#AcademicRunPlaylist - 11/14/24

Another day dealing with the craziness from yesterday, but luckily I'm well caffeinated and equipped with lots of talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by Laurent Frésard on knowledge cycles and corporate investment at the Workshop of Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (WEFI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXIB5CMeLs

Next was an incredible talk by Richard Moorhead on bringing professionalism and ethics back to the practice of law at the UCL Faculty of Laws. Moorhead reviews the issues with the current state of legal ethics, particularly in the corporate world, the challenges with improving the status quo, and various paths forward. IMO this kind of reflection is gravely needed in tech and management more broadly. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF6J9NrqNXc

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Amir Sariri on the relationship between mentorship and a startup's prediction ability at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7dy-bl6ZbY

Next was an informative panel on the impact of the UK's 1994 trade marks act at UCL Laws with Robert Burrell, Geoffrey Hobbs, Annette Kur, and Kelly Saliger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amBr_WYi8ok

Next was an intriguing talk by Sophie Calder-Wang on team demographic homophily and subjective performance ratings at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkot8xdMOY

Next was a star-studded panel on impacted communities and the governance of data, algorithms, and AI at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship with talks by Margot Kaminski (different strategies and justifications for stakeholder engagement in AI system development/deployment) and Paul Ohm (why technologists shouldn't be centered in discussions around AI policy) and discussion by Meg Leta Jones and Scott Skinner-Thompson. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li7El_H_cFE

Next was a nice talk by David Hunt on using mmWave radars for navigation in resource-constrained autonomous systems at The Athena AI Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPTIORV2bQ

Next was a fantastic panel on impacted communities and access to telecommunication services and platform governance at Silicon Flatirons with Casey Fiesler (fanfic community design and governance), Blake Reid (the curb cut effect), and discussion from Gabrielle Daley and Meg Leta Jones. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J66xKWchttg

Next was a great talk by Julia Nakhleh on the effects of multi-task learning on ReLU neural network functions at UW-Madison Computer Sciences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inrrq6DoWE0

Next was an excellent talk by Iro Armeni on creating and updating 3D representations of changing indoor scenes at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxgsPzI97g

Last was an important panel on the last 30 years of thinking in gender and economic development at the LSE with Naila Kabeer, Naomi Hossain, and Erin Lentz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_K6YcUWWI