Please join us for an evening with thought leaders from Chicago’s design community who will share their perspectives on the creative challenges and opportunities brought forth in the age of Artificial Intelligence!
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Despite all the hype about AI a lot of us are still struggling to figure out how to design AI enabled products. There is still a big gap between our intent to design intelligent systems and how some of these products turn out. We sometimes forget that it is humans that the technology is interacting with. AI has become a part of our everyday lives and impacts nearly everything we do - how we get our news, how we get from point a to point b, or how we cure diseases.
- What special challenges does AI present to UX designers, researchers and the rest of the team?
- What are good uses of AI in products and what are poor uses of it?
- How do you design an AI-enabled product that real people will want to use?
- What is the role of the human in interacting with the machine - helping it learn, adapt, perceive?
What You’ll Take Away:
Attendees will learn about trends in artificial intelligence and take away key use cases to look out for in the coming years.
Why It Matters:
Your job--and all aspects of your life-- will be impacted greatly by artificial intelligence in the very near future. Learn how about AI and how it'll work to your benefit.
Thought leaders from Chicago's design community will share their perspectives on the creative challenges and opportunities brought forth in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Our Panelists:
Joe Meersman - Director of Design Strategy at IBM:
Joe has led teams of designers in the delivery of cognitive-enabled applications and services across the Cloud and Watson portfolios. As part of the IBM Design's core team, he has educated over 1000 non-designers in design thinking and activated practitioners working on product teams across the globe. Before joining IBM, he delivered user experiences for Herman Miller, Walgreens, Motorola, State Farm, Belk, Veolia, Highmark, Polycom, Covidien, MSA, Allstate, Follett, Samsung, and Chrysler. He lives in Austin with his wife, two children, and a Great Pyrenees.
Dean Malmgren - Executive Portfolio Director at IDEO
Dean is an Executive Portfolio Director at IDEO, where he helps IDEO’s clients identify opportunities for designing intelligent products, services, and systems in the service of humans. Dean joined IDEO through the acquisition of Datascope, a data science consulting firm he co-founded in 2009 that adapted the practices of design thinking to data science challenges.
Danyell Jones - User Experience Research Lead at ZS
Danyell is currently UX Research Lead at ZS, as well as teacher at Illinois Institute of Art for the last 6 years as an instructor in the Web Design and Interactive Media department, leading classes, creating curriculums, and handling administrative tasks for those in my program.
Event Schedule:
6:00 - Networking and Cocktails
6:30 - Panel Discussion and Q&A
7:30 - More Networking and Cocktails
8:00 - Event Ends
Hosts/Sponsors:
Bosch mLab
The Bosch mLab is a team of experienced innovators who focus on inspiring, enabling, and accelerating mobile products and emerging technologies (from within and outside of Bosch). Utilizing lean methodologies and disruptive business strategies, our team works alongside innovators through any and every stage of development.
Chicago Connectory
The Chicago Connectory is a co-creation space and IoT incubator, developed between both Bosch and 1871. More than a co-working space, the Chicago Connectory offers partners a co-creation model that fosters collaboration, networking, problem solving, and a new way of doing work in the age of connectivity.
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