Schedule-at-a-Glance

Date What Where
Jan 3, 2017 (TUE) Hotel Check-in Extended Stay America and/or Fortune Hotel and Suites
Jan 4, 2017 (WED) Day 1 Lectures/Workshops Main Venue: Drones and Autonomous systems Lab (DASL) at UNLV
Jan 5, 2017 (THR) Day 2 Lectures/Workshops, CES Field Trip, Smart Cities Networking Event Main Venue: Drones and Autonomous systems Lab (DASL) at UNLV
Jan 6, 2017 (FRI) Day 3 Lectures/Hack-a-Thon Project Prep Main venue: Drones and Autonomous systems Lab (DASL) at UNLV
Jan 7, 2017 (SAT) Day 4 Hack-a-Thon Presentations/Farewell (Adjourn apx. 15:00 PST) Main venue: Drones and Autonomous systems Lab (DASL) at UNLV
Jan 8, 2017 (SUN) Hotel Check-out Extended Stay America and/or Fortune Hotel and Suites

DASL GPS address: 4137 Escondido St., Las Vegas, NV, 89119 (corner of E. Flamingo) - Google Map

Day 1: Jan 4, 2017 (WED)

Time Topic Speaker
07:30 Registration Desk opens
08:30 Welcome and Intro Remarks P.Oh and Student Intros
09:00 Hotel Perspective/Challenges Robert Rippee, Director of UNLV Hospitality Lab PDF
09:30 What is a Consumer Robot (Drones) Prof. Zexiang Li, HKUST/DJI PDF
10:00 What is a Consumer Robot (Education) Prof. Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech/Zyrobotics PDF
10:30 Hotel Industry Perspective (Caesars) Les Ottolenghi, VP and CIO/Caesars Entertainment Corp (no slides)
11:00 What is a Consumer Robot (Embedded Intelligence) Dr. Tony Lewis, Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm PDF
11:30 Hotel Industry Perspective (Guest Facing Robots) Arte Nathan, President & COO at Strategic Development Worldwide (no slides)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Workshop/Tutorials 1 (parallel sessions) Web Tutorials
14:30 Workshop/Tutorials 2 (parallel sessions) Web Tutorials
16:00 Enterprise-Ready Secure Mobility and Wearables Dr. Mingu Lee, VP Government at Samsung SDS America PDF
16:45 Coffee Break and Lightning Round Pitch Prep
17:00 Lightning Round Pitch (1-min per project) Pitch representative
17:15 Team Formations
18:00 Lightning Round Presentations (3-min each) Pitch representative
18:30 Dinner

Lightning Round Presentations (Day 1)

  1. Hotel Room of the Future: Dan Lofaro, Derek Hollenbeck, Cole Mortensen, Guoxiang Zhang, and Dylan Wallace PDF
  2. Localization: Kiwon Sohn, Giho Jang, Yoshimaru Tanaka, Hyunhee Lee
  3. Happy Visitor: Frank Mascarich, Minghan Wei, Blake Hament PDF
  4. VR Pacman: Jinwook Kim, Dan Lofaro PDF
  5. 100 Percent Guaranteed Autonomous Check-in Moataz Dahabra, Jacob Varley, Iretiayo Akinola, Jae Lee, Sely Lee, Colin Ward, Eadom Desalene PDF
  6. VR-Enhanced Vacation Planning: Scott Livingston, Brendan PDF

Day 2: Jan 5, 2017 (THR)

Time Topic Speaker
08:00 Workshop/Tutorials 3 (parallel sessions)
09:30 Hotel Industry Perspective (Downtown Grand Las Vegas) Seth Schor, Chairman, Downtown Grand Las Vegas (no slides)
10:00 What is a Consumer Robot (Hotel) Dr. Tessa Lau, CTO Savioke PDF
10:30 Robotics and Technology trends in Hospitality and Gaming Mike Williams, CEO Oomba
11:00 What is a Consumer Robot (Human-Robot Interaction) Dr. Ross Mead, CEO/Founder, Semio PDF
11:30 Hotel Industry Perspective (Caesar's Entertainment) Keith Wright, Regional Technical Director, Caesar's Entertainment
12:00 Lunch and Depart for CES Field Trip
13:00 CES Field Trip Tech East (LVCC) and Tech West (Sands)
18:00 Dinner at DASL Social/Networking Event hosted by ReadWrite
19:00 Smart Cities Panel Dr. David Hanson,Jonathan Heath, Mike Sapien, moderated by Christopher Caen
19:45 Networking Social Continues
21:00 Art and Startup Exhibition

Day 3: Jan 6, 2017 (FRI)

Time Topic Speaker
08:30 Free Time (e.g. Project or more CES
13:00 Project Time
18:30 Dinner

Project Preparation (Day 3)

  1. Final Day presentations limited to 10-min (which includes Q&A). Budget accordingly!
  2. 10-min Presentation Slide Template PDF | PPT (please use to keep presentations consistent)
  3. Try to justify why this is consumer robot (versus just a consumer electronic device/service)
  4. Live presentation: group leads will draw straws for presentation order SAT morning
  5. Please email PPT to [email protected] no later than 09:00 Jan 7 (SAT)

Day 4: Jan 7, 2017 (SAT)

Time Topic Speaker
09:30 Project Presentations and Demos
10:30 Hotel Industry Project Feedback Les Ottolenghi, Seth Schor and Robert Rippee
11:00 Closing Remarks (IEEE/RAS) Prof. Satoshi Tadokoro (President), and Prof. Erwin Prassler (VP Industry Affairs
12:00 Lunch and Adjourn

Conclusion (Day 4)

  1. Group Photo!
  2. Please complete survey; need data for RAS' fact-finding studies in Consumer Robotics
  3. More CES stuff today (e.g. free talks): see Schedule. Please visit IEEE/RAS booth Booth #30546, south Hall, Upper Level, Las Vegas ConventionCenter
  4. Downtown Grand eSports: 206 N 3rd St, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Google Map. Free to play; $15 for tournament play
  5. Hotel check-out Sun (before 11 AM). Rides to Airport, on your own
  6. IEEE/RAS sponsored Conference URAI 2017 Call for Papers