2024 IEEE Southern Alberta Section AGM
IEEE Southern Alberta Section Presents our 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
We invite you and a guest to join us at our Annual General Meeting! This is a fantastic opportunity for all IEEE members to reconnect, get updates on our section's achievements, and look forward to the future. The meeting will provide an update on the activities of the Section, the Technical Chapters, and the Affinity Groups over the past year, and provide an outlook for activities planned in 2025.
Let's come together, celebrate our achievements, and set the stage for a year of excellence. We look forward to seeing you there!
Trust and Social Justice in the Era of Generative AI
Join us for an insightful keynote presented by Dr. Marina L. Gavrilova on the impact of Generative AI in research and business, where we'll explore its transformative benefits alongside critical risks. Discover how deep learning can enhance decision-making across sectors while addressing the urgent need to mitigate increased risk of privacy, ethical considerations, and bias that can be augmented by powerful GenAI systems in AI applications.
Dinner:
- 2 complimentary drink tickets
- Caesar Salad: Hearts of Romaine, Focaccia Croutons, Romano Shavings with Classic Caesar Dressing
- Choice of:
- Grilled Filet Mignon: with Classic Bordelaise Sauce. Served with Sautéed Wild Mushroom, New Potatoes, Butter Glazed Asparagus and Baby Carrots
- Chicken Supreme: Grilled Herb and Garlic Marinated Chicken Supreme. Served with Yukon Gold and Wild Mushroom, Potato Hash and Seasonal Vegetables
- Atlantic Salmon Fillet: Ponzu Glazed, Served with Sweet Chili and Ginger Stewed Bok Choy and Organic Pearl Jasmine Rice Cake
- White Chocolate Panna Cotta: Tahitian Vanilla Bean Infused Berry Compote
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- Date: 21 Nov 2024
- Time: 05:30 PM to 11:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- 9030 Macleod Trail
- Calgary, Alberta
- Canada
- Building: Carriage House Hotel & Conference Centre
- Room Number: Windsor Ballroom B (1st floor)
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- Starts 20 October 2024 08:45 PM
- Ends 14 November 2024 11:59 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- Menu: Grilled Filet Mignon, Chicken Supreme, Atlantic Salmon Fillet
Speakers
Dr. Marina L. Gavrilova
Trust and Social Justice in the Era of Generative AI
Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for research and business purposes has become a powerful practice for government, consumer, financial and educational institutions in modern society. However, with the rise of the technological advancements, such as Deep Learning (DL), more and more capabilities exist not only to infer private information of individuals, but to use aggregate data mining for commercial or other purposes. In addition, the issues of accessibility and social injustice become augmented with the rise of new powerful Generative AI systems, utilized for decision-making on social programs, loan distribution, sports facilities access and healthcare.
This keynote will discuss how deep learning methods, specifically the recently emerged generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems can bring significant benefits and, at the same time, significant risks to the modern society. On one hand, they can enhance visual knowledge discovery, image processing, NLP (Natural Language processing) tasks, and a gamut of other research and commercial domains. On another hand, there are increased risks of privacy, ethical considerations, and bias that can be augmented by powerful GenAI systems. Going forward, the objective is to shed light and provide a comprehensive consideration to issues of mitigating risks to data privacy and ethical considerations of using AI.
Biography:
Dr. Marina L. Gavrilova is a Professor of Computer Science and the University of Calgary Research Excellence Chair in Trustworthy and Explainable AI. Over the span of twenty years, Dr Gavrilova positioned herself as an award-winning researcher and an innovator. Her team introduced AI informed decision-making processes, received best paper awards and informed policymakers of responsible, ethical, and accurate data analytics. They also have extensive experience and made substantial contributions to the domain of human behavioral modeling, knowledge discovery through visual analytics, and ethical use of AI, incorporating concepts of trustworthiness, interpretability, privacy, and awareness in AI-based decision-making. Dr Gavrilova has a vast experience in organizing large-scale international research gatherings, and contributed to decision-making regarding AI policies at an international level. Dr Gavrilova is an avid promoter of equity, diversity and inclusion in academia and beyond.
Agenda
Tentative Agenda
5:30pm: Doors open
5:30-6:15pm: Cash Bar and Networking (2 complimentary drink tickets included)
6:15-6:30pm: Chair’s and Treasurer’s Reports
6:30-7:15pm: Dinner
7:00-8:00pm: Keynote Presentation
8:00-8:30pm: Award Presentations
8:30-9:30pm: Technical Chapters, Affinity Groups, and Student Branch Reports