Sustainable and Responsible Operations in the Age of AI
This conference will bring together academics and practitioners to explore how novel data sources and AI tools can support environmental sustainability, organizational resilience, and social responsibility.
Open to
Faculty
Staff
Students
Stanford Community
Location
On Campus
Agenda
Time
Session
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast & Registration
8:30 - 8:35 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Dan Iancu, Associate Professor, Stanford University
8:35 - 10:15 AM
AI for Agriculture and the Natural Environment
- Valuing Nature for Transformation - Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University
- Predictive and Prescriptive AI toward Optimizing Wildfire Suppression - Alexandre Jacquillat, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Sustainable and Responsible Operations in the Age of AI; Business and La Condition Humaine, A Perspective - Arjen Vrielink, Co-founder, Satelligence
- AI for a Living Planet: From Vibecoding to Conservation, Science, and Disaster Response - Léonard Boussioux, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Foster School of Business
10:15 - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 - 12:10 PM
AI - Education, Governance, and Ethical Issues
- Mitigating Label Bias with Interpretable Rubric Embeddings - Sharad Goel, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
- Learning When to Personalize: Evidence from Large-Scale Nudging Experiments in Education - Divya Singhvi, Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
- From Predictive Prioritization to Prescriptive Matching: Fairness, Transparency, Robustness, and Their Trade-offs in Homeless Services - Phebe Vayanos, Associate Professor, USC
- AI and Algorithmic Decision-Making in Education Policy - Irene Lo, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
12:10 - 12:40 PM
Lunch Break
12:40 - 1:40 PM
Lunch Panel: AI and Sustainable Production and Consumption
- Inês Azevedo, Professor, Stanford University
- Sytske Wijnsma, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
- Jim Leape, William and Eva Price Senior Fellow; Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
- Mohsen Bayati, The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford University
1:40 - 2:00 PM
Break
2:00 - 3:40 PM
AI and Sustainable Operations
- Data-Driven Operations for Social Sustainability: Evidence from Distributed Artisanal Supply Chains - Somya Singhvi, Assistant Professor, USC Marshall School of Business
- From Bytes to Bananas: Making AI Work in the Perishable Supply Chain - Nathan Fenner, Co-Founder, Afresh
- From Uniform Policies to Actionable Personalization - Mahyar Eftekhar, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
- Sustainable Research Operations in the Age of AI - Michael Wagner, Professor, University of Washington Foster School of Business
3:40 - 3:55 PM
Break
3:55 - 5:15 PM
AI for Energy and Transportation
- Autonomous(?) Vehicles - Operational deployment challenges for expensive L4 cars - Daniel Freund, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Optimization @ Waymo: Fleet Scheduling, Positioning and Matching - Ruben Lobel, Product Data Scientist Lead, Waymo
- Algorithmic Nudging for Energy Savings and Environment: Evidence from an IoT Platform - Nur Sunar, Associate Professor, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
5:15 - 6:30 PM
Evening Reception
