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Dissecting the AI-Enabled Enterprise: A Symposium on What Changes When AI Starts Doing the Work

AI no longer just assists. It reasons, decides, and acts. What happens to retail decisions, careers, and organizations when it takes on more of the work? Join Impact Analytics and Columbia Business School for an afternoon with the leaders shaping that future.

November 9, 2026
Columbia Business School
New York, USA
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One Afternoon. Three Big Questions.

What's Actually Working?

Hear directly from leaders implementing AI on what has moved from pilot to production, where value is emerging, and what they would do differently today.

What Happens to Work?

As AI takes on more analysis and execution, the roles of analysts, planners, and leaders change too. Which human capabilities become more valuable?

What Stays Human?

AI may own speed, scale, and prediction. Humans must own direction, judgment, accountability, and purpose. Where should that boundary sit?

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What We’ll Discuss

A Year Into AI, What's Actually Working in Retail?
Leaders from Impact Analytics customer organizations share candid perspectives on where AI is paying off today and where reality has not matched expectations.
From AI Tools to AI Teammates
A short perspective on how enterprise AI is evolving from tools that help people work faster to systems that sense, reason, recommend, decide, and act.
Where Should AI Be Allowed to Decide?
Work through real retail decisions, pricing, promotions, forecasting, inventory, allocation, replenishment, and assortment, and determine where AI should advise, recommend, or act on its own.
The Human Operating System
As AI takes on more analysis and routine execution, examine what becomes more valuable for people to spend their time on instead.
What Would You Build Differently Today?
Design a retailer from a blank sheet of paper, with no legacy systems, workflows, or org charts to work around.
The Next Generation Challenge
Students and industry leaders tackle a hard question together: how do you build judgment and expertise when AI already knows the answer?

Schedule

The Agenda

Two panels, faculty research, and candid conversation with the people putting AI to work.

November 9, 2026 12:30 – 3:35 PM ET Columbia Business School, NYC
  1. 12:30 PM5 min

    Opening remarks from Kinshuk Jerath

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  2. 12:35 PM40 min

    Retail leaders share candid lessons from AI implementation: where it's creating measurable value, where it's fallen short, and what's changing priorities for 2027.

    The question: Are companies changing how decisions get made, or just adding AI to how they already work?

  3. 1:15 PM40 min

    Industry leaders and Columbia faculty on how AI will reshape roles, workflows, leadership, and the skills organizations need.

    The question: As AI takes on more of the work, what becomes more valuable for people?

  4. 1:55 PM30 min

    Connect with executives implementing AI, Columbia faculty studying its impact, alumni, and students preparing for an AI-enabled workplace.

    The question: If AI can do the foundational work of your first job, what will you need to bring that AI cannot?

  5. 2:35 PM60 min

    Columbia faculty share emerging retail research, followed by a conversation with executives putting AI into practice today.

    Topics include synthetic consumers and panels, AI agents as the customer, and AI in complex operational decisions.

  6. 3:35 PM
    Public Program Concludes

Speakers

Prashant Agrawal
Founder & CEO
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Business School
Kinshuk Jerath
Professor of Business, Marketing
Columbia Business School
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As AI takes on more analysis and execution, the roles of analysts, planners, and leaders change too. Which human capabilities become more valuable?

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