Annual Conference 2026 Agenda

2026
IDE Annual
Conference
April 1, 2026
th
MIT Samberg Conference Center | 6 Floor
08:00 am
09:00 am
Doors Open | Ongoing Registration & Breakfast
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Albert Scerbo - Associate Director, MIT IDE
Sinan Aral - Director, MIT IDE
09:15 am AI in Financial Markets and Decision-Making
Eric So – Research Group Lead, MIT IDE
“AI in Financial Markets and Decision-Making”
09:35 am AI, Marketplaces and Labor Markets
John Horton – Research Group Lead, MIT IDE
Benjamin S. Manning – PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan
“General Social Agents”
Peyman Shahidi – PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan
“Task Model of Workflows and Generative AI”
10:20 am
10:30 am
Coffee Break
Applied AI - Part 1
Frank Nagle - Research Scientist, MIT IDE
“Generative AI and the Nature of Work”
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2026
IDE Annual
Conference
April 1, 2026
th
MIT Samberg Conference Center | 6 Floor
10:50 am Human-First AI
Renée Richardson Gosline - Research Group Lead,
MIT IDE
"Exploring Critical Thinking in the Use of AI"
Engin Aygun -Executive Manager Human-Centred AI,
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Zezhen (Dawn) He- Postdoctoral Associate, MIT IDE
"Personalization of Human-AI Interaction"
11:35 am Data, Markets and Privacy
Alessandro Acquisti - Research Group Lead, MIT IDE
"Who Benefits From Your Data?"
12:00 pm
1:05 pm
Networking Lunch
Technology-Driven Organizations and Digital Culture
Andrew McAfee - Co-Director, MIT IDE
01:35 pm Fireside Chat: "Human + Workforce with Accenture"
Kenneth Munie - Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Moderator: Sinan Aral - Director, MIT IDE
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2026
IDE Annual
Conference
April 1, 2026
th
MIT Samberg Conference Center | 6 Floor
02:35 pm Artificial Intelligence, Quantum and Beyond
Neil Thompson - Research Group Lead, MIT IDE
"Which Jobs will LLMs Automate and What Will That Mean for the
Workers?"
Peter Slattery - Research Scientist, MIT FutureTech
"Moral hazard: How 272 Experts Prioritise the Risks from AI"
Ana Trisovic - Research Scientist, MIT FutureTech
"How Science Adopts and Abandons Language Models"
Martin Fleming - Research Scientist, MIT FutureTech
"Economics of Collaboration: AI Adoption, Innovation, and Partial
Automation"
3:35 pm
3:50 pm
Coffee Break
Applied AI - Part 2
Sinan Aral - Director, MIT IDE
"AI Personalization & the Future of AI Business Value"
Raphaël Raux - Postdoctoral Associate, MIT IDE
"Human Learning About AI"
Rui Zuo - Postdoctoral Associate, MIT IDE
"The Rapid Rise of AI Search Could Distort Information Acquisition
and Judgment at Scale"
Haiwen Li - PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan
"Human Trust in AI Search: An Experimental Study"
Michelle Vaccaro - PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan
"The MIT International AI Negotiation Competition"
05:05 pm Closing & Networking Reception

2026
IDE Annual
Conference
April 1, 2026
th
MIT Samberg Conference Center | 6 Floor
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