Beyond the Noise - Elevating Information Quality in a Generative AI Era
Hosted by TIM in collaboration with the Information Professionals Association (IPA)
When: October 28, 2024
Where: Washington, DC
The Challenge
The Opportunity
In today's evolving information environment, information quality is critical for individuals, organizations, and governments to make sound decisions. However, the speed and volume of unreliable, opaque, or misleading content overwhelms how we consume and discern quality information and undermines public trust . This challenge is further compounded by the potential misuse and exploitation of generative AI, especially by those actors who want to interfere with our political, economic or social stability.
The Impact of Aligned and Trusted AI on Information Quality effort will be critical and enduring:
Building a community to enable and promote information quality
Building a common framework on evaluating and aligning AI toward information quality
Developing and sharing ways to increase consumption of quality information
To meet the challenge of AI and information quality, the symposium will bring together experts from media, academia and other non profits, business, technology, government and will focus on four themes:
How to conceptualize and develop standards and measurements on information quality
How to align AI with accurate and reliable information
How challenges and potential of leveraging AI can support information quality
How to build a coalition of stakeholders across civic groups, industry, government, & academia to align AI with information quality
Agenda
(Changes will be made up to the date of the Symposium)
8:00 am Onward: Registration
8:30 - 9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 am: Welcome Address
The Honorable Ellen McCarthy (TIM Cooperative), Brian Murphy (Information Professionals Association), and Max Stier (CEO, Partnership for Public Service)
9:15 -10:00 am: The Information Supply Chain: Opportunities and Challenges
Fireside Chat with Marcus Brauchli (Northbase Media) and the Honorable Sue Gordon (former Principal Deputy Director National Intelligence)
10:00 - 10:45 am: Scene Setter - Incident Response - How things have changed?
Moderator: COL David Acosta (USAR, Commander- 2nd Brigade, 91st Training Division)
Panelists: CAPT Sharon Russell (USCGR, Deputy Incident Management Lead), David Fleet (Edelman), and David Kaufman (Institute for Public Research, Center for Naval Analysis)
10:45 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 am: Session 1: What is Information Quality?
Moderator: Tom Nagorski (Cipher Brief).
Panelists: JD Maddox (GMU) , Katherine Keyes (Columbia University), Dr. David Bray (LDA Ventures & Stimson Center), and Kevin Baron (former Politico)
11:45 - 12:30 pm: Session 2: Why Information Quality Matters?
Moderator: Dr. Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University)
Panelists: Dr. Jill Crisman (UL Labs), Michelle Ciulla Lipkin (NAML), and John Cohen (CIS)
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Working Lunch: Information Quality- A Dashboard Review-TIM
Presenters: Ellen McCarthy (TIM Cooperative), Randy Bator (NEAT Labs), and Yevgeny Simkin (A Flat Minor).
1:30 - 2:15 pm: Session 3: Information Quality and Election Integrity
Moderator: Amy Cohen (NASED)
Panelists: Zach Baadorf (Military Veterans in Journalism), Aaraj Vij (Verba AI), Veronica Degraffenreid (Brennan Center), Jessica Brandt (Office of the Director of National Intelligence), and Jamil Jaffer (GMU NSI)
2:15 - 2:30 pm: Afternoon Break
2:30 - 3:30pm: Lightning Round - AI and Information Quality
Moderator: Brian Murphy (Information Professionals Association)
Participants: Lyric Jain (Logically), C John Kelly (founder of Graphika), and Richard Coffin (USAFacts), and Michael Southworth (Babel Street).
3:30 - 4:15 pm: Session 4: Demand for Information Quality - Factors Affecting Consumption of Information Quality
Moderator: Cory Simpson (Institute for Critical Infrastructure)
Panelists: Beth Sanner (CNN and former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration), Ilan Berman (American Foreign Policy Council), Dr. Johanna Dunaway (Syracuse University), and Sean Lyngaas (CNN)
4:15 - 5:00 pm: Closing Fireside Chat
Ellen McCarthy (TIM Cooperative) and Michael Abramowitz (Director Voice of America)
5:00 - 5:30 pm: Closing Remarks and Future Discussion
Brian Murphy (Information Professionals Association) and the Honorable Ellen McCarthy (TIM)
5:30 - 7:00 pm: Networking Reception
Are you interested in participating as a speaker or underwriter of this event? Please email us at rdiamond@timcoop.org, to learn more or use the buttons to learn more about sponsorship opportunities and direct donations. We appreciate your support!
Symposium Advisors
Rebecca Diamond, Sponsorships
Cynthia Mendoza, Sponsorships
