Women Designing the Future Conference: Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence
NJIT’s annual Women Designing the Future Conference (WDF) focuses this year on the theme Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence: Making Technology Work for All of Us. Building on last year’s conference, the aim is to drill below the surface of the current hype about AI and explore both nuanced socio-political concerns and emerging opportunities for human-AI collaboration. The conference will focus on exploring how generative AI may exacerbate existing systemic inequities—and what can be done to leverage the power of AI for social good.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
The 2024 WDF Conference is being hosted by NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology, in partnership with the NSF-funded New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective (NJECC), an ADVANCE Partnership project that addresses gender and racial equity issues in academic technology commercialization. Conference co-sponsors include NJIT’s Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Ying Wu College of Computing, the Martin Tuchman School of Management, the College of Science and Liberal Arts, and IEEE Women in Engineering (Princeton Chapter).
THE WDF CONFERENCE SERIES:
The WDF conference series highlights innovative, high-impact work by women that integrates the domains of scientific research, technological design, and the humanities and social sciences. The conference is hosted by NJIT's Murray Center for Women in Technology which, for over two decades, has worked to connect women from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds to each other and to the resources they need to succeed in STEM careers. The Murray Center has received two major grants from the National Science Foundation for our pioneering use of social network mapping to advance women faculty and has been honored by WEPAN with its national Change Agent Award.
Speakers:
- Jane Oates, Senior Policy Advisor at WorkingNation
- Fay Cobb Payton, Professor Emerita, Information Technology/Analytics, North Carolina State University
- Rashmi Jain, Professor, Information Management and Business Analytics, Montclair State University
- Ilana Beller, Organizing Manager, Democracy Campaign at Public Citizen
- Guiling (Grace) Wang, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research, Ying Wu College of Computing, New Jersey Institute of Technology (conference co-host)
- Judith Sheft, Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation, and Technology
- Deborah Perez Fernandez, Executive Director of Technology Transfer, Rutgers University
- Karin Calvinho, Co-founder & CTO of Rutgers startup RenewCO2
- Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; Director, Machine & Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Center (MAVRC); and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University
- Kerry Fluhr, Intellectual Property Manager, NJIT