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The Retail Innovation Symposium: Rethinking the AI-Enabled Enterprise
AI no longer just assists. It reasons, decides, and acts.
November 9, 2026
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COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL, NEW YORK
What happens to retail decisions, careers, and organizations when AI takes on more of the work? Join Impact Analytics and Columbia Business School for an afternoon with the leaders shaping that future.
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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?
Register to Attend the Symposium
This event brings together academics, students, industry professionals, and anyone curious about how AI is reshaping the retail industry. The program is designed to be educational, interactive, and conversational, combining proprietary research from Columbia faculty with real-world perspectives from industry leaders putting AI to work inside their organizations. For any questions about this event, please reach out to Rebecca Goldberg at rebecca.goldberg@impactanalytics.co.
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What's Actually Working?
Hear directly from retail leaders putting AI to work: what has moved from pilot to production, where they’re seeing value, 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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