ACTION at the Strategically Leveraging AI in Education Conference

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Welcome

• Maria Edelberg, Ed.D., Executive Director, DCIU

Opening Keynote

• The Future of AI in Education: Promises and Pitfalls
  Kristen DiCerbo, Ph.D., Chief Learning Officer, Khan Academy

9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Breakout Session 1

• The State of The Art in AI Large Language Modeling/Generative AI
  Scott Haag, Ph.D., Supervisor of Arcus Data Science at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Research Professor at Drexel University
• Planning for Change - Adaptive Leadership in the AI Era
  Matt Mervis, Director, Skills21 & AI Strategy at EdAdvance
• Use of AI to Generate Special Education Documents: Perils and Plusses
  Andy Faust, Esq., Sweet, Stevens, Katz, and Williams, LLP
• The AI Policy Landscape
  Davelyn Smeltzer, Senior Director of Policy Services, Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA)
• Securing Networks and Applications
  Mike Lopez, Check Point

10:40 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Breakout Session 2

• Research on AI in Education: Emerging Tools and Technologies for the Classroom
  H. Chad Lane, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• How to Use AI to Power Professional Development
  Adam Geller, Edthena
• Developing AI solutions to address learning challenges among children with disabilities
  Venugopal Govindaraju, Ph.D., AI4ExceptionalEd, University of Buffalo
• Navigating Legal Challenges of AI in Public Schools: Privacy, Compliance, and Academic Integrity
  Mark Walz, Esq., Sweet, Stevens, Katz, and Williams, LLP
• Cyber Threat Intelligence in the New AI Era
  Giovanni Vigna, Director, NSF AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation and Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Closing Keynote

• Learn, Experiment, Innovate: The Opportunity for Education in an AI World
  Amanda Bickerstaff, Co-Founder and CEO, AI for Education