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2026 AI Symposium: AI in Action

We are delighted to announce that Miami’s AI Symposium is returning on Wednesday, April 15, and Thursday, April 16. Registration for the event is now open!

This two-day event, titled "AI in Action," will showcase the growing landscape of artificial intelligence across Miami, in higher education, and throughout society through interactive sessions, panels, demonstrations, and community conversations.

Educational Sessions

Below is a list of each of the presentations that will take place during an Educational Session block. All sessions will take place in the listed room in the Armstrong Student Center, unless otherwise noted.

Educational Session 1: April 15 - 9:00 a.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

Breakout Learning: Using AI to Evaluate Critical Thinking and Peer Engagement in Real-Time Group Discussions

Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation

Joe Rode TBD

How to Use the AI Woodshop

Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making

Anthony Mansfield

TBD

Critical Collaborative Dialogue: Rethinking Inquiry, Knowledge, and Human–LLM Engagement

Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience

Chiquita M Hughes

TBD

Educational Session 2: April 15 - 10:00 a.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

Leveraging Microsoft Learn for AI Professional Development

Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation

Amanda Cvetkovska TBD

When AI Research Becomes Human Subjects Research: An Interactive IRB Consultancy Workshop

Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making

Amy Balk, Heidi McKee, Carla Myers, Sherrill Sellers

TBD

MyPath: An AI-Powered Accessibility Assistant for Wheelchair Navigation

Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience

Nadim Mahmud

TBD

Educational Session 3: April 15 - 1:00 p.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

AI in Action, Not Infraction: Anchoring High School Literacy in Ethical Practice

Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation

Margo Fisher-Bellman TBD

Whose Stuff is it Anyways? Navigating AI and Intellectual Property Considerations Together

Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making

Carla Myers

TBD

From Expert to Expert+AI: Demystifying AI Collaboration Tools

Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience

Dennis Cheatham

TBD

Educational Session 4: April 15 - 2:00 p.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

Using Generative AI to Level-Up Your Teaching

Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation

Ellen Yezierski

TBD

Your Job + AI: A Framework For Anyone

Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making

Nikki Ferrell

TBD

Comparing Research-Based Generative AI Tools

Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience 

Bree Kirsch

TBD

Educational Session 5: April 15 - 3:00 p.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching: Preservice Art Educators Training GenAI Systems

Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation

Luke Meeken

TBD

The Parasite and the Public Good: Why We Must Tax Synthetic Labor

Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making

Pixie Menezes

TBD

From Art to Algorithm: Intergenerational Storytelling Using AI-Generated Images as Dialogue Tools

Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience

Meghan Brady & Kate Poppenhagen

TBD

Educational Session 6: April 15 - 4:00 p.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

Enhancing Online Teaching and Learning with AI: Results from Miami Online's AI Innovation Grants

Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation

Bonnie Erwin (moderator), Robbyn Abbitt, Linh Dich, Carol McGuire, Mahdi Yazdanpour

TBD

AI at Miami, From the AI Fellows: Where We are Now and Looking to the Future

Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making

Heidi McKee, Marko Dumančić, Dennis Cheatham

TBD

Xania Monet: Million Dollar Deals and the Slop Apocalypse

Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience

Aaron Pergram

TBD

Lightning Rounds 1: April 16 - 9:00 a.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

Revamping a Logistics Current Event Project to Teach Students to use AI more Critically

Teaching & Learning with AI

Monique Murfield

TBD

Students Need Better Data: Your Starter Kit for Simulating Data with AI

Teaching & Learning with AI

Mitchell Killian and Peter Nguyen

TBD

When AI Becomes the Patient: Teaching Therapeutic Communication with BodySwaps

Teaching & Learning with AI

Rachel Fadden

TBD

Lessons Learned: Using AI as a Partner in Business Operations

AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice

Bene Khoury; Erica Noll Crawford

TBD

International Exploration With AI: Breaking Language Barriers In Travel

AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice

Gabriel Holmes

TBD

Hackathon Results

AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice

Jeffrey Toaddy

TBD

The impact of machine learning in elucidating high-dimensional soft matter systems

Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts

Zachary Mentzer

TBD

Between Prompt and Presence: AI and Creative Discovery

Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts

Geoff Riggle

TBD

Lightning Rounds 2: April 16 - 10:00 a.m.

 

Session Title

Track

Presenter

Room

What Parents Really Want from AI in Autism Education: Ethics, Trust, and Inclusion

Teaching & Learning with AI

Prince Oduro, Asma Khan, Sara Jin, Edmund Chirambo

TBD

Human vs. AI: A Comparison of Ethical Responses in School Psychology

Teaching & Learning with AI

Maegan Fitzgerald and Maggie Bowling

TBD

Teaching Students to use AI

Teaching & Learning with AI

Simon Buechler

TBD

Generations in AI: Lessons from Industry and Bridging the Gap for a Human-Centered Future

AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice

Noah Kruthaupt

TBD

Excalibur: Reducing Faculty Reporting Burden Through AI-Assisted Accreditation

AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice

Jacob Kendall, Mohsin Chheena

TBD

From Buzzwords to Business: AI Creates 6-Section Proposals

AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice

Aly Ransom

TBD

SIGHT: AI-Driven Immersive Safety Training for Industry 5.0 Manufacturing

Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts

Arthur Carvalho

TBD

How we got to now: where AI has been and where it's (not) going

Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts

Artie Kuhn

TBD

What a Doctoral Research Project Revealed About AI’s Limits

Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts

Nathan C. Hamblin

TBD

AI Symposium Working Team

Thank you to the Miami AI Symposium Working Team

  • Bob Black
  • Joanna Kellogg
  • Youngaah Koh
  • Emma Lester
  • Glenn Platt
  • Vaskar Raychoudhury
  • David Scoville
  • David Seidl
  • Jay Shan

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