October 26, 2026  I  12:00 PM-1:00PM  |  Harper Center C-25

New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Mallaby discusses his biography of DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis — tracing his path from chess prodigy to Nobel laureate and central architect of the AI revolution. Co-sponsored by CAAI and the Kent. A Clark Center for Global Markets.

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October 27, 2026  |  Harper Center C-25

Featuring Alex Singla, MBA '00, who spearheads McKinsey's AI and data division, guiding its strategy, technical community, and growth. He joins us to discuss his thought leadership in the book Rewired: The McKinsey Playbook on How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI.

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November 12, 2026  I  Gleacher Center Room 100

Christina Van Houten, MBA '96, co-founded Equity Quotient, an AI-powered stakeholder intelligence platform built around responsible AI deployment. She'll share what that looks like in practice and her perspective as a leading voice in the space.

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December 8, 2026  I  11:45 AM-1:00PM | Harper Center 104

Adam is a Booth alumnus and a Chicagoan who recently completed Booth's Chief AI Officer program. In his role at AWS, he works with public sector organizations on how generative AI gets built and deployed at scale. He'll share his perspective from the front lines of that work.

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Featuring Professor Veronika Ročková, Bruce Lindsay Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, moderated by CAAI Director, Cathy Kiriakos. The discussion centered on model transparency and the practical and societal impacts of AI and machine learning.

Co-sponsored by CAAI and the MiiE Lab, this conference organized by BFI brought together economists, sociologists, legal scholars, and AI researchers to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping the social sciences and how the social sciences are shaping AI.

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CAAI Faculty Director Sanjog Misra, serving as Rothman Faculty in Residence at Booth’s London Campus, explored what happens to markets, firms, and work when AI agents move from tools to active participants.

A senior data analyst from the Chicago Blackhawks joined the UChicago Data Science Institute for their monthly Chicago Data Night, co-sponsored by CAAI.

Chicago Booth and CAAI hosted a workshop featuring Meta's Yann LeCun and researchers working on world models, one of AI's most actively developing research frontiers.

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The sixth AI and Economics Summer Institute brought together leading researchers and advanced PhD students to advance cutting-edge work at the intersection of AI and economics.

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MacArthur Foundation's Eric Sears joined moderator Julia Stasch to examine AI's risks, corporate power, and the role of philanthropy in shaping who the technology actually serves.

Neo4j CTO Philip Rathle showed students how graph technology and relational data approaches are giving organizations a competitive edge as AI reshapes industries.

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Erik Hurst and Sanjog Misra examined how AI and automation are reshaping work, drawing parallels to earlier technological transitions and what they suggest about what comes next.

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Booth alum and Wells Fargo Head of AI Kunal Madhok shared how a leading financial institution is deploying AI agents at enterprise scale and what it takes to make it work in practice.

Dean Minnis contextualized Nvidia's Q4 earnings within the broader history of tech valuations, drawing comparisons to the dot-com era to frame today's AI investment landscape.

City National Bank SVP Jaya Kandaswamy traced her path into AI-driven product leadership and the practical lessons it offers for how financial institutions are building with AI today.

Professor Bradford Levy addressed what it takes to build forecasting models that are genuinely forward-looking, reliable, and ready for real-world deployment in today's AI landscape.

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CAAI Director Sanjog Misra and incoming Booth faculty member Ted Sumers, moderated by Dean Madhav Rajan, explored how AI democratizes intelligence and what that means for business and education.

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CAAI and the UChicago Data Science Institute explored AI's evolution in the insurance industry with EY-Parthenon partner Gaston Messineo, connecting practitioners and academics across the Chicago data community. 

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Booth's first-ever vibe-coding hackathon brought together student technologists and creatives to build and pitch next-generation AI solutions.

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McKinsey Senior Partner and QuantumBlack co-leader Alex Singla joined Sanjog Misra to discuss what effective AI strategy and leadership look like at scale.

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CAAI launched its student-focused Faculty Series, connecting Booth students with leading applied AI researchers to explore how the field is reshaping research, teaching, and practice. Learn more.

CAAI and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia co-hosted leading researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences. Learn more.

 A two-day cross-disciplinary conference examining how AI is transforming social science research and how social science, in turn, is shaping how AI gets built and used.

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UChicago's Haifeng Xu Haifeng Xu introduced Prophet Arena, a live benchmark for evaluating the forecasting capabilities of large language models, in collaboration with the UChicago Data Science Institute. Learn more.