Tentative Agenda

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019
7:00 am - 8:30 amNetworking Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:40 amWelcome [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Steven H. Walker, Director, DARPA
8:40 am - 9:10 amKeynote [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Josh Tenenbaum, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
9:10 am - 9:35 amExplainable AI [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. David Aha, Acting Director, Navy Center for Applied Research in AI, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
9:35 am - 10:00 amAccelerating Chemistry with AI [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Anne Fischer, Program Manager, DARPA / Defense Sciences Office
10:00 am - 10:25 amAI for Augmented Intelligence [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Elliott, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
10:25 am - 10:55 amNetworking Break
10:55 am - 11:20 amData-Driven Discovery of Models [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Wade Shen, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
11:20 am - 11:45 amSpectrum Collaboration Challenge [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Paul Tilghman, Program Manager, DARPA / Microsystems Technology Office
11:45 am - 12:10 pmAI-Enabled Design [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Jan Vandenbrande, Program Manager, DARPA / Defense Sciences Office
12:10 pm - 1:40 pmNetworking Lunch
1:40 pm - 2:55 pmAI R&D Ethics [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Richard Danzig, National Security Consultant
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Lin, Director, Ethics + Emerging Sciences Board, California Polytechnic State University
Speaker: Dr. Heather Roff, Senior Research Analyst, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Mr. Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security
2:55 pm - 3:20 pmNetwork Cyber Defense at Scale [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Jacob Baxter, Senior Research Scientist, PUNCH Cyber
3:20 pm - 3:45 pmAdvances in Natural Language Understanding [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Pedro Szekely, Principal Scientist and Research Director, Center on Knowledge Graphs, USC Information Sciences Institute
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmNetworking Break
4:15 pm - 4:40 pmAI for Software Engineering [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Sandeep Neema, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
4:40 pm - 5:05 pmTactical Autonomy Decision Frameworks [More Info]
Speaker: LTC Philip Root, Program Manager, DARPA / Tactical Technology Office
5:30 pm - 7:00 pmNetworking Reception
 
Thursday, March 7, 2019
7:00 am - 8:30 amNetworking Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:31 amWelcome [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Steven H. Walker, Director, DARPA
8:31 am - 8:35 amExecutive Branch Perspective [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Michael Kratsios, Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy
8:35 am - 9:00 amA New Paradigm of Brain-Computer Interface [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Kapil Katyal, Project Manager and Section Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Dr. Brock Wester, Project Manager and Assistant Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
9:00 am - 9:25 amPhysics of Artificial Intelligence [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Ted Senator, Program Manager, DARPA / Defense Sciences Office
9:25 am - 9:50 amSoftware-Defined Hardware [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Wade Shen, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
9:50 am - 10:35 amNetworking Break
10:35 am - 11:00 amLifelong and Robust Machine Learning [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Hava Siegelmann, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
11:00 am - 11:25 amSynergistic Discovery and Design [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Roberts, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
11:25 am - 11:50 amAssurance for Machine Learning [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Sandeep Neema, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
11:50 am - 1:20 pmNetworking Lunch
1:20 pm - 1:45 pmMedia Forensics [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Matt Turek, Program Manager, DARPA / Information Innovation Office
1:45 pm - 2:10 pmRadio Frequency Machine Learning Systems [More Info]
Speaker: Mr. Enrico Mattei, Senior Research Scientist, Expedition Technology
2:10 pm - 2:35 pmDARPA Future R&D in AI [More Info]
Speaker: Dr. Peter Highnam, Deputy Director, DARPA
2:35 pm - 4:00 pmInformal Networking