Events
Upcoming Events
Elon Business Analytics Day
Ignite the Future: AI in Action, Powered by Mentorship
Thursday, March 27, 2025
LaRose Digital Theatre
Koury Business Center
Center for Organizational Analytics Meeting
Join us for our meetings on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm in Sankey 116—the Center for Organizational Analytics partners student teams with local businesses to solve real-world data problems.
As a member, you will have access to:
• Real-world experience working with data
• Improved coding skills
• Data Camps with industry leaders
• Data analytics study groups
• Faculty support
Past Events
2023-2024
DataFest
Elon Datafest Events
Friday April 19 – Event Kickoff, Hunt Atrium Founders Hall
4:30-5:30 pm – Keynote Speaker: Cennydd Bowles, What Could Go Wrong?
5:30-7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza party, meet your mentor, and Raffle Give-Aways!
7:00 pm – Data Challenge Begins
Saturday, April 20-Sunday April 21
Teams meet to work on Data Challenge and communicate with mentors remotely for assistance.
Sunday, April 21
7:00 pm – Team Slide Presentation Submissions are due.
Monday, April 22
Concurrent events
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Judging and awards & AI Toolfest
Datafest Keynote: What Could Go Wrong?
Friday, April 19, 2024, Hunt Atrium Founders Hall, 4:30-5:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Cennydd Bowles, (Fulbright Visiting Scholar; technology ethicist and interactive designer, and author of Future Ethics)
After a range of embarrassing and sometimes dangerous slip-ups, technology companies have been quick to defend themselves. These impacts weren’t intentional, they argue: they were mere unforeseen side-effects of innovation. Perhaps. But technologists weren’t exactly looking too hard. The industry’s resolute faith in progress has meant the few voices of internal dissent have often gone unheeded. Now a dramatic AI leap forward poses even greater opportunities and dangers. Can technologists anticipate the social and ethical impacts of their work before they occur? And are we ready for what they might find?
Register! A pizza party will follow.
Generative AI Mini Conference with Shiva Kommareddi, Managing Director, Accenture & David Levine, Professor, Elon University School of Law
Friday, April 5 | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm | LaRose Digital Theatre
Session with Shiva Kommareddi
Generative AI: What Does Enterprise Adoption Look Like?
In this presentation, I will discuss the following:
What are the Gen AI use cases that we are seeing get a lot of attention in the industry?
Examples of Gen AI usage in customer in Customer Service, Marketing and Operations
What jobs will be impacted, and how can you prepare?
Session with David Levine
What Do We Know and What Can’t We Know About Generative AI?
Abstract: The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 heralded the sudden and unexpected beginning of a new era in technology. In just 18 months, the world has been forced to grapple with a technology that not only computes but creates. A fundamental question must be answered if we are to understand how to think about, use, regulate, and harness generative AI for good; namely, what do we need to know and what can’t we know about generative AI? This presentation grapples with the main issues of AI understanding and information access, through the lens of trade secret law — itself the primary law way that private companies are using to monetize AI.