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REIMAGINE THE FUTURE

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ABOUT REIMAGINE THE FUTURE Moments like these occur rarely in human history.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the futures we had planned must suddenly be rethought. We have an obligation and opportunity to reimagine the future. 

Join a global community with thousands of other leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals from across industries, for a conversation about rethinking tomorrow for yourself and your organization. 

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ABOUT THIS VIRTUAL SUMMIT Learn the tools, concepts, and frameworks that enable you to leap ahead into the digital future.

We can no longer spend years thinking through the applications and implications of AI. What might have taken years to unfold is becoming reality in months. It is time to reimagine the future of AI … now.

On June 16, Outthinker and Thinkers50 have brought leading thinkers to engage in a conversation to explore the implications of AI on our organizations, industries, and society. You will get a chance to engage directly with leaders at the cutting edge of the digital transformation and leave with a clearer vision on what is to come next, as more AIs are plucked from research labs and deployed to fight the current crisis.

• What role will AI play in our organizations, jobs, and lives?
• What cutting edge entrepreneurial activity gives us a glimpse into how AI is evolving?
• What are the ethical dilemmas and implications?
• How can large enterprises build AI factories and evolve?

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Your Crash Course in AI & Digital Strategy

The summit offers a unique opportunity to interact with some of the world's foremost authorities on AI and Digital Strategy

One Year Access to Content

After the summit, you get recordings and transcripts to check what you've missed. you keep access to the content for a full year.

100% Of Profits To Charity

We are donating 100% of profits to a select set of charities providing immediate support to populations most at-risk from the COVID-19 pandemic.

LEARN FROM THE BEST Speakers Confirmed

Your host

Karim Lakhani

Professor at the Harvard Business School and Co-author of Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World.

Karim is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the faculty co-founder of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. He specializes in technology management and innovation.

Marco Iansiti

David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration

Marco Iansiti is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School. His research on digital transformation of companies and industries, with a special focus on digital ecosystems, AI-centric operating models, and the impact of AI and network effects on strategy and business models and his writings on these subjects made HBR’s list of top ten articles of the year for three of the last four years.

Ayanna Howard

School Chair for Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology

Ayanna is a roboticist, educator, researcher, and innovator who has made significant contributions in the technology areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics. She continues to produce novel research and ideas focused on applications that span from assistive robots in the home to therapy gaming apps to remote robotic exploration of extreme environments.

Mark Gorenberg

Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners

Mark has 29 years of venture capital experience, funding and serving on the boards of numerous successful start-ups. He is now a Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners, the first and leading early stage fund focused only on AI for enterprise.

Barbara Martin Coppola

Chief Digital Officer at IKEA

Barbara has over 20 years of experience in technology, marketing and business, working with several global companies such as Google, YouTube, Samsung and Texas Instruments, among others. Barbara has a successful track-record of transforming and innovating large-scale companies, with a key focus on the customer. In her current role, she has the overall responsibility of leading the company’s technology capabilities and digital transformation.

Al-Noor Ramji

Group Chief Digital Officer at Prudential Plc

Al-Noor has held many executive roles in innovation and design, e-commerce, information and has and worked in many technologically-forward companies, including his role as a chief strategy officer at Calypso Technology, Inc., a global application software provider that sells an integrated suite of trading and risk applications to the capital markets function within banks and other financial institutions.

Marcello Damiani

Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer at Moderna

Marcello has a wealth of experience in both Technology and Life Science companies and a true passion for making Digital a reality. In his role at Moderna, he is currently building the technology, processes and digitization landscape required to advance a highly innovative and brand-new class of investigational medicines based on mRNA science.

Arif Virani

Chief Operating Officer at DarwinAI

Arif is the COO of DarwinAI, a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence startup that facilitates the rapid adoption of AI across many verticals. He is a trusted leader with an excellent track record in innovative technology adoption, and has helped Fortune 500 companies plan technology investments, develop employee skillsets, and implement large-scale initiatives.

Matt Provo

Founder & CEO at Carbon Relay

Matt is a successful serial entrepreneur/ founder who has dedicated his career to building world class-products and leading high-performance teams while at Apple, Invisible Children (NGO), and ParkedIn. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Carbon Relay, which was built with an unwavering focus on building AI-powered software products that are designed to help people, not replace them.

Mark Surman

Executive Director at Mozilla Foundation 

The web is one of our most valuable public resources — it’s Mark’s job to protect it by rallying the citizens of the web, building alliances with likeminded organizations and leaders, and growing the open internet movement.

SESSIONS MODERATED BY

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

Rob Wolcott

Kaihan Krippendorff

4+ HOURS OF INTERACTIVE SESSIONS Here's What's Included

9:00 - 10:00 EDT
speaker-1

Karim Lakhani

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Marco Iansiti

Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

Karim R. Lakhani, Harvard Business School and co-author of Competing in the Age of AI, and Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS, will draw on recent research and studies of advanced AI firms -  Google and Baidu to Uber and Grab to Amazon and Alibaba – showing that AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.

You will:

  • Learn a framework for rethinking business and operating models
  • Appreciate how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition and altering the structure of our economy
  • Explore how traditional companies strive to rearchitect their operating models
  • Understand which new challenges and responsibilities the AI revolution presents to you as a leader or entrepreneur

10:00 - 11:00 EDT
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Ayanna Howard

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Mark Surman

The Ethical Questions Raised by the Rise of AI

Ayanna Howard, world-renowned roboticist and Chair for Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, will help you step into the future to explore how AI and robotics will impact on the development of humanity in the near future and the fundamental questions they raise about what we should do with these systems, what we should allow them to do, what risks they involve, and how we can manage these. This session will be moderated by Robert Wolcott, co-founder of The World Innovation Network, and professor of innovation at Chicago Booth. The conversation will explore topic such as:

  • Privacy and surveillance
  • Biases in decision making
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Automation’s impact on employment
  • The opacity of AI systems and algorithms

11:00 - 12:00 EDT
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Mark Gorenberg

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Matt Provo

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Arif Virani

Entrepreneurial Activity Shaping the Evolution of AI

A panel of entrepreneurs and venture investors will outline the frenzied entrepreneurial activity around AI, exploring the cutting-edge concepts and applications currently underway. By understanding the early signals of this activity you will:

  • Begin to see the contours of the future of AI
  • Expand your command of the multifarious applications of AI that are only now being explored
  • Understand what investment flows imply about the most promising and exciting areas of AI and robotics

12:00 - 13:00 EDT
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Al-Noor Ramji

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Barbara Martin Coppola

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Marcello Damiani

Large Enterprise Digital Transformation

A panel discussion with three chief digital officers - Barbara Martin Coppola of IKEA Retail (Ingka Group), Al-Noor Ramji of Prudential Plc, and Marcello Damiani of Moderna – will share the challenges, opportunities, and strategies large enterprises face as they seek to transform into AI-centered organization. You will:

  • Learn the dos and don’ts drawn from the experience of enterprises’ digital transformation efforts
  • Appreciate why it’s essential to build “AI-Factory:” a scalable decision factory, powered by software, data, and algorithms
  • Learn what it takes to rearchitect the firm, leveraging the full power of data, networks, and AI

THANKS TO THESE SPEAKERS FOR VOLUNTEERING THEIR TIME TO SPEAK!

50+ Session Recordings From Our Past Virtual Summits

Get cutting-edge insights on strategy, innovation and leadership from the world’s top business minds like Renee Mauborgne, Rita McGrath, Scott Galloway, Marshall Goldsmith, Amy Edmondson, Paul Krugman, Whitney Johnson, Daniel Pink, Martin Lindstrom and others, recorded during our virtual summits in April and May.

You’ll gain an understanding of what the future may hold for your company, your team and yourself. You’ll arm yourselves with the latest tools to craft strategies, drive innovation and lead transformation. Plus you’ll learn the leadership techniques and emerging organizational models to activate your people and broader communities to make it happen.

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Rosabeth Moss-Kanter
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Roger Martin
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