Conference
The Great Redesign:
How AI is Reshaping Industries, Professions, and Competition
November 4, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET
Evans Hall · Zhang Auditorium · Yale School of Management · New Haven, Connecticut
Detailed Program Agenda
The full session-by-session program, including speakers, moderators, and room locations. Times are subject to change.
Registration & Welcome Coffee
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Ligon-Lamsam Commons
Opening Remarks
AI is moving beyond making companies more productive to reshaping how they compete, and the organizations that pull ahead will be those that redesign how work gets done. Drawing on examples from software development and marketing, this opening sets the stage for a day exploring how companies deploy AI to do things competitors cannot easily replicate.
Speakers
Saira Jesani
Executive Director, D&TA
Jon Iwata
Executive Director, Y-SIM
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Zhang Auditorium
Keynote: Redesigning the Enterprise for AI
How leaders’ visions for the future of their industries shape where they invest in AI to improve performance, create new sources of growth, and build competitive advantage.
The keynote, Redesigning the Enterprise for AI, brings that thesis into the context of large, established organizations. Rob Fauber from Moody’s Corporation and Jim Swanson
from Johnson & Johnson will explore how their expectations for the future of their industries shape what they are trying
to make possible with AI, from improving existing work
to creating new sources of growth. The conversation will examine where they see opportunities to build competitive advantage as AI capabilities become widely available, and how they decide which opportunities merit disproportionate investment, which should remain experiments, and which
not to pursue.
Speakers
Rob Fauber
President and CEO, Moody’s Corporation
Jim Swanson
EVP, CIO, Johnson & Johnson
Moderator
Jon Iwata
Executive Director, Y-SIM
9:15 - 10:00 AM
Zhang Auditorium
What Makes AI Advantage Last?
How do companies translate proprietary assets into lasting differentiation? Leaders across industries examine how organizations actively capture, structure, and embed proprietary data and domain expertise into core operations—and how they build technical, operational, and organizational moats to make those advantages durable over time.
Speakers
Matt Dugan
VP, Enterprise Data Technology, AT&T
Joel Stenson
President, Global Ops Special Projects, UPS
Moderator
Kathryn Guarani
Visiting Lecturer, Yale SOM
10:00 - 10:45 AM
Zhang Auditorium
New Frontiers of Competition
AI-native businesses—companies designed from the ground up around AI rather than adding it to legacy systems—are being built around fundamentally different visions of how markets and organizations will work. Through the lenses of spatial intelligence and agentic commerce, this conversation explores how emerging companies are reshaping the playing field.
Speakers
Inhi Cho Suh
CEO, Niantic Spatial
Sean Neville
Co-Founder & CEO, Catena
Moderators
Ravi Dhar
Professor, Yale SOM; Co-Director, Y-SIM
Jon Iwata
Executive Director, Y-SIM
10:45 - 11:45 AM
Zhang Auditorium
Lunch & Networking
11:45 AM - 12:25 PM
LIGON-Lamsam Commons
The Reinvention of Software Development
AI-powered applications are moving beyond accelerating the software development lifecycle to transforming how products are imagined, built, and improved. This session examines the workflows, talent, and organizational structures required to make software development a new engine of competitive advantage.
Speakers
Chris Hazard, PhD
Co-Founder and CTO, Howso
Dan Morel
VP of Engineering, Warby Parker
Andrej Zdravkovic
SVP and Chief Software Officer, AMD
Moderator
Saira Jesani
Executive Director, D&TA
12:25 - 1:20 PM
Zhang Auditorium
How AI is Changing the Customer
AI is changing how customers discover, evaluate, and choose products—and how companies reach and serve them. This session explores how leaders must redesign marketing, customer journey, operating models, and talent to compete as buying behavior and routes to market rapidly evolve.
Speakers
Jean English
CMO, CoreWeave
Raj Thammana
VP Marketing Ops, CoreWeave
Garrett Tubbs
Assistant VP, The Hartford
Moderator
Alexandra Lee-Capps
Founding Principal, Array Consulting
1:20 - 2:15 PM
Zhang Auditorium
AI Control as Competitive Advantage
The question of AI controls has taken over the public conversation, led largely by frontier model developers. But what about the perspective of the enterprises deploying these systems—and the people ultimately affected by them? As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, organizations face a widening set of questions about how it should be governed, controlled, and held accountable. This panel will examine the risks, responsibilities, and practical implications for companies deploying AI and for the employees, customers, and communities who experience its downstream effects.
Speakers
Sarah Bird
CPO, Responsible AI, Microsoft
Dr. Nicholas C. Fuller
Technology Executive, AI and Automation
Bernardo Tavares
Enterprise CIO & Advisor
Moderator
Saira Jesani
Executive Director, D&TA
2:15 - 3:00 PM
Zhang Auditorium
Closing Remarks
What the day’s discussions mean for the decisions leaders face next: what to change now, what to test, and what to prepare for as AI continues to evolve.
Speakers
Seth Farbman
Founding CMO, Spotify
Jon Iwata
Executive Director, Y-SIM
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Zhang Auditorium
Floor Guide
Evans Hall, floors 1 and 2, with event spaces, dining, restrooms, elevators, and stairs marked.
