About this Event
AI Fluency for the Workforce: An Expert Industry Panel
Join us in person as industry leaders from USI Insurance, Brasfield & Gorrie, Cerrowire, and Decatur Morgan Hospital will discuss how AI tools are reshaping entry-level workflows, what enterprise guardrails look like, and what employers actually expect graduates to bring to the table.
Following the employer panel, Dr. Jacob Lamb (Economic Development Partnership of Alabama) and Dr. Pratyush Sharma (Associate Professor of MIS, Associate Department Head (MIS), H. Taylor Morrissette Endowed Faculty Fellow) will discuss how universities and statewide talent initiatives must respond.
Agenda
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM
Opening Remarks
🕑: 12:10 PM - 12:50 PM
Panel 1: What Employers Are Seeing
Info: Panel 1: What Employers Are Seeing
James Brittle, Senior VP, USI Insurance Services, Birmingham (Insurance)
Daphne Dansby, Learning Technology Manager, Brasfield & Gorrie (Construction)
Alicia Kimiagarov, Data Science & Analytics, Cerrowire (Manufacturing)
Kelli Powers, President, Decatur Morgan Hospital (Healthcare)
🕑: 12:50 PM - 01:10 PM
Panel 2: What We Do About It
Info: Panel 2: What We Do About It
Dr. Jacob Lamb, Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA); also gives opening remarks
Dr. Pratyush Sharma, UA, MIS & AI Research
🕑: 01:10 PM - 01:25 PM
Q & A and Closing Remarks
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Networking
Event venue & nearby stays
The University of Alabama Student Center, 751 Campus West Drive, Tuscaloosa, United States
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