Comm Week 2024
Valuing Our Space: 10/23 - 10/25
Schedule
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. (RSC 264 - Spencer)
- Al Tompkins, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute
- Artificial Intelligence is moving at warp speed, but communication professionals must keep up. The Poynter Institute's Al Tompkins will explore what鈥檚 new and show you how easy it it is to create virtually undetectable AI-generated audio, video and photos in real time. He鈥檒l also explore how AI is creating chaos in elections worldwide.
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (RSC 264 - Spencer)
- Al Tompkins, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute
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Al Tompkins will continue exploring Artificial Intelligence, looking at how it can be a useful tool for communication students and professionals. He will help you learn about detecting AI-generated audio, video, photos and text.
lunch:
- Noon 鈥� Lunch & Ones to Watch Panel in RSC Room 233 (Santa Fe Trail)
- Come grab some good food, play a short game to win cool prizes and hear from four of our Ones to Watch honorees. These young alumni will share advice and stories from their time in the Elliott School and during their early career years. Bring your questions for these outstanding alumni.
1:30 - 3:30 p.m. (RSC 264 - Spencer)
- Al Tompkins, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute
- The afternoon session will cover the same topics as the morning sessions combined, but is a second opportunity for students and for local professionals to catch Tompkins鈥� presentation.
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. (RSC 264 - Spencer)
- Emily Christensen and Teri Mott
- Mott and Christensen run a Wichita-based independent newsroom and publish The Shout, a digital news source covering the arts. The Shout offers reviews and feature stories about the work of Kansas artists, performers, musicians, dancers, writers and creative people of all kinds.
11 a.m. - noon (RSC 264 - Spencer)
- Hexcode, a full-service advertising agency
- Hexcode did all of the branding for Lily Wu鈥檚 mayoral campaign.
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. (RSC 262 Herrman)
- Pizza lunch and 萝莉社/Elliott/Communication themed trivia game!
- We will play two rounds and give away more cool prizes. The grand prize for each game will be an Elliott School branded Owala bottle.
Choose how you get there.
- By city bus from campus:
- Meet ESC Director Jeffrey Jarman at Elliott Hall at 9:15 a.m. to catch the city bus for a free ride downtown. (You will need your 萝莉社 ID to ride the bus for free.)
- Catch Bus Route 21 at the bus stop south Elliott Hall at 9:27 a.m.
- Arrive at the transit center downtown at 9:49 a.m.
- You鈥檒l have 10 minutes to walk to one of the first sessions, which start at 10 a.m.
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- Eric Wilson and Ian Tennant will meet the groups at the 10 a.m. sessions.
- Or: Get downtown on your own and meet the group at one of the two 10 a.m. sessions and then at one of the two 11 a.m. sessions.
Choose a 10 a.m. session:
- Cargill Protein, 825 E. Douglas 鈥� This beautiful, new North American headquarters supports the production, distribution and marketing of beef, turkey, chicken and egg products to retail, foodservice and food manufacturers throughout North America.
- Idea Ranch, 121 N. Mead, suite 201 鈥� Formerly known as Brothers, this advertising agency started in Oklahoma and opened Wichita offices to serve the Fidelity Bank account and pursue other Wichita opportunities.
Choose an 11 a.m. session:
- Digital Brand, 151 N. Rock Island, Suite 1G 鈥� this video production company, established in 2000 by ESC alumnus Eric Zoller, produces commercial and editorial video content for a wide range of clients.
- KMUW, 89.1 FM, 121 N. Mead, Suite 200 鈥� KMUW, NPR for Wichita, is committed to providing quality journalism to the community. KMUW produces 12 local newscasts each weekday and regular in-depth news features. KMUW is a service of 萝莉社and has served the community for 75 years.