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I speak about institutional AI work at UC San Diego, including what has worked, what has not, and the questions we are still working through.
Sessions use campus examples to discuss practical tradeoffs, with measured results where available. These topics are starting points for a session shaped around your audience.
How UC San Diego developed an institutional AI service from an early pilot. Covers architecture, governance, on-premises hosting, and lessons from campus use.
Audience takeaway: What it takes to move from a pilot to a supported campus service.
How supervised AI agents are being tested in administrative workflows, including contract review, financial data questions, and transcript matching. Covers controls, review, and measured results.
Audience takeaway: How to choose a workflow with clear limits and decide where human review belongs.
A practical look at data classification, review, and guardrails for institutional AI. Includes where governance has helped and where questions remain unresolved.
Audience takeaway: Questions to ask about data access, oversight, and responsibility before expanding use.
How UC San Diego supports staff, researchers, and faculty as they build AI tools. Includes credits, templates, guardrails, and the steps from an idea to a supported application.
Audience takeaway: How to support people building tools without leaving each department to manage its own platform.
How shared AI infrastructure can support campus services while reducing duplicated setup across departments. Includes examples from UC San Diego and peer institutions using related approaches.
Audience takeaway: How to compare shared services, local hosting, and cloud access against institutional needs.
Watch a session · September 2024
A UC Tech webinar with Vince Kellen, Allorah Pradenas, and me on the platform, campus use, and collaboration with other institutions. This recording reflects the program at that time.
Brett Pollak is Executive Director of Workplace Technology & Infrastructure Services at UC San Diego. His portfolio includes infrastructure, data and analytics, service desk and endpoint support, collaboration tools, and AI platforms. His work on TritonAI includes TritonGPT and developer access. He speaks about the practical work of introducing and supporting technology in higher education, drawing on campus experience with AI services, governance, and adoption.
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