Friday, December 5th, 8:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m., Charles W. Loosemore Auditorium, DeVos Center, GVSU Pew Grand Rapids Campus 401 Fulton W

8:30 a.m.: Registration

9:00 a.m.: Welcome: Marouane Kessentini, Dean of the College of Computing at GVSU and Eric C. Swindell, Ph.D. Dean and Chief Academic Officer, Van Andel Institute

9:15 a.m.: Distinguished Speaker: Peter W. Laird, Ph.D. Professor, Peter and Emajean Cook Endowed Chair in Epigenetics and Nathan Spix, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow

10:15 a.m.: Break and Graduate Student Posters

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Grand Rapids DeepTech Pitch Competition

• Judge: Brian McKeiver, Co-Owner, BizStream
• Judge: James Meeks, Founder & Managing Partner, Rapids Ventures
• Judge: Jim Hackett, former CEO of Ford & Steelcase
• Judge: Joshua Hulst, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Michigan Software Labs
• Judge: Nathan Owen, General Partner, Grand Ventures
• Judge: Stacy Paul, CEO, Array of Engineers

11:30 a.m. - 11:50 p.m.: The Long Game: Engineering a Foundation for the Future, Matt Shaver, Co-Founder and CTO of BrainGu

11:50 p.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Pitch competition winner announced

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Refreshment Break & Undergraduate Student Posters

1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Federal Innovation Funding Opportunities, Samir Iqbal, Ph.D.,  Associate Dean of Research, Grand Valley State University, College of Computing

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Distinguished Panel on Health AI 

• Andrew Borgman, MS, Data Scientist, Biogen
• Caleb Bupp, MD, HDVCH/MSU Division of Chief Medical Genetics and Genomics
• Lindsay Joseph, Co-Founder & CEO, BedConnect
• Mark Traill, MD, Diagnostic Radiologist, University of Michigan Health-West
• Robert Campbell, Director of Data Science & AI at Corewell Health

2:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. - Faculty Research Highlights

• Dr. Josh Jang, Van Andel Institute
• Dr. Hulin Li, Van Andel Institute
• Dr. Paul Fink, Grand Valley State University, College of Computing
• Dr.  Mike Henderson, Van Andel Institute
• Dr. Suhila Sawesi, Grand Valley State University, College of Computing
• Dr. Talha Khan, Grand Valley State University, College of Computing
• Dr. Tiehang Duan, Grand Valley State University, College of Computing
• Dr. Zachary DeBruine, Grand Valley State University, College of Computing

2:40 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Awards and Closing