Save the Date! – 2019 Annual Meeting and Dinner

Save the Date

2019 Annual Dinner and Meeting

Thursday, November 7, 2019

12-5pm Annual Meeting | 6-9pm Annual Dinner

Annual Dinner Lineup

 

Keynote Speaker

 Eric Horvitz 
Technical Fellow, Microsoft; Director, Microsoft Research Labs

Horvitz is a foremost expert on artificial intelligence (AI). His research centers on the uses of AI and its challenges in the open world. He is a recipient of both the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Award for his contributions in AI. He chairs Microsoft’s Aether committee on AI, effects, and ethics in engineering and research; established the One Hundred Year Study on AI at Stanford University; and co-founded the Partnership on AI. Horvitz serves on the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors.

Honoring Chicago Leaders

	Austin Hirsch Partner	Lowell Sachnoff Senior Counsel

Reed Smith LLP  is a global relationship law firm and has long supported the Bulletin in its mission to ensure that scientific advances make life better, not worse. Hirsch and Sachnoff serve on the Governing Board for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Erin Connolly and Kate Hewitt  received the Bulletin’s 2018 Rieser Award for their essay “American students aren’t taught nuclear weapons policy in school. Here’s how to fix that problem.” They work on security and strategy issues related to nuclear weapons and arms control and promote youth awareness of nuclear policy issues.

Afternoon Meeting Lineup

Information on confirmed speakers coming soon.

For sponsorship opportunities or more information, please contact Colleen McElligott at [email protected] or 773.834.2308.