AI Deployment: Where is the ROI?

AI Deployment: Where is the ROI?
OIN In-person Summit at Columbia Business School

The W. Edwards Deming Center and the AI in Business Initiative at Columbia Business School invite you to attend the Operational Innovation Network (OIN)’s in-person summit at its Manhattanville campus, sponsored by Council Advisors.

Friday, November 21st, 2025
9 to 1 p.m. (ET)

Columbia Business School
Henry Kravis Hall, Rooms 490 and 410
665 West 130th Street
New York, NY 10027

The meeting will include presentations from Anindya Ghose (NYU Stern of Business) and Dante Donati (Columbia Business School) on AI and firm productivity, followed with an academic panel moderated by Gabriel Weintraub (Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Omar Besbes (Columbia Business School). This will be followed with a conversation on the challenges of implementing AI from a leadership perspective, led by David Niles (Council Advisors), as well as a panel discussion on implementing AI systems on the ground from a data-science perspective.