Artificial Intelligence XLab Summit

7:30 AM–8:15 AM

Room: Gold Coast

PLENARY SESSION

8:15 AM–8:30 AM

Room: Ballroom

Welcome Remarks

Robert Zimmer, President, University of Chicago
Paul K. Kearns, Director, Argonne National Laboratory

8:30 AM–8:50 AM

Room: Ballroom

Transforming Our World and Impacting People’s Lives Through DOE-Fueled AI

Rick Perry, U.S. Secretary of Energy

Introduced by Conner Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

8:50 AM–9:00 AM

Room: Ballroom

National AI Initiative

Michael Kratsios, Chief Technology Officer of the United States

9:00 AM–9:10 AM

Room: Ballroom

Legislative Opportunities for AI

Daniel Lipinski, Member, U.S. House of Representatives

9:10 AM–10:05 AM

Room: Ballroom

Panel: AI Research and DOE National Labs, National AI Initiative, Opportunities for Industry Collaborations in AI

This panel highlights the breadth of research in AI across the national laboratory complex and discusses how this research fits into the recently announced National AI Initiative; several notable collaborations in AI between companies and national labs are discussed.

Panelists:

• John Baldoni, Chief Technology Officer, Integral
• Theresa Christian, Manager in Corporate Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability, Exelon
• Ray Rothrock, Chairman and CEO, RedSeal, Inc.
• Rick Stevens, Associate Lab Director, Argonne National Laboratory

Moderator:

• Dimitri Kusnezov, Deputy Under Secretary for Artificial Intelligence and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy

10:05 AM–10:15 AM

Room: Ballroom

AI as a National Security Imperative

Will Hurd, Member, U.S. House of Representatives

10:15 AM–10:40 AM

Room: Ballroom

Computing for the Next Grand Challenges

John E. Kelly III, Executive Vice President, IBM 

BREAK

10:40 AM–11:20 AM

Room: Gold Coast

10:40 AM–11:20 AM

Room: French

PARALLEL SESSIONS

11:20 AM–12:20 PM

Room: Ballroom

Panel: AI for Energy Grid Optimization

Applications of AI to solving core problems in energy grid optimization are discussed. In particular, AI approaches to energy grid security, flexibility, and reliability in light of future energy demands are highlighted. Panel participants include representatives from major utilities.

Setting the Stage:

• Mark W. Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Panelists:

• Carol Adkins, Director of R&D in Energy and Earth Systems, Sandia National Laboratories
• Neva Espinoza, Director of Cross Sector Technologies and Components, Electric Power Research Institute
• Aleksi Paaso, Director, Distribution Planning, Smart Grid & Innovation, Commonwealth Edison
• Baosen Zhang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Moderator:

• Steven Ashby, Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

11:20 AM–12:20 PM

Room: Walton

Panel: AI for Drug Discovery

State of applications of AI to transformative problems in drug discovery are discussed; ATOM Partnership is highlighted; future opportunities across disease areas are discussed with participants from life sciences companies.

Panelists:

• Ed Bowen, Vice President, AI & Machine Learning, GlaxoSmithKline
• Evan Feinberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Genesis Therapeutics
• Ketan Paranjape, Vice President of Diagnostics Information Solutions, Roche Diagnostics
• Yue Webster, Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company

Moderator:

• Jim Brase, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

BREAK

12:30 PM–2:00 PM

Room: Gold Coast

PARALLEL SESSIONS

2:00 PM–3:00 PM

Room: Ballroom

Panel: AI for Advanced Materials Discovery & Development

Challenges of new materials discovery and development are discussed with representatives from leading and emerging manufacturing companies; national lab-developed approaches to tackling some of these challenges using AI are highlighted.

Panelists:

• Kristin Persson, Chemist Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
• James Saal, Manager, External Research Programs, Citrine Informatics
• Cristina Thomas, Senior Technical Leader, 3M
• Kevin Yager, Group Manager, Electronic Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Moderator: 

• Ian Foster, Division Director, Data Science and Learning, Argonne National Laboratory

2:00 PM–3:00 PM

Room: Walton

Panel: AI for Mobility

Discussion of novel possibilities in understanding and improving transportation systems and the future of mobility by applying AI methods; examples of impactful projects from the national labs are highlighted.

Panelists:

• David Atkinson, Head, Systems & Technology and Chief Scientist for AI at Continental Automotive Group’s Silicon Valley R&D Center
• Charlie Catlett, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
• Jessika Lora, Founder & CEO, CarForce
• Monali Shah, Global Head of Industry Solutions, Google

Moderator:

• Paul Brubaker, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity, Energy Delivery Systems, U.S. Department of Energy

BREAK

3:00 PM–3:45 PM

Room: Gold Coast

3:00 PM–3:45 PM

Room: French

PLENARY SESSION

3:45 PM–4:15 PM

Room: Ballroom

Fireside Chat: AI for Industry Leadership and in the Service of the Nation

Panelists:

• Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
• Michael Kratsios, Chief Technology Officer of the United States

Moderator:

• Conner Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

4:15 PM–4:25 PM

Room: Ballroom

4:25 PM–4:45 PM

Room: Ballroom

Creating Scalable AI Infrastructure (View presentation)

Wei Li, Vice President of Machine Learning Performance, Intel

AI is changing the world with applications from health care, transportation, to every aspect of our lives. AI technology continues to evolve quickly from its early success in CNNs, to the adoption of RNNs, Recommendation Systems, and Reinforcement Learning with a wide range of performance characteristics for computer systems in production environments. Dr. Li will discuss how Intel is developing the hardware and software technologies that power AI from the world’s clouds, data centers to the edge.

RECEPTION

5:00 PM–7:00 PM

Room: Gold Coast

7:30 AM–8:15 AM

Room: Gold Coast

PLENARY SESSION

8:15 AM–8:45 AM

Room: Ballroom

Fireside Chat: Deep Science Commercialization through Regional Partnerships

Panelists:

• Paul M. Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science,
  U.S. Department of Energy
• Brad Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, P33

Moderator:

• Conner Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer,
  U.S. Department of Energy

8:45 AM–9:10 AM

Room: Ballroom

Maximizing Value with Industrial AI (View presentation)

Colin Parris, Vice President, Software and Analytics Research, GE Research

Dr. Colin Parris, GE’s lead on AI and the future of all things Digital, will discuss the company’s ongoing journey to integrate digital technologies and new innovative applications of AI into its vast fleets of critical infrastructure that help generate electricity for a third of the planet, power 2,200 planes that carry 300,000 passengers at any moment in time and generate 16,000 patient scans per minute. Both the challenge and opportunity is creating value, while also strengthening the security and reliability of these critical assets. It will require more innovative applications of AI and more valuable forms of unique industrial data and domain knowledge to maximize the value of industry and manufacturing.

9:10 AM–9:20 AM

Room: Ballroom

Congressional Efforts on AI

Bill Foster, Member, U.S. House of Representatives

9:20 AM–9:45 AM

Room: Ballroom

Federal-Academia-Industry Partnerships for U.S. Leadership in AI (View presentation)

Rebecca Willett, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago

Prof. Willett will discuss the opportunities and challenges of modern AI and the critical role of academic research.

PARALLEL SESSIONS

9:50 AM–10:45 AM

Room: Ballroom

Panel: AI for Energy Production

Transformative problems in energy generation from renewable energy sources to oil & gas are discussed with industry participants; applications of AI in combination with supercomputing to solving these problems are showcased.

Panelists:

• Douglas Kushnerick, Technology Scouting and Ventures, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
• Maggie Pakula, Vice President of Strategy, Invenergy LLC
• Scott Rackey, Director, PVS Product Development, First Solar
• Sridhar Sudarsan, Chief Technology Officer, SparkCognition

Moderator:

• Randall Gentry, Chief Research Officer, National Energy Technology Laboratory

9:50 AM–10:45 AM

Room: Walton

Panel: AI for Precision Medicine

Potential for applications of AI to transformative problems in precision medicine and healthcare delivery are discussed; several projects including cancer and traumatic brain injury projects are highlighted; opportunities to partner with the national labs leveraging unique data sources are discussed with participants from across the healthcare ecosystem.

Panelists:

• Mark Anderson, CEO, Pattern Computer, Inc.
• Ryan Fukushima, Chief Operating Officer, Tempus
• J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, PI, Million Veteran Program
• Marti Head, Director, Joint Institute for Biological Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Moderator:

• Eric Stahlberg, Director Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

BREAK

10:45 AM–11:15 AM

Room: Gold Coast

10:45 AM–11:15 AM

Room: French

PARALLEL SESSIONS

11:15 AM–12:10 PM

Room: Ballroom

Panel: AI for Digital Manufacturing and Engineering

A broad range of complex problems defining the future of manufacturing can be addressed by applying AI methods; examples including industrial IoT, digital twin, and automation are discussed with industry representatives.

Panelists:

• Mike Horrell, Head of Data Science, Uptake
• Jeff Kent, Technical Director, Smart Platforms, Global Product Supply Engineering & Innovation, Procter & Gamble
• Steve Rohweder, Vice President for Technology Development, Goodyear
• Arijit Sengupta, Founder and CEO, Aible

Moderator: 

• Valri Lightner, Acting Director, Advanced Manufacturing Office, U.S. Department of Energy

11:15 AM–12:10 PM

Room: Walton

Panel: AI for Urban Systems

The future of urban infrastructure and systems and applicability of AI to deliver on this vision are discussed with representatives from state and local governments as well as industry partners; examples of impactful projects from the national labs are highlighted.

Panelists:

• Raed Mansour, Director, Office of Innovation, Chicago Department of Public Health
• Stanley Young, Advanced Transportation and Urban Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Meera Raja, Manager, Solution Design & Program Development, City Tech Collaborative

Moderator:

• Carolyn Lauzon, Deputy Director, Artificial Intelligence Technology Office, U.S. Department of Energy

12:10 PM–12:20 PM

Rooms: Ballroom and Walton

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Room: Meet in Palm Court