Archives: Presentations
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Technology, Art and Innovation at the Winter Circus in Ghent
Once upon a time, in the city of Ghent, Belgium, there was a permanent circus that captivated audiences for five decades with stunning performances featuring dancers, acrobats, and elephants. The circus closed its doors in 1944. In 1947, a car dealer transformed the venue into a garage, selling cars until 1978. Afterward, the owner used…
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NOLA Artist Incubator: Creating a Network of Makers for a More Equitable & Sustainable New Orleans
Sustainability through the arts: Introducing NOLA Artist Incubator, a local 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our organization created and maintains the Galvez Garden, a community garden and social practice project located in St. Roch, in 2021. The aim of the nonprofit is working with culture bearers and youth to grow gardens, green spaces, and environmentally focused public art…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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From Policy to Where You Got Your Shoes At
Have you ever strolled through the streets of the French Quarter, when someone playfully asks, “I bet you I can tell you where you got your shoes at?” This ageless tourist challenge often ends with laughter and perhaps the purchase of a refreshing drink. But here’s the twist: the answer isn’t a store or online…