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!
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.
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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Breakout Learning: Using AI to Evaluate Critical Thinking and Peer Engagement in Real-Time Group Discussions |
Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation |
Joe Rode | TBD |
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How to Use the AI Woodshop |
Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making |
Anthony Mansfield |
TBD |
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Critical Collaborative Dialogue: Rethinking Inquiry, Knowledge, and Human–LLM Engagement |
Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience |
Chiquita M Hughes |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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Leveraging Microsoft Learn for AI Professional Development |
Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation |
Amanda Cvetkovska | TBD |
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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 |
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MyPath: An AI-Powered Accessibility Assistant for Wheelchair Navigation |
Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience |
Nadim Mahmud |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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AI in Action, Not Infraction: Anchoring High School Literacy in Ethical Practice |
Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation |
Margo Fisher-Bellman | TBD |
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Whose Stuff is it Anyways? Navigating AI and Intellectual Property Considerations Together |
Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making |
Carla Myers |
TBD |
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From Expert to Expert+AI: Demystifying AI Collaboration Tools |
Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience |
Dennis Cheatham |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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Using Generative AI to Level-Up Your Teaching |
Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation |
Ellen Yezierski |
TBD |
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Your Job + AI: A Framework For Anyone |
Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making |
Nikki Ferrell |
TBD |
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Comparing Research-Based Generative AI Tools |
Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience |
Bree Kirsch |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching: Preservice Art Educators Training GenAI Systems |
Teaching Innovation & Classroom Transformation |
Luke Meeken |
TBD |
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The Parasite and the Public Good: Why We Must Tax Synthetic Labor |
Governance, Work, and Institutional Decision-Making |
Pixie Menezes |
TBD |
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From Art to Algorithm: Intergenerational Storytelling Using AI-Generated Images as Dialogue Tools |
Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience |
Meghan Brady & Kate Poppenhagen |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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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 |
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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 |
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Xania Monet: Million Dollar Deals and the Slop Apocalypse |
Creativity, Media, Design, and Human Experience |
Aaron Pergram |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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Revamping a Logistics Current Event Project to Teach Students to use AI more Critically |
Teaching & Learning with AI |
Monique Murfield |
TBD |
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Students Need Better Data: Your Starter Kit for Simulating Data with AI |
Teaching & Learning with AI |
Mitchell Killian and Peter Nguyen |
TBD |
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When AI Becomes the Patient: Teaching Therapeutic Communication with BodySwaps |
Teaching & Learning with AI |
Rachel Fadden |
TBD |
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Lessons Learned: Using AI as a Partner in Business Operations |
AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice |
Bene Khoury; Erica Noll Crawford |
TBD |
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International Exploration With AI: Breaking Language Barriers In Travel |
AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice |
Gabriel Holmes |
TBD |
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Hackathon Results |
AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice |
Jeffrey Toaddy |
TBD |
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The impact of machine learning in elucidating high-dimensional soft matter systems |
Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts |
Zachary Mentzer |
TBD |
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Between Prompt and Presence: AI and Creative Discovery |
Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts |
Geoff Riggle |
TBD |
Session Title |
Track |
Presenter |
Room |
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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 |
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Human vs. AI: A Comparison of Ethical Responses in School Psychology |
Teaching & Learning with AI |
Maegan Fitzgerald and Maggie Bowling |
TBD |
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Teaching Students to use AI |
Teaching & Learning with AI |
Simon Buechler |
TBD |
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Generations in AI: Lessons from Industry and Bridging the Gap for a Human-Centered Future |
AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice |
Noah Kruthaupt |
TBD |
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Excalibur: Reducing Faculty Reporting Burden Through AI-Assisted Accreditation |
AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice |
Jacob Kendall, Mohsin Chheena |
TBD |
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From Buzzwords to Business: AI Creates 6-Section Proposals |
AI at Work / Governance / Professional Practice |
Aly Ransom |
TBD |
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SIGHT: AI-Driven Immersive Safety Training for Industry 5.0 Manufacturing |
Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts |
Arthur Carvalho |
TBD |
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How we got to now: where AI has been and where it's (not) going |
Creativity / Society / Research / Future Impacts |
Artie Kuhn |
TBD |
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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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