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Featuring leaders from Anthropic, Amazon, ebay, Microsoft, and more!
How will new AI technologies transform the workplace? This interdisciplinary conference will bring together leading academic researchers, AI scientists at frontier labs, and experts from the private sector to discuss how AI is reshaping the nature of work and the broader labor market. Featuring a mix of presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, the goal is to facilitate two-way interactions between researchers studying and developing AI tools and business leaders seeking to put them into practice in their companies today. By doing so, this conference seeks to foster opportunities for collaborations between academics, scientists, and practitioners, while also allowing those closest to these transformative technologies to share their experiences and perspectives.
Key Features
- Keynotes from top AI researchers and technology leaders
- Panels featuring economists, CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise engineers
- Emerging research presentations
- Networking reception
Panelists and Participants
- David Almog - Ph.D. Candidate, Managerial Economics and Strategy at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
- Bharat Chandar - Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
- Tom Cunningham - Data Scientist at METR
- Andrey Fradkin - Associate Professor of Marketing at Boston University, Questrom School of Business
- Lukas Freund - Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston College
- Ben Hyman - Senior Researcher at UCLA, California Policy Lab
- Brian Jabarian - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics at the University of Chicago
- Danial Lashkari - Economic Research Advisor, Labor and Product Markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Seyed M. Hosseini - Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University, Department of Economics
- Sanjog Misra - Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI
- Hugo Reichardt - Assistant Professor at CREi and Barcelona School of Economics
- Bryan Seegmiller - Assistant Professor of Finance at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
- Jesse Silbert - Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Princeton University, Department of Economics
- Zoë Hitzig - Researcher and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Anthropic Institute
Special Guests
Vikas Chowdhry
Founder and CEO of TraumaCare.AI
Chowdhry builds AI-powered tools to help trauma and ICU teams improve outcomes for critically injured patients. He founded the company after spending two decades developing deep expertise in healthcare technology, clinical AI, and product leadership—skills he now applies to one of medicine's most time-critical domains.
Eleanor Dillon
Principal Researcher, Economics and Computation group at Microsoft Research
Dillon's research is in labor and personnel economics, with a focus on the impact of new technologies on the future of work and the economy, and in innovative methods for causal estimation. Eleanor received her bachelor’s degree in economics from Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Microsoft, Eleanor was an assistant professor at Arizona State University and a visiting assistant professor at Amherst College
Ahmed Njikam
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Ahmed received his Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology and his Master of Engineering from Hunan University. Prior to working at Amazon, Ahmed was an Instructor in Advanced Machine Learning at University of Washington.
Sam Kwei
Head of Applied ML PMO, Core ML at Google
Kwei drives strategic initiatives and scales operational execution for Google's flagship AI models, including Gemini. A seasoned technology leader, Sam’s expertise spans machine learning, datacenter infrastructure, and cloud services. Prior to his current role at Google, he built a robust foundation across software engineering, international business development, and marketing through leadership roles at Intel, HP, and Symantec. Throughout his career, Sam has specialized in bridging complex technical architecture with global business execution, bringing deep expertise in senior executive communication and B2B solution consulting. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Maxim Massenkoff
Head of Core Economic Research at Anthropic
Previously, Massenkoff was an Applied Scientist at Elicit and before that an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. His research has been covered in the New York TImes, The Economist, and, importantly, Marginal Revolution. Maxim received his PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2020.
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov
Chief AI Officer at eBay
Mekel-Bobrov leads eBay’s vision and strategy for transforming how it delivers value to sellers and buyers around the globe through AI-led experiences, such as semantic recommenders, reasoning systems, visual understanding, and immersive visual experiences. He has led the AI organizations at some of the largest brands in health care, financial services, and e-commerce, spanning AI science, engineering, and product development. He holds a doctorate in computational genomics and masters in computer science from the University of Chicago.
Who Should Attend
- CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
- Academic researchers in AI, economics, computer science, and public policy
- Enterprise data science and engineering leaders
- HR, workforce, and talent innovation leaders
