AI in Action Event Series: How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming Firms?

How is AI being used by firms? What is the impact? What are the impediments to the use of AI?
This second conference in our AI in Action Series addressed these questions and more, featuring experts from industry, academia and policy institutions.

Learn more about our first conference in May 2023: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Policy

Agenda - December 12, 2023 

Welcome and Introduction: Aaditya Mattoo, Chief Economist, World Bank East Asia and Pacific Region

Keynote Address - AI and Exclusion: The Fragility of Prediction to Missing Data
by Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan)
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Moderator: Timothy DeStefano, Associate Professor of Research, Georgetown University

Session A - AI and Healthcare 

• Marius Linguraru, Professor and Endowed Chair of Research and Innovation, Children’s National Hospital
• Nawar Shara, Director, MedStar Health Research Institute
• Nikhil Sahni, Partner, Healthcare, McKinsey and Company
• Catherine Tucker, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan

Moderator: Peter McGarvey, Director of Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University

Session B - AI and Retail Services

• Fabio Luzzi, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Tapestry
• Prakhar Mehrotra, Vice President of Machine Learning, Walmart 

Moderator: Shervin Khodabandeh, Co-Lead, Boston Consulting Group's AI business in North America 

Lunch

Session C - AI and Manufacturing

• Shervin Khodabandeh, Co-Lead, Boston Consulting Group's AI business in North America 
• Ness Shroff, Director, AI Edge Institute at Ohio State University
• Matthew Wilding, Co-Lead Digital & Artificial Intelligence Program, U.S. Steel 

Moderator:  Sam Ransbotham, Professor of Business Analytics, Boston College

Session D - Roundtable on how to better measure AI diffusion and its impacts within firms and how policy can help firms fully benefit from the technology + Closing Remarks

• Carol Corrado, Distinguished Principal Research Fellow, Conference Board & Senior Policy Scholar at Georgetown University
• Olivia Igbokwe-Curry, Head of US Congressional and Political Affairs, Amazon Web Services
• Scott Wallsten, President and Senior Fellow, The Technology Policy Institute
• Nikolas Zolas, Senior Economist, Center for Economic Studies at the US Census Bureau

Moderator: Sam Ransbotham, Professor of Business Analytics, Boston College
Closing Remarks: Jonathan Timmis, Senior Economist, World Bank