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
- Robert D. Atkinson, Moderator
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
- Wendy Edelberg and Erica R.H. Fuchs