Digital Economy
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23-26 December 2022 with over 100 sessions – San Fancisco, CA
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Digital Economy Conference 2022
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Day 1: Industry Day
9:00am - 9:15amOpening Remarks
By Alderman Gilbert Villegas Chairman of the Committee on Economic, Capital, and Technology Development, City of Chicago, Kristi Dula Deputy Director , Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, State of Illinois, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030, Elizabeth Ziegler “Betsy” CEO of 1871- 9:15am - 10:00am
Fireside Chat: Advancing responsible AI Innovation at the Federal Reserve System
By Sunayna Tuteja Chief Innovation Officer for the Federal Reserve System, Margaret Riley Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Financial Services - 10:00am - 10:45am
The AI Revolution in Banking: Shaping the Future Landscape
By Asad Hussain Senior Director, EY-Parthenon, Varun Nakra Vice President, Deutsche Bank, Jimmy Yang Chief Risk Analytics and Infrastructure Officer, CIBC, Shanthi Gudavalli Senior Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase - 11:00am - 12:00pm
AI Entrepreneurship & Investing: 1871 AI Innovation Lab Startup Pitch 5-1
By James Gladfelter Emerging Tech Manager, Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, State of Illinois, Jialian Wu CEO, Infera, Eugenio Scafati CEO, Autonoma, Dan Brown CEO, founder Inquest AI, Charles Mopur CEO, Livesitter - 11:00am - 12:00pm
AI 2030 Academy: GenAI Fundamentals
By Boaz Ashkenazy CEO, Augmented AI, Anitha Yeddula Director of Application Development, Discover Financial Services, Noelle Russell Chief AI Officer, AI Leadership Institute - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch and Launch: AI 2030 Chicago Hub Fireside Chat
By Xiaochen Zhang CEO of FinTech4Good, Chief AI officer, AI2030, Brett Mowry Corporate Advisory Board and Head of Advisory, AI 2030, Erik Vander Kolk Publisher Erik, BankingExchange, Elizabeth Ziegler “Betsy” CEO of 1871 - 1:00pm - 1:45pm
FinTech Meets AI: Exploring the Synergy in Finance
By Kirk Freund Chartier Chief Strategy Officer, Enova International, Haris Khurshid General Partner, Chalo Ventures, Sandeep Maira Founder/CTO, Raven Risk AI, Alexandra Oleksiuk Sr.Business Development Manager, World Business Chicago (WBC), Arjun Ravi Kannan Director, Data Science Research at Discover Financial Services - 1:00pm - 1:45pm
AI and Legal Tech: Transforming the Future of Legal Practice
By David Shedd VP, Sales Engineering, Reveal, Jordan Wilson Founder, Everyday AI, James Gatto AI Team Leader, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP - 1:45pm - 2:30pm
GenAI for Real Estate
By Momei Qu Managing Director, PSP Growth, Aaron Letzeiser Co-Founder, Obie, Dan Weisman Director, Innovation Strategy, National Association of REALTORS®, Suraj Rajdev Head of Data, Measurement, & Analytics - Home & Consumer Services, Google - 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Impact of AI on Patient Care and Medical Innovation
By Pamela Gupta CEO, Trusted AI, Nafiseh (Cati) Mollaei Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, Frank Riccota CEO,BurstIQ, Ganesh Natesan Sr. Tech Manager- Information Security , Health Care Service Corporation, Brett Westen Founder and Head of Data Strategy, Allevio Consulting - 2:45pm - 3:30pm
AI Impact Roundtable
By Reza Rassool Chair, CEO, Kwaai , Chike Aguh Senior Advisor, Harvard University’s Project On Workforce, Amy Guterman Senior Director of Innovation, Philanthropy Salesforce Accelerator, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030 - 3:30pm - 4:15pm
The Impact of Enterprise AI Across Industries
By Bharat Sunkari Founder & CEO, TekAnalytics, Meghna Sinha Vice President AI Center, Verizon, Dr. Denise Turley Vice President of Corporate Systems at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Brett Mowry Corporate Advisory Board and Head of Advisory, AI 2030, Nate Savona Partner, Oliver Wyman - 4:15pm - 5:15pm
AI Entrepreneurship & Investing: 1871 AI Innovation Lab Startup Pitch 5 - 2
By Brennan Woodruff Cofounder, Chief Business Officer, GoCharlie, Nilay Parikh Founder and CEO, Avrist, John Abrams Founder & CEO, Nutrad, Inc., Guillermo Villegas Co-founder, Levee, Haris Khurshid General Partner, Chalo Ventures, Allison Lechnir Partner, Hyde Park Venture Partners, David Turner Co-founder, Spacebot - 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Responsible AI Pledge: Stakeholder Engagement Forum
By Pamela Gupta CEO, Trusted AI, Brett Mowry Corporate Advisory Board and Head of Advisory, AI 2030, Michael Glavich Head of North America Growth, Blockchain Research Institute
Day 2: AI Impact Day
- 9:00am - 9:50am
Fireside Chat: Leveraging AI for Regional Economic Growth: Case Studies and Strategies
By Dinis Guarda Founder and CEO ztudium, Kristi Dula Deputy Director , Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, State of Illinois, Alderman Gilbert Villegas Chairman of the Committee on Economic, Capital, and Technology Development, City of Chicago, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030, Eva Szalkai Csaky Executive Director, Hunter & Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity, Ted Souder Founder, Wiggs Holding - 9:50am - 10:30am
How AI Research Impacts Our World
By Bamshad Mobasher Professor of Computer Science, DePaul University, Karl William Putz Associate Director of R&D Programs, DPI, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Dean and Sydney Stein Professor, University of Chicago, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030 - 10:45 - 12:00
AI 2030 Academy: Modern Data Management and Enterprise AI Strategy
By Alex Castrounis Founder & CEO, Why of AI, Bharat Sunkari Founder & CEO, TekAnalytics, Quentin Reul Chief AI Officer, RQle.ai - 10:45am - 12:00pm
AI Entrepreneurship & Investing: 1871 AI Innovation Lab Startup Pitch 5-3
By Laz Fuentes CEO, SQOR Technologies Inc., Cosimo Spera CEO, Minerva CQ, Narasimha Kodihalli CEO, OpenRisk Technologies Inc., Andrei Papancea , James Keck Founder, NeoLicense, Martha Montoya CEO, Agtools Inc, Xiaochen Zhang CEO of FinTech4Good, Chief AI officer, AI2030 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch and AI Entrepreneurship & Investing: 1871 AI Innovation Lab Startup Pitch 5-4
By Victor Bian Chief of Staff, HydroxAI, Dmitry Norenko CEO, Graphio, Reda Al-Bahrani Co-founder, Matrice.ai, Yutaro Nishiyama Founder, Head of Technology, InstaEnglish, Inc, Eneko Gonzalez Co-Founder & CTO, Drip Tech, Jason Jacobsohn Founder & Managing Partner, Propellant Ventures - 1:00pm - 1:40pm
Deep Dive Workshop: AI Trust and Safety Roundtable
By Sanjay Patel Principal Technical Manager, IBM, Laura Smilingyte Customer Success Executive, Microsoft, Jessica Yeats Principal Data Scientist, NVIDIA, Manas Talukdar Director of Engineering, Labelbox - 1:00pm - 1:40pm
Global Engagement on AI Regulations and Standards
By Kevin Tupper Microsoft's Federal AI Evangelist, Loren Bushkar Innovation Policy, Federal Reserve Board, Donald High Chief Data Scientist, Internal Revenue Service, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030, Agus Sudjianto Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo & Company - 1:40pm - 2:20pm
Leveraging AI for Climate Action: Innovations in ESG, Mitigation, and Adaptation Strategies
By Damian Graham Head of Customer Engineering, Enterprise, Google, Catherine Atkin Chair of Stanford CodeX Climate Data Policy Initiative; Chief Sustainability Officer, Redwoods.ai, Shylesh (Shy) Muralidharan Global head of (Digital) Climate Action Services, SLB, Chris Kohler Chief Strategy Officer, Innovo Markets - 1:40pm - 2:20pm
Transforming Media and Content Creation with Generative AI
By Alfonso Gutiérrez News Anchor, Noticiero Telemundo Chicago, Dan Proft co-host, Chicago’s Morning Answer, Laura Garcia CEO, Global News Group, Tsi-tsi-ki Félix Award-Winning Journalist | TEDx Speaker | National TV Host , Anas Ghazi Board of Advisors, Alethea AI - 2:35pm - 3:15pm
Decoding Responsible AI: Principles, Practices, and Pathways
By Diya Wynn Responsible AI Lead, Cathy R Cobey Global Responsible AI Co-Lead, Ernst & Young LLP, Nicholas Schmidt , Scott Cambo Chief of Trustworthy AI, RedMane Technology, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030, Anastasia “Tracy” Raissis Founder and CEO of Achillia Group, Nicholas Schmidt Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of SolasAI - 3:15pm - 4:00pm
AI and the Future of Work
By Linda Jingfang Cai former VP Talent Development, Linkedin, Mark Rossi Vice President, Career Services, Bravanti, Salah Goss Senior Vice President, Mastercard, Chad Thompson Chief People Officer, LanzaTech, Carolyn Wiesenhahn former Chief People Officer and SVP, CDW - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Responsible AI Design Lab: Product Forum- AI 2030 Global Fellows
By Xiaochen Zhang CEO of FinTech4Good, Chief AI officer, AI2030, Lin Classon Member of the Advisory Board / Product Advisor , AI 2030 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
AI Entrepreneurship & Investing: 1871 AI Innovation Lab Startup Pitch 5-5
By Plamen Petrov CEO, Healee Inc., Kalyan Gautham Cofounder & CEO, xPub, Jason Edgar Chief Analytics Officer, Complete Wellness Solutions, Dena Neek CEO, Xblock, Lydia Ding Co-Founder, CodeComplete, Evan Haug CEO, Leaf Automation, Yagub Rahimov CEO, Polygraf AI, Amit Patel Partner at Plug and Play Ventures
Day 4: Chicago Web3Con
- 9:00am - 9:15am
Opening Remarks
By Xiaochen Zhang CEO of FinTech4Good, Chief AI officer, AI2030, Arry Yu Head of Strategy, Global Blockchain Business Council, Stephanie Miller CXO, 1871 - 9:30am - 10:30am
Transforming Finance with Web3
By ANDREW CZUPEK Digital Assets & Financial Markets, Chris Tyrrell Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Corporate Counsel, Ondo Finance, Gabriella Kusz COO, TCS - 9:45am - 10:30am
Web3 Entrepreneurship and Investing
By Gabby Snedeker Senior Director, 1871, Kathy Tong VC, Decasonic, Nelson Rosario Executive Director, Executive Director, Illinois Blockchain Association, Xiaochen Zhang CEO, FinTech4Good; Chief AI officer, AI 2030 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Tokenization: The Future of Digital Asset Investment
By Oscar Jofre Jr. Co-Founder President/CEO, KoreChain, Florian Huchedé Senior Director, Cboe Labs, Damu Winston Global Head, Web3 Innovation, Amazon, Gabriella Kusz COO, TCS - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Navigating Regulatory Landscapes in Web3
By Jacob Hample Head of U.S. Government Affairs, Filecoin Foundation, Katherine Kirkpatrick Chief Legal Officer, Cboe, David Carman Co-Founder/Managing Director, FinTank.org, Richard Levin Chair FinTech and Regulation Practice, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Arry Yu Head of Strategy, Global Blockchain Business Council - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
AI Meets Web3: Enabling Technologies and Services
By Cory Warfield Chief Connection Officer, Coryconnects, Anoop Nannra CEO, Trugard.AI, Chirag Dhull Head of Product and Technical Marketing, Chainlink Labs, Xiaochen Zhang CEO of FinTech4Good, Chief AI officer, AI2030, Charles Okochu Senior Business Development Manager, AWS - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Blockchain for Impact: Climate Change, Democracy, and Financial Inclusion
By , Katia Kobylinski Head of Partnerships, ETHChicago, Koushik Subramanian Founder, Kopper Labs, Hou Feng Chief Information Officer, Saint Louis Community College, Chris Kohler Chief Strategy Officer, Innovo Markets - 4:30pm - 5:20pm
Women in Web3 Leadership
By Kathleen Wrynn Executive Director, Global Technology Strategy, J.P. Morgan, Arry Yu Head of Strategy, Global Blockchain Business Council, Gabriella Kusz COO, TCS, Aravinda Garimella Assistant Professor of Information Systems University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Women in AI Leadership Award Gala
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Speakers
By Xiaochen Zhang CEO of FinTech4Good, Chief AI officer, AI2030, Dr. Denise Turley Vice President of Corporate Systems at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Kristi Dula Deputy Director , Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, State of Illinois, Meghna Sinha Vice President AI Center, Verizon, Cathy R Cobey Global Responsible AI Co-Lead, Ernst & Young LLP, Anastasia Raissis Founder and CEO Achillia Group, LLC, Shanthi Gudavalli Senior Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase, Elizabeth Ziegler “Betsy” CEO of 1871, Diya Wynn Sr Practice Manager, Responsible AI, Emerging Technologies & Intelligent Platforms, Amazon Web Services
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