One keynote takes place on each day of the conference. The first is a joint keynote shared by CI and HCOMP, followed by the HCOMP keynote and then the CI keynote. The three talks span industry, academia, and government.
Talk titles, abstracts, and speaker bios are added here as we receive them. The session times for each keynote are in the program.
Joint Keynote
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer
Microsoft
Talk title, abstract, and bio coming soon.
HCOMP Keynote
Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
Human-AI Collaboration: Building Agents That Augment Work
AI agents are transforming how people work; however, building agents that augment workers requires knowing what they want from AI, how they collaborate with it, and whether that collaboration helps them. In this talk, we first audit the U.S. workforce to map where workers want automation, where they want augmentation, and where AI capabilities fall short, complemented by an analysis of nearly 250,000 real-world conversations. We then introduce frameworks to measure collaboration directly by pairing workers with agents on real-world tasks to separate human and agent skill contributions, and by quantifying how much cognitive effort users offload through reconstructing how they would have worked without AI. Overall, this talk highlights how to understand and evaluate human-AI collaboration and how to design agents that augment human work.
About the Speaker
Diyi Yang is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, also affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group and Stanford Human Centered AI Institute. Her research focuses on human-centered natural language processing and human-AI interaction. She is a recipient of Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2021), NSF CAREER Award (2022), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2023), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2024). Her work has received multiple paper awards or nominations at top NLP and HCI conferences.
CI Keynote
Laurie Allen
Creative Engagement Officer
Library of Congress
American Memory: A brief history of efforts to make Library of Congress materials broadly available since the beginning of the web
The Library of Congress has been leading and participating in efforts to make digital collections available online for more than 30 years. In 1995, Entertainment Weekly Magazine listed the Library of Congress site "American Memory" as one of the "Five Best Websites." Since then, Library of Congress staff have relied on a range of techniques and technologies to engage the American people with the information held on their behalf in the oldest federal cultural heritage institution in the United States (and the largest library in the world). Successive and overlapping strategies of curated websites, institutional collaboration, mass digitization, single-search-interfaces, crowdsourcing, collections-as-data, and machine learning through to contemporary uses of AI have challenged us to think across the disparate scales of human knowledge, cultural memory, and individual learning. As a way to explore these issues, the talk will describe a recent program from the Library of Congress to operate at the scale of local communities by co-creating digital experiences onsite inside public libraries, institutions whose approach to tackling the problems of scale offers an interesting complement to the challenges we face at the national level.
About the Speaker
Laurie Allen is the Creative Engagement Officer in Researcher & Collections Services at the Library of Congress. She moved into this new position in 2026 after serving as the Chief of the Digital Innovation Division (LC Labs) in the Digital Strategy Directorate. Before joining the Library of Congress in 2019, she spent nearly 20 years in academic libraries, leading efforts in scholarly communication, crowdsourcing, public data curation, and a variety of other projects where history, memory, art, and cultural heritage intersect with new technologies and new approaches to public engagement. Laurie lives in Philadelphia and holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Bard College, and a Master's of Library and Information Science from Simmons College.