EVP Artificial Intelligence Innovation Program (AIIP)

For our inaugural round of submissions, staff were invited to submit proposals to address a business problem or opportunity with AI. Proposals were reviewed by a committee with representation from across EVP areas. Selected proposal teams receive:

• Access to end-user AI tools such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft CoPilot, and Google Duet and AI services including AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Vertex.
• Support from HUIT and strategic technology partners, including Amazon AWS, to explore AI solutions, lend expertise, and help shape your proposal.
• Up to $15,000 in funding for a 6 month experiment or pilot.
• An opportunity to showcase key learnings and AI innovations to administrative leadership.

Suggested proposals included, but were not limited to, the following:

• Administrative efficiences and productivity gains, e.g., scheduling and calendar management, etc.
• Customer service improvements, e.g. chatbots in customer-facing websites
• Accessing information more quickly, e.g., parsing long data sets
• System improvements, e.g., incorporating AI into our existing tools
• Workflow automation, e.g., invitation letters and confirmation of receipt, automating website updates, etc.
• Financial operations / procurement improvements, e.g. Onboarding, consolidating, standardizing, identifying suppliers or spend, credit card management and analytics, eliminating invoice exceptions, budgeting support

Below are summaries of EVP AIIP project proposals that have entered the pilot stage.