October 6-8, 2025
Photos
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Day 1 Highlights (October 6, 2025)
Day 2 Highlights (October 7, 2025)
Day 3 Highlights (October 8, 2025)
Videos
Keynote Presentations:
- “The Future of Healthcare: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence”
Keynote speakers of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference: Robyn Kress, President of the Ascension Foundation and Stacy Garrett-Ray, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Community Impact Officer for Ascension - “AI powered Enterprise Reinvention: Accelerating value with scaled AI responsibly”
Keynote speakers of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference: Arnab Chakraborty, Co-CEO of the Telstra-Accenture Data & AI Joint Venture and Chief Responsible AI Officer at Accenture and Dayle Stevens, Co-CEO of the Telstra-Accenture Data & AI Joint Venture and Executive for Data & AI at Telstra - “Shaping the Future of Voting with Technology Innovations”
Keynote speaker of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference: Juan Gilbert, the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and UF Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department at the University of Florida. - “Where are We in the Journey to A Knowledgeable Assistant?”
Keynote speaker of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference: Xin “Luna” Dong, ACM Fellow / IEEE Fellow and Chief Scientist at Meta Wearables AI. - Fireside Chat Keynote Presentation at the R.I.S.E. AI Conference
Fireside Chat Keynote speakers of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference: Father Paolo Benanti, Third Order Regular Franciscan; Associate Professor of Ethics of AI, LUISS University, and Aarti Singh, Professor of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. - “Generative Computing: A principled approach for building robust secure and efficient GenAI applications”
Keynote speaker of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference, Sriram Raghavan Vice President of IBM Research for AI
Health AI Presentations:
- “Present and Future of Health AI: Mitigating Dangers While Maximizing Benefits for All”
The Health AI Forum Opening Session: Michele Martin, Executive Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame, Fang Liu, Notre Dame Collegiate Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Applied Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Director of HEAL within the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame and keynote speaker, Michael Pencina, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Duke University School of Medicine. - “Every Person in Every Mile: Access to Data in Rural Communities”
This Health AI Forum Panel Session featured moderator Fang Liu, Notre Dame Collegiate Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Applied Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Director of HEAL within the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame and panelists Jorge Leon, Senior Manager of Global Community Impact at Johnson & Johnson, Lynne Nowak, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Surescripts, and Cameual Wright, M.D. MBA, President of the Indiana Market at CareSource. - “Rural Health and Artificial Intelligence: Bridging Gaps, Empowering Communities”
Health AI Keynote speaker of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference, Ketan Paranjape, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Optum. - Innovation In AI with the Mayo Clinic
This Health AI Forum Panel Session featured Emily Godsey, Administrator of Innovation & Digital Transformation for the Mayo Clinic and Scott Helgeson, Doctor of Medicine and Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic - “Artificial Intelligence Meets the Healing Arts: Reimagining 21st Century Healthcare”
Health AI Keynote speaker of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference, Dean of the College of Health Sciences at VinUniversity.
Closing Dinner & Awards Ceremony:
- A Prayer by Rev. Nathan D. Wills, C.S.C.
Rev. Nathan D. Wills, C.S.C., Associate Professor of the Practice for the Institute for Educational Initiatives, Priest-in-Residence in Keough Hall and University of Notre Dame Football Chaplain, was invited to offer a prayer as part of the Closing Dinner & Awards of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference. - The University of Notre Dame Glee Club Performance
The University of Notre Dame Glee Club performed some of the University’s most endearing songs as part of the Closing Dinner & Awards of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference. - Awards Ceremony
The following awards were presented at the Closing Dinner & Awards of the R.I.S.E. AI Conference:
Collaboration Awards:
Improving Health Through Housing Stability in the South Bend Community
Data-centric AI for the Early Detection of Suicide Risk in Chilean Schools
Global Impact Award:
Creando Puentes: International Summer School on Responsible Computing
Changemaker Award:
From Classroom to Healthcare Practice: Evaluating the Sustained Impact of the #GOALS Program on Healthcare Career Paths