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Haas AI and Data Science Club
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Agenda
Join us at UC Berkeley for an one-day summit on October 8th that will expand your horizons and challenge your perspectives on the ethics, applications, and business opportunities in Artificial Intelligence. Our expert-led panels and talks will cover a range of topics, from autonomous driving systems to responsible AI, and from investment in AI to the future of generative technologies.
Don't miss this unique chance to engage in meaningful dialogue and network with leading experts in the field. Register now and be part of the conversation that shapes the future of AI.

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Check-in
Location: Spieker Forum, Haas School of Business


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9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Panel : Business of AI
Armand Ruiz
Director of Client Engineering
Global Sales
IBM Watson
Eddie White
VP of Business Development
& Strategic Alliances
Google
Nima Badiey
VP of Global Partnership
Gitlab

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Topic: Distinguishing truth from hype in AI

Pieter Abbeel
Co-Founder Co-variant & Gradescope
Investment Partner at AIX Ventures
Director, Berkeley AI research Institute
Keynote Speaker
11:15 AM - 12:00 Noon


Panel : Autonomous Vehicles - The Road Ahead
Cristina Scheau
Senior Director of Engineering
Cruise
William Gao
Director, Technical Program Mgmt.
Motional


15 minute break
Edith Yeung
Partner
Race Capital
Kelvin Mu
Principal
Translink Capital
12:15 Noon - 1:00 PM
Panel : Investing in
Generative AI

Arash Afrakhteh
Partner
Pear VC
Gene Wade
Venture Advisor
AI Fund

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch



Sonu Durgia
Head of Product, Coupang,
ex-Head of Product, Responsible AI
at Metaat M
Sneha Deo
Responsible AI Product Lead
at Microsoft
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Olaf J. Groth
CEO, Cambrian.ai
Professor, Haas School of Business
Panel: Ethics of AI

Soledad Guilera
Professor, School of Government
Torcuato Di Tella University
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Foundation Models: From Research to Reality


Nazneen Rajani
Research Lead,
Hugging Face
Deepti Ghadiyaram
Staff Research Scientist,
Runway ML

Chetan Tekur
Product Manager
Google CoreML PM
15 minute break


Simba Khadder
Co-founder, FeatureForm
Cody Coleman
Co-founder, CoactiveAI

Sunil Mallya
CTO/Co-Founder, Flip AI
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Entrepreneurship in
Generative AI
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Closing Speaker

Barak Turovsky
VP of AI, CISCO
Ex-Head of Product, Google Translate & Search
Ex- Chief Product Officer, Trax Retail

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Networking
and
Refreshments
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