Shaping the Future of Work Initiative Event

Aligning Innovation and Equity in the Digital Economy

Date
January 21, 2025
Time
2PM - 6PM EST
Location
MIT Samberg Conference Center

Join us on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from 2:00-6:00 PM EST for a public event that will bring together policymakers, practitioners and scholars to explore how we can align innovation and equity in the digital economy.

Three panel discussions will share cutting-edge academic research and innovative policy ideas, centered around industrial relations and technology, AI and opportunity, and finance and competition.

The event will be held in-person at the MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, and will also be livestreamed. In-person attendance is limited and registration is required.

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Agenda

January 21, 2025

MIT Samberg Conference Center

Speaker

Daron Acemoglu

Faculty Co-Director

View more about Daron Acemoglu

Panelists
Amanda Ballantyne

Executive Director, AFL-CIO Technology Institute

Erin L. Kelly

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work & Organizations, Co-Director of MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), MIT

Molly Kinder

Fellow, Brookings Institution

Frida Polli

Visiting Innovation Scholar, MIT

Chair
Xavier de Souza Briggs

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Panelists
John Horton

Associate Professor, MIT Sloan

Sendhil Mullainathan

Peter de Florez Professor, MIT

Lindsey Raymond

Postdoctoral Researcher, Economics and Computation at Microsoft Research & Harvard University

Chair
David Autor

Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, MIT Department of Economics, Shaping the Future of Work Initiative Co-Director

Randy Kroszner

Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Thomas Philippon

Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, NYU Stern

Antoinette Schoar

Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan

Chair
David Thesmar

Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, MIT Sloan

Speaker

Simon Johnson

Faculty Co-Director

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