Friday, October 10 2025, 2 - 5pm Tate Student Center 137 AGENDA 2:00pm Welcome Fellows & students, speakers networking over refreshments 2:25pm Keynote AI in Practice, Steven Strickland, Hayden Holland, and John McSwain Steven is a Senior Principal at Insight, a Fortune 500 solutions integrator, where he oversees market development and solution sales for 5G network infrastructure. In this role, he engages with enterprise and public sector clients to design, deploy, and manage networks that provide the high-speed, low-latency connectivity needed for AI, IoT, edge computing, and other operational use cases. Steven holds a BBA from Oglethorpe University, an MS in Management from the Georgia Technology, and a Master in Law from the University of Georgia. He is also a certified PMP. Hayden is a Cloud security & AI governance manager at SADA, an Insight Company, Hayden leads the security engineering team and leverages a decade of experience across the Cloud landscape. He specializes in partnering with clients to architect robust security solutions and bolster guardrails for AI adoption. Hayden holds a BS & MS in Information Systems from the University of Florida and maintains several GCP engineering certifications. John is a technologist, educator, and entrepreneur with six degrees (an MBA and MS in CS from Georgia Tech, MS in Entrepreneurship from UF, MS in HCI from Iowa State, and M.Ed. in Educational Practice & Innovation from South Carolina). Since 2020, he has been at NVIDIA, where he currently serves as a Senior Solutions Architect working with Dell OEM and channel partners to demonstrate and design generative AI solutions—including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NIMs, AI Workbench, Isaac Sim for autonomous mobile robots, and Morpheus—alongside GPU-accelerated platforms like Brev and Run:ai. Previously at NVIDIA, he worked as an engineer with NVIDIA Omniverse. John has also led innovation at Accenture, contributed to cloud solutions at AWS, and launched ventures across multiple industries, while teaching business programming and professional education at GT. 3:20pm Spotlight on New Fellows 10 min talks each Hee Yun Lee, Thomas P. Holland Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work Akshat Lakhiwal, Assistant Professor of MIS, Terry College of Business Zhen Xiang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Tao Liu, Assistant Professor of Precision Forestry, Warnell School of Forestry Jie Lu, Assistant Professor of Workforce Ed. & Instruction Tech., Early College of Education 4:15pm Breakouts Working groups on convergence themes: AI in Education Ethics of AI AI & Future of Health and Work AI for 3F (Farm, Food, Forest) AI for Cyber & Societal Security 5:00pm Report out
