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 (mallory [dot] smithgwu [dot] edu (mallory[dot]smith[at]gwu[dot]edu))

February 3, 2025
February 4, 2025

Time	Title	Speaker/Facilitator(s)	Format	Location
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Welcome Remarks	Hal Daumé III, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Director of TRAILS President Ellen Granberg - President, George Washington University		Jack Morton Auditorium
9:30 am - 10:00am	AI or Not: Interview with Hal Daumé and Amy Cyphert	Pam Isom, CEO & Founder, IsAdvice & Consulting LLC Amy Beth Cyphert - Lecturer in Law, West Virginia University and Director of ASPIRE Hal Daumé III - Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Director of TRAILS	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Making Evaluation Make Sense: Designing Evaluation Measures for AI Systems Users Can Understand and Trust	Panelists: Craig Greenberg - NIST Valerie Reyna - Professor of Human Development, Cornell University, Co-PI and Cornell Site Lead of TRAILS Hanna Wallach - Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Alicia Wanless - Senior Fellow and Project Director of the Information Environment Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moderator: David Broniatowski - Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, Co-PI and GW Site Lead of TRAILS	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium
11:15am - 12:15pm Breakout Session	What’s At Stake: Navigating the Tradeoffs Between Innovation and Responsibility	Oita Coleman - Senior Advisor, Open Voice Network Michael Novak - CO of InfinityOne AI; AISIC CRADA, Linux Foundation	Interactive breakout	Student Center
	AI as Work	Katie Shilton - Professor, University of Maryland College of Information and Leader of Ethics & Values in Design Lab, Co-PI of TRAILS	Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
	Roundtable: Supporting Good AI Governance Practices Within Organizations	Ryan Watkins - Professor, Educational Technology Leadership, GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development	Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch			Student Center
1:15pm - 2:15pm Breakout Session	Exploring Real World Tools and Theories for Addressing "AI at Work" Challenges		Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
	Strategic Foresight and Imagining the Future of AI and Workers	Neeti Sanyal - VP, Creative, Artefact	Mini-workshop	Student Center
	Overcoming Organizational Challenges When Adopting NIST Risk Management Framework	Andrew Gamino-Cheong - CTO & Co-Founder, Trustible Patrick Hall - Teaching Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, GW School of Business	Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Networking Break			Student Center
2:45pm - 3:45pm Keynote Panel	Working With AI	Panelists: Sarah Fox - Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Aiha Nguygen - Labor Futures Direction, Data and Society Crystal Weise - Innovation Policy & Programs Manager, AFL-CIO Matt Scherer - CDT Senior Policy Counsel for Employment and Technology Moderator: Susan Ariel Aaronson - Research Professor of International Affairs, Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, and co-PI TRAILS.	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium
3:45pm - 4:45pm Keynote Panel	AI as Work: Expanding Participation in AI Design, Development and Evaluation	Panelists: Michael Madaio - Senior Research Scientist, Technology, AI, Society, and Culture, Google Research William Mapp - Center for Equitable AI and Machine Learning Systems, Morgan State University Colleen McClain - Pew Research Center Moderator: Katie Shilton - Professor, College of Information and Leader of Ethics & Values in Design Lab, University of Maryland, Co-PI of TRAILS	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium
5:00pm - 6:30pm	Poster Session and Reception			City View Room

Time	Title	Speaker/Facilitator(s)	Format	Location
9:00am - 10:00am	AI and Government	Panelists: Quinn Anex-Ries - Senior Policy Analyst, Equity in Civic Technology, Center for Democracy and Technology Eric Hysen, former Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Christabel Randolph, Associate Director at the Center for AI and Digital Policy Moderator: Tom Goldstein - Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Co-PI of TRAILS	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium
10:00am -10:30am	Spotlight: Robbie Melton	Speaker: Robbie Melton, Interim Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Technology Innovations, SMART Global Technology Innovation Center, Tennessee State University	Keynote	Jack Morton Auditorium
10:45am - 11:45am Keynote Panel	Who Participates in Participatory AI and How can we Make AI More Participatory?	Panelists: Andreas Katsanevas - Technology Policy Researcher, Office of the President of Global Affairs, Meta Daniel Stuart Schiff - Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at Purdue University’s Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab Meg Young, Senior Researcher and Project Director of AIMLab, Data & Society Baobao Zhang - Assistant Professor of the Politics of AI, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Moderator: Susan Ariel Aaronson - Research Professor of International Affairs, Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, and co-PI TRAILS	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium
11:45am - 12:45pm	Networking Lunch			Student Center
12:45pm - 1:45pm Breakout Session	Changing Education Practice to Support Learning About and With AI	Virginia Byrne - Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Morgan State University, Co-PI and MS Site Lead of TRAILS Valerie Riggs - Assistant Professor of Teacher Education and Professional Development, Morgan State University	Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
12:45pm - 1:45pm Breakout Session	Increasing Diversity in the AI Workforce	L. Larry Liu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Morgan State University	Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
12:45pm - 1:45pm Breakout Session	Organizational Applications for Identifying and Tagging Synthetic Content		Facilitated Roundtable	Student Center
2:00pm - 3:00pm	What's Next for AI at Work?	Hal Daumé III - Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Director of TRAILS Susan Ariel Aaronson - Research Professor of International Affairs, Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, and co-PI TRAILS David Broniatowski - Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, Co-PI and GW Site Lead of TRAILS Tom Goldstein - Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Co-PI of TRAILS Katie Shilton - Professor, College of Information and Leader of Ethics & Values in Design Lab, University of Maryland, Co-PI of TRAILS	Keynote Panel	Jack Morton Auditorium