*Schedule subject to change*
Day 1 – October 5
All attendees welcome
all day
The Listening Wall
Attendees post responses throughout the day to the following prompts:
- What worries you most?
- What gives you hope?
- What do you want to see happen?
- How do you want to be involved?
9:00 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Robert D. Ernst, Chief Health Officer, University of Michigan
Jing Liu, Executive Director, MIDAS
9:10 AM
Session 1
What is Happening to Us?
What AI is doing to our mental health, to students, families, patients, doctors, and communities, and what it feels like to be living through this moment of rapid, uneven, and largely unregulated change.
Keynote Speaker
Vaile Wright, Senior Director of Health Care Innovation, American Psychological Association
Panel Discussion
Lindsey Mortenson, Executive Director of University Health and Counseling, Chief Mental Health Officer, Michigan Medical School
Penelope Tsernoglou, Michigan State Representative, the 75th District
More panelists to be announced
Open Q&A
10:35 AM
Audience Conversation and Sharing
Based on what you experience and what you have just heard, what worries you most, and what gives you hope?
10:55 AM
Break
11:05 AM
Session 2
What Can AI Actually Do?
What AI can and cannot do for mental health, who stands to benefit and who might be left behind, and what it would take to build these tools responsibly.
Keynote Speaker
Caitlin Stamatis, Clinical Psychologist and Head of Research, Slingshot AI
Panel Discussion
Dan Adler, Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Stephan Taylor, Daniel E Offutt III Professor of Psychiatry and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
More panelists to be announced
Open Q&A
12:30 PM
Lunch and Community Connection
Community organizations, research organizations, and industry representatives will present their work in three tracks:
- Build: What the organizations are trying to build or support.
- Study: What research questions the organizations want to answer.
- Change: What policy or practice the organizations want to see shift.
2:00 PM
Session 3
Who Gets to Decide?
AI tools affecting mental health are already being deployed, sometimes on the most vulnerable people, often without oversight. Who is responsible, what guardrails are missing, and what it would take to get this right?
Keynote Speaker
TBA
Panel Discussion
Matthew Bierlein, Michigan State House Representative, the 97th District
Lisa Prosser, Associate Vice President for Research-Health Sciences and Research Faculty Affairs; Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School; Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health; University of Michigan
Michael Tjalve, Senior AI Advisor to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, co-founder of RootsAI Foundation.
More panelists to be announced
Open Q&A
3:25 PM
What’s Next?
We will kick off a student-community collaboration project and summarize the Listening Wall comments.
Audience members will have the opportunity to pitch concrete collaboration ideas based on the lunchtime networking.
3:55 PM
Closing Remarks
Michigan’s commitment and an invitation to join us
Brad Orr, Acting Director, MIDAS
Jing Liu, Executive Director, MIDAS
Day 2 – October 6
Invite only
9:00 AM
Where We Are
A sample of current research and coordination activities on campus around AI and mental health, summary of community voices from Day 1, and summary of the research interests of faculty in the room.
9:30 AM
Discussion Round 1: Research Directions Where U-M Can Lead
Identify research directions where U-M can stand out and test these directions against what the public asked for on Day 1. Look across research themes for connections and new collaboration possibilities.
10:45 AM
Break and Idea Voting
11:00 AM
Discussion Round 2: From Idea to Action
Map ideas and what it would take to make them happen: the technical assets and the partnerships required, and the specific funding opportunities to pursue.
12:00 PM
Synthesis and Next Steps
Plan for a white paper, working groups, grant proposals, and follow-on activities.