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TECHNOLOGY

"Is AI a Threat to the Creative Professions?" AI and the Music Industry

Prof. Foster Provost, Fubon Center director of the Data Analytics and AI in Business Initiative, is joined by Dr. Howie Singer, former senior vice president and chief strategic technologist at Warner Music, for a fireside chat as part of the center’s Demystifying AI Speaker series.


Business Topics: Entrepreneurship, Fintech, Technology, Innovation


INNOVATION

2023 Stern Innovation Conference: How Entrepreneurs Can Tackle the Energy Transition

USC Marshall School of Business Prof. Shon R. Hiatt addresses various opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs during the energy transition. Prof. Melissa Schilling delivers the conference’s closing remarks.
 

INNOVATION

2023 Stern Innovation Conference: Decarbonizing Our Cities

Laura Fox, co-founder and managing partner, Streetlife Ventures, leads a panel discussion on urban decarbonization efforts with Shabazz Stuart, founder and CEO of Oonee, Jeff Prosserman, founder and CEO at Voltpost, and Daria Siegel, vice president at New York City Economic Development Corporation.
 

INNOVATION

2023 Stern Innovation Conference: Innovating for a Circular Carbon Economy

Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, discusses bending the carbon curve and the company’s goal to develop the world's first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gasses.
 

INNOVATION

2023 Stern Innovation Conference: Sustainability as a Driver of Innovation

Clinical Prof. Tensie Whelan, director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, delivers the conference’s opening keynote address on sustainability-driven innovation.
 

INNOVATION

2023 Stern Innovation Conference: Innovations in Carbon Capture and Utilization

Adjunct Prof. Raphael Carty is joined by panelists David Wakerley, co-founder and chief technology officer of Dioxycle, and Brian Asparro, chief operating officer of CarbonQuest for a fireside chat and Q&A about recent developments in the carbon capture and utilization domain.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

A Fireside Chat with Peggy Yu (MBA ’92) and Tony Watkins (MBA ’11)

NYU Stern's Center for the Future of Management hosted a fireside chat on e-commerce and entrepreneurship with Executive-in-Residence Peggy Yu (MBA ’92), co-founder and executive chairwoman of Dangdang.com, and Alumni Council Chair Tony Watkins (MBA ’11), director of Global Partnerships at Google.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Dreaming Big - AI, Ice Cream, & Wigs: 3 Female Founders and Their Path to Entrepreneurship

The Stern Women in Business Alumnae group hosted a special event dedicated to learning more about the entrepreneurial journey of Stern alumna Pooja Bavishi, Founder & CEO, Malai Ice Cream (MBA ’15), Shante Frazier, Co-Founder/CEO, WellCapped (MBA ’18), and Kobi Wu, Founder & CEO, Cache AI (EMBA ’15). Moderated by Prof. Cynthia Franklin.
 

TECHNOLOGY

Taking a Deeper Dive into Human-AI Augmentation Complexity

Prof. Melissa Schilling, director of the NYU Stern Fubon Center's Innovation and Technology Initiative, discusses issues with AI evaluation with Prof. Natalia Levina.
 

TECHNOLOGY

The World After Capital Featuring Albert Wenger in a Fireside Chat with Professor Arun Sundararajan

Albert Wenger, author and managing director of Union Square Ventures, talks about his new book with Prof. Arun Sundararajan.
 

FINTECH

2023 FinTech Conference: The Seedier Side of Automation

Ian Gray, sr. director of Research at Flashpoint, hosts a panel discussion with Tom Armstrong, compliance advisor at TRM, and Michelle Lamb, senior cybersecurity threat intelligence analyst.
 

FINTECH

2023 FinTech Conference: Payments Panel Planning and Preparation

Director of the Fubon Center Kathleen DeRose, moderates a conversation with Larry Diamond, co-founder and Global CEO of Zip, Co Gali Heichal, Global Head of Payments Partnerships at Klarna, and Ali Heron, former CTO of Petal, board member, and adviser.
 

FINTECH

2023 FinTech Conference: A Keynote with Frances Haugen

Frances Haugen, advocate for accountability & transparency in social media, delivers this year's keynote.
 

FINTECH

2023 FinTech Conference: Trusting GPT-4 and the New Generation of AI

Prof. Arun Sundarajan discusses trusting GPT-4 and the new generation of artificial intelligence with AI researchers Professor Vasant Dhar and Francesca Rossi, Fellow and AI Global Ethics Leader at IBM.
 

FINTECH

2023 FinTech Conference: Controversy and Opportunity in the Digital Assets Space

Prof. David Yermack moderates a conversation with Bruce Mizrach, economics professor at Rutgers, Barnabé Monnot, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation., and Yesha Yadav, associate dean at Vanderbilt University Law School.
 

INNOVATION

Can an AI Chatbot Pass a Data Science Interview?

Professors Joao Sedoc and Foster Provost interview a data science chatbot (ChatDS), to demonstrate what modern AI can and cannot do.
 

INNOVATION

Fireside Chat with Rama Akkiraju

Prof. Melissa Schilling and director of Stern’s Fubon Center’s Innovation Technology Initiative, in a discussion with Rama Akkiraju (MBA ’04), vice president for AI/Machine Learning for IT at Nvidia.
 

TECHNOLOGY

Is AI Ground Truth Really True? The Dangers of Training & Eval. AI Tools Based on Experts’ Know-What

NYU Stern Professor Natalia Levina explores the challenges of evaluating AI tools in this latest Tech@Stern video.
 

INNOVATION

2022 Stern Innovation Conference: Innovation in Healthcare

NYU Stern Prof. Callen Anthony hosts a panel discussion with NYU Tandon Prof. Oded Nov Dr. Yvonne W. Lui, MD, associate chair for artificial intelligence at NYU Langone Medical Center, and Dr. Yin Aphinyanaphongs, MD and PhD, director of clinical predictive analytics at NYU Langone Medical Center.
 

INNOVATION

2022 Stern Innovation Conference: Orchestrating the Process of Building Innovation Portfolios

Nitish Gupta, PhD, global product manager at IPC System, delivers the conference keynote.
 

INNOVATION

2022 Stern Innovation Conference: Building Innovation Portfolios in Consumer Products

NYU Stern Prof. Schilling, director of the Fubon Center’s Technology and Innovation Initiative, hosts Marvin Jiwan from Ferrero and Ryan Piela from Estée Lauder Companies.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Panel on Business Dynamism & Entrepreneurship

NYU's Center for the Future of Management and LMU of Munich's Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization are joined by Ronnie Chatterji, chief economist at the Department of Commerce, Karen Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School, and Javier Miranda, deputy head at the Halle Institute for Economic Research.
 

FINTECH

Knowledge Bytes: De-Finining De-Fi

Nikita Hussain (MBA ’22) explains what you need to know about De-Fi.
 

FINTECH

Knowledge Bytes: Opening the Door to Open Banking

Chris Millisits (MBA ’23) discusses the different approaches to open banking.
 

FINTECH

Knowledge Bytes: A Day in the Life of a Credit Card Transaction

Aritra Ghosh (Tech MBA ’22) walks through the stages of a credit card transaction.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

A Conversation on Cryptocurrency

Professor David L. Yermack speaks on the state of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, moderated by Pedro David Martinez (MBA ’06), founder and managing director of Regius Capital.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Cryptocurrencies and BlockChain Research

Fubon Director Kathleen DeRose interviews Fubon Research Scholar Professor, and Chair of the Finance Department David Yermack about his ground-breaking research into blockchain and crypto.
 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

How to Build a Billion Dollar Company

A Conversation with Ragy Thomas (MBA ’03), founder and CEO of Sprinklr, presented in partnership with the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship as a part of Reunion 2021 programming.
 

INNOVATION

Accelerating Innovation

In "Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How to Accelerate innovation without Killing It," Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf shares how ad-hoc teams can successfully accelerate their innovation process.
 

INNOVATION

Profs Amal Shehata and Hanna Halaburda

Professors Amal Shehata and Hanna Halaburda presented a live virtual lecture entitled "Blockchain and the Tokenization of Assets: How Will Our Lives Change?", conversation was moderated by Professor Julian Yeo.
 

TECHNOLOGY

Prof Melissa Schilling

Professor Melissa Schilling presented a live virtual lecture entitled "Batteries, Electrification, Platforms and Data: How a Convergence in New Technologies Will Change the World", conversation was moderated by Professor Lisa Leslie.
 

TECHNOLOGY

Fireside Chat with Sinan Aral

The Fubon Center hosted a fireside chat with Sinan Aral, author of "The Hype Machine," in conversation with NYU Stern Professor Foster Provost.
 

FINTECH

A Fireside Chat with Kyle Cogger

"The Future of Banking and Payments" The Fubon Center hosted a fireside chat featuring Kyle Cogger, Senior Product Owner for Expansion of Revolut in conversation with NYU Stern Professor Kathleen DeRose as a part of Fubon Center’s Fintech Speaker Series.
 

FINTECH

A Fireside Chat with Gareth Jones

The Fubon Center hosted a fireside chat featuring Gareth Jones, Managing Partner, Fintech Collective, and Benjamin Dyett, Partner, the Deco Group, moderated by NYU Stern Professor Kathleen DeRose as a part of Fubon Center’s Fintech Speaker Series.
 

TECHNOLOGY

A Fireside Chat with Jihoon Rim

The NYU Stern Fubon Center hosted Jihoon Rim, a NYU Stern visiting professor and former CEO of Kakao, in a fireside chat webinar.
 

TECHNOLOGY

Privacy and Antitrust for Digital Platforms

Professor Nicholas Economides and Natalia Levina discuss how dominant digital platforms should be regulated on issues of privacy and antitrust as a part of the ‘Tech @ Stern’ series.
 

INNOVATION

Using AI and Blockchain to Monetize the Mobile Economy

Professors Anindya Ghose and Natalia Levina discuss privacy and the mobile economy, blockchain as a method for eliminating fraud, and more as a part of the ‘Tech @ Stern’ series.
 

FINTECH

The Future of FinTech

Professors Kathleen DeRose and Arun Sundararajan discuss the definition of fintech, what a student should expect from a fintech major, the impact of regulation, and the NYU Stern FinTech Conference, as a part of the ‘Tech @ Stern’ series.
 

INNOVATION

Blockchain beyond Bitcoin

Professor Hanna Halaburda helps break down a difficult question "How will Blockchain Fare Beyond Bitcoin?" as part of the ‘Tech @ Stern’ series.
 

INNOVATION

The Benefits and Costs of Intellectual Property Protection

Professor Walker Hanlon talks about protecting IP and how economists at NYU Stern are using natural experiments in history to better understand them.
 

INNOVATION

Crowdsourcing & Innovation

Professor Natalia Levina discusses crowdsourcing and solving the challenge of innovation as a part of the ‘Thought Leadership Talks’ series.
 

INNOVATION

Surviving the "Innovate or Die" Challenge

Professor Anat Lechner discusses the importance of innovation in the face of change as a part of the ‘Thought Leadership Talks’ series.
 

INNOVATION

How the Platform Ecosystem Works

Professor Melissa Schilling discusses the components of platform ecosystems and their benefits.