Agenda

7:30 - 8 a.m. Breakfast

8 - 8:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Adam Falk, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Robert D. Atkinson, President, Information Technology Innovation Foundation
James H. Garrett, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Carnegie Mellon University

8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Opening remarks

Erwin Gianchandani, Assistant Director of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation

8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Keynote

Gregory A. Hebner, Assistant Director, White House Office of Science and Technology

8:45 - 9:45 a.m. Summary of the report

Erica R.H. Fuchs, Director, National Network for Critical Technology Assessment; Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
James Evans, Colead, National Network for Critical Technology Assessment; Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Cassidy Sugimoto, Tom and Marie Patton School Chair and Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Stanford Institute for Human - Centered AI, Stanford University
Dashun Wang, Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University
Hassan Khan, Semiconductor Executive Fellow in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University (November 2022–June 2023)
Christophe Combemale, Assistant Research Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Rena Conti, Dean’s Research Scholar and Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Boston University
Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Institute for Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
Katie Whitefoot, Associate Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Elsa Olivetti, Associate Dean of Engineering, Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

9:45 - 10:00 a.m. Audience Q&A

10 - 10:30 a.m. Fireside Chat: The need for rapid Critical Technology Assessment

Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Former Director, OSTP
Marcia McNutt, President, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Moderator: Wendy Edelberg, Director, The Hamilton Project; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. BREAK

10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Fireside Chat: Discussion of Report and Looking Ahead

John Hennessy, Professor and President Emeritus, Stanford University
Michael McQuade, Former SVP, United Technologies Corporation; Former VP Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Gilda A. Barabino, Chair of the Board, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and President, Olin College of Engineering
Moderator: Erica R.H. Fuchs

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Plenary - Pilot year and looking ahead: Industry and Union Perspectives

Amanda Ballantyne, Director, AFL-CIO Technology Institute and Working for America Institute
Brent Hecht, Director of Applied Science, Microsoft
Christopher George, CTO, Corporate Strategy & Ventures Group, Intel
Lawrence C. Schuette, Director, Global Research & Innovation, Lockheed Martin
Moderator: Robert D. Atkinson

12:00 - 12:15 p.m. BREAK and get lunch

12:15 - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH: Toward a community of practice in rapid Critical Technology Assessment

Sue Helper, Senior Advisor for Industrial Strategy, White House Office of Management and Budget; Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Robert Cook-Deegan, Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University
Jay Crossler, Technical Fellow, MITRE
Celia Merzbacher, SRI International
Dewey Murdick, Colead, National Network for Critical Technology Assessment; Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Research Faculty, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Moderator: Kaye Husbands Fealing, Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology

1:00 - 1:20 p.m. Closing remarks