Thursday, January 22

Join us in San Francisco on January 22 for a faculty fireside featuring Sanjog Misra, the Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI, in conversation with Ted Sumers, currently in a research position at Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Sumers will be joining the Chicago Booth faculty in the fall of 2026. This event will be moderated by Madhav Rajan, dean and George Shultz Professor of Accounting for Chicago Booth and chief global strategist for the University of Chicago. As the fast-expanding field of artificial intelligence offers access to increasingly powerful tools, Misra asks what it means for individuals and institutions to create distinctive value within this environment. Misra and Sumers will explore how AI can democratize intelligence and the implications for business and education. They will also discuss the work of Chicago Booth’s Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence, the school’s new AI faculty group, and how Booth is preparing students to think differently in the age of AI.

Alumni event only - if you'd like to attend, please email Lauren Doan

Thursday, February 5

In conversation with second year student, Santiago Etchepare, from the Booth AI Group (FT), Prof. Levy will discuss why this issue is especially important with today’s frontier AI systems and what it takes to build forecasting models that are truly forward-looking, reliable, and suitable for real deployment.

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Wednesday, February 11

As AI becomes embedded in financial services, the most valuable insights come from leaders who have navigated its adoption firsthand. In this Lunch and Learn, Booth alumna Jaya Kandaswamy, Senior Vice President of Product, AI and Innovation at City National Bank,  shares lessons from her journey into AI-driven product leadership and what they reveal about how the industry is building and using AI today. In conversation with second year student, Santiago Etchepare, from the AI student group, the discussion will surface practical takeaways on how real-world problems pull organizations toward machine learning and AI.

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Deadline: February 15, 2026
Awards announced: March 15, 2026

The Griffin Applied Economics Incubator invites submissions to the 2026 AI in the Workplace Conference to be held at the Rubenstein Forum on May 28,2026. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together leading academic researchers, AI scientists at frontier labs, and experts from the private sector to discuss how AI is reshaping work and labor market. Featuring a mix of presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, the goal is to facilitate two-way interactions between researchers studying and developing AI tools and business leaders seeking to put them into practice in their companies today.

Selected papers will be invited to present at the conference. All interested researchers are encouraged to apply. Travel and accommodation to the conference will be provided to awardees. 

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Wednesday, January 21

Alongside the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, we invite you to attend Chicago Data Night as we explore the rapid evolution of AI in the insurance industrywith Gaston Messineo, Partner, Americas FS Strategy & Execution Leader, EY-Parthenon. Connect with practitioners, academics, and aficionados in the Chicago area to be part of a community at the intersection of industry and academia, with a shared enthusiasm for data.

Friday, November 14th

Booth’s first-ever vibe-coding hackathon! Hosted by the Booth Technology Group, the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club, and AI Group, BoothHacks connected technologists and creatives to build, and pitch next-gen AI solutions. 

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Monday, November 10

An engaging fireside chat featuring Alex Singla, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. and global co-leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, alongside Sanjog Misra, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at Chicago Booth. 

Monday, October 13

The new CAAI Faculty Series is a student-focused program to connect Booth students with leading faculty in Applied AI. It will explore how AI is shaping research, teaching, and practice across disciplines, and what that means for students.

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Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and CAAI hosted this annual conference with the goal of bringing together leading researchers across fields that work at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences. 

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Thursday, September 25 and Friday, September 26

How is artificial intelligence going to change social science? How is social science going to change how AI is used? This two-day cross-disciplinary event reshaped and pushed the boundaries of applied knowledge across disciplines and fields.

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Wednesday, September 24

Our fall session featured Haifeng Xu, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Data Science and Director of the SIGMA Lab as he introduced Prophet Arena, a live benchmark for evaluating forecasting capabilities of LLMs.

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