Talks, panels, and workshops from the 2024 New Orleans Arts & Ideas Festival. Select a talk below to read more about it.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
10:30 AM
Co-creating Civic AI: Partnering Academia with Local Communities
Aron Culotta
11:00 AM
Nailing Descartes to the Wall: The Existential Consequences of Ignoring Animal Rights
Aron Ross
11:11 AM
The Musicians’ Hierarchy of Needs
Sam Birdsong + Jay Evans
12:00 PM
What’s Humanities Response to Revolutionary Products of the Past Uncover about the Future of AI
Legare Kerrison
2:00 PM
From Policy to Where You Got Your Shoes At
Leroy Brown
2:00 PM
Programming a Million Pages of Historic Newspaper with AI
Joseph Makkos
2:22 PM
A Virtual Conversation with Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
3:30 PM
Tulane Student AI Use
Knud E. Berthelsen
3:33 PM
Tales of a chessboxer
Joseph Mela
3:50 PM
NOLA Artist Incubator: Creating a Network of Makers for a More Equitable & Sustainable New Orleans
Lissie Stewart, M.Ed.
4:20 PM
How to Bloom in the Live Entertainment Industry
Brandon Harris
4:50 PM
Innovation in Community Care for the Aging and Disability Community
Mark Raymond
Sunday, November 10, 2024
10:30 AM
Unveiling the New Orleans Cinematic Universe
Beau Ross
11:00 AM
The Future is Extensible: Leveraging LLMs and WASM for Customizable Software
Benjamin Eckel
11:11 AM
You and (👁️ A.I. 愛❤️ I)
Luke Hawley
11:30 AM
Mastering AI Autonomy: Unleashing Open-Source Powerhouses for Transformative Business Solutions
Dustin Hughes
12:00 PM
Leveraging BERT for Real-Time Clinical Note Generation in Emergency Medical Services
Noah Rahman
12:30 PM
Khanmigo @ College Track!
Aloysius Cunningham
2:00 PM
Nouveau Né Parish On The Blue Tech Delta; Reimagining the Future of the Louisiana Estuary
Greg Delaune
2:00 PM
On Data Dignity, Civic-engagement, and Computer Science Education
Charles J Barnes
2:22 PM
Aveblen Giving: The Ultimate Philanthropy
Blake Bertuccelli-Booth
2:30 PM
Reflecting on 20 years of service with Youth Rebuilding New Orleans: building up our youth and community
John Coyle
2:30 PM
How AI is Changing Writing at Scale: A Tactical Analysis
Dan Woods
3:00 PM
Holding the Baton in a Never Ending Relay Race of Stewardship
Christina Lehew
3:30 PM
Web Accessibility and AI: Lessons from Building Equalify
Blake Bertuccelli-Booth
3:30 PM
Intersection of Business and Art
Kalli Padgett
3:30 PM
From Data to Dialogue: Enhancing Human-Like Memory in AI Chatbots with RAG and Advanced Engineering
Rick Montgomery
4:00 PM
AI and the Future of Work
charles handler
4:00 PM
place4pals, a non-profit & open-source social media platform
Christopher Aitken
Monday, November 11, 2024
12:30 AM
Technology, Art and Innovation at the Winter Circus in Ghent
Bruno Lowagie
10:10 AM
Kings, Rings, and Algorithms: The History of Chess, Boxing, and AI in New Orleans
Baylee Badawy
10:30 AM
Looking backwards to see the future of AI technology jobs
Dustin Gaspard
10:30 AM
Code to Success: How Operation Spark Transformed Our Lives
JOHNNIE JAMES II
11:11 AM
the beaning of life
devin de wulf
11:30 AM
Ruth Messinger, In Conversation
Ruth Messinger
2:00 PM
Fireside Chat with the CEO of NOLA AI, Damon Kirin
Dustin Gaspard
2:02 PM
Striker VR Demo Fun
Martin Holly
2:22 PM
Breakout Session: How do we Implement AI for Every Student in NOLA?
Blake Bertuccelli-Booth
2:30 PM
Fireside Chat – David Kovacic, Senior Director of Intelligent Platforms at Baker Hughes
David Kovacic
3:00 PM
Agentic AI Origins, Design Patterns, Importance, and Application
Ishmael Amin
3:00 PM
Build Your Own Search Engine with DuckDB and Embedding Vectors
Patrick Trainer
3:00 PM
Probablility Spaces and Machine Learning
Sabelo Jupiter
3:00 PM
Computing and Technology Ethics Through Science Fiction
Nick Mattei
3:30 PM
Help us write the next chapter of New Orleans’ story—one book at a time.
DJ Johnson
3:30 PM
Lousiana Economic Development
Josh Fleig
4:00 PM
Morris Bart on Making Philanthropy Work for Business
Morris Bart
4:30 PM
Radio Resistance: 102.3FM WHIV-LP Amplifies the Call for Human Rights and Social Justice in NOLA
MarkAlain Dery
5:00 PM
Life Print Afterlife AI
Alex Ebert