AI Summit

Purdue University and Google are partnering again this fall to host the 3rd Annual Purdue + Google AI Summit, organized by the Institute for Physical AI (IPAI). As the global AI landscape rapidly shifts from experimentation to execution, the focus for this year’s summit is how companies, government agencies, and researchers are driving tangible outcomes, scaling real-world AI applications, and utilizing AI-driven workflows across diverse disciplines.

Agenda

Join us for keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on Google AI tool demos, networking for technical and non-technical leaders, as well as exhibits from leading companies, research centers, and student organizations. Stay tuned for more updates!

Speakers

This year’s speaker lineup will be announced soon. Past keynotes included Purdue President Mung Chiang, Google Public Sector CEO Karen Dahut, Waymo VP Srikanth Thirumalai, and US Senator Todd Young. Previous presentations included leading experts from Bayer, Eli Lilly, Caterpillar, Cummins, Corteva, L3Harris, Saab, Boeing, IU Health, and more.

Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

Seval Oz serves as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. In this role, she is charged with aligning the Department’s research, development, and technology programs with President Trump and Secretary Duffy’s strategic goals and promoting innovation deployment across the national transportation system.

Seval was the Senior Business Development and Global Partnerships Lead at Google [X]’s Self Driving Car Program that later evolved into Waymo, where she owned partnership portfolio programming. Subsequently, as CEO of Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, she was responsible for building a new business unit for Continental AG based in Silicon Valley and spearheading advancements in connected vehicle technology and digital transformation. Seval also served as CEO of Aurima, leading the development of camera-radar hardware and machine learning for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving platforms.

Seval has held advisory and board positions in the mobility sector, including Member of the Board for Microvision, (MVIS- Nasdaq) a leader in automotive lidar technologies, and Executive Board Advisor for Pioneer Electronics, a next generation telematics and infotainment global supplier. She was a founding partner for Archimede Ventures, an early-stage artificial intelligence software fund focused on transportation technologies including global logistics, delivery, routing, ADAS, and robotics. Investments. As a Strategic Advisor for Moove.ai, she guided business and technical strategies for end-to- end-predictive road intelligence analytics.

Seval holds an MBA in finance and marketing from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Wellesley College and MIT. She has nine patents in vehicular technology software and has been published in MIT Technology Review. A well-known public speaker, she has shared her transportation technology expertise through numerous keynotes, panels, and roundtables at industry conferences, university lectures, technical workshops, and global tours.

Brought to you by Purdue’s Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with the Office of Industry Partnerships and the Office of Research.

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7:30 – 9:00 am	Registration, breakfast, networking
9:00 – 10:05 am	Welcome remarks and plenary sessions featuring Snehal Antani, CEO of Horizon3.ai
10:05 – 10:25am	Networking break Exhibit hall
10:25 – 11:40am	Breakout sessions -Transportation -Drug Discovery -Product demonstrations
11:40 – 1:10pm	Lunch AnalytiXIN collaboration workshops Exhibit hall
1:10 – 1:30pm	Remarks and announcements from Purdue President Mitch Daniels and colleagues
1:30 – 2:45pm	Breakout sessions -Workforce Upskilling -Robotics and Embodied AI -Product demonstrations
2:45 – 3:00pm	Networking break Exhibit hall
3:00 – 4:15pm	Breakout sessions -Materials and Manufacturing -Agriculture -Product demonstrations
4:15 – 4:20pm	Transition
4:20 – 5:35pm	Breakout sessions -Government, Policy, Ethics -Semiconductors and Devices -Product demonstrations

7:30 – 9:00 am	Registration, breakfast, networking
9:00 – 10:15 am	Welcome remarks and plenary sessions featuring Suresh Sangiah, Senior Vice President at Palo Alto Networks
10:15 – 10:45am	Networking break
10:45 – 12:00pm	Breakout sessions -Education -Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
12:00 – 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30 – 5:30pm	Hands-on training sessions -AI agents -AI for knowledge work -TPUs -Smarter Course Prep: Grounded Research & Syllabi with Gemini Notebook
1:30 – 5:30pm	Student hackathon

Agenda

Speakers

Chief Executive Officer, Horizon3.ai

Executive AI Solutions Officer, Dell Technologies

Indiana State Senator

Cloud AI/ML Specialist, Google Public Sector

Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program, Purdue University

Chief Information Officer, Indiana Secretary of State

Chief Information Officer, Ohio Department of Youth Services

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Head of Education & Workforce, Grow with Google

Corteva Agriscience

Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

Commissioner, Indiana Department of Transportation

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

President, State AI Safety Roundtable

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University

Transportation Industry Executive and Head of Transportation Strategy and Partnerships, Google Public Sector

Brought to you by Purdue’s Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with the Office of Industry Partnerships and the Office of Research.

Agenda

Speakers

Snehal Antani

Jessica Audette

Liz Brown

Gabby Burke

Darcy Bullock

Robert Fulk

Brian Hernandez

Martin Byung-Guk Jun

Caroline Levens

Brian Lutz

Sevel Oz

Lyndsay Quist

Karthik Ramani

Trooper Sanders

Venkat Venkatrasubramanian

Kristin White

Brought to you by Purdue’s Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with the Office of Industry Partnerships and the Office of Research.

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