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FINTECH

2024 NYU Stern Fintech Conference: How Data Analytics Change the Game in Financial Platforms

Three Fintech start-up founders share how they utilized data analytics and artificial intelligence to create new products and markets.


Business Topics: Entrepreneurship, Fintech, Technology, Innovation


TECHNOLOGY

2024 NYU Stern Fintech Conference: What Makes a Good Commercial Application for Generative AI?

Professor Foster Provost moderates a panel with generative AI experts Alejandro Jaimes, Ph.D., Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Ph.D., and Alexander Sugar, Ph.D.


TECHNOLOGY

2024 NYU Stern Fintech Conference: Toward Understanding the Communication in Sperm Whales

Gašper Beguš, assistant professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley, delivers a keynote on how AI interpretability can provide novel insight into various data types.


INNOVATION

Fireside Chat with Dr. William Hait

The chief external innovation and medical officer at Johnson & Johnson discusses the company’s Research & Development in Med Tech and Pharmaceuticals.


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.


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.


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.