Nov 06 2024 to Nov 06 2024 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose, in their new MIT Press book Thrive: Maximizing Well-being in the Age of AI take on the challenge of demystifying AI for the layperson using examples from everyday life. Their hope is that by giving citizens agency and understanding in shaping AI we can get the most out of this newest industrial revolution.

Join Ravi Bapna in conversation with Narayan Ramachandran as they chart their way through the ‘House of AI,’ a framework that provides a holistic perspective of the different pillars and layers of AI. They will discuss the role of generative AI versus traditional AI, what barriers companies face in adopting this technology, how we should think about the future of work and reskilling the workforce, and what an agentic future looks like where AI will augment human intelligence and capacity.

A Q & A with the audience will follow.

Speakers
Ravi Bapna
Author

Ravi Bapna is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems at the Carlson School of Management where he also serves as the Academic Director of the Analytics for Good Institute and the Carlson Analytics Lab (CAL) He is a co-author (with Anindya Ghose) of an MIT Press book “Thrive: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI.” A renowned scholar with expertise in analytics, AI and ML, digital transformation, social media and economics of information systems, he has been awarded the Association of Information Systems Fellow award, the INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow award, the INFORMS ISS Inaugural Practical Impacts Award, the INFORMS ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award, as well as multiple best paper awards in journals such as Management Science and Information Systems Research. As a co-founder of the Carlson School’s top-ranked MS-Business Analytics (MSBA) program, Bapna runs the Carlson Analytics Lab (CAL) which facilitates industry-academia connections in cutting-edge AI and ML applications, and the Analytics for Good Institute that takes the power of AI and ML to societal causes.

Bapna served as Chief Data Scientist at Mississippi River Capital LLC, a Minneapolis-based hedge fund, and is on the executive education faculty for NYU Stern’s open and executive MSBA programs, as well as the area leader for Information Systems at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He is on the academic advisory board of Teamlease Edtech, and has served on the board of iPondr.com, the Academic Advisory Board, Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, and a founding Governing Board Member of the International Centre for Information Systems and Audit under the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

He likes to play tennis, travel, and cook for and entertain his friends and family.

Narayan Ramachandran
Emerging Market Investor

Narayan Ramachandran is a father of two girls, and the husband of a writer, social entrepreneur, columnist, and investor. He worked on Wall Street (mostly at Morgan Stanley) for over 20 years, most recently as head of global emerging market investing and then as country head of Morgan Stanley in India.

Narayan is the Lead Independent Director and Chairman of TeamLease Services. He is also the co-chairman of Unitus Capital, India’s largest social enterprise bank, Chairman of Vivriti Asset Management, and UC Inclusive Credit, pioneering firms working to bring credit to underserved markets. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Centre for Wildlife Studies.

Narayan is a co-founder and Senior Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He received a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He writes a fortnightly column titled A Visible Hand for The Mint newspaper.