The AI Fair & Hackathon
April 16, 2026
Designing Tomorrow with AI, for Everyone
The AI Fair & Hackathon is a free, ticketed event, and open to the public.
AI Fair & Hackathon Agenda
9:00 a.m.
Check-In
Ursa Major Rotunda
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Hackathon Presentations
Ursa Minor
10:00 a.m. - Noon
AI Research and Demonstrations
Ursa Major
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Keynote
What Is Responsible AI?
Michael Brent
Opening Remarks provided by Diane Miller
1:15 p.m - 2:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence, The Opportunities and Risks
Ursa Minor
2:15 p.m.
AI Hackathon Closing Ceremony & Awards
Ursa Minor
Breakout Sessions
Following the AI Fair & Hackaton, attendees are invited to network with the CPP Career Center, SHI, Cisco and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in any of the following sessions from 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
CPP Career Center
Career Preparation and AI Prompting
Perseus
SHI
High Performance Computing at CPP
Andromeda A
Cisco
Splunk Machine Data 101
Orion
Student Club Demonstrations
AI Ethics & Current Events
Join the AI Ethics, and the Science, Technology, and Society clubs to learn about AI's global impact. Win prizes by participating in a trivia game focused on ethical and societal principles.
Autonomous Driving
Join the Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory (AVL) in a demonstration of current projects including SLAM, Object Detection, Path-Planning and others.
Creating Complex Research Tools
By leveraging Google's quick draw data, recent breakthroughs in machine learning, and publicly available information DSAI and CSS recreate a resource that normally takes researchers years to develop.
AI Agent Safety with Openclaw: Working for AND against you!
FAST demonstrates safe and efficient approaches to take advantage of AI agents.
Computer Vision & Detection
Using computer vision to detect the activity and trends of the Maker Studio.
AI Resume Optimizer
Management Information Systems Student Association (MISSA) interactive AI tool instantly improves a resume and highlights the differences for clarity, impact, and style.
Software Engineering Projects with SEA
Learn more about Software Engineering Association's (SEA) semester long projects Including a campus event mobile app, 2D/3D graphics rendering, and others.
Analyzing Network Traffic with Machine Learning
SWIFT's visualization dashboard analyzes network traffic for anomalies, using Python the dashboard is Open Source, and can be self-hosted for further experimentation.
The Splunk AI Assistant for SPL
The Security Operations Center explores running natural language queries in data analysis.
Machine Learning for Wake-Word Detection
SheCodes explores their model to recognize 鈥測es鈥 and 鈥渘o,鈥 distinguish them from unknown words, silence, and filter out background noise.
The Kitty Eclipse Project
Walkthrough of the Women In Tech (WIT.) Kitty Eclipse project.
About the Conference
The AI Fair & Hackathon returns to 起点传媒 on Thursday, April 16, 2026. and join us for CPP student club demonstrations, sessions presented by industry professionals, and network with technology enthusiasts to explore this year’s theme, Designing Tomorrow with AI, for Everyone.
The AI Fair & Hackathon at 起点传媒 is a free, ticketed event, for all students, technologists, and the public.
Conference Agenda
From 9 a.m. onward attendees have access to sessions presented by industry professionals, CPP students, CPP technology clubs, and a panel discussion. Organizers are finalizing the specifics and will post the complete agenda in coming weeks.
Parking
If you are joining us from off campus, take a moment to review CPP's Parking Policies and Procedures.
The AI Fair & Hackathon is free to attend and open to the public, but parking is not included with your visitor ticket. You can purchase a parking day pass for $8.00 from any pay station. Guests joining us from off campus are restricted to and student parking; accessible parking is available in all lots.
- Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
- Time: 9 a.m. to approximately 4:00 p.m.
- Location: 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA, 91768
- Parking:
- Event Location: Bronco Student Center, second floor.
CPP is a large campus; arrive at least thirty minutes before the event to find parking and make your way to the conference.