AI Symposium Recap

We’re meeting this Wednesday at 6pm in the executive conference room at HudsonAlpha. The door is on the right as you walk up to the main entrance.

We’ll do a rundown of all of the sessions at the AI Symposium that we were able to cover. There were several slots where there were two sessions and one workshop all going at the same time, so it’s only possible to cover the entire schedule by dividing and conquering.

We’ll also capture comments that we can flow back to the organizers to prepare for next year.

Next week we will have a virtual paper review led by Josh Phillips. We will be dissecting SAM 3 (Segment Anything Model 3), a unified model that bridges the gap between geometric segmentation (clicks and boxes) and semantic understanding (text and concepts). I’ll get more details out later this week.

There’s also a new monthly meetup at UAH I2C that Carl Holden (Zellus Marketing) and the ARC are starting. They are starting off with a demo of Lovable that should be interesting, as well as providing food & drinks. There is no cost for this meetup. More info at the cool Lovable site that Carl thew out there – https://ai-after-hours.lovable.app/

We met in January to start planning for the year and see how we can impact the workforce in the Huntsville area. The strategy that I’m advising here is that we find a way to measure the AI Literacy of the greater Huntsville workforce. Then we can put together a strategy to “move the needle” to drive adoption of AI tools that will make us more productive, while watching the risk of tasks being replaced by AI driven automation.

If you have thoughts in this direction, please let me know. We’re doing a working lunch this week to try to put together a session for March.

Links:

• I was going to link to the SRC AI Symposium page, but I get an access denied 🙁

Details:

• Date – 02/04/2026
• Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
• Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
• Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
• Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/qbz-ehjb-qij