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Expert Bio Dr. Michael Housman is a seasoned technologist, data scientist, and C-suite executive specializing in the integration of artificial intelligence and human psychology. With a hands-on leadership style that includes active coding and model building, he has built and managed teams of hundreds of engineers and data scientists across multiple high-growth startups, including Evolv, Homebase, RapportBoost.AI, Point Predictive, and Doma — companies spanning AI-driven hiring, payroll, fraud detection, customer communication, and real estate, with one acquired, one gone public, and another poised for IPO. A sought-after global keynote speaker, Dr. Housman has delivered hundreds of talks across more than a dozen countries for world-class organizations including American Express, Barclays, Accenture, Deloitte, PepsiCo, Aramco, and YPO. He also provides AI and data science advisory services to companies ranging from emerging startups like PetLab to established enterprises such as Coca-Cola. His pioneering research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Atlantic, and highlighted in Adam Grant's bestselling book Originals and the Freakonomics podcast. A regular lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas-Austin, Dr. Housman teaches undergraduate and MBA students on the intersection of AI and business. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Managerial Science from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. from Harvard University.
Sessions Creating with Generative AI Tools: An Interactive Workshop
NFTs, Corporate Innovation, Future Planning, Metaverse, Digital Identity and Relationships
The recent explosion of generative artificial intelligence applications is upending the way we work and live by transforming the way that content is created: images created by MidJourney are photo-realistic, ChatGPT can converse intelligently about any topic, and AutoGPT can perform complex tasks. Given that these tools are evolving at an exponential pace, you may be wondering: What is the state of the art? How can I leverage these tools to help my company remain competitive within a constantly evolving landscape? Where do I even begin?
The purpose of this interactive workshop is to expose the audience to the latest and greatest generative AI tools and to give them practice leveraging those tools to perform critical tasks. The audience will be divided up into 4-5 stations with different generative AI applications:
1. Generative pre-trained transformers (ChatGPT) that can synthesize and generate text
2. Autonomous chaining of large language models (AutoGPT) that can perform complex workflows
3. Deep learning, text-to-image models (Stable Diffusion) that can create and adjust images
4. Transformer-based audio models (ElevenLabs) that can convert text into audio
Once the audience has been divided up, they will be asked to brainstorm use cases for the technology that they've been assigned. They will then select the most interesting use case that was nominated and spend 20 minutes creating content that showcases what their selected technology/tool is capable of (with the guidance/supervision of experts). At the end of the 20 minutes, the groups will select a presenter to showcase what they created during a "show and tell" segment. The entire group will then vote on the most creative application of these technologies.
Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Third Wave of Digital Disruption
MTP, Change Management, Personal Development, Digital Transformation
In the 1990s, we saw the rise of the consumer web completely change the way we produce and consume digital content. In the 2000s, we saw social media transform the way we share digitized links, images, and videos. And now, in the 2020s, we're in the middle of a third wave of digital disruption as generative artificial intelligence is transforming the way that content is created: images created by DALL-E 2 are photo realistic, ChatGPT can converse intelligently with users about any topic, and Stable Diffusion is creating user avatars. Given the exponential pace of these advances, you may be asking yourself: Where is generative AI headed? How can I help the companies I engage with to leverage these advances and stay competitive within a constantly evolving landscape? Where do I even begin?
With 15 years of experience helping organizations to transform through the intelligent design of artificial intelligence applications, Dr. Michael Housman offers up some insight into how these algorithms work, why the explosion in generative artificial intelligence is occurring now, how you can best position your organization(s) to harness the power of these advances, and what the future looks like for creation of digital art, movies, pictures, books, articles, and other media. He will also lay out a simple framework for identifying problems that can be fixed with these new tools and offer up several examples of organizations that are already making the leap. He will conclude by leading a working session to help participants "unpack the black box" to identify immediate opportunities for organizations to leverage generative artificial intelligence and walk them through the process of executing against that roadmap.
Understanding the Explosion of Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future
Generative AI, Large Language Models, Digital Inclusion, Corporate Innovation, Change Management, Lifelong Learning
We are living in the midst of an explosion of artificial intelligence that is disrupting entire industries and completely transforming the way we live: new cars now have autopilot for highway driving, email and text messaging applications anticipate our next sentence, our phones recognize our faces and voices, and robots are learning to move and manipulate objects on their own.
But if the algorithms behind many of these advances were developed decades ago, why are we only now starting to appreciate the full impact of this disruptive technology? The truth is that the convergence and exponential growth in several foundational building blocks is what's enabled data scientists to unlock its massive potential. Understanding these unlocks is key to predicting where we should expect to see the biggest transformations in the future.
Drawing real-world examples from a variety of different companies and industries, Dr. Michael Housman offers up some insight into why the explosion in artificial intelligence is occurring now, how you can best position your organization to harness the power of these advances, and what the future looks like for the fields of computer vision, natural language understanding and generation, reinforcement learning, and cognitive computing.
Unpacking the Black Box: How to Leverage Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence within your Organization
Generative AI, Large Language Models, Digital Inclusion, Corporate Innovation, Change Management, Lifelong Learning
Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have the potential to completely transform virtually every industry. Given the exponential pace of these advances, there are a number of questions that naturally emerge: how can we leverage these advances to improve business outcomes? Where do I even begin? With 15 years of experience helping organizations to transform through the application of intelligent design of artificial intelligence applications, Dr. Housman lays out a simple framework for identifying problems that can be fixed with data science, offers up several examples from his own career of organizations that successfully made the leap, and then leads a working session to help participants "think about the black box" to identify immediate opportunities for data science to make an impact and walk them through the process of doing so.
Future-Proofing Healthcare: AI-Driven Innovations for Global Health Systems
Artificial Intelligence, Future of Health, Biotechnology, Public Health, Innovation, Strategy, Economic Systems
Explore the future of healthcare innovation in this comprehensive talk tailored for health insurers and providers. Discover how the confluence of AI, big data, and breakthrough biotech is reinventing healthcare delivery. Learn about new care models enabled by coordination engines that enhance AI and human collaboration. Understand the rise of breakthrough biotech which is opening new innovative economic strategies that can shift healthcare from reactive to proactive and overcome traditional reimbursement challenges. Uncover the pivotal role of evidence automation in building Learning Healthcare Systems that drive global healthcare advancements. Focused on Europe, the Middle East, and global perspectives, this talk equips listeners with cutting-edge strategies to future-proof health services in this new Age of Innovation.
