The Georgia Informatics Institutes is hosting the 3rd Advancing Informatics in Government and Industry event on November 22, 2019. Events include panels, speakers and student posters on challenges and state of the art solutions with an interdisciplinary, comprehensive focus on informatics.
As one of the top public, comprehensive, universities in the country, UGA has research and educational programs that engineer, analyze and utilize a broad spectrum of data streams and information systems from nearly all fields. Correspondingly, industry is integrating informatics pipelines into core business activities at all levels, from management, engineering and quality control to sales and customer relations. This rapidly shifting landscape is fertile ground for innovative, interdisciplinary partnerships between academia, industry, and government. As an initial step to growing these partnerships, the Advancing Informatics in Government and Industry workshop will bring together leaders in industry and government with UGA faculty and students on panels that discuss informatics needs and opportunities, from data management to artificial intelligence and cyber security, that we are collectively facing.
The symposium will be held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, GA.
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7:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30 Welcome
Kyle Johnsen, Director, Georgia Informatics Institutes
8:45 Chat: Introducing the data pipeline
Kyle Johnsen, Director, GII
Thomas Trodden, Sandia National Lab
9:15 Chat: Considering the talent pipeline
Jagannath Rao, Professor of Practice, University of Georgia
Art Recesso, Chief Innovation Officer, Board of Regents, University System of Georgia
10:00 Welcome and Introduction
S. Jack Hu, Provost, University of Georgia
10:15 Beyond Clean Data
- What are best practices in cleaning messy data? Are students able to work, process, and understand messy data sets?
- How do we best understand and document the provenance of data?
- Given that data has been collected with limited plans for the use of that data, what are long-term data management plans? How do we ensure a greater vision is in place before doing data collection?
- How do we build a better data life-cycle to ensure effective data government and standardization?
Bahar Fardanian, Software Engineering, LexisNexis
Charlie Li, Professor, College of Engineering, University of Georgia
Chris Rhodes, Business Development director, Global Fuse, AGCO
Brian Valeyko, IT Partner, NCR Corporation
Robin Wagner, Chief Science Officer, Public Health and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Moderator: Lawrence Hornak, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, University of Georgia
11:15 Break
11:30 Beyond Visualization
- How do we move from visualization to automated deployed models?
- What are the best practices to avoid bias in models and algorithms?
- What knowledge exchange can different industries learn from another?
Jason Anastasopoulos, Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia
Jeongyoun Ahn, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Craig Ganssle, Farmwave
Larry Patterson, Director, Advanced Computing Technologies, Gulfstream Aerospace
Moderator: Melissa Hallow, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, University of Georgia
12:30 Lunch and Poster Highlights
2:00 Keynote
Khalifeh al Jadda, Senior Data Manager, Home Depot
3:00 Poster Session and Reception
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