2025 AI Summit – Schedule
General schedule
The program is tentatively posted below and may have changes over the next 2-3 weeks prior to the event.
| 7:30 – 8:00 AM | Registration Desk / Coffee and Pastries Lobby, 1st Floor | ||||
| 8:00 – 8:15 AM | Welcome and Summit Overview Auditorium, 2nd Floor | ||||
| 8:15 – 8:30 AM | Opening Remarks Jennifer Troyer, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Auditorium, 2nd Floor | ||||
| 8:30 – 8:45 AM | Featured Plenary: Unstoppable AI – Where Are We Headed? Mike Carlin, Vice Chancellor for OneIT; CIO; Chief University Innovation and Process Officer Auditorium, 2nd Floor | ||||
| 8:45 – 9:15 AM | Featured Panel: Leading the AI Transformation – Campus Leaders on Strategy & What’s Next Auditorium, 2nd Floor Moderator: J. Garvey Pyke, Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, SPS Panelists: ● Jennifer Troyer, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs ● Mike Carlin, Vice Chancellor for OneIT; CIO; Chief University Innovation and Process Officer ● Deb Thomas, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research ● George Banks, Co-Director of Charlotte AI Institute ● Katharina Findlater, Business Affairs Operations Manager | ||||
| 9:15 – 9:30 AM | AI Across the Curriculum – Use Case Story Segment Auditorium, 2nd Floor Moderator: Justin Cary, AI Faculty Fellow, Senior Lecturer, CHESS Introducing the AI Faculty Fellows and the AI Use Case Project Faculty Storytellers: ● Anexact Architectures: Embracing AI’s Imprecision in Design Pedagogy, Kyle Spence, Assistant Professor, COA+A ● AI, Meet Résumé: A Crash Course in Career Prep, Jennifer Adelhardt, Adjunct Faculty, COB | ||||
| 9:30 – 10:15 AM | Featured Panel: From Classroom to Career – Navigating AI Skills for the Next Generation Workforce Auditorium, 2nd Floor Moderator: Patrick Madsen, Associate Dean for Advising & Experiential Learning; Executive Director of the Career Center, UGE Panelists: ● James Bolling, Charlotte Campus Director and Principal Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft ● Eric Wood, Higher Education Leadership Executive, Apple ● Booshra Ahmed, Senior Vice President, Bank of America ● David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning | ||||
| 10:15 – 10:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:30 – 11:15 AM | Featured Workshops ● AI for Beginners Lab (Room 1101), Daniel Maxwell, AI Faculty Fellow, COED ● AI for Curriculum Lab (Room 901/902), Justin Cary, AI Faculty Fellow, CHESS ● AI for Computing Lab (Room 1102), Mohamed Shehab, Mohsen Dorodchi, Sandra Wiktor, CCI ● Ethical AI Lab (Room 1103), Booshra Ahmed, BCOB ● AI for Work Productivity Lab (Room 1104), Beth Rugg, OneIT; Elizabeth Thornton, SPS | ||||
| 11:15 – 12:00 PM | Lunch Break | ||||
| 12:00 – 12:15 PM | AI Across the Curriculum – Use Case Story Segment Auditorium, 2nd Floor Moderator: Justin Cary, AI Faculty Fellow, Senior Lecturer, CHESS Faculty Storytellers: ● In the Shadow of AI Fictions: Correcting and Collaborating with AI Mythologies, Jessi Morton, Lecturer, CHESS ● The “AI Moment” in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Glenn Moglen, Professor and Chair, COE | ||||
| 12:15 – 1:00 PM | Keynote: Designing More Effective and Ethical Learning Experiences with AI Invited Speaker: David Wiley Dr. David Wiley is the Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning. His work and research happen at the intersection of instructional design, open educational resources, generative AI, entrepreneurship, continuous improvement, and professional development. He is Dean of the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurship and Director of The Brad D. Smith Student Incubator at Marshall University, and adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University’s graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology (where he was previously an Associate Professor). Dr. Wiley holds a PhD in Instructional Psychology and Technology from Brigham Young University and a BFA in Music from Marshall University. | ||||
| 1:00 – 1:15 PM | Snack Break | ||||
| Lightning Sessions (1:15 – 2:30 PM) | |||||
| Room 1101 Disciplinary Use-Cases | Room 1102 Disciplinary Use-Cases | Room 1103 Disciplinary Use-Cases | Room 1104 Research | Room 1106 Ethics | |
| 1:15 – 1:30 PM | A Meaningful Midterm? Ai, AI, Captain!! Sandra Watts, Teaching Professor, CHESS | Bridging Learning and Feedback: Integrating LLMs into Code Review for Programming Education Nadia Najjar, Associate Teaching Professor, CCI | In the Shadow of AI Fictions: Correcting and Collaborating with AI Mythologies Jessi Morton, Lecturer, CHESS | Rapid Knowledge Co-creation with AI Alex Litovchenko, Undergraduate Student, CHESS | Human-Centric, Ethically Aligned, Reliable, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Education for 21st Century Society Roslyn Mickelson, Chancellor’s Professor, CHESS |
| 1:35 – 1:50 PM | Designing AI-Integrated Personalized Learning Experiences Ji Yae Bong, Assistant Professor, COED Beth Oyarzun, Clinical Associate Professor, COED Terry Shirley, Associate Chair, CHESS Courtnie Edwards, Graduate Student, COED | Enhancing Students’ Learning Outcomes through Targeted Interventions in an Adaptive Learning Platform Amir Ghasemi, Assistant Professor, COE | Engaging in Challenging Dialogues Using Sway Beta AI Carrie Wells, Associate Teaching Professor, COS | Generative AI in Higher Ed: Unveiling Trends from Systematic Reviews on Faculty Practices to Enhance Student Learning Ayesha Sadaf, Associate Professor, COED Katherine Ren, Graduate Student, COED | Ethical Issues in Generative AI Gordon Hull, Professor, CHESS |
| 1:55 – 2:10 PM | AI, CUREs, and the Future of STEM Learning: A Case Study in Course Redesign Alex Dornburg, Assistant Professor, CCI Kristin Davin, Professor, COED | On Coding, AI, and the Future of Computer Science Education Razvan Bunesco, Associate Professor, CCI | Structured Conversational AI for Manufacturing Education: Narrative Templates for Adaptive Retrieval Generation Across Expertise Levels Mahmoud Dinar, Assistant Professor, COE | Demographic Differences in Student Perceived Readiness, Benefits, and Challenges Using Generative AI Daniel Maxwell, University Supervisor/ Lecturer, COED Beth Oyarzun, Clinical Associate Professor, COED Ji Yae Bong, Assistant Professor, COED Stella Kim, Associate Professor, COED | On the Ethical Implications of Generative AI: What LLMs and GPTs Do (and What They Don’t) Damien Williams, Assistant Professor, CHESS/CCI |
| 2:15 – 2:30 PM | AI and Authentic Assessment Matthew Metzgar, Clinical Professor, BCOB | The Vitruvian Turn: AI Prompting and Descriptive Geometry in Architecture Sabri Gokmen, Assistant Professor, COA+A | I Want to Write a Picture: Ekphrasis and Arguing with Images Justin Cary, Senior Lecturer, CHESS Lily Ahdieh, Undergraduate Student, CHESS | AI Literacy and Access Yash Tadimalla, Doctoral Candidate, CCI | Trusting Students in the Age of AI: Conversations, Ethics, and Learning Together Aileen Benedict, Visiting Lecturer, CCI |
| 2:30 – 2:45 PM | Break | ||||
| 2:45 – 3:15 PM | Featured Panel: AI Faculty Task Force Perspectives on College-Level Needs and Future Directions Auditorium, 2nd Floor Moderator: Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, AI Task Force Co-Chair, Professor, CCI Panel/Taskforce Members: ● Mohsen Dorodchi, Teaching Professor, CCI ● Daniel Maxwell, University Supervisor/Lecturer, COED ● Qiang Zhu, Associate Professor, COE ● Justin Cary, Senior Lecturer, CHESS ● Sam Suptela, Associate Teaching Professor, COS ● Beth Caruso, Digital Pedagogy & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Atkins Library | ||||
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Closing Remarks: Looking Ahead Kiran Budhrani, Director of Teaching and Learning Innovation, Center for Teaching and Learning, SPS Auditorium, 2nd Floor | ||||
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Social Networking Atrium, 2nd Floor | ||||