
ATARC 2022 AI & Data Virtual Summit
June 28, 2022, 10:00 AM - 1 PM ET3 CPE Credits Available for this Event***
10:00 AM
Visionary Keynote

Anil Chaudhry
Director, Federal AI Implementations, IT Modernization Centers of Excellence, Technology Transformation Services, Federal Acquisition Service, U.S. General Services Administration
10:15 AM
Emerging Technology Tech Talk
How to Foster Data Culture (with Data Intelligence Technology)

Aaron Kalb
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Alation
10:30 AM
Panel: Can Artificial Intelligence Help Increase Fairness and Equity?
AI systems need to be ethical, responsible, transparent, and explainable. AI and ML systems are greatly dependent upon their training data to ensure results from the algorithms are fair and ethical. These concerns are particularly important for government decision making that may affect citizens and services.
Listen in as topic experts explore how the use of artificial intelligence to increase fairness and equity has become important throughout governmental decision-making. How should the government validate, measure, and ensure the ethics and fairness of AI systems and decisions?

Chakib Chraibi
Chief Data Scientist and ODS Acting Associate Director, National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce

Donna Murphy
Deputy Comptroller for Compliance Risk, Office of Compliance and Community Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jesse Rowlands
AI Strategic Officer, Defense Logistics Agency

Nelson A. Colón, Ph.D.
Digital Service Expert - AI/ML & Cybersecurity, Defense Digital Service

Moderator: Melissa Harris
Senior Researcher, GovCIO
11:30 AM
Panel: Let AI Bring BIG Value out of Big Data
As government mission requirements grow, Federal agencies continuously seek ways to maximize the use of the vast data sets they collect and store. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a collection of technologies that excel at extracting insights and patterns from large sets of data. By using those insights and patterns to make future predictions, AI has the potential to improve mission effectiveness, stretch workforce capacity, combat waste, fraud, and abuse and drive operational efficiencies.
Tune into this panel as Federal CDO’s discuss their ever-changing data-centric environment combining real-time data streams, established databases, and legacy datasets. What are some major successes and challenges that occur at this intersection of finding value in the collected information. How can agencies best harness the AI potential to transform national security, agriculture, transportation and healthcare? What steps are completed and planned to leverage AI towards improvement in overall government operations?

Scott Beliveau
Chief Data Officer (Acting), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Brien Lorenze
Chief Data Officer, Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, Executive Office of the President

Oliver Wise
Chief Data Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of Commerce

Thomas Sasala
Chief Data Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Under Secretary of the Navy, United States Department of the Navy

Nick Psaki
Principal Technologist - Office Of The CTO, Pure Storage

Moderator: Jory Heckman
Reporter, Federal News Network
12:15 PM
Panel: USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Utilizing Advanced Analytics and the Potential of A.I.
Join the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to hear about how it leverages advanced analytics and important considerations to scale data science methods like machine learning to meet the nutritional needs of households in America. What do agencies need to consider when using data science methods such as machine learning, natural language processing, and others to supplement and potentially replace manual processes? FNS will discuss where it is as a government agency in ML/AI, how it all fits in relation to the White House and USDA priorities, and considerations in scaling these methods to ensure equity.

Tameka A. Owens, PhD, PMP
Assistant Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Chris Rottler
Assistant Chief Data Officer, Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Paul Nieto
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Melissa Abelev
Assistant Deputy Administrator, Policy Support, Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Christine Daffan
Senior Technical Advisor, Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Moderator: Tom Temin
Anchor and Columnist, Federal News Network

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