Program

Complete Overview

🌅 Morning Sessions

• 09:00 – 10:00 — Welcome and Introduction

• 10:00 – 11:00 — 🎤 Makarand Tapaswi & Daksha Dixit
  Learnings from Developing and Deploying AI Solutions for Social Impact

• 11:00 – 11:30 — ☕ Coffee/Tea Break + Poster Session

• 11:30 – 12:45 — Panel Discussion on AI Alignment–Designing for Human Values: Vasudeva Verma, Radhika Krishnan, Khaliq Parkar (Moderated by Ujwal Gadiraju)

• 12:45 – 13:00 — 🎞️ Pecha-Kucha Session

• 13:00 – 13:30 — 🎤 Bapi Raju Surampudi
  Brain and AI Alignment: Some Thoughts

• 13:30 – 14:30 — 🍽️ Lunch Break

🌇 Afternoon Sessions

• 14:30 – 15:00 — 🎤 Nimmi Rangaswamy
  An Anthropologist in the House of AI: Stories of Culture, Code, and the Human Imagination

• 15:00 – 15:30 — 🎤 Raman Saxena
  User-Centered AI: Reconciling Technology with Human Values

• 15:30 – 16:00 — 🎤 Rishav Hada
  Contextualizing Evaluations for Generative AI: Bridging Human Values and Business Realities

• 16:00 – 16:30 — ☕ Coffee/Tea Break + Poster Session

• 16:30 – 17:00 — 🎤 Anne Arzberger
  The Myth of Universal Values: Toward Situated Alignment in LLMs

• 17:00 – 17:30 — 🎤 Tiffany Knearem
  Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: A User-Centered Approach to Shaping AI Systems in Practice

• 17:30 – 18:00 — Workshop Closing & Next Steps