Navigating the AI Revolution: Key Insights from a Successful Campus-Wide Initiative
In just one year, our campus-wide generative AI initiative has tripled its user base, serving 15,000 students, faculty, and staff. As the only UC campus offering unrestricted access to our AI tool for all campus affiliates, we've revolutionized approaches to learning, research, and administrative tasks. We'll discuss: Latest features: API access, classroom assistant, learning academy, prompt library, MS office support, Claude 3.7 reasoning Strategies for fostering cross-departmental collaboration Overcoming skepticism and data security concerns Success stories, including a chatbot for the Humanities dean’s grad seminar class and automating art cataloging for 3,000+ pieces of art High student adoption: 2,000 students logging in over 90,000 times and generating 100,000+ monthly chat messages by February 2025. Join us to learn how your institution can leverage our experiences to accelerate your own AI initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
Speaker/Host
Primary/Host Speaker
Sarkis Daglian
Director of AI, Cloud, and Client Solutions at UC Irvine
Co-speaker(s)
Additional Speakers
Max Garrick
Assistant Director at UC Irvine
Chris Price
AI Lead Software Solutions Architect and Developer at UC Irvine
AI Lead Software Solutions Architect and Developer for UC Irvine's new Generative AI team under the Office of Information Technology (OIT), primarily supporting the ZotGPT platform and brand. Since the emergence of generative AI, Chris has played a pivotal role architecting generative AI solutions, including UCI's ZotGPT platform, to engage our campus community in this new technology. Chris provides technical direction, solution evaluation, software implementation, project management, and overall connects and coordinates the team of volunteers and full time staff with the goals for the platform. Before this Chris supported UC Irvine's Office of Research Administration for a little over 6 years, and UC Irvine's Student Life and Leadership for a little over 5 years. During that time Chris published software security research in password management. Prior to higher education, Chris worked for themselves in the software development field for about 7 years.
Tom Andriola
Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital Officer at UC Irvine
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