Symposium- Business leaders’ critical challenges

This year’s MIT – Fundacion Ramón Areces Symposium will feature three distinguished MIT faculty, addressing some of the most pressing challenges business leaders from around the world are facing nowadays. Following a top-down approach, we’ll start with the impact of geopolitics on economics and business climate, followed by what business leaders need to know about AI and ending with how to prepare the workforce for the challenges in the years to come. PROGRAM ➝ Welcome and Opening Remarks Raimundo Pérez-Hernández. Director General of the Ramón Areces Foundation. Gayathrí Srinivasan. Executive Director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. ➝ Geopolitics, Economics and Business Climate Kenneth Oye. Professor of Political Science, Emeritus (MIT School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences). Professor of Data Systems and Society (MIT School of Engineering). Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET). ➝ Making business sense of AI: key questions for leaders George Westerman. Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. PAUSE ➝ Future of work and the role of AI in organizational transformation Nick van der Meulen. Research Scientist, Sloan Center for Information Systems Research. ➝ Roundtable Moderator: Eduardo Garrido. Program Director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. With Kenneth Oye, George Westerman and Nick van der Meulen ➝ Closing remarks Eduardo Garrido. Program Director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. Simultaneous interpretation: AIS Comunicaciones. Interpreters: Asociación de Intérpretes de Conferencia de España (AICE). Remember that you can attend the conference at our headquarters in Madrid, after registering online: https://www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionareces/en/events/business-leaders-critical-challenges.html #bussiness #technology #artificialintelligence #geopolitics #geoeconomics