TrailsCon 2025 Agenda
Our agenda will continue updating as we get closer to the event. For more information about the conference programming, please contact Mallory Smith ([email protected])
| Time | Session Type | Title | Speaker/Facilitator(s) | Description | Location |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Keynote | Opening Keynote and Welcome Remarks | Hal Daumé III, Director of TRAILS and Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland TBA | Coming Soon | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Keynote Panel | Making Evaluation Make Sense: Designing Evaluation Measures for AI Systems Users Can Understand and Trust |
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| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Networking Break | Student Center 309 | |||
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Facilitated Roundtable | Changing Education Practice to Support Learning About and With AI | Coming Soon | Track: Trust In AI Across Lifelong Career Trajectories Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Facilitated Roundtable | AI as Work | Katie Shilton, Professor, University of Maryland College of Information and Leader of Ethics & Values in Design Lab, TRAILS Co-PI | Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Facilitated Roundtable | Supporting Good AI Governance Practices Within Organizations | Dr. Ryan Watkins, Professor, Educational Technology Leadership, GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development | Track: Trustworthy AI Governance at work within organizations Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Networking Lunch | Student Center 309 | |||
| 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm | Facilitated Roundtable | Exploring Real World Tools and Theories for Addressing the "AI at Work" Challenges | Coming Soon | Track: Making connections between trustworthy AI research and practice work Format: Facilitated Roundtable | |
| 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm | Breakout Session | Overcoming Organizational Challenges When Adopting NIST Risk Management Framework | Andrew Gamino-Cheong, Trustible; Patrick Hall GW School of Business | Track: Trustworthy AI Governance at work within organizations Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm | Mini-Workshop | Imagining the Future of AI and Workers: A Strategic Foresight Workshop | Neeti Sanyal, Artefact | This interactive mini-workshop will explore future scenarios based on significant trends and indicators related to how AI will impact workers. Track: AI and/as Workers Format: Mini-Workshop | Student Center |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Networking Break | Coffee and light snacks | Student Center | ||
| 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm | Keynote Panel | AI in the workworld |
| Jack Morton Auditorium | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm | Keynote Panel | AI as work: Expanding participation in AI design, development and evaluation | Katie Shilton, Professor, University of Maryland College of Information and Leader of Ethics & Values in Design Lab, TRAILS Co-PI | Designing, deploying, and evaluating AI is work requiring diverse expertise. This panel will discuss strategies to broaden expertise in the AI lifecycle. | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Reception | Networking Reception and TRAILS Poster Session | City View Room |
| Time | Session Type | Title | Speaker/Facilitator(s) | Description | Location |
| 9:00am - 9:15am | Keynote | Welcome Remarks | Coming Soon | ||
| 9:15am - 10:15am | Keynote Panel | TBA | Panelists: Moderator: David Broniatowksi (Professor, GW Engineering Management and Systems Engineering) | How do we design evaluation measures for AI systems that help users make sense of output in a trustworthy manner? | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Networking Break | Jack Morton Auditorium | |||
| 10:45am - 11:45am | Keynote Panel | Who Participates in Participatory AI and How can we Make AI More Participatory? |
| This panel will discuss the current state of public opinion, whether the public really wants to participate, the corporate and NGO visions of participation, and how Rosenberg uses AI to ensure public opinion is heard. | Jack Morton Auditorium |
| 11:45am - 12:45pm | Networking Lunch | Student Center | |||
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Facilitated Roundtable | Increasing Diversity in the AI Workforce | L. Larry Liu, Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Morgan State University | The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates significant opportunities for economies and societies but its development is hampered by insufficient availability of diverse talent from traditionally disadvantaged communities. How can we build a framework to diversify the AI workforce? What strategies could help create synergy between Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), industry and government to create a diverse and inclusive workforce? What actionable steps can organizations take to build the talent pipeline? Track: AI and/as Workers Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Breakout Session | What’s At Stake: Navigating the Tradeoffs Between Innovation and Responsibility | Michael Novak, Ambassador, Open Voice TrustMark Initiative & Open Voice Interoperability Initiative | Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Facilitated Roundtable | Organizational Applications for Identifying and Tagging Synthetic Content | Coming Soon | Format: Facilitated Roundtable | Student Center |
| 1:45pm - 2:15pm | Networking Break | Student Center | |||
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Keynote Panel | What's Next for AI at Work? | Hal Daumé III, Director of TRAILS and Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland | Jack Morton Auditorium |