WITX

April 13, 2023
Helping to Grow the IT Community in Southeast North Carolina

About WITX

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Keynote Speaker

Brian David Johnson

Brian David Johnson

Futurist, Author, Professor

Topic: How to Think Like a Futurist

Artificial Intelligence. Microtargeting. Transitive Data Systems. How do you navigate a shifting and uncertain future riddled with emerging opportunities, threats and vulnerabilities? How can you prepare for not just the next "big thing" in technology and security but also the "thing" that comes after the next big thing? The applied futures methodology gives practitioners and decision makers a data driven perspective on a range of possible and potential futures over the next decade. More...

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Schedule

Thursday, April 13 - Congdon Hall, UNCW Campus

12:30 p.m. - Learning eXchanges(Students Only)
  • Esports and Gaming: How technologies developed for gamers are changing the way we work, live, and communicate.
1:30 p.m. - Learning eXchanges
  • Adversarial AI - Lying Chatbots, Deep Fakes and More…
  • Big Rock Sports Cybersecurity Framework
  • Esports and Gaming: How technologies developed for gamers are changing the way we work, live, and communicate.
2:30 p.m. - Learning eXchanges
  • Creating & Delivering Value: Unlocking your software development team's potential by gaining strategic alignment to create and deliver value.
  • CentralSquare Technologies: Directions in QA & DevOps.
  • Quantum Computing: What is it and how will it affect me?
3:30 p.m. - Featured Speaker: Brian David Johnson
Topic: How to Think Like a Futurist
4:15 p.m. - Exhibits Open
5:00 p.m. - Networking/Refreshments

Learning eXchanges

Workshops / panels / presentations to increase your IT skills.
Topics include:
  • Adversarial AI - Lying Chatbots, Deep Fakes and More…
    Jeff Crume, PhD, CISSP
    Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Security – Americas
  • Big Rock Sports: Cybersecurity Framework
    Shannon Adams
    Vice President of Information Technology
  • CentralSquare Technologies: Directions in QA & DevOps.
    Louise Lane
  • Creating & Delivering Value: Unlocking your software development team's potential by gaining strategic alignment to create and deliver value.
    Adam McCombs
    Chief Product Officer, Vantaca
  • Esports and Gaming: How technologies developed for gamers are changing the way we work, live, and communicate.
    Dr. Ray Pastore
    Professor and Program Coordinator of Esports
  • Quantum Computing: What is it and how will it affect me?
    Dr. Clayton Ferner
    Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UNC at Wilmington

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Exhibitors

Topics include:
  • AI Legacy Integration: Improving User Experience with Conversational AI
  • DegreeFlow: A Visual Course Planning Tool
  • Generating a User Dashboard from Extracted Cell Phone Data
  • Interactive Media - Demo in Touch Designer and motion sensor control.
  • Network Security with Honeypots
  • Rainfall Forecasting with Variational Autoencoders and LSTMs
  • Smart Home
  • Smart Robot
  • Survival: A Smart Way to Locate Help
  • UNCW Cyber Defense Club
  • TrEstimate - PTSD Early Detection using Physiological Signals
  • Unethical Optimization of Computer Software
  • Using VR to Examine Implicit Bias
  • Vehicle Forensics: Data & Artifacts

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Sponsors

Special thanks to the UNCW Cameron School of Business, the Congdon School and the Computer Science Department for their support. WITX is underwritten by....

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