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AI Roadshow Series: Enhancing the Higher Ed, Research, and Health Experience with AI

Event Overview

Please join World Wide Technology and our partners, Dell and NVIDIA, for part one of an exclusive AI Roadshow - hosted at UTSA's School of Data Science. Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Time: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Location: UTSA School of Data Science (506 Dolorosa Street | San Antonio, TX 78204) AI is transforming various sectors of society - Higher Ed, Research, and Academic Health are in many cases, at the forefront of this technology - by enabling new ways of teaching, learning, discovering, and delivering AI to the world. AI also poses significant challenges, such as ensuring ethical, fair, and responsible use of AI, developing AI skills and competencies, integrating AI with existing systems and processes, and fostering AI innovation and collaboration across disciplines and sectors. The event will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions and focused sessions on all things AI - ethics, education, applications, collaboration and innovation.

Featured Speakers

Sachin Koshy

World Wide Technology

AI & Automation Practice Lead

Sachin has been inspiring cross-functional teams for over 25 years. He uses his experience as an educator, soldier, speaker, and Six Sigma practitioner to focus on technologies that include AI, IA, RPA and ML. He builds teams to get "AI-Ready" with proven solutions that show how technology can help streamline business processed while avoiding risks. This enables teams to concentrate on improving organizational health by lowering burnout and enhancing the constituent/student experience.

Craig Allen

Dell Technologies

AI Solution Architect, Data Science Platform Team

Craig is a Dell AI Solution Architect. His role as a pre-sales technical specialist is to help customers in understanding Dell's solutions for AI and Data Analytics. His area of expertise is with Generative AI, Infrastructure for AI, Responsible AI, and the Process of operationalizing AI. He can assist in the initial planning and evaluation of Dell's solutions, including requirements gathering, architectural guidance, and integration considerations.

Michael Sink

World Wide Technology

Chief Technology Advisor

Michael serves as Chief Technology Advisor of higher education at WWT. In this role, Michael engages with clients on strategy, innovation, and transformation to develop and deliver solutions that are tailor-made for higher education institutions. Prior to joining WWT in January 2022, Michael served as the Associate Vice President and Deputy CIO at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he helped establish a vision for technology services to accelerate the transformation of UCF IT.

Daniel Fatade

NVIDIA

Senior Solutions Architect, Generative AI

Daniel focuses primarily on MLOps, where he supports NVIDIA's strategic customers by building scalable GenAI solutions. He started his career working as a machine learning engineer in Microsoft's industry solutions organization. His work at Microsoft focused on building and deploying deep learning applications. In recent years, he transitioned to the AI Acceleration Studio within Microsoft, where his work centered on building enterprise Generative AI solutions for customers.

What to expect

During this event, industry experts from WWT, Dell & NVIDIA will discuss:

Current and emerging trends, challenges and opportunities of AI.
Best practices, case studies and success stories of AI applications and innovations.
Gaps, needs, and priorities for AI research, education and practice.

Goals and Objectives

The purpose of this event is to create a community of practice that can advance the state of the art and the state of the practice of AI in Higher Ed, Research, and Academic Health.

Who should attend?

Researchers, educators and practitioners from Higher Ed, Research and Academic Health.