Stevens AI Conference 2026: Leveraging AI for Business Value

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From promising technology to measurable business value

The Stevens AI Conference 2026 examines how leading organizations are transforming artificial intelligence into measurable business value through strategy, innovation, data, decision intelligence and human-centered AI.

Across a single, focused day, senior leaders and researchers move past the hype to the practice: what it actually takes to adopt AI, lead through change and build durable advantage. The program emphasizes practical AI adoption, executive leadership, design thinking, agentic AI and real-world business transformation. These are the questions leaders take back to the boardroom.

The Format

The conference is built around executive Fireside Chats that encourage open discussion, practical lessons and audience participation. Each session brings four elements together.

Executives and Scholars that frontier of applied AI

  1. Mack MacKenzie (Regeneron): From Insight to Action: Operationalizing AI Across the Enterprise

  2. John Baker (Alliance Health): AI in Healthcare and Research

  3. Emily Stuis (Pfizer): Design Thinking and AI Innovation

  4. Joria Tipi (FICO): Decision Intelligence and Enterprise AI

  5. Jeff Quinn (Pfizer): Enterprise AI

  6. Christy Nedved (Pfizer): AI Adoption in Life Sciences

  7. Eduardo de la Calle (AstraZeneca): Supply Chain and AI

  8. Aleksi Aaltonen (Stevens): Data and AI

  9. Bei Yan (Stevens): AI Research and Applications

  10. Jordan Suchow (Stevens): Cognitive Science and AI

  11. Aron Lindberg (Stevens): AI Leadership and Digital Transformation

Discrimination notice: Persons of all identities are invited to and included in this group. Stevens does not discriminate against any person on the basis of sex, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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