Practitioner Presentations (Rooms 2 and 3)
8:30 - 9:20 Session 1
9:30 - 10:20 Session 2
10:30 - 11:20 Session 3
Daniel Sirias (United States Space Force) - Achieving Digital Superiority: The USSF Playbook for AI-Powered Space Operations
Steve O'Neal (Capsher Technology) - Flavors of AI
11:30 - 12:00 Session 4
1:00 - 1:50 Session 5
2:00 - 2:50 Session 6
Stefan Quartemont (QREW Technologies) - Pairing No Code Agents & Apps for Workforce Transformation
Russell Cates (Texas A&M University) - Building Agents That Get Used: The Trust Ladder from Autocomplete to Autonomous
3:00 - 3:50 Session 7
Joe Abraham (Cisco Systems) - The AI Mirror: Reflection of Human Bias
Dr. Jo Ann Kern and Dr. Justin Carrell (Tarleton State University) - Integrating AI with Project Management to support Transformational Change
Hands-on Labs (Room 1)
These presentations will be held in Flex Room 1, sponsored by Capsher Technology.
8:30 - 10:00 Session 1
Dr. Bruce Gooch (Blinn College) - AI For Instructors Lab (1.5 hours)
10:00 - 11:30 Session 2
1:00 - 4:30 Session 3
Academic Research (Room 4)
These presentations will be held in Flex Room 4, sponsored by DSWi
8:30
Gender-Specific AI Bot Interactions vs Live Agents in Online Web Content: A Proposed Research
9:00
AI-Driven Privacy Orchestration for Federated Query Processing Across Distributed Data Silos
9:30
In Pursuit of Gen-AI Incidents: Alternative “Theories-In-Use” in Trust Infrastructures
10:00
From Feeling to Form: Co-Created AI Art for Emotional Support
10:30
Align Generative AI with Human Preferences: A Novel LLM Finetuning Method for Online Review
11:00
Domain-Aware Document Intelligence for Drug Discovery Through Extraction Driven Retrieval and Agentic Search