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How is AI being used by firms? What is the impact? What are the impediments to the use of AI?
This second conference in our AI in Action Series addressed these questions and more, featuring experts from industry, academia and policy institutions.

Learn more about our first conference in May 2023: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Policy

Agenda - December 12, 2023 

Welcome and Introduction: Aaditya Mattoo, Chief Economist, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ East Asia and Pacific Region

Keynote Address - AI and Exclusion: The Fragility of Prediction to Missing Data
by (MIT Sloan)

Moderator: , Associate Professor of Research, Georgetown University

Session A - AI and Healthcare 

• , Professor and Endowed Chair of Research and Innovation, Children¡¯s National Hospital
• , Director, MedStar Health Research Institute
• , Partner, Healthcare, McKinsey and Company
• , Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan

Moderator: , Director of Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University

Session B - AI and Retail Services

• , Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Tapestry
• , Vice President of Machine Learning, Walmart 

Moderator: , Co-Lead, Boston Consulting Group's AI business in North America 

Lunch

Session C - AI and Manufacturing

• , Co-Lead, Boston Consulting Group's AI business in North America 
• , Director, AI Edge Institute at Ohio State University
• , Co-Lead Digital & Artificial Intelligence Program, U.S. Steel 

Moderator:  , Professor of Business Analytics, Boston College

Session D - Roundtable on how to better measure AI diffusion and its impacts within firms and how policy can help firms fully benefit from the technology + Closing Remarks

• , Distinguished Principal Research Fellow, Conference Board & Senior Policy Scholar at Georgetown University
• , Head of US Congressional and Political Affairs, Amazon Web Services
• , President and Senior Fellow, The Technology Policy Institute
• , Senior Economist, Center for Economic Studies at the US Census Bureau

Moderator: , Professor of Business Analytics, Boston College
Closing Remarks: Jonathan Timmis, Senior Economist, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ