1 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,639 How many of you were here last year? 2 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,040 Okay, how many of you remember the tsunami talk? 3 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,760 All right, the intention behind that was to scare you into doing something. 4 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:29,360 This year, my job is to just say, hey, this is what today looks like, because we've got another person that's here to tell you what the landscape's looking like in the future. 5 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:30,560 So I don't have to do that. 6 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:31,680 Okay? 7 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,360 And he's not necessarily going to try to scare you either. 8 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,200 We all know that we need to be scared. 9 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:41,520 OK, so my name is Paul Gormley. 10 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,320 I'm a growth project manager from CIRIS at Iowa State University. 11 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,200 And today, I'm also your summit director. 12 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,000 So you say, what is CIRIS? 13 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,360 CIRIS is a Center for Industrial Research and Service. 14 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,800 And what do we do there? 15 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,840 Well, we help small and medium-sized industry do just about everything they do 16 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:02,640 better. 17 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:10,080 We do that in areas like executive strategy and growth, operational excellence and workforce. 18 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:19,680 We have specialists that can do things in those areas and know the proper resources to bring in when they can't do them. 19 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:21,280 Okay? 20 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,200 They help with projects. 21 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,120 They help with education. 22 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,960 Anytime you've got a question, you can call on those experts. 23 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:35,280 We have almost 35 to 40 of those people working with you on a daily basis. 24 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,240 Now, one of the things you'll notice here is under emerging topics, there are a little thing here. 25 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,120 I think I said to people, don't have your cell phone on. 26 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,200 And I'm pretty positive I shut off everything, but whatever. 27 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,120 It was a demo. 28 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:53,520 Okay. 29 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:55,520 Artificial intelligence. 30 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,120 So this is an emerging topic. 31 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,560 We all know it's more than an emerging topic or emerging. 32 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:09,120 But what we're doing at Cirrus with artificial intelligence is helping educate people in each of these areas when it comes to AI. 33 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:17,760 We're empowering, we're augmenting the capabilities that we already have and that you already have with artificial intelligence. 34 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,640 because it's not a thing into itself. 35 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,000 It's something that we need to attach to all the expertise that we already have, right? 36 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,480 For a while, we're going to need somebody to talk about it. 37 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,480 But after a while, it's just going to become AI. 38 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:33,840 It's going to be helping us. 39 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:34,920 All right. 40 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,040 So my external focus is working on three main things right now. 41 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:45,120 Working with companies, mainly small and medium-sized organizations in the state of Iowa, to build 42 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:52,480 AI understanding and adoption to help organize and define AI strategy and support AI implementation. 43 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,640 Now, I can't do that all. 44 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,480 I have resources that help me. 45 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,280 You're going to learn about a few of those people. 46 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:07,600 One of the things that I'm trying to do is the AI Summit for Industry, and you're going to see some people today that are helping me do that. 47 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:21,680 I want to thank the subcommittees that helped bring this together to give us the ideas, to make suggestions on how we can make this better from year to year. 48 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,080 So I'd like these folks to stand up in order. 49 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,560 So we've got the program subcommittee. 50 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:33,280 They helped arrange this and put it together and say, this is what it should look like. 51 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:34,720 We tweaked a little bit. 52 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,880 So these folks, not taking orders very well, please stand. 53 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:41,680 And recognize yourself. 54 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:43,200 There you go. 55 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:43,920 Thank you. 56 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:48,480 Sponsorship. 57 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,440 Maybe some of them don't remember they were on a committee. 58 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:51,840 They tried to black it out or something. 59 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:53,040 Sponsorship. 60 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,000 These are the folks that helped us bring in sponsors for this event so we could do even better. 61 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,960 So please stand if you were in the sponsorship committee. 62 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:02,400 Okay. 63 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:13,040 Speakers, these were folks that helped me decide who would be on the docket and who might be alternates and maybe who didn't get chosen. 64 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,280 So these are the folks that were on that. 65 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,760 And please stand. 66 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:19,840 Don's already standing. 67 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:22,000 Excellent. 68 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:30,480 Marketing, these are the folks that got the word out and gave us advice on what's the best way to get to the folks that need to hear about this. 69 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,960 So please stand if you were on the marketing committee. 70 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:36,120 All right. 71 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Thank you, Travis. 72 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:39,920 And finally, technology. 73 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:47,120 So I hope some of you actually got a chance to look at the website that we have with the structured data and all of those things and what we were doing. 74 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:53,840 The technology team came together and said, what could we do to help demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence? 75 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,480 And they came up with it. 76 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:57,600 They developed it. 77 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,760 I'd like for those people to stand. 78 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,480 The technology team. 79 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,160 And then one significant thank you. 80 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,920 I'm going to tell this quick little story. 81 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,640 I started to put things together. 82 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:13,640 I developed a website. 83 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,480 I put some structured data together, and I showed it to the team. 84 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,520 And some of the people on the team said, that's nice, Paul. 85 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,680 And then Adam said, that's really nice. 86 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,360 It's a great start. 87 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,680 And he said, why don't you just let me do something over the weekend? 88 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,640 And he came up with what we've got in the form now. 89 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,000 It's a much more organized system for being able to keep this stuff together. 90 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,080 You're going to be able to get it so much more easily than in the form that I was going to give it to you. 91 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,880 So I want Adam and any of his team that are here, because they work pretty hard on this, to stand. 92 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,640 And we'll give him a little round of applause too, because they did a terrific job on this. 93 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:49,920 Thank you, Adam. 94 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:52,520 All right. 95 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,960 So now I'm going to have some more people stand. 96 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,520 These are the speakers. 97 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:59,680 I was looking at the 2024 event. 98 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,240 The pictures were much bigger in the first one. 99 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,160 We had almost 20 speakers in the first one. 100 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:06,640 We have 38 this year. 101 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,800 You are going to get to see whatever it is that you want to see today, I believe. 102 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:21,680 You're also going to be able to take away that information and be able to use it in the near future when we talk about the raw data and things. 103 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,520 Let's have all the speakers stand and be recognized at this point. 104 00:08:33,429 --> 00:08:35,750 I didn't even tell them to distribute, and they did. 105 00:08:35,750 --> 00:08:36,510 That's excellent. 106 00:08:37,030 --> 00:08:37,669 It's excellent. 107 00:08:37,830 --> 00:08:41,750 Okay, and then we have three special speakers today, our plenary speakers, J.C. 108 00:08:41,750 --> 00:08:46,910 Hoyer, who's going to be giving our keynote this morning, Dr. 109 00:08:46,910 --> 00:08:51,510 David Cook, the president of Iowa State University that will be addressing us at noon, and then Dr. 110 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:54,070 Robert Ivester, who is 111 00:08:54,720 --> 00:09:02,160 from the National Institutes for Standards and Technology that apparently got cut off on my projection here. 112 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:10,640 What I want you to also do is if you haven't been to the website, cirrusai.com, this is where it's happening. 113 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:12,480 This is where everything is. 114 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:13,840 Your agenda is here. 115 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,800 You can look at speakers and presentations here to get a good idea of what you're doing. 116 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,040 You can use the AI toolkit, which I hope that you had a chance to do. 117 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:27,840 You should be able to pull down the data, put it in your large language model and say, where should I go? 118 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:29,520 This is who I am. 119 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,440 What's your recommendation? 120 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,520 If you didn't do that, might be kind of tough right now, but give it a shot. 121 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,040 And then the FAQs. 122 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,280 This is full instructions. 123 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,000 Most websites don't have to have instructions. 124 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,880 This one has a lot of data in it and things that you can use. 125 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,400 This tells you how to use it. 126 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,320 All right, a little bit about our layout today. 127 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,480 Right now, you're sitting in 240, 230, and 220. 128 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,120 You've been through the registration and partner booths. 129 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,400 This is the main room. 130 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,640 So if anyone says main room, this is where you come. 131 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,800 These are the track rooms. 132 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:11,680 So when we disperse after, you know, getting into session two, this is where you go. 133 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,280 You will also use 220, 230, and 240 as another track room. 134 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,560 And definitely for the facilitated discussions. 135 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,840 Facilitated discussions are a place, they're kind of like a panel, except it's not. 136 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,840 We bring in the experts from one of the tracks and you come in and we have a conversation. 137 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,600 I facilitate it, I keep it going. 138 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,560 Usually well attended. 139 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,200 And one thing I will say is it's not recorded. 140 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,840 So that's the one thing about this whole event that's not going to be recorded is those particular sessions. 141 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:46,560 And there will be a session in this room. 142 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,840 from 11 o'clock on for those. 143 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:50,640 Okay? 144 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:53,920 Right, the restrooms are there. 145 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,840 Last year we had a fire alarm, so everyone needed to know where the stairs or where the emergency exits were. 146 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,360 Don't take the elevator, take the emergency exits. 147 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,640 And this is very important. 148 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:12,320 At lunchtime, we want to get out of our, wherever we are, and back into this room quickly. 149 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,200 There will be inside exchange tables. 150 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,960 They will be set up at the tables. 151 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,840 And if you are interested in a topic, you can read that table. 152 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,520 It's on the website as well. 153 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:24,560 Okay. 154 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,120 And there will be some of the tables that are facilitated. 155 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,560 And there are some tables that are, I don't want to talk AI. 156 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,120 So you've got your choice, right? 157 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:34,560 So you can do that. 158 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:39,520 But when you get out of your session, you're going to want to go out and around the back. 159 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,760 So it's going to be around that backside. 160 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,440 And then our lunch will be right about here. 161 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,440 That's where the tables we set up, come right back in and get to talking. 162 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,640 Then we'll have the president later in the afternoon, or later in that session. 163 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:00,720 Your room moderators. 164 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,760 If you're in a track room, in this particular room, I'll be the moderator. 165 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:07,840 I'll be facilitating the conversations. 166 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,880 But we have Gail Nasbergen, Jake Barons, Kirk Holland, and Don Ely. 167 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,000 If they are here, could we have them stand? 168 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,080 Don's already standing. 169 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:17,440 Gail's in the back. 170 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:18,720 The other two are over there. 171 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:24,240 So if you have any questions about those particular tracks, they know what's going on in those rooms. 172 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,640 And if you have any questions about anything, Jennifer knows it all. 173 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,600 So she's our event manager, and she knows everything that's going on here. 174 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,600 If you need any help, get a hold of her, and she can take care of things for you. 175 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:40,320 Okay? 176 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:48,320 The exhibitors today, I saw great interaction with the exhibitor booths out here. 177 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:49,960 They're still out in the 178 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,320 area, probably be there during breaks, maybe a little bit during lunch. 179 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:56,160 Have a conversation with them. 180 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:57,360 I'd talk with each one of them. 181 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,320 They all have interesting angles on artificial intelligence. 182 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:03,920 And finally, our premier sponsor. 183 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:10,280 I want to thank Precision Systems or Precision X Systems for their sponsorship. 184 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,400 They came on board very early. 185 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,400 They believed in what we were doing. 186 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:16,080 And 187 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,640 I guess that's all I can say. 188 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,360 I want them to tell you a little bit about themselves. 189 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:29,280 Casey Webster and Dave Mahusky will be doing the intro for our keynote address. 190 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,040 Before I bring them up, are there any questions that I can answer now? 191 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,360 And if you have a question, more than likely other people do too. 192 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:40,000 Any questions? 193 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:43,440 Okay. 194 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,280 Well, let's get ready to have a great day.