WITX
April 13, 2023
Helping to Grow the IT Community in Southeast North Carolina
About WITX
WITX (Wilmington Information Technology eXchange) is now in its seventeenth year.
It brings together students, faculty, staff and local information technology professionals to share their experiences
and demonstrate their leading technology endeavors. In addition, leading IT professionals will share their ideas through
keynotes, learning eXchanges and 5 minute Ignite! presentations.
Registration
Registration is required by all attendees prior to April 11, 2023. There is no cost for students to attend.
Registration
Keynote Speaker
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:
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Adversarial AI - Lying Chatbots, Deep Fakes and More…
Jeff Crume, PhD, CISSP
Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Security – Americas
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Big Rock Sports: Cybersecurity Framework
Shannon Adams
Vice President of Information Technology
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CentralSquare Technologies: Directions in QA & DevOps.
Louise Lane
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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
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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
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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:
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AI Legacy Integration: Improving User Experience with Conversational AI
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DegreeFlow: A Visual Course Planning Tool
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Generating a User Dashboard from Extracted Cell Phone Data
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Interactive Media - Demo in Touch Designer and motion sensor control.
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Network Security with Honeypots
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Rainfall Forecasting with Variational Autoencoders and LSTMs
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Smart Home
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Smart Robot
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Survival: A Smart Way to Locate Help
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UNCW Cyber Defense Club
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TrEstimate - PTSD Early Detection using Physiological Signals
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Unethical Optimization of Computer Software
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Using VR to Examine Implicit Bias
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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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