Meaningful use of AI is more about people than technology. The AI + Care @ Iowa: Challenge and Promise Obermann Symposium brings together clinicians, scholars, and community stakeholders to catalyze collaboration, drive Iowa as a center of excellence in AI, and explore how we utilize these powerful tools to sustain human connections and thoughtful care in Iowa and beyond.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Directed by Kenneth Nepple (Department of Urology), Jason Misurac (Department of Pediatrics), and Weiguo Patrick Fan (Department of Business Analytics), this symposium builds on the University of Iowa Health Care’s deployment of AI to engage the issue of care in all its dimensions. Practitioners and researchers from different disciplines will address issues from the cancer rate in Iowa and healthcare provider burnout to the values underlying different approaches to caring for others and the self. The event will facilitate interdisciplinary discussions between professionals in medicine, business analytics, humanities, law, the arts, software engineering, journalism, social sciences, education, and more. Our goal is that the symposium will bridge these perspectives to look productively at an issue that generates both trepidation and hope.

Symposium events are free and open to all, unless otherwise noted.