BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Research Panel Discussion: The Future of AI X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T171331Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_49410274191014 DTSTART:20250502T230000Z DTEND:20250503T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion on the future of AI.\n\n \n\nIn- person registration is limited to 110.\n\nPanel Discussion:\n\nBrent Lebac k – NVIDIAKarthik Kashinath – NVIDIAJanet Lee Johnson – AI Governan ce GroupHector Dominguez – City of Portland\, Oregon Octaviano Merecias – OHSUMaude David – Oregon State UniversityRandy Staton – Amazon Web Services\n \n\nBios below for each:\n\n \n\nBrent Leback - NVIDIA\n\nBre nt Leback graduated from Oregon State University in 1984. Over the last 4 0+ years\, he has worked in various positions in HPC customer support\, ma th library development\, applications engineering\, consulting\, and manag ement at QTC\, Axian\, STMicroelectronics(PGI)\, and NVIDIA. He is a co-c reator of the CUDA Fortran programming language\, and continues to activel y participate in the design and implementation of new CUDA Fortran feature s. He is a regular attendee at OpenACC GPU Hackathons and an expert in Op enACC and CUDA Fortran programming models.\n\n \n\nKarthik Kashinath - NVI DIA\n\nPrincipal Engineer and Scientist\, AI-HPC and Engineering Lead\, Ea rth-2\, NVIDIA Karthik Kashinath is a senior machine learning scientist an d technologist at NVIDIA. Before joining NVIDIA in August 2021\, he was at NERSC\, Lawrence Berkeley Lab\, where he led various climate informatics and machine-learning projects at the Big Data Center. Karthik received his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras\, his ma ster's from Stanford University\, and his Ph.D. from the University of Cam bridge. His background is in engineering and applied physics. Karthik uses the power of machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery in the c omplex chaotic systems of turbulence\, weather\, and climate science.\n\n \n\nJanet Lee Johnson\, AI Strategy & Governance Advisor - AI Governance\n \nJanet guides organizations through digital transformations with experien ce spanning Fortune 10 companies to high growth startups in tech\, edtech\ , and financial services. For the past five years\, she has taught AI work shops and PR strategy at Portland State University’s Center for Executiv e and Professional Education. Her background bridging sales\, marketing an d technology led her to found the AI Governance Group\, helping organizati ons adopt AI responsibly while protecting their people\, brands\, and IP. Johnson's journey includes stops at tech pioneers like AT&T\, Apple and En ron\, giving her a unique perspective on how truth\, trust and transparenc y must evolve with technology.\n\n \n\nOctaviano Merecias\, Division of Le arning & Development-Leadership Development - OHSU\n\nOctaviano Merecias-C uevas earned his Doctorate from the School of Advanced Studies in Educatio n at Johns Hopkins University\, where his research explores how structural and institutional stressors influence employees' physio psychological and psychosomatic responses. He is a scholar and practitioner in learning\, t raining\, education\, and organizational development\, with a focus on inn ovative\, future-focused teaching practices and the broader impact of syst emic pressures on well-being and performance. His academic credentials inc lude a post-master’s certificate in Mind\, Brain\, and Teaching from Joh ns Hopkins University\, a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from the D erek Bok Center at Harvard University\, and a Master’s degree from Orego n State University.\n\n \n\nHector Dominguez\, Open Data and Privacy Coord inator - City of Portland\n\nHector is the Open Data Coordinator for the C ity of Portland\, Oregon and part of the Smart City PDX team. In addition to Open Data initiatives\, Hector has led privacy and information initiati ves in the City that includes use of ethical tools for technology solution s assessment\, privacy and information protection principles\, establishin g the citywide privacy and surveillance technologies strategies and proced ures\, and policy development including the face recognition technologies and Surveillance policies. He is also a member of the State of Oregon's Go vernor's AI advisory Council.\n\n \n\nMaude David – OSU Microbiology \nD r. Maude M. David work focused on microbiota-gut-brain axis and applying n ew analytical methods to analyze multi-omics microbial datasets. After pos tdoctoral positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford School of Medicine\, she joined Oregon State University as an Assistant Pr ofessor in January 2018\, where she has a joined appointment in Microbiolo gy and Pharmaceutical Sciences\, and is now an Associate Professor. Dr. D avid's laboratory studies the gut-brain axis\, to understand how microbes can impact our behavior\, specifically in Autism Spectrum Disorder. She us es a crowd-sourced approach to collect lifestyle type information\, diet h abits\, and samples. Her team is also working on identifying bottlenecks i n microbial ecology and bioinformatics\, bringing novel solutions to unrav el microbial molecular mechanisms by applying notably deep learning approa ches to microbiome datasets.\n\n \n\nRandy Staton – Amazon Web Services\ nRandy is an innovative and cloud-focused technology leader with over 20 y ears of enterprise experience across multiple industries. He has driven gl obal cloud transformations for enterprise data platforms for fortune 100\, and now helps R1 research institutions with cloud adoption and transforma tion. He is an expert in cloud solutions\, focused on modern data architec tures and integrating AI solutions into the enterprise.\n\nAccommodation r equests related to a disability should be made to Jared Haddock at jared.h addock@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-2367 at least five (5) business days pri or to the event. GEO:44.559893;-123.279028 LOCATION:CH2M HILL Alumni Center\, 115 SUMMARY:Research Panel Discussion: The Future of AI URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/research-panel-discussio n-the-future-of-ai CATEGORIES:Conference or Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR