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Gen AI Symposium Schedule

12:00 PM

Registration Opens
Klarman Hall Atrium


1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Opening Plenary
Klarman Auditorium

Welcome:

John F. Manning
Harvard University Provost and Dane Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Opening Remarks

Bharat Anand
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, and Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration

Klara Jelinkova
Vice President and University Chief Information Officer

John H. Shaw
Vice Provost for Research, Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology, and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering


Panel: Generative AI and the Future of Learning at Harvard

Iav Bojinov
Assistant Professor and Richard Hodgson Fellow, Harvard Business School

Nonie K. Lesaux
Dean of the Faculty and Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Christopher W. Stubbs
Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Senior Advisor on Generative AI

Moderator: Rebecca Nesson, Dean for Academic Programs, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  


Faculty Lightning Talks: Perspectives on GenAI Across Harvard 

Alberto Cavallo
Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Rachel Carmody
Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Sandeep Robert Datta
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Jacqueline Lane
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Junwei Lu
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School  

Frank Nagle
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Jeffrey Schnapp
Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Kun-Hsing “Kun” Yu
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School



3:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

Breakout Sessions:
Aldrich Hall and Klarman Hall Auditorium

Teaching with Chatbots: What Changes, What Matters, and What’s at Stake

Sharad Goel
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Leah Plunkett
HLS Online Executive Director and Associate Dean of Learning Experience and Innovation, Harvard Law School

Adam Rodman
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School


Rethinking Assessments in a GenAI World 

Sue Farrell
Associate Dean for Assessment and Evaluation in the Program in Medical Education and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Andrew Ho
Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Marlon Kuzmick
Director of the Learning Lab, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Dan Levy (moderator)
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School


Innovative Research Tools

Kiante Brantley
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Institute Investigator at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Max Shad
Senior Director of AI/ML Research Engineering at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Marinka Zitnik
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School


Improving Research through Data Curation

Melissa Dell
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Francesca Dominici
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Central Administration

Stu Snydman
Associate University Librarian, Harvard Library and Managing Director for Library Technology, Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration


Innovative Use Cases for Operations 

Ismael Carreras
Associate Dean of Strategic Analysis, Office for the Dean of Administration and Finance, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Sherri Kotosky
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst / Scrum Master, Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Scott Kearney
Senior Software Engineer, Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Dave LaPorte
Senior Director of Integration and Innovation Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Rob Linnaeus
Consultant, Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Rachel Lewellen
Director, AA&D Resources, Alumni Affairs and Development, Central Administration


Regulation, Compliance, and Ethics of GenAI 

Chris Bebenek
University Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Central Administration

Nathan Hall
Deputy Chief Information Security and Data Privacy Officer, Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Klara Jelinkova
Vice President and University Chief Information Officer, Central Administration

Matthew Kopec
Program Director and Lecturer, Embedded EthiCS, Faculty of Arts and Sciences



4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Closing Plenary
Klarman Auditorium 

Undergraduate Student Lightning Talks

Gulirano Almuratova 
Joseph Bejjani 
Camilo Brown-Pinilla 
Felix Chen 
Sofia Giannuzzi
Neel Joshi 
Somto Unini  


Keynote

Introduction: Meredith Weenick, Executive Vice President

Karim R. Lakhani
Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, Founding Chair of Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard / Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard 


5:00 PM – 6:00 PM 

Reception
Williams Room, Spangler Center

Featuring demonstrations by: 

Katie Amaral
IT Project Technical Lead, Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Jenny Rae Bailey
User Experience Researcher/Designer, Harvard Library

Andrew Jeske
Digital Product Manager for Digital Transformation, Harvard Business School

David LaPorte
Senior Director of Integration and Innovation Harvard University Information Technology, Central Administration

Doug Ng
Director of Design, Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), Harvard Business School

Jeff Steward
Director of Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, Harvard Art Museums 


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