Friday, Oct 30, 2026
9:00 a.m. PT
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Welcome
Speaker:
Mary C. Daly, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Keynote
Speaker:
Philip Lane, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion
Speaker:
Chad Jones, Anthropic and Stanford University
How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Science: Evidence from AlphaFold
Speaker:
Carolyn Stein, University of California Berkeley
Lunch: Industry panel
Speakers:
Chris Cimino, KPMG
Venky Ganesan, Menlo Ventures
Patrick Finn,Twist Bioscience
Moderator:
Laura Choi, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
A Quantitative Theory of Automation Capabilities and Comparative Advantage: Projecting the Future of AI Automation
Speaker:
Danial Lashkari, London School of Economics
The Macroeconomic Effect of AI: Sizing the Software Engineering Channel
Speaker:
Chen Lian, University of California Berkeley
Panel: Tracking AI Scenarios
Speakers:
Taking the Pulse of AI Adoption: Evidence from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
AI, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives
Salome Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Labor Market Impacts of AI in the US and Abroad
Bharat Chandar, Stanford University
Moderator:
Peter Klenow, Stanford University