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• Biorisks & Biosecurity: Using AI to Make Invisible Risks Visible. How safe is the air we breathe in any given environment? How far does our individual microbiome spread when we exhale? What are the actual vectors that distribute pathogens? Kevin Slavin has become an expert in detecting and redirecting pathogen flows inside our built environments. As Kevin says, “there's how we designed it and then how it behaves.” Drawing from his roles as a strategic healthcare advisor, pandemic task force lead, and head of biosecurity communications, Kevin brings to the stage his experiences modeling real-time pathogen vectors as he explores the innovative ways we're now detecting pathogens, tracing their movements, and reconfiguring our built and natural environments to contain pathogens and mitigate their risks before they lead to an outbreak.
• Integrating Machine Learning and Human Knowledge to Build the Future of Healthcare. As the use of Artificial Intelligence or AI becomes more prevalent in clinical practice, an area of great impact involves the use of computers to recognize people, diagnoses, and interventions. While this promises new benefits to health and health care, new problems and unanticipated consequences may also result. In this talk, Kevin Slavin will review the strengths and challenges of both computational and human approaches to providing health care, and how the strongest systems integrate these approaches to achieve optimal results. Ultimately, the most effective systems will use both machine and human learning to achieve the best outcomes in research and clinical practice.
• Algorithms of the Air: How Computation Recognizes and Reshapes Life. We're living in a world designed for—and increasingly controlled by—algorithms. As an entrepreneur, designer, and brilliant mind of science, Kevin explores the intersections between digital systems and the physical world, explaining how these complex computer programs determine espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture.