Program Schedule
Tuesday November 19th
Plenary I: Welcome 8:30am - 9:45am
- TAMU AgriLife Welcome: Dr. Jeff Savell, Vice Chancellor and Dean for Agriculture and Life
- REE Welcome: Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics
- OCS Welcome: Dr. Deirdra Chester, Director
- APHIS Welcome: Dr. Michael Watson, Administrator
- NASS Welcome: Mr. Joseph Prusacki, Associate Administrator
- NIFA Welcome: Dr. Manjit Misra, Director
- ERS Welcome: Dr. Spiro Stefanou, Administrator
- ARS Welcome: Dr. Simon Liu, Administrator
- Forum Organizing Committee Chair: Dr. Marlen Eve
Break: Networking, Refreshments 9:45am-10:00am
Location: Kyle Field at Hall of Champions
Plenary II: AI that drives innovation, challenges researchers to apply AI tools to their fields to speed innovation and increase efficiency 10:00am-12:00pm
- Moderator and Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Bunje, Co-Founder and COO/CSO of Conservation X Labs
- Dr. Lauren Charles, Chief Data Scientist, leader of Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems group at DOE, PNNL
- Dr. Ali Fares, 1890 Land Grant Institutions, Endowed Professor Prairie View A&M University
- Dr. Gregory Hager, NSF lead for the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- Dr. Jason Holmberg, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Wild Me
- Dr. Hannah Kerner, Arizona State University, and NASA AI/ML Lead for NASA Harvest and NASA Acres
- Dr. Holger Klink, Director of the Cornell Univ K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
Break: Networking, Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm
Location: Kyle Field at Hall of Champions
Breakout Sessions, 1:00pm-2:20pm:
- Systems Level Applications
- Data Integration and AI in Knowledge Management: a soil carbon use case
- Lightning Talk Session I
- Genomics I
- Disease Transmission Applications
- Remote Sensing Applications
Breakout Sessions, 3:00pm-4:20pm
- Responsible Use of AI in USDA Research
- Soil Science Applications
- Modeling I
- Lighting Talk Session II
- Computer Vision: Detection of Foreign Objects
- DASH: Enterprising AI and Phenotyping through Digital Ag Systems Hub
- Protein Structure Prediction Applications
Wednesday November 20th
Plenary Sessions:
- Plenary III: Practical Applications of AI Across the USDA Research Portfolio
- Plenary IV: Agency Leadership on Policy and Practice, Boundaries for Appropriate Use of AI
- Poster Displays
Breakout Sessions, 10:30am-11:50am:
- Large Language Models
- Applied Tools
- Sustainability
- Food Science Applications
- Modeling II
- Genomics II
Breakout Sessions, 1:00pm-4:00pm:
- Collaboration and Education
- Computer Vision II
- Robotics and Sensors
- Future Trends: Multimodal Learning
- AI Opportunities at Federal Agencies
Trainings:
- Introduction to Machine Learning for Science
- AI Project and Product Management
- Data Preparation and Quality Assessment in Genome Assembly and Annotation
Thursday November 21st
Trainings:
- Predicting functional roles of proteins using AI-driven bioinformatics tools
- From reads to variants: a pipeline for variant calling using DeepVariant
- Protein Structure Prediction, Search, and Analysis with AI
- Computer Vision: Introduction and Image Classification
- Computer Vision: Object Detection and Instance Segmentation
- Data Management Planning for AI Projects
- Spatial Modeling with Machine Learning