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AI and the Next Economy

Hosted by Entreprenuer & Boston University Questrom School of Business

Thursday, October 1, 2026

12:30 PM–5:45 PM ET

About

Join Entrepreneur Events and Boston University’s Questrom School of Business for AI and the Next Economy during Boston’s AI Week on October 1, 2026. Hosted by Entrepreneur magazine’s Editor In Chief Jason Feifer, this event brings together business leaders, entrepreneurs, faculty, students, alumni, and innovators for an applied exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping markets, enterprise strategy, organizational design, work, and human judgment. The program combines executive insight, live problem-solving, working breakout sessions, research translation, demonstrations, and relationship-building. The summit is organized around a business-first, human-centered perspective. Each session connects AI to the decisions leaders make about value creation, operating models, workforce transformation, governance, and accountability. Who should attend? Founders, AI Decision-Makers, CEOs, COOs, CTOs, Directors, Researchers Keynote: Implementation That Actually Works Anand Mahurkar, founder/CEO of Findability Sciences Experimentation to Transformation: Framing the Challenge Live Case Powered by the team at Unburdn.ai featuring Sam Goldberg, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel at Unburdn.ai, and BU’s Paul Carlile, Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Information Systems and the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Innovation. Breakout Sessions: - Everything you learned about prompting is wrong with Unburdn.ai‘s Sam Goldberg & BU’s H. Sami Karaca, Clinical Assistant Professor in Markets, Public Policy, & Law - From Pilot to P&L with Anand Mahurkar & BU’s Venkat Venkatraman, Professor Emeritus in Information Systems - Leading an AI-Confident Workforce with BU’s Michel Anteby, Professor of Management & Organizations, and Emma Wiles, Assistant Professor of Information Systems Attendance is limited and by invitation. Please contact the event lead to request an invitation while space remains.

Host

Entreprenuer & Boston University Questrom School of Business

Location

Boston University Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences

665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

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