Events

Upcoming Events

Jan
27

Leading an AI-Powered Future, Featuring Reid Hoffman

January 27 | 10:00 AM
Wharton Executive Education
Feb
14

Women in Data Science @ Penn Conference

February 14 | 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
University of Pennsylvania
Apr
10

Wharton People Analytics Conference

April 10 | 09:00 AM
The Wharton School
Philadelphia

Beyond Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST

The Analytics of Finance

How Data Can Help Govern and Grow the Economy

More than ever, analytics is influencing critical decision-making in the field of finance through machine learning, big data, and algorithms. Learn how the financial landscape will evolve with these trends, and what obstacles — and opportunities — to expect.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST

Using Data to Protect and Serve

How Analytics Can Drive Social Good

When faced with challenging societal issues such as police reform, human trafficking, and media transparency, analytics can offer surprising ways to increase accountability and drive social good. Discover how data can lead us to more effective solutions.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. EST

More Than a Game

How Analytics Gives Sports Teams a Competitive Advantage

Sports analytics has taken the spotlight as a driver of competitive advantage for professional teams, elevating the value of data both on and off the field. Explore how the sports industry can embrace data science in order to create dynasties.

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Previous Events

A speaker is addressing a seated audience at an event, with a presentation screen displaying "AI and Climate Change."

2023-2024 Workshop Series on AI and Climate Change

Climate change and artificial intelligence are two of the most consequential developments confronting humanity’s future. Yet the connections between them are only starting to be understood. 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. The AI and Climate Change workshop series is organized by the Penn Program on Regulation and is co-sponsored by Penn’s Environmental Innovations Initiative, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, the Center for Technology, Information & Competition, the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, and the Wharton Climate Center.

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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.

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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.”