Upcoming Events
Business & Generative AI Conference
Wharton San Francisco
Wharton Sports Business Summit
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia
Annual Conferences, Summits, and Workshops

AI and the Future of Work
Hosted by Wharton Human-AI Research, AI and the Future of Work is a two-day academic conference exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace. Bringing together leading scholars, industry researchers, and practitioners, the conference examines the evolving relationship between AI and employment.

Business & Generative AI Conference
The Business and Generative AI Conference brings together academics and industry researchers to explore the transformative potential of Generative AI. Through networking and collaborative discussions, participants examine its impact on business models, industries, and global economies.
Wharton Sports Business Summit
Organized by the Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club (WUSBC) with support from the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI), the Wharton Sports Business Summit brings together students, academics, and industry professionals to explore key trends in the sports business world.

Previous Events

Women in Data Science @ Penn
Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Penn is a regional initiative of the global WiDS conference, co-hosted by Wharton and Penn Engineering. A celebrated interdisciplinary event open to all, WiDS @ Penn welcomes academic, industry, and student speakers from across the data science landscape to celebrate its diversity—both in subject matter and personnel.

Responsible AI & Analytics for Insurance Workshop, hosted by the Wharton School and UNSW Business School
The Responsible AI & Analytics for Insurance Workshop was held on June 9, 2026, at the University of Pennsylvania, and brought together leaders from academia, industry, and regulation to explore how AI is reshaping the future of insurance.

Research & Education Symposium
The inaugural Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) Research & Education Symposium was held on October 11, 2024, at the University of Pennsylvania. This event showcased emerging AI and analytics research funded by WAIAI, highlighting its transformative impact on business, society, and beyond.

2023-2024 Workshop Series on AI and Climate Change
The AI and Climate Change workshop series features leading experts whose scholarship explores, in different ways, how AI may help enhance solutions to climate change—as well as how AI itself could be made more sustainable and energy efficient.

2021 Annual Analytics Conference
The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative hosted the Annual Analytics Conference virtually on May 3-7, 2021. Industry leaders – including keynote speaker Jamie Moldafsky, WG’89, CMCO of Nielsen – spoke about the latest trends in business analytics.

The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative Presents: Timnit Gebru, PhD
On January 24, 2020, Timnit Gebru spoke at the Wharton School on “Consent, Power, Inclusivity, Transparency, Ethics, and Privacy in Collecting Sociocultural Data in Machine Learning: Lessons from Historical Archives.”
