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The annual Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship Conference is hosted by the Lam Family College of Business (LFCoB) at San Francisco State University. It is designed to engage the I&E research community in thoughtful discussions on the latest developments in this field, workshops to support research paper development, and research ideation sessions.

The Lam-Larsen Fund for Global Innovation funds this conference.

Theme: Responsible AI and Digital Ethics: Methods and Measures to Anticipate and Mitigate Harms

The 2nd Annual RI&E Conference (April 19th and 20th, 2024) includes the following highlights:

• Opening remarks by Eugene Sivadas, PhD (Dean of Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University). 
• Keynote by Riitta Katila, PhD (Professor of Management Science, Faculty Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Programs, Stanford University).
• Fireside chat with Rachel Gillum Jackson, PhD (Vice President of Ethical & Inclusive Product of Salesforce) and Ian Sinapuelas (Professor of Marketing at SFSU). 
• Panel discussions with experts in the RI&E area: Jon Zieger (Founding Executive Director of Responsible Innovation Labs), Chris Mcclean (Global lead for digital ethics at Avanade), Meagan Mitchell (Head of People and Operation, New_Public), Andrew Roderick (Assistant Vice President for Academic Technology at SFSU), and Nasser Shahrasbi (Associate Professor of Information Systems at SFSU),
• Fireside chat with Miles Brundage (Head of Policy Research, OpenAi), and Smita Trivedi (Associate Professor of Business and Society/Sustainable Business at SFSU).
• Symposium research presentations by Stefan Hoffman, Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation, Chia-huei Wu, Kings College of London, Susanne Liebermann, FH Westküste University of Applied Sciences, Denise Kleinrichert, SFSU, RI&E Research Grant Awardees Lihua Wang, Yiwen Chen, and Sungha Jang at SFSU and more. 
• One full day of paper development workshops with the editors of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (A ABDC, 4 ABS Journal). SEJ Co-Editors Dr. Yong Li, David Sirmon, and Associate Editor Dr. Riitta Katila will join us.
• Opportunities for attendees to exchange ideas and expertise with peers and RI&E Leadership, Chenwei Li, Ian Sinapuelas, and Minu Kumar.

What can AI do for you? Join us on Wednesday, March 20th, 2:30-4:00pm in LIB 281 for Academic Technology’s second Generative AI Prompt-a-thon — a dynamic, hands-on workshop designed to empower SF State faculty and staff with the skills to effectively utilize generative AI (Gen AI) tools. In this workshop, participants will explore the art of crafting prompts that maximize this technology’s potential. Whether you’re new to Gen AI or seeking more advanced techniques, this event is a great opportunity to enhance your skills in a supportive and collaborative setting.

Register now to secure your spot in this unique learning experience.

Come learn from an online panel of SF State students how they use and experiment with Generative AI, their perspectives on this new and emerging technology, and their thoughts about how it can play a role in their learning. 

This one hour webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 from noon to 1pm and is sponsored by the Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC).

Generative AI is a hot topic in higher education both for its potential to impact teaching and learning but also for its disruption of disciplines, fields, and the future workforce our students will be entering. 



Register here: https://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ijzErdUdTyyu3m3lDTK9cA

Curious about ChatGPT? Wondering how it works on the backend and ways you might be able to leverage it as a tool? In this workshop, we cover the fundamentals of ChatGPT, including its architecture, usage, advantages, and limitations.

Hosted by Prof. Anastasia Smirnova, Linguistics

View the LCA Events page

The Lam-Larsen Initiative for Emerging Technologies is excited to announce its second Meet-the-Expert talk on the exciting topic of Generative AI and Large Language Models, hosting Mr. Prashant Jain, the Vice President of Business Transformation at Capgemini.

Prashant Jain is an innovative technology leader with over two decades of experience spearheading Digital transportation and enterprise information systems. He is currently the Vice President of Business Transformation and the North American SAP Center of Excellence at Capgemini, pioneering some of the earliest successful S/4HANA projects and global business transformation. Prashant holds an Engineering degree from IIT Delhi and MBA from UCLA Anderson.

This event is open to the entire SFSU community and will be held online via Zoom.

Date & Time: February, 28, 2024 (Wednesday), 12:00 PM Pacific Time

Zoom Link: http://tinyurl.com/LeveragingLLMs

Meeting ID: 826 9198 4206 

Passcode: 855711

CEETL invites you to attend a mini-symposium on AI and teaching held on zoom on Friday May 3rd from 9:00 - 12:00.



The event will feature short presentations by SF State faculty who will share about how they use AI in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. After the presentations, esteemed scholar José Antonio Bowen (https://josebowen.com/), author of Teaching Naked and his forthcoming book Teaching with AI, will offer a keynote speech about the future of teaching and learning in higher education in an age of Generative AI.

Please see our symposium program below:



9:00 - 10:30: Presentations from SF State Faculty and Q&A

10:30 - 11:00: Break

11:00 - 12:00: Keynote from José Antonio Bowen



If you would like to participate in person, CEETL will be holding a watch party in Library 242. Lunch will be provided. 



Please RSVP for the event by April 22nd at this link or the button below: RSVP Here

Details TBA; for more information about the JEDI series, visit the CEETL website.

Please join us as we discuss ways to navigate the challenges of academic integrity and AI, including strategies for assignment redesign and syllabus policy creation.

About the speaker:

Dr. Jules White is Director of Vanderbilt's Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI, Associate Dean of Strategic Learning Programs in the School of Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He created one of the first online classes for Prompt Engineering (https://coursera.org/learn/prompt-engineering), which is the study of how to converse with AI effectively, with over ~160,00 enrolled. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient. His research has won multiple Best Paper Awards. He has also published over 160 papers. Dr. White's research focuses on large language models, such as ChatGPT, cyber-security, and software engineering in domains ranging from healthcare to manufacturing. His research is conducted through the Mobile Application computinG, optimizatioN, and secUrity Methods (MAGNUM) Group at Vanderbilt, which he directs (http://www.magnum.io/people/jules.html). 

What can AI do for you? Join us on Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. in LIB 280 (note location change) for Academic Technology’s first Generative AI Prompt-a-thon — a dynamic, hands-on workshop designed to empower SF State faculty and staff with the skills to effectively utilize generative AI (GenAI) tools. In this hour-long session, you’ll explore the art of crafting prompts that maximize this technology’s potential. Whether you’re new to GenAI or seeking more advanced techniques, this event is a great opportunity to enhance your skills in a supportive and collaborative setting. 

Register now to secure your spot in this unique learning experience.