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On Monday, March 27, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business, Volatility and Risk Institute, and Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a Public Talk and Q&A with Laurence Boone, French Minister of State for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

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.

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.

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.

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.