May 1: AI Leadership Panel and Presentations

AI Leadership Panel, AI Innovation Research Presentations and Google Workshop

8:30 am - 9:00 am Registrations and Networking

9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks

9:15 am - 10:15 am Panel Discussion: Reimagining Atlantic Canada through the Lens of AI  (NS Government, NS Heath, Google, Empire and EY. Moderated by Dr. Michael Zhang)

10:30 am - 3:00 pm AI Research Presentations:

  1. AI and Ethics, Society, and Human Understanding
  • Generative AI in Business Decision-making: Do LLMs Show Biases Similar to Human?
  • Operationalizing AI Ethics
  • From Algorithms to Transparency: Ethics, Politics, and the Public Understanding of AI
  • From Paperwork to Patient Care: How can we better leverage LLMs to support occupational therapy documentation?
  • Fact Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs through Semantic and Contextual Attention
  1. AI in Health, Life Sciences, and Social Good
  • Connecting the Dots: Clinical Genomics, AI, and the Future of Precision Medicine
  • Real-time REM Sleep Stage Detection using Deep Learning
  • Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Securing Sensitive Data in AI
  • AI for Sustainable Livestock Farming: Advancing Welfare, Efficiency, and Climate Resilience
  • Investigating Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Enhance AI Model Performance in High-Level Computer Science Courses
  1. AI for Security, Infrastructure, and Edge Computing
  • Cybersecurity Gets Smart: How AI is Changing the Game
  • The Power of Data: Fueling AI in Cybersecurity
  • Harnessing Agentic AI for Secure and Efficient Confidential Data Analytics
  • Paving a Foundation for Intelligence Everywhere with Beyond Explainable AI (xXAI) at the Edge
  • Advancing Machine Intelligence Through Reinforcement Learning
  • Are LLMs a Good Model of Human Thought? The Challenge of Compositional Learning
  1. AI Techniques, Applications, and Innovation
  • AI Applications in Intra-Logistics and Logistics
  • AI in Ocean Technology
  • AI for Autonomous Navigation
  • AI in Physics
  • Robust and Effective Workflows for Machine Learning Development
  • Human vs. AI: The Creative Battle Transforming Marketing

Networking Lunch: 12:00 pm– 1:00 pm with Keynote Speaker Chief Data Officer NSH

Afternoon Workshops: 

  • Google AI Research and Applications (Chief Information Security Officer Google Cloud)