ATONATON’s Madeline Gannon to Keynote 3rd annual Computing Day

We are pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of the third annual Computing Day is one of the top ten women in the Robotics Industry also known as “The Robot Whisperer”, Dr. Madeline Gannon of ATONATON.

Computing Day showcases the vast array of interdisciplinary research and scholarship in computing at the University of Miami. Join us at the Lakeside Village Expo Center on Friday, April 25, 2025. Computing Day convenes faculty and student scholars, corporate and government professionals, and other audiences engaged in computing to design the future and foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. This event is free and open to the public.

Keynote Speaker | Madeline Gannon

Madeline Gannon

ATONATON is led by Dr. Madeline Gannon, a multidisciplinary designer and inventor forging new futures for human-robot relations. Dr. Gannon blends techniques in art, design, computer science, and robotics to convince robots to do things they were never intended to do: from transforming giant industrial robots into living, breathing mechanical creatures, to taming hordes of autonomous machines to behave like a pack of animals.

Gannon believes that technology is a cultural medium, and tunes her work to engage communities across science and society. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Copernicus Science Centre, and has been exhibited at international cultural institutions, published at academic conferences, and profiled at global media outlets, such as the BBC, the Guardian, FT, the Science Channel, WIRED, FastCompany, Dezeen, and The Verge.

Gannon has been a Knight Foundation Awardee, a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader, a Robotics & AI Researcher at NVIDIA, and an artist in residence at ETH Zurich, Autodesk Pier 9, and the Carnegie Mellon STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. She is known as one of the ‘Top 10 Women in Robotics Industry‘ and ‘World’s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics’ according to Analytics Insight. Gannon holds a M.Arch from Florida International University, and a Ph.D. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Register Now

Friday April 25, 2025 | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM ET

University of Miami Coral Gables campus
Lakeside Village EXPO CENTER
1280 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | (Directions)

Complimentary Parking Information TBA

Agenda

9:00 AM Poster + Demo Check-in
10:00 AM Registration Opens | Poster Review Session
10:55 AM Welcome Remarks
11:00 AM Keynote Speaker | Dr. Madeline Ganon, ATONATON
12:00 PM Lunch | Posters + Demos | Networking
2:00 PM Panel Discussion
3:05 PM Closing Remarks
3:15-5:00 PM Posters + Demos | Networking Happy Hour

Call for Posters and Demos!

Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff are invited to submit posters and /or demos for presentation (scroll down for instructions). Submissions are limited to University of Miami only.

Poster Dimensions: 48″ wide x 36″ high (or 36″ wide x 48″ high) maximum. Information on how to design an academic poster (with templates): Click here.

Poster Printing: The event will cover the cost of posters printed in house through the School of Architecture Computing Lab, Building 49. Please email idsc@miami.edu for the billable account number. (The Richter Library Creative Studio large format printer is currently down.)

The submission deadline is Friday, April 18, 2025. If you have any questions and/or require additional information concerning posters or demos, please email idsc@miami.edu.

Before you enter your submission, please make sure that you have the following ready: