ATO Meetup: Agentic AI, Interoperability, and Automation

Details

Our September meetup will be special. It’s the final “official” meetup before the All Things Open conference in mid October. We’ll pull out all the bells and whistles to make it great, including the possibility of cool new swag.

The topic will be a unique one – Agentic AI, Interoperability, and Automation: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future. We’ll take a trip through time to better understand how we got to where we currently are, and where we might be going in the future.
Dr. Chris Hazard, CTO & co-founder of HowSo will be the featured speaker.

Doors open at 6:00 pm for networking with the RTP tech community, live programming begins at 6:30 sharp. As always, free swag will be available. Food and beverages will also be served.

RSVP today and save your place! It’s 100% free to attend.

Location and Address:

The Armory
212 Foster Street
Durham, NC 27701
*The Durham Armory is located on the corner of Foster and Morgan streets

Parking:
Guest parking is available on the street or at the Durham Centre Parking Garage located at 300 W. Morgan Street

Speaker:
Dr. Chris Hazard, CTO & Co-founder, HowSo

Talk Title:
Agentic AI, Interoperability, and Automation: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future

Abstract:
Imagine a future where machines can seamlessly communicate, coordinate, and make decisions on their own. Les Gasser did when he was a founding figure in the field of multiagent systems in the 1980’s. But how did we get here? And what can we learn from analogous successes and setbacks of the past? This talk takes a fascinating journey through the history of technological advancements, relating lessons learned from the past to today. What can we learn from the early adoption and standardization of network protocols and web services discovery to understand where agentic tool use may be going? Will LLMs play a stronger role in interoperability, contextualization, or functionality? Join Dr. Hazard as we explore the frontiers of agentic AI, interoperability, and automation, and leave with new ideas of the past and for the future.

Questions? Contact us at info@allthingsopen.org.

Dr. Chris Hazard is co-founder and CTO of Howso. Howso’s understandable and privacy enhancing AI spun out of Hazardous Software, a company Chris founded in 2007 that focuses on decision support, visualization, and simulation for hard strategy problems in large organizations, DoD, and government. Chris holds a PhD in computer science from NC State, with focus on artificial intelligence for trust and reputation. He was a software architect of CDMA infrastructure at Motorola, worked on robot coordination and logistics at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), is an active member of the CompTIA AI Advisory Council, and advised NATO on cyber security policies. He has led simulation, serious gaming, and software projects related to cyber security, social engineering, logistics, economics, and psychology, and is a certified hypnotist. Dr. Hazard is also known for his 2011 game Achron, which won GameSpot’s Best Original Game Mechanic award, and for his research on AI/ML, privacy, game design, and human-computer interaction, for which he has given keynote speeches at major conferences and been featured in mainstream media.

Admission is free, but you must register.