over $270 million to promote human rights in the developing world. Ruth is also responsible for large contributions to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She is a believer in direct giving and will share her insights…
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the beaning of life
my journey through beans building community finding purpose achievements and challenges along the way what Ive learned about my city and our path forward
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Looking backwards to see the future of AI technology jobs
We’ll review the significant events and the lessons we learned as an industry to theorize how the technology industry will play out over the next ten years. We’ll spend the final portion of the talk debating, questioning, and theorizing. Sneak Preview (A lot of it is good news for people in tech). If you’re wondering…
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Mastering AI Autonomy: Unleashing Open-Source Powerhouses for Transformative Business Solutions
Elevate your business with AI Innovation Elevate your business to the forefront of innovation with cutting-edge AI solutions that don’t break the bank. In this illuminating session, we delve into a curated ensemble of the most impactful open-source tools and frameworks, empowering you to build scalable, autonomous AI applications entirely within your control. Discover how…
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Leveraging BERT for Real-Time Clinical Note Generation in Emergency Medical Services
This talk with Noah Rahman, Dustin Hughes, and Kaju Sarkar will focus on the integration of BERT models and advanced audio extraction techniques to for clinical note generation in EMS and explore the challenges of audio data capture in the field. By leveraging domain-specific adaptations we can enhance the accuracy of real-time transcriptions amidst the…
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Nailing Descartes to the Wall: The Existential Consequences of Ignoring Animal Rights
The concept of moral rights has been debated for centuries, with each generation identifying society’s blind spots and expanding its moral consideration. For example, Ancient Greek philosophers thought deeply about moral rights yet owned slaves and denied women basic rights—practices now seen as barbaric. This raises the question: Could our society have similar blind spots…
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AI and the Future of Work
In this talk Dr. Handler will discuss the role AI will play in shaping the future of work through the exploration of a series of dichotomies that create the pressure required to create change. Specific topics of focus will include: The impact of AI on psychological safety in the workplace, the ethics of job applicants’…
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Co-creating Civic AI: Partnering Academia with Local Communities
Aron presents ongoing work at Tulane’s Center for Community-Engaged AI partnering with local non-profits to build AI tools for transparency and accountability in criminal court and city government. He will first discuss our work with Eye on Surveillance, who have developed a retrieval-augmented generation tool over New Orleans city council transcripts (sawt.us). Tulane’s Center for…
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The Future is Extensible: Leveraging LLMs and WASM for Customizable Software
Software used to be extensible. In the desktop era, we could inject code or patch any software on our machines. We could use this code to bend the software to our will and create new things that the creators couldn’t imagine. This freedom made the whole ecosystem better. We can still see this today in…
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Holding the Baton in a Never Ending Relay Race of Stewardship
I fear the effects of climate change. I love New Orleans. I plant trees in the swamp. I see many friends of mine quickly become discouraged after initially becoming inspired to action to address a civic or environmental issue. After the initial spark of rage and determination come fantasies of heroism, imagining a point of…