One-U Responsible AI

June 10, 2024

Published on: May 9, 2024

One-U RAI Industry Partnership Summit

June 10, 2024

ABOUT THIS EVENT

We invite you to join us for our One-Utah Responsible AI Initiative (RAI) Industry Partnership Summit at the Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House. We will launch the day at 9:00 am with visionary speakers from government and industry, followed by panel discussions on healthcare, infrastructure, workforce and policy.

8:30 am—Breakfast and Registration	1:00 pm—Panel Discussion on Healthcare
9:00 am—Welcome and Introduction to RAI	2:00 pm—Break
9:15 am—Industry Speaker: Kevin Williams	2:15 pm—Panel Discussion on Policy
9:45 am—Panel Discussion on Workforce	3:15 pm—Government Speaker: Allen Walker
10:45 am—Break	3:45 pm—Call to Action by Manish Parashar
11:00 am—Panel Discussion on Infrastructure	4:00 pm—Reception
12:00 pm—Lunch

Register By June 2

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Location: Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House, The University of Utah, 155 Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

Parking: Please note we have placed a parking moratorium in the lot directly north of the Alumni House. This parking moratorium allows you all to park in the agreed upon lot without a permit, but it does not guarantee parking will be available. Parking along red curbs, fire hydrants, maintenance stalls, permanent reserved stalls, no parking areas, crosswalks, driveways, and in front of dumpsters is prohibited 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These areas will still be enforced during a moratorium.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Allen Walker

Advancing Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships

Strategic Partnerships Officer in the National Science Foundation

Kevin Williams

Navigating the AI Supercycle- Balancing Innovation and Responsibility

Founder and Principal Investor at MadBrains AI

WORKFORCE PANEL

Moderated by Andrea Rorrer

Director of Utah Education Policy Center, Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy

Greg Jones

Director of Product Management NVIDIA Maxine AI Developer Platform

Deborah Keyek-Franssen

Associate Vice President and Dean of University Connected Learning, University of Utah

Jefferson Moss

Associate Commissioner of Innovation for the Utah System of Higher Education

Bassam Salem

Founder & CEO, AtlasRTX and Mindshare Ventures

INFRASTRUCTURE PANEL

Moderated by Nina de Lacy

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Zach Boyd

Director of Utah’s Office of AI Policy

Roger Cass

Chief Cloud Architect, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Shawn Halladay

Associate Director at University of Utah Health

Spencer Jenkins

CEO and Executive Director of the Utah Education and Telehealth Network

Nate Sanders

CEO and Co-Founder at Artifact

HEALTHCARE PANEL

Moderated by Jim Hotaling

Associate Vice President for Research Innovation and Translation (AVPRIT), Associate Professor of Surgery

Jacob George

Director of Utah NeuroRobotics Lab, University of Utah

Ruth Klepfer

Research Director at Medtronic

Richard Linder

Chairman & CEO of Xenter

Bob Ohgami

Vice President of ARUP and Chief Medical Director for the Institute for Research and Innovation

Rod Tarrago

AWS Principal Clinical Informatics, Academic Medical Centers

POLICY PANEL

Moderated by Penny Atkins

One-U RAI Research and Science Director

Margaret Busse

Executive Director at Utah Department of Commerce

Eric DeBord

Director Specialist with Microsoft Azure

Leslie Francis

Alfred C. Emery Endowed Professor at S.J. Quinney College of Law

Ian Quigley

Co-founder & CEO of Leash Biosciences

Industry Partnership Summit

June 10, 2024

Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House

Richard J. Linder is the Chairman & CEO of Xenter. Prior to founding Xenter, Mr. Linder served as the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of CoNextions Medical, a company he founded to specialize in the development and manufacture of medical devices for Orthopaedic Surgery in tendon re-construction and tendon to bone anchoring. Prior to CoNextions, Mr. Linder served as President of the Cardiovascular Division of Remedy Informatics, a company providing medical registries of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data. Before Remedy, Mr. Linder served as President/CEO of Coherex Medical, Inc., a Salt Lake City, UT based medical device company specializing in the development of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) closure devices and Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) occlusion devices for use in patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Stroke. Mr. Linder negotiated and entered into agreements with Johnson & Johnson/Biosense Webster to invest in and acquire Coherex Medical.

Prior to Coherex, Mr. Linder served as Vice President of Vascular Protection for Boston Scientific/Rubicon Medical, and he served as President/CEO of Rubicon Medical, a company he Co-Founded. Mr. Linder Co-Founded Rubicon Medical in 1996, took the company public in 2000, and invented the underlying medical devices for the Rubicon Vascular Protection Filter for patients undergoing Carotid artery and Saphenous Vein Graft stenting.

Mr. Linder began his career at Merit Medical Systems, Inc., a South Jordan, UT publicly traded (Nasdaq) global medical device company. Mr. Linder is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of BioUtah, Utah’s independent life science association representing Utah’s medical device companies, drug development and drug discovery companies, and diagnostic companies. Mr. Linder was appointed by the Utah Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Governing Authority of the Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR), and Mr. Linder participated in the oversight of The James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building A USTAR Innovation Center which houses the Nano Institute of Utah, many Utah Technology Commercialization Grants, and other activities. USTAR’s Governing Authority oversaw $430M in Utah taxpayer money and assisted the University of Utah and Utah State University in recruiting world class research programs to the State of Utah’s major public universities.

Mr. Linder has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Boy Scouts of America (Salt Lake City, UT) and was the Executive Vice President of Finance. He has served on the Board of Directors for many private and public companies including Rubicon Medical, Coherex Medical, CoNextions Medical, Juneau BioScience, Vital Access Corp., and Dynatronics. He has been an invited speaker, meeting faculty, panelist, and Keynote speaker at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), American College of Cardiology (ACC), Dartmouth 3D, BioUtah Life Science Summit, and many other conferences and meetings. Mr. Linder attended both Brigham Young University and the University of Utah where he studied Business Management and Organizational Behavior. Mr. Linder is the inventor of many medical devices in Interventional Cardiology, Interventional Radiology, Neuro-Interventional Radiology, Orthopedic Surgery, Female Reproductive Medicine, and a Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). He is an inventor on over 100 United States issued patents with hundreds of additional corresponding international patents. Mr. Linder has travelled in over 50 countries, lectured in many countries as faculty at international conferences, and has overseen several multi-center clinical research trials for medical devices. Mr. Linder is the recipient of the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science & Technology.

Margaret Woolley Busse was appointed by Governor Spencer Cox in January 2021 to serve as a member of his cabinet as the Executive Director of Utah’s Department of Commerce. Thus far in her tenure, she has worked on regulatory reform, streamlining the regulatory process, and reducing regulatory fees. Specifically, she worked with legislative partners to create the new Office of Professional Licensure Review (OPLR). The first of its kind in the nation, OPLR takes a systematic approach to reviewing Utah’s professional licensing regulation in order to find ways to reduce licensure burden as well as increase access and decrease cost for consumers of professionally licensed services. OPLR’s first review resulted in the passage of a groundbreaking new law that will vastly increase Utah’s behavioral health workforce through regulatory reform in order to address Utah’s mental health crisis.

In addition, Ms. Busse is leading efforts to create streamlined pathways for foreign-credentialed immigrants and refugees to obtain professional licenses, enabling them to work at their trained skill level here in Utah.

Under the direction of Governor Cox, Director Busse has played a key role in holding social media platforms accountable for their harm to minors by helping to craft appropriate legislative measures and through the Department of Commerce’s lawsuits against TikTok and Meta. Under her leadership, the Department of Commerce published proposed rules for age verification and parental consent to operationalize Utah’s groundbreaking new social media law, which the department is charged with enforcing.

Finally, in partnership with Utah’s legislative leadership, Ms. Busse is driving forward an innovative approach that will help Utah to ensure it is protecting the public, encouraging innovation, and enabling it to observe and learn about how to regulate effectively. The approach includes the creation of the new Office of Artificial Intelligence (OIAP), which is tasked with both providing regulatory relief to qualifying AI-focused companies and making regulatory policy recommendations through its policy learning lab.

Before her appointment to Commerce, Ms. Busse was an adjunct faculty member for BYU’s Political Science Department and an advisor to social impact organizations. Ms. Busse also served for several years as the Associate Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School, where she developed an alumni impact investing program and worked on issues such as the future of work, opportunity and prosperity for all, and educational improvement. In addition, Ms. Busse worked as a strategy consultant at the Bridgespan Group and spent several years at the U.S. Treasury Department as a Presidential Management Fellow. Ms. Busse developed her passion for public service by serving for many years in leadership roles in local government.

Ms. Busse holds an MBA from Harvard University, a master’s degree in Public Policy from Brigham Young University, and a bachelor’s degree in both Public Policy and Economics from Brigham Young University, where she graduated cum laude and with university honors. She is a Utah native and with her husband, Franz, has five children, ages 11 to 21.