The College of Business and College of Engineering present the Emerging Tech Conference on Friday, March 7, 8:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Howard L. Hawks Hall, 730 N. 14th Street in Lincoln. The conference will feature the latest technological advancements and their impact on business, engineering and society.
Sponsored in part by the Harris Family and GlaxoSmithKline, the conference is open to business professionals, engineers, university alumni and college students who can register at https://go.unl.edu/emergingtech. Multiple registration options allow for attendee flexibility.
Students may also sign up to attend a special afternoon bootcamp from 1:45 to 4:45 p.m. to work through the first module in an IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate in Machine Learning with Python.
Noelle Russell, founder and chief AI officer of AI Leadership Institute, is the featured keynote speaker at 12 p.m. A celebrated technologist and expert in cloud, data and artificial intelligence transformation, Russell held leadership roles at Accenture, Amazon Alexa, AWS, IBM, Microsoft and NPR. She built more than 100 conversational AI applications and amassed more than 2 million users and 30,000 high ratings on Amazon Alexa. A four-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award winner for Responsible AI, Russell was recently named one of the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders in Generative AI.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/emergingtech