Toledo Tech Events

Designing your next website? How do we start?

Plan micro content to keep a clear blueprint for different types of content used on your website. Micro content builds the bigger picture and facilitates content creation on a macro level. Distinguish between the two and learn how micro-content planning will serve well for your content creators, designers, developers, and clients.

Guest Speaker: Rami Hassan @RealRamchilla Rami is a web developer in Toledo, Ohio who contributes to a logical web through information architecture and content planning. He configures and develops on content management systems such as Umbraco and Wordpress.

Hear from Nexosis, a Columbus based API company focused on machine learning platforms, with a commitment to creating a better world through curiosity and code.

Come learn about big data, artificial intelligence, and how you can get involved in using this very specialized API.

The 2018 BGSU State of the Region conference will focus on The Implications of Automation for Economic Development.

FREE, but you need to RSVP.

8 –9 a.m. Networking and Continental Breakfast

9 a.m. Welcome - Rodney K. Rogers, Ph.D., BGSU President & Opening Remarks, Senator Randy Gardner

9:15 - 10 a.m. State of the Region Address. Mark Schweitzer, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Regional Outreach and Analytics, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

10:10 - 11 a.m. Keynote Address, Dr. Eric Daimler, Artificial Intelligence Expert and CEO of SpinGlass.

• Dr. Eric Daimler is a leading authority in robotics & artificial intelligence with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, investor, academic, and policymaker.
• Daimler is the author of the forthcoming book Your Augmented Future, a guidebook for entrepreneurs, engineers, policymakers, and citizens on how to understand—and benefit from—the unfolding revolution in robotics & AI.
• As a Presidential Innovation Fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama Administration, Daimler helped drive the agenda for U.S. leadership in research, commercialization, and public adoption of robotics & AI.

11:00 a.m. - Noon. Business Perspectives on the Scope and Impact of Automation, Moderator: David J. Robinson, Principal The Montrose Group, LLC

With technology at our fingertips, a more connected public requires PR practitioners to be diligent about the moral underpinnings of our messaging and our behavior. Trust is an integral component of every relationship, whether it’s human to human or human to machine.

This NWO PRSA session will explore the intersection of ethics and artificial intelligence. More specifically, we will examine the implications of moral decision making by machines, the importance of accountability, responsibility and transparency in the use of AI, and how PR practitioners can effectively use this technology to enhance human potential rather than substitute for it.