Sawyer Laboratory UCF Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

Industry × Academia × Innovation

ExecutiveAI Roundtable

AI is getting inside people's heads. One evening on how it happens, for security and for entertainment, with the people who build experiences.

The evening

One hour, two perspectives, and the people in the room.

A small roundtable, by invitation, for the senior people who build experiences in Orlando. Two 15-minute talks on how AI gets into heads, one from industry and one from UCF, then conversation over food and drink. Catered, free parking provided.

  1. Industry keynote

    Practical AI governance

    Dr. Erica Castilho

    Dr Erica Castilho, PhD, is a strategic AI governance and adoption leader with experience building enterprise frameworks that turn AI from experiment into measurable results. Known for transforming ambiguity into structure through clear guardrails, operating models, change management, and metrics that prove impact. Brings a unique combination of AI governance, technology delivery, process automation, and people leadership, backed by a PhD in industrial engineering and experience as a startup founder and CEO. Passionate about helping organizations scale AI adoption so teams move faster, with the clarity, accountability, and measurable results leaders expect. LinkedIn

  2. Academic keynote

    Cognitive security for AI natives

    Dr. Ben D. Sawyer · University of Central Florida

    How AI reads and steers people, with a preview of the AI Mentalist, built for Black Hat/DEFCON 2027.

    Dr. Ben D. Sawyer directs the AI Natives Laboratory at the University of Central Florida and chairs the Board of Directors of the Cognitive Security Institute, after research posts at MIT and with the U.S. Air Force. His Evil Digital Twin research on how AI manipulates the people who use it has been featured twice at Black Hat USA, and he has given invited talks at Apple, Google, J.P. Morgan and Meta. LinkedIn

  3. Conversation

    Questions

  4. Networking

    Food, drink and the room

Getting there

Park once, follow the signs, and you are in the room.

  1. Park in the garage

    323 N. Parramore Avenue
    Orlando, FL 32801

    Free parking provided.

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  2. Walk to the Commons

    Dr. Phillips Academic Commons
    528 W. Livingston Street

    Event signs mark the way from the garage to the building.

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  3. Room 169

    UCF Downtown
    Orlando, FL 32801

    The program begins at 5:30 pm and closes at 6:30 pm.

Arriving by rideshare? Set your drop-off to 528 W. Livingston Street, Orlando. Your confirmation email repeats these directions, and the morning of the event you can have them sent again by email.

RSVP

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Seating is by invitation and limited. Enter the password from your invitation; your confirmation brings directions, a calendar invitation and a plus-one for a colleague.

Not invited?

We have very limited seating, but we would be happy to consider you for future roundtable events.