Panel: Ilya Shapiro, Senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan
Institute, author of “Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites" and Florida Poly
Trustee; Dr. R. Bruce Anderson, Associate Professor of Political Science, and The
Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government
and Civics at Florida Southern College; and Dr. Peter Lake, Professor of Law, Charles
A. Dana Chair and Director, Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy
Moderator: David Fugett
November 18, 2024 -Human Settlement of Other Planets
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
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
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
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
