AI and Entrepreneurship Workshop

The second edition of the HEC Paris AI and Entrepreneurship workshop will be held in the HEC Paris campus in Jouy-en-Josas on Saturday December 14, 2024. This year the workshop explores how AI is reshaping entrepreneurship and business. Topics include AI’s impact on firm organization, market dynamics, innovation, how AI and humans cooperate, algorithm aversion, and decision-making under uncertainty. 

There will also be a roundtable on “The future of compute in Europe” to discuss recent developments and future directions in Europe’s next-generation computing, including implications for entrepreneurship, innovation, and global competitiveness. 

The workshop will also offer plenty of opportunities for research discussions and interactions inside and outside the seminar room. Co-organized by Thomas Åstebro and Carlos Serrano, both from the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris. 

The keynote speakers will be Timothy Bresnahan and Joshua Gans. Bresnahan is the Landau Professor of Technology and the Economy at Stanford University and Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

On December 12 and 13, the 13th HEC Paris Entrepreneurship Workshop, organized by Finance professors Johan Hombert and Jessica Jeffers, will also be held on HEC Campus. Find the program and register here.

Registration

Register to the HEC Paris AI and Entrepreneurship Workshop and the lunch HERE.

Keynotes speakers

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

December 13

20:00 - Welcome dinner in Paris (by invitation only)

December 14

8:30 - 9:00 - Coffee and Welcome

Hosted by Thomas Åstebro and Carlos Serrano, HEC Paris

9:00 - 9:45 - Keynote: Knightian Uncertainty and Bayesian Entrepreneurship 

By Joshua Gans (Rotman, University of Toronto)

9:45 - 10:35 - Theorizing with Large Language Models

By Matteo Tranchero* (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania), Cecil-Francis Brenninkmeijer (University of California, Berkeley), Arul Murugan (University of California, Berkeley), and Abhishek Nagaraj (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussant: Henry Sauermann (ESMT Berlin)

10:35 - 10:50 - Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:40 - Working Together, Forever? Project Evaluation, AI, and Managerial Redundancy

By Vivek Choudhary (Nanyang Business School), Arianna Marchetti* (London Business School), Yash Raj Shrestha (University of Lausanne), and Phanish Puranam (INSEAD) 

Discussant: Ronald Klingebiel (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)

11:40 - 12:30 - AI and Theory-Based Decisions: Experimental Evidence and Research Program

By Arnaldo Camuffo* (ION Management Science Lab and Bocconi University), Alfonso Gambardella (ION Management Science Lab and Bocconi University), Saeid Kazemi (ION Management Science Lab and Bocconi University), Abhinav Pandey (ION Management Science Lab and Bocconi University), and Andrea Pignataro (ION Management Science Lab) 

Discussant: Gaël Le Mens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch (lunch boxes; by invitation only)

13:30 - 14:15 - Keynote: The State of Artificial Intelligence Usage and Prospects for the Future

By Timothy Bresnahan (Stanford University)

14:15 - 15:05 - Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy 

By Enrique Ide (IESE) and Eduard Talamàs* (IESE)

Discussant: Ricardo Alonso (London School of Economics)

15:05 - 15:20 - Coffee Break

15:20 - 16:10 - Reputational Algorithm Aversion

By Gregory Weitzner (McGill University)

Discussant: Cathy Liu Yang (HEC Paris)

16:10 - 17:00 - Experimental Evidence on AI-based Job Market Matching and Market Participation

By Kevin Boudreau (Northeastern University and NBER) and Sarah Bana (Chapman University and Stanford Digital Economy Lab)

Discussant: Sara Signorelli (École Polytechnique and CREST)

17:00 - 17:15 - Coffee Break

17:15 - 18:15 - Roundtable on “The Future of Compute in Europe?”

Recent developments and future directions in Europe’s next-generation computing: implications for entrepreneurship, innovation, and global competitiveness. 

Participants:

- Jean-Noël Barrot (France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs)
- Philippe Notton (CEO and Founder, SiPearl)
- Maria Maragkou (CPO, Riverlane)

Moderator: Thomas Åstebro (HEC Paris)

18:15 - Closing remarks and end of the workshop

18:45 - Bus departure from Best Western hotel to dinner venue 

19:30 - Main dinner in Dampierre-en-Yvelines (by invitation only) 

22:30 - Bus returns from dinner venue to Best Western hotel

*Indicates who is the speaker.

Keynotes slots are 45 minutes long: speaker presentation is 30 min and Q&A is 15 minutes. 

Speaker slots are 50 minutes long: speaker presentation is 25 min, discussion is 10 min, and Q&A is 15 minutes.

HEC Paris

1 Rue de la Libération, Jouy-en-Josas, France

One of the world's best business schools, HEC Paris is a leader in research and education in management. The school is located in a 340-acre wooded campus on the Paris-Saclay plateau, which hosts one of the world’s largest research-education-technology hubs.

Contact

HEC Paris AI and Entrepreneurship Workshop 

hec.ai.entrepreneurship@gmail.com