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.
Agenda
January 21, 2025
MIT Samberg Conference Center
Speaker
Daron Acemoglu
Faculty Co-Director
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