Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) Conference 2026 - KSU Prototype Living of Tomorrow (PLOT) Launch Event
ASI Conference & PLOT Launch Event 2026
📅 Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2026
🕗 Time: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Registration opens 7:00 AM)
🎯 Event Type: Conference (Full-day with tracks, keynote, panel, banquet)
🏛️ Organized By: IEEE CIS, ComSoc, Computer Chapters, Life-Members, Young Professionals, and Atlanta Section
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📝 EVENT DESCRIPTION
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We are organizing the inaugural Artificial Super Intelligence Conference (ASIConf), a forward-looking event centered on AI and its growing impact across research, industry, infrastructure, healthcare, robotics, and intelligent environments.
The conference is held as part of the launch event for the Prototype Living of Tomorrow (PLOT) initiative at Kennesaw State University, with support from KSU and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, Atlanta Section.
The event features a plenary keynote, five invited talks, a panel discussion, five technical tracks covering Foundation Models & LLMs, AI Safety & Ethics, Neural Architecture, Autonomous Systems, and Cognitive Intelligence, along with research paper presentations, a poster session, and a closing banquet.
Our speaker lineup includes industry practitioners and faculty from multiple universities. ASIConf aims to create a substantive, welcoming forum for researchers, innovators, students, and community partners to explore what lies ahead in AI and intelligent systems.
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🔬 TECHNICAL TRACKS
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1️⃣ Foundation Models & LLMs — Transformers, scaling laws, multimodal, alignment
2️⃣ AI Safety & Ethics — Robustness, interpretability, privacy, bias mitigation
3️⃣ Neural Architecture — NAS, neuromorphic computing, quantum ML, compression
4️⃣ Autonomous Systems — RL, multi-agent, perception, human-robot interaction
5️⃣ Cognitive Intelligence — Meta-learning, causal reasoning, knowledge graphs
⭐ PLOT Launch (Special) — Intelligent environments, living labs, campus-scale AI
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👥 TARGET AUDIENCE
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🎓 Faculty & Researchers
🧑🎓 Students
🏢 Industry Professionals & Practitioners
🤝 Community Partners & Sponsors
Expected Attendance: 100–200 attendees
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📍 VENUE ADDRESS
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Venue Name: Prillaman Hall
Address Line 1: 520 Parliament Garden Way NW
Address Line 2: Kennesaw State University
City: Kennesaw
State/Province: Georgia
Postal Code: 30144
Country/Region: United States
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🌐 Conference Website: asiconf.org
🌐 PLOT Website: plotinnovation.com
✉️ Conference Email: connect@asiconf.org
✉️ PLOT Email: plot@kennesaw.edu - Co-sponsored by Kennesaw State University
Speakers
Shyam of Authority Brands
Enterprise AI Strategy and Digital Platform Modernization
Plenary keynote on enterprise technology transformation and AI-driven modernization strategies, drawing from leadership experience across large-scale digital platforms and business solutions.
Biography:
Customer-focused IT Leader with a proven track record of partnering with stakeholders to define business-aligned technology strategies and deliver complex, high-impact solutions. My leadership is centered around spearheading core banking evolution, strengthening corporate functions, and delivering best-in-class digital platforms. I take a hands-on, adaptable approach—developing high-performing, cross-functional teams and mentoring them to meet critical business needs. My focus is unwavering: empowering teams to deliver premier customer experiences and driving growth through thoughtful modernization initiatives. Known for building trusted relationships, leading with purpose, and delivering measurable results.
Fei of University of Georgia
Privacy-Preserving AI for Ambient Sensing and Intelligent Environments
Talk on building scalable, privacy-preserving AI for ubiquitous environments using wireless signals, micro-vibration sensing, and federated learning.
Biography:
Dr. Fei Dou is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2023, where she worked in the Laboratory of Machine Learning & Health Informatics. Her research bridges fundamental machine learning and real-world sensing systems for Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems, with contributions spanning federated learning, reinforcement learning, and self-supervised representation learning. She builds scalable, privacy-preserving, and context-aware AI for ubiquitous environments, developing ambient and contactless sensing systems that leverage wireless signals, micro-vibration sensing, and event-driven environmental data to unobtrusively monitor human physiology and behavior. Her goal is to translate ML advances into deployable intelligent environments that support long-term health and well-being. Her work has appeared in leading venues across AI and mobile/ubiquitous computing, including NeurIPS, IJCAI, EMNLP, ICCV, SenSys, IMWUT, PerCom, ISWC, IEEE TMC, and IEEE IOT-J. She is a recipient of the 2023 Connecticut Women of Innovation (WOI) Academic Innovation and Leadership Award.
Savneet of Google / Emory University
AI Ethics, Trust, and Safety in Practice
Talk on building AI that is safe, ethical, and trustworthy, drawing from experience on Google's Trust and Safety team and teaching AI ethics at Emory.
Biography:
Savneet is a tech ethicist dedicated to building technology that serves humanity. She believes in creating AI that is safe, ethical, and worthy of our trust. Currently, she works for Google's Trust and Safety team in Atlanta and mentors the next generation as a visiting professor of AI Ethics at Emory and California State University. Savneet shares her insights through articles, podcasts, and speaking engagements. Her recent book, "Building a Connected Organization with Data, AI, and Talent," explores the organizational foundations that make AI stick.
Bhawesh of ScienceLogic
Agentic AI Systems: Multi-Agent Architectures, Security, and Governance
Talk on designing secure, governed multi-agent AI systems using frameworks like LangGraph, MCP, A2A, and OpenTelemetry for enterprise observability.
Biography:
Bhawesh Singh is an AI strategist, evangelist, and thought leader with deep cross-industry experience spanning IT, Health & Life Sciences, Finance, Insurance, Government, Manufacturing, Services, and Retail. Over a 33-year career in enterprise architecture and solution design, he has served in senior roles such as Chief Solutions Architect, Principal Solutions Architect, and Senior Architect across organizations including ScienceLogic, Cognizant, IBM, Software AG Government Solutions, Leidos, and SAIC, supporting a wide range of public- and private-sector customers (including DoD, DoT, DoL, IRS, Freddie Mac, Bank of America, and BlueCross). Over the last 17 years, he has focused on AI, particularly agentic and generative systems, leading multi-agent solutions with a strong emphasis on AI security, data security, governance, and operational observability using AWS Strands, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, A2A, and OpenTelemetry. Currently, as Principal Agentic AI Engineer at ScienceLogic, he is advancing multi-agent AI capabilities centered on security and governance; previously, as Chief Generative AI Architect at Cognizant and Senior Generative AI Architect at ITC, he drove generative AI adoption and roadmaps, including initiatives toward an AI agent foundry. Bhawesh also serves as a Lead Instructor at Idea Nirvana, where he has upskilled nearly 100 professionals through hands-on AI learning. He holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from NIT Jamshedpur and has completed AI credentials including AI in Healthcare (Stanford), Building Neural Networks (Johns Hopkins), AI Governance (University of Michigan), ISO 42001 Lead AI Auditor, and additional certifications from AWS, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Oracle, Nvidia, and Databricks.
Faran of ADP
AI-Driven Innovation in Human Capital Management
Talk on leveraging AI to drive smarter, more efficient payroll and HCM solutions through cross-functional product and service innovation.
Biography:
Faran Rizvi a strategic payroll and tax leader with deep experience in innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and driving operational excellence. Currently part of the payroll innovation team, I focus on aligning product, service, client-facing teams to deliver smarter, more efficient HCM solutions.
Rudra of Second Nature
What Does Tomorrow Look Like with AI? Perspectives on Intelligent Living and the PLOT Vision
Panel discussion exploring how AI will reshape how we live, work, and interact with intelligent environments, and how initiatives like PLOT are building that future today.
Biography:
Rudra Roy Choudhury is an AI Product Leader, with 10+ years of experience building AI/ML, SaaS, & Platform products driving customer experience and operational excellence across B2B & B2C. Outside his day job, Rudra serves as the AI Council Advisor at Products That Count where he supports global product leaders and startups in building & scaling AI products that truly matter. Rudra is a published author in IEEE and Mind The Product, and was recognized by Amplitude as the Top 50 Global Product Leader 2025 for his contribution in the field of Product and AI. Academically, Rudra holds a masters in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, with a passion for building products at the intersection of technology and commerce that solve deep customer problems.
Rajesh of CharterGlobal / Assistly / Orcaworks.ai
What Does Tomorrow Look Like with AI? Perspectives on Intelligent Living and the PLOT Vision
Panel discussion exploring how AI will reshape how we live, work, and interact with intelligent environments, and how initiatives like PLOT are building that future today.
Biography:
Rajesh Indurthi is a product-centric technology leader and entrepreneur based in Atlanta, currently serving as CTO at Charter Global, Co-founder and CEO of Assistly, and CIO at Orcaworks.ai. He leads innovation and technology strategy with a focus on scalable architecture, customer-first product development, and AI/ML integration, and is known for rapidly expanding product portfolios and scaling teams, including growing an organization from 8 to 120. His experience includes launching global identity and fraud platforms across the U.S., Australia, Europe, and India, earning a U.S. patent for a machine model execution engine, and driving high-reliability product outcomes, including an ID protection product with 99.82% success over nine tax seasons.
Nishad of Genuine Parts Company
What Does Tomorrow Look Like with AI? Perspectives on Intelligent Living and the PLOT Vision
Panel discussion exploring how AI will reshape how we live, work, and interact with intelligent environments, and how initiatives like PLOT are building that future today.
Biography:
Nishad Sankaranarayanan is a senior cybersecurity executive serving as Global Director of Cybersecurity at Genuine Parts Company (GPC), a Fortune 200 enterprise, where he oversees a global security program spanning 140+ professionals and 17 countries. He represents cybersecurity on various committees in GPC, where he brings a practitioner's lens to governance, model risk, and the intersection of identity infrastructure with emerging systems. His career includes leading post-breach security transformation at Equifax and advisory work at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), with deep expertise in identity and access management, adversarial risk, and enterprise-wide security governance. He holds a Carnegie Mellon CISO Executive Certificate and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University, and serves on advisory boards at multiple cybersecurity startups. With deep expertise in strengthening security architecture and governance, Nishad plays a key role in aligning cybersecurity programs with business objectives and regulatory requirements. A recipient of the 2025 SuperNova Cybersecurity Award, and multiple other Identity excellence awards, Nishad is the organizer of the Atlanta IAM User Group and an active voice in the practitioner community on safety, non-human identity governance, and presented at numerous conferences and professional forums on topics such as emerging cyber threats, enterprise security practices, and the development of resilient security frameworks.
Priya of Kennesaw State University
What Does Tomorrow Look Like with AI? Perspectives on Intelligent Living and the PLOT Vision
Panel discussion exploring how AI will reshape how we live, work, and interact with intelligent environments, and how initiatives like PLOT are building that future today.
Biography:
Dr. Priya Sarathy, Ph.D, CDMP, AIGP is the Director of the Center for Data Sciences and Analytics, where she bridges academia and industry by developing the next generation of AI-aware and AI-fluent professionals. Drawing on her background leading corporate teams and advising startups, Dr. Sarathy specializes in AI strategy, executive coaching, and organizational transformation - guiding leadership teams through the complexities of adopting AI responsibly and effectively. Through her book, executive workshops, and speaking engagements, she translates cutting-edge insights into actionable frameworks that help decision-makers thrive in an AI-driven world. Her work is grounded in experiential learning and a commitment to accelerating AI fluency across organizations. Key Focus Areas: AI Awareness & Adoption | Leadership Enablement | Analytics & Data Strategy | Digital Transformation | Innovation through AI
Faizan of Kaiser Permanente
What Does Tomorrow Look Like with AI? Perspectives on Intelligent Living and the PLOT Vision
Panel discussion exploring how AI will reshape how we live, work, and interact with intelligent environments, and how initiatives like PLOT are building that future today.
Biography:
Faizan Javed is the Senior Director of Data Science and Engineering at Kaiser Permanente. Throughout his career, he has built and led high-performing teams to deliver impactful solutions across diverse sectors, including healthcare, finance, e-commerce, and HRTech. Prior to his current role, Faizan held data science leadership positions at The Home Depot and CareerBuilder, and contributed his expertise to various digital engineering startups. As an active member of the research community, Faizan has been widely published and recognized at premier conferences. His honors include Best Deployed Application Awards at AAAI/IAAI ('17 and '21) and the Best Paper Award at IEEE Big Data 2023. He has also organized workshops for top-tier venues like ACM KDD and IEEE ICDM, and served as the Local Chair for ACM CIKM 2022. Faizan holds a PhD in Computer Science, an MSc in Bioinformatics, and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship, all from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Umair of Pindrop Inc.
AI for Fraud Detection and Deepfake Identification
Talk on applying AI algorithms for fraud investigation and deepfake detection on the phone channel, from research to production at scale.
Biography:
Dr. Altaf received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, in 2015. Since then, he has led and contributed to teams designing and scaling AI algorithms for Pindrop's fraud detection and authentication products. His current research focuses on applying AI to fraud investigation and deepfake detection, with an emphasis on the phone channel.
Yashvant of HighScores AI
What Does Tomorrow Look Like with AI? Perspectives on Intelligent Living and the PLOT Vision
Panel discussion exploring how AI will reshape how we live, work, and interact with intelligent environments, and how initiatives like PLOT are building that future today.
Biography:
Yashvant Singh has spent 25 years simplifying lives through technology as an entrepreneur, consultant, educator, and mentor, with progressive roles across Microsoft, EY, Avanade (Accenture), T-Mobile, Alaska Airlines, and state and federal government, spanning IT, finance, education, manufacturing, telecom, and retail while leading distributed teams globally. He founded Dealya in 2012 and later launched Perfectice—an EdTech platform used by 500K+ students to improve engineering employability—along with CodeMode (codemode.us) to teach practical coding to middle and high school students, and he is building data-driven SAT/ACT preparation tools focused on performance, time management, and stress skills.
Agenda
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🕐 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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7:00 – 8:00 AM ☕ Registration & Check-In
Badge pickup, welcome materials, and light refreshments
8:00 – 9:00 AM 🎤 Opening Remarks & Plenary Keynote
Welcome address, PLOT Initiative overview, Keynote by Shyam Kandavalli
9:00 – 10:15 AM 🔬 Track 1: Foundation Models & LLMs
Transformer architectures, scaling laws, multimodal models, alignment
10:15 – 11:30 AM 🛡️ Track 2: AI Safety & Ethics
Adversarial robustness, alignment, explainability, bias & privacy
11:30 – 12:30 PM 🍽️ Lunch & Poster Session
Networking, informal discussions, interactive poster presentations
12:30 – 1:45 PM 🧠 Track 3: Neural Architecture
Architecture search, neuromorphic computing, quantum ML, compression
1:45 – 3:00 PM 🤖 Track 4: Autonomous Systems
Reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, embodied AI, HRI
3:00 – 4:15 PM 💡 Track 5: Cognitive Intelligence
Meta-learning, causal reasoning, knowledge representation, continual learning
4:15 – 5:00 PM 💬 Panel Discussion
Expert panel on the future of ASI & intelligent environments
5:00 – 5:30 PM 🏆 Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony
Best Overall Paper, Best Student Paper, five track-specific awards
6:00 – 8:00 PM 🥂 Conference Banquet
Networking, dining, and celebration — included with registration
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📧 CONTACT & LINKS
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🌐 asiconf.org · ✉️ connect@asiconf.org
🌐 plotinnovation.com · ✉️ plot@kennesaw.edu
📍 Prillaman Hall · 520 Parliament Garden Way NW · KSU · Kennesaw, GA 30144
🏛️ IEEE CIS, ComSoc, Computer, Life-Members, YP — Atlanta Section