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Eggs & Issues – Beyond the AI Hype: Business Opportunities & Practicing AI Responsibly

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LOCATION:
USM Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St, Portland, ME
USM Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St, Portland, ME
7:00-9:00 AM
  
Apr
  
10
  
2025
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Apr
  
10
  
2025
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Join the Portland Community Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, April 10th from 7:00 –9:00 AM, for a conversation with Northeastern University’s Roux Institute and Institute for Experiential AI exploring how businesses can identify tangible opportunities for applying AI within their business and begin the effective AI journey while navigating the risks through robust AI governance. Michael Pollastri, who leads and oversees the Roux Institute’s academic and research portfolio, will be joined onstage by Usama Fayyad, Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI, and Cansu Canca, Director of the Institute’s responsible AI practice, for a conversation that promises to be compelling to anyone seeking to understand the importance of implementing responsible AI practices that foster trust and drive productivity.

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SCHEDULE:

7:00 AM EDT: Check-in, breakfast, and coffee
8:00 AM EDT: Doors close, program begins

Registration for this event includes breakfast, parking, and networking. FREE event parking is located in the parking garage adjacent to Hannaford Hall in the Abromson Center

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Northeastern University Speakers

Keynote and Industry Speakers

Cansu Canca

Director of Responsible AI Practice

The Institute for Experiential AI
The Institute for Experiential AI

Usama Fayyad

Executive Director

The Institute for Experiential AI
The Institute for Experiential AI

Mike Pollastri

Senior Vice Provost

The Roux Institute at Northeastern University
The Roux Institute at Northeastern University

Northeastern University Speakers

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Agenda

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Mike Pollastri
Senior Vice Provost
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The Roux Institute at Northeastern University
Micheal Wan
Research Scientist
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The Institute for Experiential AI
Christian Reich
Professor of Practice
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Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Saeed Amal
Research Professor
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Northeastern University
Vito Quaranta
Professor of the Practice, Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Northeastern University
Agata Lapedriza
Principle Research Scientist
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The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Jessica DiBiase
MPH and Data Analyst
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Maine Health
Stuart Middleton
Associate Professor
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University of Southampton
Angela Hosking
Dean and CEO
, 
NU-Charlotte Campus
Gopal Ramchurn
CEO
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RAiUK
Donnie Mitchem
Director, Behavioral Health Services
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Outpatient Therapy & Community Services
Danny F. Scalise II
Public Health Director
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Burke County Public Health
John Manning
Emergency Medicine Physician
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Atrium Health
Matt Lewis
Founder, CEO and Chief Augmented Intelligence Officer
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LL Mental
Arezoo Movaghar
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Robert Leeman
Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Sciences
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Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Amanda Choflet
Dean, School of Nursing
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Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Alisa Lincoln
Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research
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College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Rafael Mestre
Lecturer
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University of Southampton
Christine Zazzaro
President And Chief Executive Officer
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McLeod Centers for Wellbeing
Liz Scharnetzki
Faculty Scientist I
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MaineHealth
Ignacio Sarasua
Solution Architect
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Nvidia
Aynsley Bernard
Principal Data Scientist
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Kooth PLC
Aminat Adebiyi
Research Scientist
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IBM Research
Trinity Coakley
Health Science and Psychology Student
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Adam Woolley
Director of Assessment, Clinical Professor, Pharmacy and Health Systems Science
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Elizabeth Mynatt
Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences
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Sylvain Jaume
Director, School of Computer Science and Data Analytics
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University of New England
Erin O'Neill
Candidate for M.S. in Health Informatics
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Annika Schoene
Research Scientist
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The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Doug Sawyer
Medical Director
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Maine Medical
Karen Huhn
Professor of Physical Therapy and Program Director
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Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
David Harder
Professor & Director
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University of Maine Institute of Medicine
Dan Koloski
Head of Learning Programs, Roux Institute and Professor of the Practice, College of Professional Studies
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Northeastern University
Connie Yowell
Senior Advisor to the Provost
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Northeastern University
Justin Manjourides
Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Sciences
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Northeastern University
Aarti Sathyanarayana
Assistant Professor in Health Science and Computer Science
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Northeastern University
Jeanne Latourelle
Senior Vice President, Precision Medicine
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Aitia
John Brownstein
SVP and Chief Innovation Officer
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Boston Children’s Hospital
Colleen Hole
Innovation Strategic Advisor
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Atrium Health/Advocate Health
Jens Rueter
Chief Medical Officer; Medical Director
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The Jackson Laboratory; Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative
Predrag Radivojac
Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Research, Khoury College of Computer Science
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Northeastern University
Jason Springs
Co-founder & CEO
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Endpoint Health
Timothy Ruchti
Director Algorithms
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Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions LLC
Isaac Kohane
Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
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Harvard Medical School
Patricia Geli
Co-founder, Managing Director, and COO
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C10 Labs
Crystal Brown
CEO & Co-Founder
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CircNova
David Levine
Associate Professor and Clinical Director
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Mass General Brigham
Marinka Zitnik
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
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Harvard Medical School
Larry Brilliant
CEO
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Evity.AI
Rasu B. Shrestha
Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer
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Advocate Health
John Halamka
Dwight and Dian Diercks President
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Mayo Clinic Platform
Hoda Sayed-Friel
Former Executive Vice President
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MEDITECH
Yakov Bart
Associate Professor of Marketing at D'Amore-McKim School of Business
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Northeastern University
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Director of Research
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Institute for Experiential AI
Michael Workman
Creative Director of the AI Literacy Lab
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Northeastern University
Joanna Weiss
Executive Director of the AI Literacy Lab
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Northeastern University
Sam Scarpino
Director of AI + Life Sciences
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Institute for Experiential AI
David De Cremer
Dean of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business
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Northeastern University
Manish Worlikar
Heads the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
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Fidelity Institutional
Xuning (Mike) Tang
Associate Director of Responsible AI
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Verizon
Ashok Srivastava
Senior VP and Chief Data Officer
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Intuit
Jay Schuren
Chief Customer Officer
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Data Robot
Rudina Seseri
Founder and Managing Partner
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Glasswing Ventures
Dan Rosensweig
Chief Executive Officer
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Chegg
Peter Norvig
Researcher
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Google
Michael Nieset
Partner
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Heidrick & Struggles
Dan Lothian
Executive Producer
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The World
Aleksandar Lazarevic
Partner
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Sigmoid Analytics
John Havens
Director of Emerging Technologies & Strategic Development
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IEEE Standards Association
Michelle Gansle
VP of Global Insights and Analytics
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McDonald's
Ronke Ekwensi
Vice President, Chief Data Officer
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T-Mobile
Cynthia Dwork
Professor of Computer Science
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Harvard University
Philip Brey
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
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The University of Twente
Linda Avery
Former CDAO
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Verizon Communications, Federal Reserve Board of New York
Christo Wilson
Affiliate Faculty
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Institute for Experiential AI
Cynthia Rudin
Professor of computer science
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Duke University
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor
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Cornell Tech
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Core Faculty
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Institute for Experiential AI
John Basl
Associate Professor of Philosophy
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College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Byron Wallace
Core Faculty
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Institute for Experiential AI
Sarah Ostadabbas
Core Faculty
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Institute for Experiential AI
Alina Oprea
Associate professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
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Northeastern University
Auroop Ganguly
Director of AI for Climate & Sustainability
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Institute for Experiential AI
Ozlem Ergun
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
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Northeastern University
Rai Winslow
Director of Life Science and Medical Research, Roux Institute
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Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Experiential AI
Eugene Tunik
Director of AI + Health
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Institute for Experiential AI
Melissa Landon
Technology and Business Strategist, AI in Life Sciences
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Cyclica (Former)
Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Life Sciences and Engineering
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the Roux Institute
Laurent Audoly
Senior Advisor, AI Drug Discovery & Development
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Institute for Experiential AI
Jared Auclair
Associate Dean of Professional Programs and Graduate Affairs; Director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory
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Northeastern University
Emery Trahan
Interim Dean, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
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Northeastern University
Hazel Sive
Dean, College of Science
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Northeastern University
Carmen Sceppa
Dean, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
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Northeastern University
Uta Poiger
Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Northeastern University
Beth Mynatt
Dean, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
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Northeastern University
Elizabeth Hudson
Dean, College of Arts, Media and Design
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Northeastern University
James Hackney
Dean, School of Law
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Northeastern University
David Fields
Interim Dean, College of Professional Studies
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Northeastern University
Gregory Abowd
Dean, College of Engineering
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Northeastern University

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