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J.P. Morgan Chase, Nashville Entrepreneur Center, Nashville Tech Council, University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt AI Law Lab, Launch Tennessee, and the Nashville Healthcare Council are partnering with SeedAI to present AI Across America: Nashville — a single-day convening on Monday, May 18th at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, focused on Tennessee's opportunity to lead in the next era of AI. 

The event will bring together leaders from academia, state government, industry, and the startup community for an honest, substantive conversation about what it actually takes to build a strong state AI ecosystem. Topics will include:

 -Tennessee's AI Action Plan and six months of implementation progress 

 -Healthcare AI deployment in America's healthcare capital

 -The founders and investors shaping the state's AI startup ecosystem

 -State-federal coordination on workforce and R&D investment

 -The compute, data, and talent infrastructure Tennessee needs to compete

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 AM: Registration & Welcome

9:30 – 10:15 AM: Tennessee's AI Action Plan: Progress & Priorities

• Dr. Jesse Spencer-Smith, Interim Director and Chief Data Scientist, Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University

• Amanda Glover, Director of AI Initiatives, SCORE

• Dr. Michael Torrence, President, Motlow State Community College

• Roger Waynick, Director of Artificial Intelligence, State of Tennessee

• Mark Williams, Founding Co-Director of Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (Moderator)

10:15 – 11:00 AM: State-Federal Coordination—Workforce & R&D Investment

• Dr. Anne Ho, Director of AI R&D, AI Tennessee & ORIED

• Chuck Layne, Technology Advancement Director, LaunchTN

• Dr. Jasbir Dhaliwal, Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Memphis 

• Dr. Dina Stroud, Research Assistant Professor, Office of Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Vanderbilt University

• Commissioner Deniece Thomas,  Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (Moderator)

11:00 – 11:45 AM: Healthcare AI in Practice

• Nate Miller, MD, Executive Director for Regional Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Edmund Jackson, CEO, UnityAI

• Mark Norton, Founder & CEO, Adele Health

• Apryl Childs-Potter, CEO, Nashville Health Care Council (Moderator)

11:45 – 12:30 PM: Startup Ecosystem & AI Innovation

• Todd O'Boyle, Executive Director, US AI Policy, J.P. Morgan Chase

• Eller Kelliher, Chief Investment Officer, LaunchTN

• Kate Mead, Founder & CEO, Planning Partner

• Vishwesh Nath, Sr. Applied Research Scientist, Medical Imaging, NVIDIA

• Sam Davidson, CEO, Nashville Entrepreneur Center (Moderator)

12:30 – 1:15 PM: Building Tennessee's AI Infrastructure

• Dr. Anuj Kapadia, Section Head, Advanced Computing Methods for Health Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Dr. Vasileios Maroulas, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director, AI Tennessee

• Kristin Darby, Chief Information Officer, State of Tennessee

• Josh New, Director of Policy, SeedAI (Moderator)

1:15 – 1:30 PM: Closing & Next Steps

1:30 – 2:30 PM: Networking Lunch