Program Schedule
ACM’s 75th Anniversary Celebration will commence at the following global times:
- Central European Summer Time: 6:00 pm
- India Standard Time: 9:30 pm
- China Standard Time: 12:00 am, June 11
The program schedule follows. Times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
SESSION #1: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Introduction/Welcome
- Gabriele Kotsis, ACM President
- Jennifer Chayes, Program Chair
Opening Plenary: “From AI to Eternity”
- Wendy Hall, University of Southampton
Panel: Balancing Trust and Risk
As computing becomes increasingly integral to society — for public services platforms, financial systems and decisions, resource allocations policy decisions and more — how do we foster trust and manage risk?
- Moderator: Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego
- Panelists: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Université Paris-Saclay
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research
- Bryan Ford, EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
- James Mickens, Harvard University
BREAK: 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
SESSION #2: 11:00 – 12:45 a.m.
Panel: Incentives and Markets
We consider the intentional and unintentional incentives implicit in computing platforms and AI. What can we as computer scientists do to address these technically, and what must be addressed normatively or with regulation?
- Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
- Panelists: Susan Athey, Stanford University
- Vincent Conitzer, Duke University and University of Oxford
- Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
- Sendhil Mullainathan, Chicago Booth
- Hal Varian, Google
Panel: Connecting Everyone Everywhere All the Time
What are the computational and societal opportunities and challenges posed by tera-scale networks of people, services, devices, and data as the world’s population and infrastructure become more fully connected?
- Moderator: Charles Isbell, Georgia Tech
- Panelists: Anind Dey, University of Washington
- Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
- Yoelle Maarek, Amazon
- Duncan Watts, University of Pennsylvania
LUNCH: 12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
SESSION #3: 1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Panel: Human-Centered AI
How are we building AI so that it is human-centered?
- Moderator: Jitendra Malik, University of California, Berkeley
- Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University
- Daphne Koller, insitro
- Raquel Urtasun, Waabi
BREAK: 2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
SESSION #4: 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Panel: Global Impact
How are computer scientists addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges, from medicine and life sciences to climate change and human trafficking?
- Moderator: James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Panelists: Jeff Dean, Google
- Priya Donti, Carnegie Mellon University
- José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, University of Cambridge
- Anjana Rajan, Polaris
Closing Remarks
- Jennifer Chayes, Program Chair
RECEPTION: 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
The conference will be free and open to members, but registration is required. Space is limited, so reserve your spot today. Register here.
We are monitoring the COVID regulations for San Francisco and will provide relevant information to attendees as it gets closer to the event.
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