→Microsoft Day: Keynote (9:30 AM) + Copilot Hands-On Labs | KH A203 + UK Fireside Chat + AI Careers Panel
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Breakout 3A: Miscrosoft 365 Copilot Promptathon Zoom: (937-1763-8051)
https://unl.zoom.us/j/93717638051
Breakout 3B: GitHub Copilot - AI Pair Progammer to AI Coding Teammate Zoom: (967-7428-4341)
https://unl.zoom.us/j/96774284341
Breakout 4A: From Husker to Hired Zoom: (937-1763-8051)
https://unl.zoom.us/j/93717638051
Breakout 4B: AI for Research and Innovation Zoom: (967-7428-4341)
https://unl.zoom.us/j/96774284341
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Day 1: Inside Outside Summit + Student Promptathon
Day 3: MathWorks Day + AI Commons for Libraries
Day 4: Teaching & Learning Community of Practice
Day 5: Student Spotlight + Ghost in the Machine
Day 6: HCC Introduction to AI & Machine Learning
Day 8: OpenAI Day + Great Prairie Prompting Show
Day 9: NU Graduate College Workshop
Tuesday, April 21 | Week 2 opens with Microsoft.
Week 2 opens with our Microsoft partnership on full display. Sam Bhatia, Microsoft's Medical Director of Innovation for Healthcare and Life Sciences and an Omaha-based alum of Creighton, opens the day alongside Mark Stone. The schedule moves through Microsoft's AI vision for higher education, hands-on Copilot labs for faculty and staff, Copilot Studio agents, GitHub Copilot for developers, a virtual fireside chat with University of Kentucky leadership on AI at institutional scale, and a student-focused AI Careers panel with the full Microsoft team. Office Hours close the day.
| Time | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:00 AM | Opening (Jennifer Nelson, Interim VCRI) + Keynote (Sam Bhatia, Microsoft) | KH A203 |
| 10:00 - 10:50 AM | Microsoft AI in Action: Copilot Chat and Microsoft's AI vision for Higher Education | KH A203 |
| 10:50 - 11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Breakout 1a: M365 Copilot for Faculty | KH A510 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Breakout 1b: M365 Copilot for Staff/Operations | KH A235 |
| 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Lunch at Cather Dining (registration required, now full) | |
| 12:45 - 1:20 PM | From Classroom to Commonwealth: A Fireside Chat with Ian McClure (AVPR, University of Kentucky) | KH A310 |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Breakout 2a: Hands On Lab: M365 Copilot Prompt-a-thon | KH A310 |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Breakout 2b: Understanding Agents with Copilot Studio | KH A510 |
| 2:30 - 3:25 PM | Breakout 3a: Hands On Lab: M365 Copilot Prompt-a-thon | KH A310 |
| 2:30 - 3:25 PM | Breakout 3b: GitHub Copilot: AI Pair Programmer to AI Coding Teammate | KH A235 |
| 3:30 - 4:15 PM | Breakout 4a: From Husker to Hired: AI Careers Unlocked | KH A510 |
| 3:30 - 4:15 PM | Breakout 4b: AI for Research and Innovation | KH A541 |
| 4:15 - 4:45 PM | Office hours | KH A541 |
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Tomorrow, Wednesday Apr 22: OpenAI Day at the College of Business, closing with the Great Prairie Prompting Show in the evening, with Guy Trainin as MC.
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Monday, April 13 | Husker AI Days is off and running.
About 30 students packed KH A203 for the "Is It Fake?" Promptathon, an AI image competition inspired by "Is It Cake?" Teams created AI-generated images of fictional campus moments, then everyone voted on which were real and which were AI. The quality of the AI images genuinely surprised the room. Team Magicans won with a classroom scene generated in ChatGPT that fooled nearly everyone. Chaeda took the "Sharpest Eyes" award for best detection.