INDUSTRY PANEL




Monday, March 23, 2026 — 4:00–5:00 PM

Industry leaders discuss challenges and opportunities at the intersection of human-centered design and information retrieval.

Moderator

Leif Azzopardi
Leif Azzopardi Moderator Principal Applied Scientist, Microsoft A/ Prof. in AI & Data Science, University of Strathclyde

Panelists

Vanessa Murdock
Vanessa Murdock Sr. Manager Applied Science Amazon AWS
Aarti Choudhary
Aarti Choudhary Chief Responsible AI Lead and Architect AMD
Dan Liebling
Dan Liebling Staff Engineering Manager Google
Milad Shokouhi
Milad Shokouhi Vice President Microsoft CoPilot Search and BizChat
Kevin Shah
Kevin Shah Director of AI, T-Life, MarTech Products T-Mobile