Library Colleagues,
On behalf of the event's steering committee, I invite you to attend the 2025 K-State AI Symposium: Humans and the Machine, running October 14–16.
Registration is free. Of the 26 sessions, 21 will be streamed via Zoom (shown in bold below). Day 1 features our most technical sessions, while Days 2 and 3 focus on AI in education and work, including two sessions presented by students.
You can find detailed session descriptions on the Symposium website.
Tuesday, Oct. 14
8:45 – 9:00, Hale 581 & Zoom – Opening Remarks by President Linton
9:00 – 10:30, Hale 581 & Zoom – Opening Keynote: The Evolution of AI and the Impact on Our Society
10:45 – Noon, Hale 581 & Zoom – AI Industry Innovations: Agriculture and Food
1:00 – 2:30, Hale 581 & Zoom – Keynote: Role of AI in Cyber-Agricultural Systems
2:45 – 4:00, Hale 581 & Zoom – Digital Agriculture and AI
4:30 – 5:45, in-person only, first floor of Hale Library – Student Research in AI Poster Session
7:00 – 8:00 pm, in-person only, Manhattan Public Library, second-floor auditorium – Community Conversation on AI in Our Lives
Wednesday, Oct. 15
9:00 – 10:00, Hale 581 & Zoom – Building the Future: K-AIRES and the Next Wave of Immersive Intelligence
9:00 – 10:00, Hale 181 & Zoom – Human-Powered Learning in Digital Spaces
10:15 – 11:45, Hale 581 & Zoom – Widening Participation in Artificial Intelligence: AI for Good and the Future of Work
10:15 – 11:45, Zoom – Emerging AI Applications: Graduate Student Research from Salina
Noon – 1:00, Zoom – Student Motivations to Use AI
1:00 – 2:00, Hale 581 & Zoom – Live Debate: AI and the Workforce
2:15 – 3:45, in-person only, Hale 581 – Your Career Startup in the Age of AI (note: requires separate registration – also free)
4:00 – 5:30, Hale 581 & Zoom – Keynote: Human Agency in Narratives of Technology
Thursday, Oct. 16
9:00 – 10:00, Hale 581 & Zoom – Agency in Education: Students' Perspectives on AI
10:00 – 1:15, in-person only, Hale Sunderland Foundation Innovation Lab – Crafting better images: How does old-school collage create better AI images?
10:15 – 11:15, Hale 581 & Zoom – Redefining Academic Integrity: AI, Cheating, and the Future of Assessment
10:15 – 11:15, in-person only, Sunderland Foundation Innovation Lab, first floor – Tour the Sunderland Foundation Innovation Lab and Experience the Salina Robotics Lab's On-the-Road Robotics
11:30 – Noon, Hale 581 & Zoom – The Museum of Art + Light at the Intersection of Visual Art, Creative Practice and Technology
1:15 – 2:15, Hale 581 & Zoom – AI-Driven Systems Design: Bridging Academia, Industry, and Defense
1:15 – 2:15, Hale 181 & Zoom – What We Learned: Integrating AI/ML into Engineering Education
2:30 – 3:30, Hale 581 & Zoom – AI Applications for Safeguarding Biological Data and Older Adults' Wallets
2:30 – 3:30, Hale 181 & Zoom – Using AI to Build Practical and Dynamic Instructional Resources
3:45 – 4:00, Hale 581 & Zoom – Closing Remarks by Dean of K-State Libraries, James Wiser
4:00 – 5:30, Hale 518 & Zoom – Keynote: Reflective Equilibrium as a Method of Inquiry in Technology Ethics