image
Office of Public Policy Events

Archived Events

Archived Events

November 18, 2024 -Human Settlement of Other Planets

  • Click here for recording
  • Panel:  Dr. Ramses Ramirez, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida; Dr. Howard Chen, Assistant Professor, Planetary Science, Florida Institute of Technology
  • Moderator: Dr. Dorian Abbot, Board Trustee, Florida Polytechnic University, Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

 

September 17, 2024 - Guardians of Democracy: An Interactive Panel on Election Security

  • Click here for recording
  • Panel: Senator Danny Burgess, Chairman Ethics and Elections Committee; Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, Senator-elect, District 17, Orange County; Alan Hays, Lake County Supervisor of Elections; and Brad Ashwell, All Voting is Local
  • Moderator: David Fugett

March 28, 2024 - Paging Dr. Art(ificial) Intelligence

  • Click here for recording
  • Panel: Dr. Aleksandra Karolak – Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at Moffit Cancer Center, Dr. Issam El Naqa – Professor and Chair of Department of Machine Learning at Moffit Cancer Center, Dr. Youstina I. Bolos, D.P.M., Podiatric Surgeon, Florida Orthopaedic Institute, and Yasar Can Kakdas, Graduate Student, Florida Polytechnic University
  • Moderator: Susan LeFrancois, Assistant Professor, Data Science

January 31, 2024 - A.I. Goes to War

  • Click here for recording
  • Panel: Lt. Duane Tompkins – Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Rebekah Sutton – Former USASOC Intelligence Targeting Officer, and 
    John “Slick” Baum – Senior Resident Fellow, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
  • Moderator: David Fugett

October 3, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT - its ethics and use

  • Click here for recording
  • Panel: Kelli Stargel, Kathleen Hardesty, Onur Toker, Johanna Campbell, and Melia Rodriguez
  • Moderator: David Fugett

November 7, 2023 - Autonomous Vehicles and Their Safety

  • Click here for recording
  • Panel: Senator Jeff Brandes, Joe Moye, CEO Beep, Rahul Razdan, CEO Razdan Research Institute, and JW Taylor, a managing partner of Taylor Nelson
  • Moderator: Beth Kigel