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AI and the Workforce Conference

July 9-10th, 2026

Join us in Washington, DC to explore topics around the adoption and use of AI at work, how AI can be used to train and re-train the workforce, and other pathways for workforce training including apprenticeships and other on the job training.


Organizers

Mark Kennedy

Director, NYU Development Research Institute

 

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Robert Seamans

Director, NYU Stern Center for the Future of Management

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Arun Sundararajan

Director, NYU Stern Fubon Center

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Dates: July 9-10, 2026 

Location: 1307 L St NW, Washington, DC

 

NYU’s Center for the Future of ManagementFubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation, and Development Research Initiative are hosting a conference on AI and the Workforce. This is an invite-only event.

 

The conference will be held at NYU’s Washington DC campus. We will begin with a reception and dinner the evening of Thursday, July 9th. The conference will run all day Friday, July 10th. 

 

The conference will bring together academic, industry, government, policy and labor leaders for a series of discussions about understanding and shaping AI's current and future impact on the workforce: what the research tells us, views from the field, how education must evolve, creative interventions and their impact so far, and the ket policy and legislative imperatives. 

 

Stay tuned for more information about our speakers and agenda.

Speakers

Andy Armacost

President, University of North Dakota

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Joseph Atkinson

Global Chief AI Officer, PwC

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Amanda Ballantyne

Senior Fellow for Workers and Technology, New America

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Bharat Chandar

Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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Ronnie Chatterji

Chief Economist, OpenAI

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John Colborn

Executive Director, Apprenticeships for America

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Maureen Conway

Vice President, Aspen Institute

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Pam Eddinger

President, Bunker Hill Community College

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Martha Gimbel

Executive Director, The Budget Lab at Yale

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Michael Impink

Assistant Professor of Strategy, HEC Paris

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Jason Jabbari

Assistant Professor, Washington University 

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Welby Leaman

Senior Director of Global Policy Strategy, Walmart

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Sam Manning

Senior Research Fellow, GovAI

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Peter McCrory

Head of Economics, Anthropic

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Todd Saliman

President, University of Colorado

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Gregor Schubert

Assistant Professor of Finance, UCLA

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Lisa Simon

Chief Economist, Revelio

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John Soroushian

Senior Director of Policy, Americans for Responsible Innovation

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6pm-9pm: Welcome Reception and Dinner

9:00AM: Introduction and overview
9:30AM: Panel – What does the data say about AI’s impact on the workforce? 
11:00AM: Panel – Views from the field: What are executives and labor leaders seeing?
12:00PM: Lunch and keynote
1:30PM: Panel – What interventions are working and where are the gaps?
3:00PM: Panel – What are the key policy steps and who should take them? 
4:00PM: Closing and next steps
4:30PM: Reception