Chicago 2019 Innovation XLab AI Summit Announces Top Speakers

CHICAGO, Sept. 27, 2019 – Artificial intelligence touches the lives of almost every American living today, but what does the future hold for this powerful computing tool? Hundreds of experts from across government, academia, and industry are gathering together in Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy’s InnovationX Lab summit on Artificial Intelligence. The summit will focus on effective ways artificial intelligence can be harnessed to make life better for all Americans.

What:  2019 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) InnovationXLab: Artificial Intelligence Summit
Where: The Drake Hotel, 140 E Walton Pl, Chicago, IL 60611
Dates:  October 2–3, 2019
Times:  Day 1 8:15 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Day 2 8:00 a.m.–12:00 noon

Scheduled Speakers

Rick Perry, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
Mark W. Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Paul Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Paul Kearns, Director, Argonne National Laboratory
Robert J. Zimmer, President, The University of Chicago
Michael Kratsios, Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy
Conner Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer, U.S. Department of Energy
John E. Kelly, IBM Executive Vice President
Colin Parris, Vice President, Software and Analytics Research, GE Research
Dimitri Kusnezov, Deputy Undersecretary for Artificial Intelligence and Technology
Rebecca Willett, Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
Yue Webster, Principal Research Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company
Dragos D. Margineantu, Ph.D., AI Chief Technologist, Technical Fellow, Boeing Research & Technology
Ed Bowen, Vice President, AI & Machine Learning, GlaxoSmithKline
Randall Gentry, Chief Research Officer, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Rick Stevens, Associate Lab Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory

Topics

National AI Initiative
AI for Energy Grid Optimization
AI for Drug Discovery
AI for Advanced Materials Discovery & Development
AI for Mobility and Transportation
AI for Precision Medicine
AI for Energy Production
AI for Digital Manufacturing and Engineering
AI for the Future of Urban Infrastructure and Systems

Additional Information:

The 2019 InnovationXLab Artificial Intelligence Summit is an invitation-only event. There is limited availability for media wishing to attend. Those interested in doing so should send an email to aixlabsummit@anl.gov to register for the event or contact media@anl.gov . Additional information about the summit and the complete conference agenda lineup can be found at: http://blogs.anl.gov/aixlab/. Sessions are all open to the media and interviews may be arranged on request. For those who cannot attend we may be able to arrange for telephone interviews with key experts and officials.

About Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems, advance America’s scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

About The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit https://energy.gov/science.

Source: Argonne National Laboratory