Vice President and Chief Science Officer, Cognitive Computing IBM

Gov. Matt Blunt

President of the American Automotive Policy Council and the former governor of Missouri

Martin Brand

Senior Managing Director, Private Equity, Blackstone

Edward Braham

Senior Partner,
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Abby Joseph Cohen

Senior Investment Strategist,
Goldman Sachs

Bruce Evans

Head of Mergers & Acquisitions – Americas, Deutsche Bank

Beth Ford

Group Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Office, Land O'Lakes

Mike Fries

President and Chief Executive Officer, Liberty Global

Erik German

Journalist and producer, The New York Times’ Retro Report series

David Gelernter

Professor of Computer Science, Yale and Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies

Lutz Goedde

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Bruce Greenwald

Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School

Ralph Herbrich

Director, Machine Learning Science, Amazon

Marc-Anthony Hourihan

Co-Head of The Americas M&A Group
UBS

Stan Humphries

Chief Analytics Officer and Chief Economist, Zillow Group

Bruce Kaminstein

President, Casabella Holdings

Alan Krueger

Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Steven Lipin

Senior Partner, Brunswick Group

Valerie Mars

Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Development at Mars, Incorporated

Avinash Mehrotra

Co-Head, Mergers & Acquisitions Shareholder Advisory Practice, Goldman Sachs

Bruce S. Raynor

President Emeritus of Workers United, SEIU. Former President of Workers United and Executive Vice President of SEIU

Jon Stein

Founder and CEO, Betterment

Mike Stern

CEO, Climate Corporation and Vice President, Monsanto

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nobel Laureate and University Professor, Columbia University

Gillian Tett

US Managing Editor, Financial Times

Tom Wheeler

Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Tim Wu

Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and contributing writer at The New Yorker

Stephen P. Zeldes

Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University Graduate School of Business

Conference Co-Chairs

Edward R. Morrison

Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law Columbia Law School and Co-Director of the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy
Columbia University

Mitchell Presser

Partner and Head of US M&A
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Pierre Yared

Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Co-Director of the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy
Columbia University

Vice-Chair

Olivia Radin

Partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

2017 Highlights

A look at the 2017 event

If you weren’t able to make it to our 2017 event, here are some of the highlights. We look forward to seeing you in April.

The Terminator and the Washing Machine

Erik German, journalist and producer of The New York Times’ “Retro Report,” led the Artificial Intelligence panel in our 2017 conference. In his report, he addresses some of biggest fears of A.I. by talking to scientists working to solve some of A.I.’s toughest problems. Watch the full report.

2017 event report

Read our overview of the conference and find out what our speakers said on topics ranging from international deal making to cyber security risks.