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with Sherri Greenberg The University of Texas Chris Shenefiel Cisco 6:00pm Log In 6:15pm -7:15pm Presentation 7:15-8:00pm Q&A |
Technologies have always served as tools to enhance our human abilities, and work & business are among the greatest drivers of technology innovation and adoption. Sometimes technologies augment jobs; other times, they replace jobs but create entirely new lines of work. Artifical intelligence (AI) is already powering many consumer and business applications, but the greatest changes lie ahead. The dominant area of AI today is machine learning, which enables us to create applications that are trained from known data and then are able to make decisions about new data and experiences. This is leading to powerful augmentation abilities for humans, but also autonomous decision-making capabilities that could replace many human jobs—especially combine with robotics. With AI emerging so rapidly, how will new AI applications and uses—including autonomous systems—change the workforce, and how do we ensure the future workforce is empowered, inclusive, and equitable? Join Sherri Greenberg and Chris Shenefiel as they explain how AI works, why it is revolutionary in terms of work, how work will be forever changed by it, and what we must do to develop ‘good’ AI systems for all our benefit.
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speaker
Sherri Greenberg
The University of Texas @srgreenberg Sherri Greenberg is a Professor Practice and Fellow of the Max Sherman Chair in State and Local Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She is a Chairperson of the Board of Managers of Central Health, a Member of the City of Austin Regional Affordability Committee, and a Member of the UT Opportunity Forum Steering Committee. Also, she serves on the Texas.Gov Steering Committee, the Austin CityUP Board of Directors, the Austin Forum on Technology & Society Advisory Board, and the City of Austin General Obligation Housing Bond Review Committee. Additionally, she has served as a Senior Advisor to Austin Mayor Steve Adler. Greenberg was a Texas State Representative from 1991 to 2001, and she chaired the House Pensions and Investments Committee and the Select Committee on Teacher Health Insurance. She also served on the House Appropriations,Economic Development, Elections, and Science and Technology Committees. Previously, Greenberg was the City of Austin Capital Finance Manager, and a Public Finance Officer at Standard & Poor’s. Greenberg holds an MSc in Public Administration and Policy from the London School of Economics. Her teaching and research interests include: technology and innovation, urban and state issues, public engagement, housing, transportation, healthcare, public finance, and campaigns and elections. Her recent publications are: Congress and Social Media: Beyond Facebook & Twitter, Using Innovation and Technology to Improve City Services, Austin Anchors & The Innovation Zone: Building Collaborative Capacity, Congressional Committees and Social Media, and Congress + Social Media. |
Chris Shenefiel
Advanced Security Research Cisco Systems, Inc. Chris Shenefiel is a Security Research Principal Engineer. In this role, he is responsible for defining security research focus areas and funding research programs. He is also a Data Scientist uncovering security vulnerability trends and ways to improve Cisco’s offer security. In his role as an Adjunct Lecturer he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Applied Cybersecurity for William and Mary Computer Science Department and Law School. He has over 30 years of advanced technology experience in engineering, marketing, consulting and general business management with several of the world’s largest communications corporations including Motorola, Southwestern Bell, and AT&T Communications in capacities that include software design, user interface design, applied R&D, professional services, project management and product management. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a Masters in Engineering Psychology and recently became a Franklin Fellow at William and Mary Law School. |