Corporate Affiliate Program
As a multidisciplinary institute focused on responsibly guiding the future of artificial intelligence, Stanford HAI deeply values engagement with companies interested in AI research, policy and practice. The HAI Corporate Affiliate Program provides the opportunity for these companies to interact with Stanford faculty and students, as well as other corporate members, coordinated by HAI’s dedicated corporate membership team. Relationships between companies, faculty, and graduate students provide all constituents with valuable insights on opportunities, problems, and solutions at the intersections of AI research, policy and education with industry.
Membership in the HAI Corporate Affiliate Program provides access to one of the following program areas:
The focus areas and participating faculty below are part of the general program. The HAI Corporate Affiliate Program brings industry together with Stanford faculty, research, policy and education for members who are interested in various topics at the intersection of AI.
This program offers focus areas specific to the finance sector provide the optimum environment for banks, fintech, insurance, and other financial services institutions to engage with Stanford at the nexus of their most fundamental AI challenges.
This program boasts faculty focus areas specific to the sector provide the optimum environment for manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retail chains and consumer goods and retail corporations to engage with Stanford at the nexus of their most fundamental AI challenges
Membership
Each of the member companies contributes $1M annually for its participation in the Affiliate Program and can select to engage with one program area. Please note that the Stanford HAI Corporate Affiliate Program is governed by the Stanford University Policies Affecting Industrial Affiliate Program Memberships.
Benefits
- $550K HAI Wallet which can be used towards Research Tokens. Members may choose to use Research Tokens to support a particular area of program research, or the program research of a named faculty member or lab. All research results arising from the use of the Research Tokens will be shared with all program members and the general public.
- Membership in the Stanford Digital Economy Lab (S-DEL) affiliate program
- Opportunity to send Visiting Scholars to Stanford
- Policy: Opportunities to engage with and learn more about the constantly evolving AI policy landscape through our HAI Policy team
- Focus area engagement, which brings together multiple faculty members who are interested in related research topics. For the Financial Services Program Area, indicative topics and faculty leads are listed below.
Plus additional, cross-cutting benefits including but not limited to:
- Executive Breakfast Series
- Early access to and engagement with the HAI Industry Briefs
- Presentations of research by HAI-affiliated faculty and students
- Conferences, seminars, and workshop
- Acknowledgement at HAI’s major public event
Giving & Research Policies
The Corporate Affiliate Program will use and develop open-source software. It is the intention of the Corporate Affiliate Program that any software released will be under an open-source model. Where there are site visits, the site presentations and all information, data and results arising from such visitation interactions will be shared with all members and the public. For more information and guidelines on conducting research at Stanford, please see the Research Policy Handbook.
Stanford HAI strictly adheres to Stanford University’s commitment to openness in research. Learn more about Stanford's policy on conduct of research.
Please reference our statements on HAI’s commitment to independence, and to transparency around our values and our fundraising policy.
Additional Program Funding
Members are permitted to provide additional funding above the membership fee to support an area of on-going research within the program. Members may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research or the program research of a named faculty member, and all research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be open source. The director of the Affiliate Program will determine how the additional funding will be used in the program’s research.
Corporate Affiliate Members
As HAI’s Corporate Affiliate Program continues to expand, we welcome new members from all sectors. The Institute gratefully acknowledges the contributions of its Corporate Affiliate Members:
Contact
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For more information, please contact Panos Madamopoulos, Managing Director of Industry Programs and Partnerships, Stanford HAI.