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AI Woodstock Generative AI World

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GenAI World 2024

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Giving a Presentation

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Investors, VCs, & AI Startups

GenAI Leadership Summit Conference 2024

Hear from enterprise AI leaders who are achieving meaningful ROI with their GenAI initiatives and learn how you can drive your GenAI efforts forward. Our conference focuses on practical GenAI applications, compelling case studies, a robust business case playbook, and insights from leading GenAI entrepreneurs, scientists, and pragmatic academics from Harvard and MIT.

PRE-CONFERENCE
Sunday, Oct 6th 

5:00 pm:  AI Woodstock Conference

7:00 pm:  End of Day

AGENDA AT A GLANCE

DAY ONE: General Sessions
Monday, Oct 7th 

7:30 am: Registration 

8:00 - 9:00 am: Breakfast

 

9:00 - 9:20 am: Harnessing GenAI for Transformative Value: Lessons from 2024 & Predictions for 2025/2026 with Prof. Shikar Gosh on Exponential Technologies in Business.

Paul Baier, John Sviokla, Shikar Gosh

 

9:20 - 10:20 am: Stories from the Front Line: Top Leaders Share Transformative GenAI Journeys and AI-Driven Successes in Payments, Insurance, and Healthcare.

Melissa Smith, John Spottiswood, Bill Fandrich

 

10:20 - 10:40 am: Making it Real: Using our WINS Framework to Assess Your Firm’s Susceptibility to GenAI’s Economic and Mastering Prompt Engineering.

John Sviokla, Adam Rappaport

 

10:40- 11:05 am: Break & Networking

 

11:05- 11:10 am: Cognitive Robot Demo: Selection of Impressive Co-Intelligence Agents 

 

11:10:- 11:35 am: The Future of Co-Intelligence – How Digital Humans and Humans Will Collaborate: And What It Means for Your Talent Strategy.

Tom Davenport, Jen Stave, Mary Purk, Paloma Shelton

 

11:35- 11:55 am: What are the Important Value Trends for Individuals and Investors?

UBS representatives (Moderator TBD)

 

11:55- 12:00 pm: Morning Wrap Up, Implications, Questions.

Paul Baier or John Sviokla or Jeffrey Rayport or Shikar Gosh

 

12:00- 1:00 pm: Lunch & Topic Tables: Peer to Peer Conversations on Key Issues

 

1:00- 2:00 pm: Breakouts (see breakout tracks below)

 

2:00- 2:30 pm: The View From Key Suppliers:  NVIDIA, Google, MSFT, AWS, A21: What’s Here and What’s Coming

Ted Shelton, Sri Elaprolu, Andy Roberts, Kevin Shatzkamer,            Yasmina Benkhoui

 

2:30- 2:40 pm: Guarding Your Key Intelligence Assets in the Time of AI

Ted Shelton, Ann Stemlar, Andy Fanning

 

2:40- 3:00 pm: Enterprise AI/GenAI Buying Trends

Toby Redshaw, Pat Condo, Igor Jablokov

 

3:00 - 3:20 pm: Break

 

3:20- 4:00 pm: Breakouts (see breakout tracks below)

 

4:00- 4:30 pm: How Will We Reach Our Customers?  The Coming SEO Bloodbath

David Edelman, Pete Blackshaw

 

4:30- 4:40 pm: Trends, Implications, Questions from the Day

Paul Baier and John Sviokla

 

4:40- 6:30 pm: Reception: AI Enabled Music and Art

 

 

 

 

 

Breakout Track 1: Healthcare/Life Sciences


 

1:00- 1:20 pm: Transforming Provider Care from Top to Bottom, A Portuguese Story

Jose Pedro Almeida

 

1:20- 1:40 pm: AI in Healthcare: How Knowledge On Demand is Changing Care Delivery

Margin, Badri, Inizio

 

1:40- 2:00 pm: Remaking a 160 Year Old, World Leading Healthcare Organization

Tom from Mayo Clinic

 

3:20- 4:00 pm: Advanced AI in Production in Healthcare:

Ryan Vega and Andy Fanning

 

Breakout Track 2: Business: Sales/Customer Service

 

1:00- 1:20 pm: Reinventing Weather Intelligence

Dan Slagen

 

1:20- 1:40 pm: Leveraging AI to Empower Clients for Growth, Finance and Talent

Vinay Gidaway

 

1:40- 2:00 pm: Reinventing Business Education and Research at the Harvard Business School

Jen Stave

 

3:20- 3:40 pm: Managing the Board of Directors about AI

Nina Grooms Lee, Jeffrey Rayport

 

3:40- 4:00 pm: How to Organize to Take Advantage of Data and AI

Randy Bean

 

 

Breakout Track 3: Financial Services and Learning

 

1:00- 1:20 pm: The 6 Disciplines Companies Need

Tom Davenport

 

1:20- 1:40 pm: Reinventing Financial Services at Scale Perspectives from the C-Suite

Chris McKay and TBD

 

1:40- 2:00 pm: Practitioners in FS Making it Real:

Kjersten Moody

 

3:20- 3:40 pm: Learning how to Teach and Research with GenAI

Usama Fayyad

 

3:40- 4:00 pm: GenAI use and Training on the Ground

Adam Rappaport

DAY ONE: Breakout Sessions
Monday, Oct 7th 

DAY TWO: General Sessions
Tuesday, Oct 8th 

9:00- 9:10 am: Welcome: Summary of Day 1 Preview of Day 2

Paul Baier, John Sviokla

 

9:10- 9:30 am: Making Decisions Inside the Tornado: A Case Study

Jeffrey Rayport

 

9:30- 9:50 am: Promise or Peril?  Investing in the AI Wave from a Venture Capital Perspective

Scott Kirsner, Chip Hazard, Rudina Seseri

 

9:50- 10:10 am: Transforming Existing Firms: A Private Equity Perspective

Jeffrey Rayport, Ian Robertson, Erik Oken

 

10:10- 10:25 am: Teaching the Giant to Dance: The Art of Agility

Sheila Jordan

 

10:25- 10:30 am: Prompts and Startups

Picture and title TBD

 

10:30- 1:50 pm: Breakouts, Lunch, Breakouts

 

1:50- 3:00 pm: Risk Frontiers: Ownerships, Liability, Responsibility and Regulation

John Sviokla, Sandeep Sacheti, Anne Stemlar, Thomas Kingsley

 

3:00- 3:20 pm: Break and Networking

 

3:20- 3:40 pm: Time to Reimagine the World, Co-Workers and Co-Intelligence: A Robot Demonstration

Tom and the Robots

 

3:40- 4:00 pm: How to Foster an AI Ecosystem: The Massachusetts Plan

John Werner and Yvonne Hao

 

4:00- 4:15 pm: Implications of What You’ve Heard and Thoughts for 2025

Paul Baier, John Sviokla

DAY TWO: Breakout Sessions
Tuesday, Oct 8th 

Breakout Track 1: General

8:00- 9:00 am: Women in AI Breakfast

Sponsor: TBD

 

11:00- 11:20 am: Breaking the Back of Bureaucracy: Reinventing Ensemble Health

Pieter Schouten

 

11:20- 11:40 am: From Data to Insight: What Oracle Sees Happening in Healthcare

Chris Broone

 

11:40- 12:00 pm: TBD (WEKA, Honeywell, etc.)

 

1:00- 1:20 pm: Challenges with Implementing AI in Healthcare

Sahar Hashmi

 

1:20- 1:40 pm: How to Choose Successful AI Project: The PRISM Framework

John Sviokla

Breakout Track 2: Business: Sales/Customer Service

11:00- 11:20 pm:  AI In The Academy

Mary Purk

 

11:20- 11:40 pm: The View From the CEO Perch

Chris McKay

 

11:40- 12:00 pm: TBD

 

1:00- 1:20 pm: The Market Map for AI and Its Use

Phil Fersht

 

1:20- 1:40 pm: Workshop Employee Training

Paul Baier

Breakout Track 3: Financial Services and Learning

11:00- 11:20 am: Teaching an Old Law Firm New Tricks

Anne Stemlar

11:20- 11:40 am: TBD

 

11:40- 12:00 pm: TBD

 

1:00- 1:20 pm: Building an Enterprise LLM in 5 Minutes

 

1:20- 1:40 pm: GenAI Sales Training for Busy Professionals

General Session Topics

  • Harnessing GenAI for Transformative Value: Lessons from 2024 & Predictions for 2025/2026 with Prof. Shikar Gosh on Exponential Technologies in Business

  • Stories from the Front Line: Top Leaders Share Transformative GenAI Journeys and AI-Driven Successes in Payments, Insurance, and Healthcare

  • Making it Real: Using our WINS Framework to Assess Your Firm’s Susceptibility to GenAI’s Economic and Mastering Prompt Engineering.Cognitive Robot Demo: Selection of Impressive Co-Intelligence Agents

  • The Future of Co-Intelligence – How Digital Humans and Humans Will Collaborate: And What It Means for Your Talent Strategy

  • What are the Important Value Trends for Individuals and Investors?

  • The View From Key Suppliers:  NVIDIA, Google, MSFT, AWS, A21: What’s Here and What’s Coming

  • Making Decisions Inside the Tornado: A Case Study

  • Promise or Peril?  Investing in the AI Wave from a Venture Capital Perspective

  • Transforming Existing Firms: A Private Equity Perspective

  • Teaching the Giant to Dance: The Art of Agility

  • Prompts and Startups

  • Risk Frontiers: Ownerships, Liability, Responsibility and Regulation

  • Time to Reimagine the World, Co-Workers and Co-Intelligence: A Robot Demonstration

  • How to Foster an AI Ecosystem: The Massachusetts Plan

  • Implications of What You’ve Heard and Thoughts for 2025

  • Guarding Your Key Intelligence Assets in the Time of AI

  • Enterprise AI/GenAI Buying Trends

  • How Will We Reach Our Customers?  The Coming SEO Bloodbath

  • Trends, Implications, Questions from the Day

Explore Industry-Specific Tracks with Case Studies

Life Sciences & Healthcare

CASE STUDY: 
How One Major Hospital System Is Building Their Own LLM​

CASE STUDY:
Drug Discovery with AI and GenAI​

CASE STUDY:
How GenAI Is Transforming the Patient Experience from Education to Diagnosis, Product Selection to Adherence​

Sales & Customer Service

CASE STUDY:
Our Lessons: Does the CSR Always Have to Be “In the Loop”?
 
CASE STUDY:
Redesigning Dialogue with GenAI - How We Reduced Costs and Increased NPS

CASE STUDY:
Monitoring AI Model Accuracy and Model Drift in Customer Service GenAI Production System

Financial Services

CASE STUDY:
Turbocharging Risk Assessment and Fraud Detection

CASE STUDY:
Transforming Customer Relationships
 
CASE STUDY:
Refining Business Strategy for Insurance in the AI Age

Full agenda coming soon - Stay tuned for the detailed agenda!

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