The Cognitive Industrial Revolution

DFI hosted Reid Hoffman for a conversation with Dean Costis Maglaras, speaking about the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI into the global economy. He emphasized the importance of carefully regulating AI to mitigate risks while avoiding stifling innovation. 

Big Ideas for the Big Apple: Student Innovations 

Digital Future Initiative, Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School, and Impact Competition Foundation were proud to co-sponsor the inaugural AINYC Challenge where teams pitched innovative solutions to address social issues facing New York City. Judges included Bradley Tusk, CEO - Tusk Venture Partners and CBS Professor, Denise Felipe-Adams, Executive Director & Senior Advisor - NYC Mayor's Office of Innovation and Emerging Markets, Layla O'Kane, former Research Director/Senior Economist at Lightcast, Lance B., CEO and Founder - Impact Competition Foundation, and Arnav Krishna, Director of Analytics - Food Bank for New York City. Opening remarks by Professor Sheena Iyengar, S.T. Lee Professor of Business.

Navigating the AI Frontier in the Workforce

Tania Babina, Assistant Professor of Business, Jeff Schwartz, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business and VP of Insights and Impact at Gloat, and Angela Jung '20, Consultant at Russell Reynolds Associates, discussed how AI is reshaping the professional landscape in a public lecture on March 27, moderated by Stephan Meier, James P. Gorman Professor of Business and co-director of DFI’s Humans in the Digital Economy Lab.

The Power of Prediction

On May 29th, DFI co-hosted a full-day conference, "The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast," organized by David Stark, the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, Elena Esposito, Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University and the University of Bologna, and Omar Besbes, the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and co-director of DFI's Algorithmic Economy Lab.

We welcomed colleagues from Sociology, the Business School, Statistics, and Computer Science, as well as social scientists across the industry to engage in thought-provoking discussions.

Pete Kyle, Charles E. Smith Chair in Finance at Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, spoke on “Flow Trading.”

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