Speakers

Abbas Rizvi

Tempus

Spoke in 2023

• AI in Cancer Care: Enhancing Precision Medicine

Allison Yacci

Tympana

Spoke in 2023

• Tympana for No-Code Data-Centric AI

Anjaly George

Greater Rochester Enterprise

Spoke in 2024

• Artificial Intelligence for Business

Caelan Gold

Compviz.biz

Spoke in 2024

• Dead Internet Theory

Carly Hochreiter

URMC

Spoke in 2025

• Healthcare AI, Built from Within: A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation

Chad Gueli

AdCoach

Spoke in 2024

• Decoding Better Encodings

Chris Cooley

Prompting Positivity

Spoke in 2023

• Prompting Positivity

Crisandra Harrison

Simon Business School

Spoke in 2024

• Artificial Intelligence for Business

Evan Dawson

Emcee

Spoke in 2023

• Keynote: Flower City AI

George Goga

SUNY Geneseo

Spoke in 2025

• New York's First High School AI Course: Teaching the Next Generation

Gerard Fisher, MBA, PhD

Innovating Edge

Spoke in 2025

• The Rochester Finger Lakes Metro AI Leadership Initiative

Graham Anthony

Golisano Institute

Spoke in 2025

• Coder to Orchestrator: Mastering System Design in the Age of Vibe Coding

Hernan Chiosso

Productize HR

Spoke in 2024

• The Future Has No Managers

Jeff McCormack

Iryss

Spoke in 2023

• Revolutionizing Healthcare Spending: A Predictive Approach to the Patient Journey

Jess Kent

Fulbright Scholar

Spoke in 2025

• Can conflict be resolved?

Katie Sabourin

St. John Fisher

Spoke in 2024

• Navigating the Future of Learning: AI’s Influence on Higher Education

L. è D

Music

Spoke in 2023

• Bridging the gap with Music and AI

Landon Gray

Building an AI Developer Community

Spoke in 2023

• Building an AI Community with Ruby

Madhura Anand

City Of Rochester

Spoke in 2025

• Who Pays for AI's Power? Carbon Costs and Community Impact

Mark Weber

Business and Innovation

Spoke in 2023

• Racing Towards Responsibility: Why AI Developers Must Lead on Ethics

Masum Hasan

SAPIEN

Spoke in 2023

• SAPIEN Chat

Max Irwin

MAX.IO

Spoke in 2025, 2024, and 2023

• Keynote: Flower City AI 2025
• Keynote: Flower City AI 2024
• Keynote: Flower City AI

Michael Thaney

Startup Grind

Spoke in 2025

• Startup Grind Pitch Battle

Nicholas Wilkins

Sign-Speak

Spoke in 2024

• An AI Case study: Sign-Speak, the Real-Time Sign Language AI

Paul Yacci

Tympana

Spoke in 2023

• Tympana for No-Code Data-Centric AI

Tim Snedden

ITX

Spoke in 2024

• Measuring the effectiveness of ChatGPT as a writing assistant

Valerie Carey

Circle Star

Spoke in 2024

• Towards Responsible Tech for AI Startups

Zack Glick

FourScore AI

Spoke in 2025

• AGI Is Already Here, It's Just Slow‚ and We've Already Lost Control of It