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Rama Akkiraju is the Vice President for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for IT at Nvidia. She is a former IBM Fellow who worked on the Watson artificial intelligence project, and has been honored as a "Top 20 Women" in AI by Forbes, and "A-Team for AI" by Fortune Magazine. Rama and Professor Melissa Schilling will discuss the ways in which the adoption and performance of artificial intelligence are accelerating right now, and the unique role that Nvidia is positioned to play.

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week exposed the fragility of the banking system. Hear from some of NYU Stern's leading banking scholars about SVB's decline and the overall health of the banking system, and what dangers lie ahead.

Modern AI language systems are astounding, as we are reminded almost every day. But they also are criticized for their (lack of) accuracy, their tendency to just make things up, their banal song lyrics, and their lack of true intelligence (recall last fall’s fireside chat with Prof. Gary Marcus). Where are we, really, when it comes to AI “large language models” helping us to actually do real work?

Victor Williams, CEO of NBA Africa, joins NYU Stern Prof. Sinziana Dorobantu for a fireside chat about basketball in Africa and the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s growth strategy in the region.

On Monday, March 6, the Center for Global Economy and Business and the Volatility and Risk Institute co-hosted a fireside chat with Jeanna Smialek (MBA ’20) on her new book Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis. NYU Stern Professor Emeritus Kim Schoenholtz moderated the discussion.

Join award-winning Stern professor, psychologist, and author Dolly Chugh in conversation with Stern's beloved Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Victor Mullins as they look at the emotional relationship we have with our country and its complicated past.

On Friday, February 24, 2023, the Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance hosted "InnovateESG 2023: Advancing Real Estate’s Environmental, Social, and Governance Missions Through PropTech and Innovation." Anthony Malkin, Chairman, President, and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, joined the forum as keynote speaker.

The theme of the 18th Annual Conference will be Inflation & Valuation, the onset of new risks in alternative investing and will explore the impact of new risks: inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical turmoil and climate contribution to the surge in volatility and slowdown in alternative investing with 6 different panels, industry speakers and a networking lunch and mixer.

This will be the 13th annual Symposium planned in collaboration between NYU’s Stern School of Business, the School of Law, and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, attracting hundreds of students, academics, and professionals working across the public, private and social sectors. 

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the Economic Outlook Forum on February 7, 2023.

On Friday, January 27, 2023, the NYU Stern Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research and the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute co-hosted a conference focusing on the many pending issues regarding digital assets. The conference explored how frameworks for governance, pending regulation, legal and accounting intersect for digital assets

On Thursday, October 6, 2022, NYU Stern's Center for the Future of Management and LMU's Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization will host a virtual panel on Business Dynamism & Entrepreneurship.