TrailsCon 2025
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by TRAILS
February 3 - 4, 2025
The George Washington University
The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS) invites AI thought leaders, researchers, and advisors from industry, policy, and academia to join us on February 3-4 for “AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust”. This two-day conference will explore ethical frameworks and guidelines for AI systems, strategies for building trustworthy AI governance within organizations, supporting AI and/as Workers, and tools/concepts to help address the challenges of AI at work across all sectors.
Our agenda includes keynote panel sessions with guests from organizations like IBM, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Meta, Microsoft Research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Qualcomm, Trustible, Unanimous AI, and many more.
Attendees will have several opportunities to engage with their peers in small group formats as part of our facilitated roundtables and mini-workshops on a wide range of topics. Our conference tracks include: Trustworthy AI Governance Within Organizations, AI and Career Trajectories, AI and/as the Worker, and Connecting Trustworthy AI Research to Operational Practices.
All conference participants are invited to join us for our February 3 Networking Reception and TRAILS Poster Session, where they can learn about our exciting research on trustworthy AI.
- Who can attend this conference?
This event is open to the public. AI researchers, practitioners, and developers from industry, policy organizations, federal laboratories, and academia are encouraged to attend. TRAILS members have complimentary access to the conference.
- Do I have to register in advance to attend?
Yes, all attendees must register in advance. This event has limited seating in both our keynote space and the small-group roundtable sessions. On-site registration will only be available if the event has not sold out by February 1. Please note that post-conference materials, including the attendee roster and conference summary, will only be available to those who attend the event in person or cancel their registration by January 30.
- What is included in my conference registration?
All conference registrations include access to the following. The full conference roster and detailed summary will be made available after the event and only to registered participants who attend the event in person.
- All keynote and breakout sessions
- Lunch on Feb 3 & 4
- February 3 Reception and Poster Session,
- Conference attendee roster (post-conference)
- Slide decks
- Detailed conference summary publication (post-conference)
| Time | Title | Location |
| 9:00 am - 10:15 am | Welcome Remarks Openging Keynote | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 10:45am - 12:00pm | Facilitated Roundtables:
| GW Student Center |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Networking Lunch | Student Center 309 |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm | Breakout Sessions:
| GW Student Center |
| 2:45pm - 3:45pm | AI in the Workworld (Keynote Panel) | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm | AI as Work: Expanding Participation in AI Design, Development and Evaluation (Keynote Panel) | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Networking Reception and TRAILS Poster Session | City View Room |
| Time | Title | Location |
| 9:00 am - 10:15 am | Welcome Remarks | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 9:15am - 10:15am | Making Evaluation Make Sense: Designing Evaluation Measures for AI Systems Users Can Understand and Trust (Keynote Panel) | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Who Participates in Participatory AI and How can we Make AI More Participatory? (Keynote Panel) | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 11:45am - 12:45pm | Networking Lunch | Student Center |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Facilitated Roundtables:
| Student Center |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Metrics and Methods for Understanding the Best Uses of AI-Infused Systems (Keynote Panel) | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 2:45pm - 3:45pm | What's Next for AI at Work? (Keynote Panel) | Jack Morton Auditorium |
This event is still accepting sponsorships. To learn more, download our Sponsorship Opportunities and contact Emily DeVito ([email protected]).