Join us for a day of innovation, collaboration, and AI discussions. Engage with industry leaders, learn from faculty experts and students. Participate in interactive AI activities and speak to industry representatives. This is your opportunity to contribute to AI discussions at the College, connect, and foster collaborative relationships.
Location: Academic Building
Event Spaces: Theater, Theater Lobby, Classroom A105, Classroom A108
Date: Friday, April 17, 2026
Time: 9:00 am - 4:50 pm
President Milton Santiago
Pamela Brown, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Rita Uddin, CIO/Vice President of IT
Reginald Blake, Associate Provost and Dean of Curriculum and Research
This session explores legal frameworks, regulatory trends, and ethical risks of AI adoption. Participants engage with real-world scenarios involving generative AI, data governance, intellectual property, and algorithmic accountability. Practical strategies for responsible AI use and policy development are emphasized.
Presenters:
Nihla Sikkander, Esq., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, AI Legal Institute at SUNY, SUNY Office of General Counsel
Mairead Jones Kennelly, Esq., AI Legal Institute at SUNY, SUNY Office of General Counsel
Hannah Hage, Esq., MBA, AI Legal Institute at SUNY, SUNY Office of General Counsel
Moderator:
Bess Chiu, Esq. , Chief Deputy General Counsel and Chief of Staff, Office of General Counsel, State University of New York (SUNY)
Practical approaches for integrating generative AI into teaching, learning, and productivity workflows.
Presenter: Sean Carey
Curriculum strategies for preparing students with industry-aligned AI and machine learning skills.
Presenter: Yu Wang
Modeling human behavior and stress responses using AI techniques.
Presenter: Zheng Li
The presentation discusses concerns about AI use in STEM education, questioning increased reliance on in-person exams and advocating for maintaining current curricula while leveraging AI as a learning tool rather than a reason to make assessment more exclusionary.
Presenter: Eli Crane
Frameworks for scaling AI literacy and integrating AI into interdisciplinary programs.
Presenter: Viviana Vladutescu
The study examines how AI and IoT in smart city healthcare improve medical services while raising serious concerns about privacy, cybersecurity, and inequality, and it calls for stronger regulations and ethical, inclusive AI governance.
Presenter: Ahmed Hassebo
The presentation explains how CTforAll.net uses AI and RAG-based methods to help educators integrate computational thinking into lessons by allowing classroom-specific data to guide more relevant and reliable AI-generated learning outcomes.
Presenter: Douglas Moody
Use of AI-driven forecasting and optimization in hospitality and service industries.
Presenter: Kate W. Lee
The presentation explores how AI chat-based tools can support student learning but should primarily function as scaffolding for real human conversations, which remain essential for developing the ability to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty in education and beyond.
Presenter: James Abordo Ong
Participants will leave this workshop with two versatile, digital artifacts: (1) a flyer to promote an upcoming event and (2) a reflective, short-form story that enhances learning. You will want to bring a laptop computer, and it will help if you have a digital headshot of yourself on your laptop. Creating these two artifacts will get you started toward producing all kinds of multimodal projects in Adobe Express with Firefly AI. We'll also share a concise resource to help you take the next steps for future projects, both in and out of the classroom.
Please bring your own devices. Register Now specifically for this session so that we may make attempts to have devices available for use.
Presenter: Todd Taylor
Todd Taylor is an expert in digital storytelling and multimodal composition, helping faculty and students integrate creative tools like Adobe Express into teaching and learning.
The presentation explores whether fully AI-generated films are possible by comparing traditional filmmaking roles to AI tools, while examining recent developments, ethical questions, and the impact of AI on the future and accessibility of filmmaking.
Presenter: Craig Lowy
AI should make you think better, not just work faster. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn a reusable four-step reasoning cycle (Frame → Critique → Improve → Reframe) and apply it directly to your own teaching, research, or leadership challenges. Register now.
Presenter: Benito Mendoza
The presentation focuses on using AI alongside computational tools like Terminal and PyMOL to perform molecular docking simulations and analyze how compounds such as grape-derived molecules interact with cancer-related proteins in silico.
Presenter: Sydni Kolokoltsev
Microsoft CoPilot Workshop
Please bring your own devices. Register Now specifically for this session so that we may make attempts to have devices available for use.
The workshop reframes AI as a guided learning "co-pilot" in education, demonstrating practical strategies for responsible classroom integration that enhance critical thinking, support academic integrity, and improve assignment design across disciplines.
Presenter: Davis Orville
Explores philosophical implications and pedagogical uses of AI in humanities education.
Presenter: Rob MacDougall
The presentation uses a healthcare risk algorithm case study to show how predictive models can produce racial disparities through proxy variables like spending, emphasizing the need for technical auditing and data analysis to detect and address algorithmic bias.
Presenter: Samuel Greenberg
The workshop reframes AI as a guided learning "co-pilot" in education, demonstrating practical strategies for responsible classroom integration that enhance critical thinking, support academic integrity, and improve assignment design across disciplines.
Presenter: Davis Orville
The presentation describes how AI coding agents are transforming software engineering from hands-on implementation to specification-driven system design, where the primary skill is clear thinking, planning, and orchestrating AI-generated code.
Presenter: Noel Mendoza
Amanda is the Founder and CEO of AI for Education. A former high school biology teacher and edtech executive with over 20 years of experience in the education sector, she has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that AI can offer. She is a frequent consultant, speaker, and writer on the topic of AI in education, leading workshops and professional learning across both K12 and Higher Ed. Amanda is committed to helping schools and teachers maximize their potential through the ethical and equitable adoption of AI.
