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Time Lightning Talks
246 Hesburgh
Student Prompt-a-Thon
 260 Hesburgh
AI Classes
247 Hesburgh
Hands-on Lab
264 Hesburgh Lab
12:00 PM Doors Open
12:30 PM Opening Remarks
Margaret Meserve, Edward H. Arnold Dean of the Hesburgh Libraries and Vice President and Associate Provost
Ronald Metoyer, Vice President and Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning
Jane Livingston, Vice President and CIO, Office of Information Technology
1:00 PM Meet Conductor’s Junior Engineer: How AI Can Assist with Web Content Management
Erik Runyon
Student Prompt-a-Thon Contest begins at 3:30pm
Student teams begin prompt design challenges, competing for $1,000 in prizes. Register now!
AI Fundamentals
Joe Buckhanan
Google Workspace Studio (Lab)
Justin Howell
1:15 PM Turning Theology into Music
Rebecca Lane
1:30 PM Robots in an Aging World: Examining the Efficacy of Robot-delivered Reminiscence Therapy with Moderated Student Trials
Ray Alavo & Sofia Calderon Farfan
1:45 PM Leveraging Gemini and NotebookLM as Collaborative Partners in Writing Letters of Recommendation
Kasey Swanke
   
2:00 PM Expanding Access to Ethical AI Education
Sonia Howell
AI for Instructors
Roberto Cásarez
Hands-On Lab for Beginners
Chas Grundy
2:15 PM AI Agents & Workflow Automation
Brian Joseph
2:30 PM Pitches and Scribes, Questions & Guides: Building AI tools for Career Advising
Tara Gilchrist
2:45 PM Co-Designing AI Policies with Students
Alexi Orchard
   
3:00 PM Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Entrepreneurial Success in Emerging Markets: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda
Arthur Ssembajja
AI Fundamentals
Joe Buckhanan
Google Workspace Studio (Lab)
Justin Howell
3:15 PM Streamlining Faculty Appointment Reviews with AI Automation
Joseph Gettinger & Caela Kleber
3:30 PM AI Cycling for Interview Prep
Kelvin White
Student Prompt-a-Thon Intro
3:45 PM Data Protection & Governance: Limit AI by exchanging your identity
Ignacio Guarachi Cando
Prompt development sprint    
4:00 PM From Chatbots to Claude Code: How AI Agents Actually Work
David Smiley
AI for Students
Roberto Cásarez
Intro to Vibe-coding (Lab)
Chas Grundy
4:15 PM AI Literacy and Information Literacy: Offerings from the Hesburgh Libraries
Elizabeth Nicholson
4:30 PM   Judging, Finalist Presentations, and Awards Presentation
5:00 PM      
5:15 PM