You are invited to attend an upcoming symposium titled Acquisition Next: Artificial Intelligence on May 5th, 2022, to be held at the Arlington Campus of George Mason University. The symposium is cohosted by the Center for Government Contracting and the Institute for Digital InnovAtion. The symposium theme is the challenges and current practices for government acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This symposium will be of interest to professionals seeking to increase their knowledge of AI-related issues in government acquisition, including members of government, business, and academia.
The event features two panels composed of industry and government experts, Buying AI: Industry Challenges and Buying AI: Current Government Practices, as well as lunch, a keynote speaker, opportunities to network, and tours of the Institute for Digital InnovAtion facilities. The two discussion panels will be led by knowledgeable moderators to create a rich, interactive environment for speakers and registrants.
The first panel, Buying AI: Industry Challenges, will discuss the challenges of AI procurement from an industry perspective. This panel consists of representatives from both small and traditional firms who will speak about their challenges as developers and suppliers of AI tools purchased by the U.S. government. The second panel, Buying AI: Current Government Practices, will focus on current practices used by U.S. government agencies to purchase AI tools. This panel is composed of government representatives who can offer first-hand accounts of the evolving state of AI acquisition and adoption in the federal government. Both panels will touch on topics central to the symposium theme, including intellectual property issues, ethics, and cyber-security concerns.
The symposium will be a hybrid format with up to 150 in-person attendees and unlimited virtual attendance. The panelists and moderators will be in-person. When you register, please select how you would like to attend the event. It is $100 to attend in-person and $50 to attend virtually.
We hope to see you at Acquisition Next: Artificial Intelligence.
Agenda
| 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Registration and coffee |
| 9:30 am – 9:45 am | Welcome Victor Hoskins – President and CEO at Fairfax County Economic Development Authority Dr. John Hillen – Chief Executive Officer & Member of Board of Directors at EverWatch Dr. Maury Peiperl – Dean at George Mason University (GMU) School of Business |
| 9:45 am – 10:50 am | Panel 1 Buying AI: Industry Challenges Panel Members: Dr. Shree Taylor – Vice President of Government Analytics & Innovation at Elder Research Inc. Josh Wilson – Senior Vice President of Services and Technology at LMI Alexis Bonnell – Senior Business Executive: Emerging Technology Evangelist at Google Kristen Summers – Business Unit CTO at Microsoft Federal Moderator: Benjamin McMartin, Esq. – Senior Fellow at GMU Center for Government Contracting |
| 10:50 am – 11:05 am | Break |
| 11:05 am – 12:10 pm | Panel 2 Buying AI: Current Government Practices Panel Members: Major Andrew Bowne – Chief Legal Counsel at DAF-MIT AI Accelerator Azza Jayaprakash – Counsel at Intellectual Property Cadre at the Office of the USD (Acquisition & Sustainment), U.S. Department of Defense Colonel Matthew Benigni, PhD – Chief Data Officer and Director, Data and Decision Sciences Directorate (DDSD) at U.S. Army Futures Command Deniece Peterson – Sr. Director of Federal Market Analysis at Deltek Moderator: Dr. Jerry McGinn – Executive Director at GMU Center for Government Contracting |
| 12:10pm – 12:40 pm | Lunch |
| 12:40 pm – 1:15 pm | Keynote Dr. Kamaljeet Sanghera – Executive Director at GMU Institute for Digital InnovAtion Mr. William (Will) Roberts – Acquisitions Chief, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, U.S. Department of Defense |
| 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm | Tours of Institute for Digital InnovAtion facilities |
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