Date: May 15, 2025 (Thursday)
Location: Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware
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1:45 – 5:00 PM – Blooming Minds: Teaching Talk at Longwood Gardens
(For registered participants only. The bus will depart from the hotel at 1:45 PM and return by 5:00 PM.)
5:00 – 6:00 PM – Reception
(on back patio with guests accessing the lobby bar)
6:00 – 8:30 PM – Dinner
(in the Salons with buffet dinner and bar in Salons for guests)
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Date: May 16, 2025 (Friday)
Location: 516 FinTech Building, 591 Collaboration Way, Newark, DE
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7:45 AM – Registration and Breakfast
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8:25 AM – Welcome Opening Remarks
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8:30 – 9:45 AM
- Harry Wang (University of Delaware)
Teaching AI Agent and Agentic Workflow to Business Students: A No-Code Approach
- Aishwarya Deep Shukla (Simon Fraser University)
Scaling Open-Ended Assessment with AI-Driven Evaluation
- Huaxia Rui (University of Rochester)
From Sharing by Teaching to Teaching by Sharing: A New Proposal
- Wael Jabr (Pennsylvania State University)
Teaching DBMS in the ChatGPT Era
- Ram Gopal (University of Warwick)
From Code to Strategy: Leveraging GenAI to Teach MBAs Tech and MS Students Business
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9:45 – 10:00 AM – Coffee Break
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10:00 – 11:15 AM
- Mochen Yang (University of Minnesota)
Mentorica: Transform Your Course with GenAI-powered Learning Companion
- Munir Mandviwalla (Temple University)
Transforming Customer Engagement with AI
- Wei Chen (University of Connecticut)
Generative AI for Business: Course Design and Materials
- Abraham (Avi) Seidmann (Boston University)
Creative Ways for Successfully Teaching the Latest in IS/AI to the Non-major MBA Students
- M.S. Krishnan (University of Michigan)
Digital Transformation at Tata Steel and GenAI at PeopleReign
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11:15 – 11:30 AM – Coffee Break
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11:30 – 12:00 PM
- Haim Mendelson (Stanford University)
Thoughts about the “Core” IT Courses
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12:00 – 1:30 PM – Lunch
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1:30 – 2:45 PM – Dean’s Panel: AI and the Future of Business Education
Moderator: Oliver Yao (Dean of Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware)
Panelists:
- Sulin Ba (Dean of Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University)
- Prabhudev Konana (Dean of Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland)
- Pamela Norris (Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Delaware)
- Hemant Bhargava (University of California, Davis)
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2:45 – 3:00 PM – Coffee and Ice Cream Break
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3:00 – 4:00 PM
- Gordon Gao (Johns Hopkins University)
Teaching Neural Networks Using Simulation
- Karthik Babu Nattamai Kannan (Southern Methodist University)
GenAI for Database Development and Analytics - Vinayaka Gude (Elon University)
Investigating How Generative AI Supports Data Storytelling Through Student Experiences - Deepika Gopukumar (Saint Louis University)
AI-Driven SQL Business Solutions
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4:00 PM – Closing Remarks
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