The U.S. National Science Foundation hosted a booth at the 2025 Special Studies Project AI+Expo at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. from June 2-4, 2025.
With the help of the AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO), ACTION attended the expo as the AI Institutes representative. Tim Robinson (ACTION Managing Director, UCSB), Cheng Xin (ACTION Postdoctoral Researcher, Rutgers), and Steve Brown (AIVO Managing Director, UC Davis) shared the cutting edge activities of ACTION and the 26 other AI Institutes with a crowd of more than 15,000 people. A number of other NSF personnel also worked the booth, sharing the advances in AI that have been funded by NSF. Among the other projects featured by NSF were America's Seed Fund and the Regional Innovation Engines.
The AI+ Expo is a gathering for leaders from government, academia, and industry to discuss and explore artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. It brings together those interested in the future of AI and American competitiveness. The event hosted 275 speakers and showcased critical demonstrations.
From https://www.scsp.ai/: "The Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative with a clear mission: to make recommendations to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness as artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies are reshaping our national security, economy, and society. We want to ensure that America is positioned and organized to win the techno-economic competition between now and 2030, the critical window for shaping the future."