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AI is advancing rapidly at the cognitive tasks that make up knowledge work, raising fears among firms, policymakers, and, not least, workers of a “China shock” for white-collar jobs. Neil Thompson will present new research on whether those fears are warranted.

AI is advancing rapidly at the cognitive tasks that make up knowledge work, raising fears among firms, policymakers, and, not least, workers of a “China shock” for white-collar jobs. Neil Thompson will present new research on whether those fears are warranted.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.

Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
This one-day event brings together top experts in experimentation and causal inference—researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals—and is a unique opportunity to discuss the latest trends, cutting-edge methodologies, and their real-world applications. This event is in person only.
We are thrilled to have an excellent lineup of speakers who are leading figures in the tech industry and academia.
| Time | Session Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00am | Registration | |
| 10:00- 10:15am | Opening Remarks | Guido Imbens, Applied Econometrics Professor, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor of Economics |
| 10:15-11.45am | Session 1: | Session Chair: Jens Hainmueller |
| 10:15-10:45am | Personalization at Spotify | Maria Dimakopoulou, Director of Machine Learning & Head of Homepage Personalization, Spotify |
| 10:45-11:15am | Interference and Other Causal Questions at Google | Jean Pouget-Abadie, Staff Research Scientist, Google |
| 11:15-11:45am | Learning Personalized Policies | Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Education Computer Science, Stanford University |
| 11:45am-12:45pm | Lunch | |
| 12:45 - 1:30pm | Poster Session & Networking Coffee | |
| 1:30-3:00pm | Session 2: | Session Chair: Emma Brunskill |
| 1:30-2:00pm | Challenges in Measurement at Airbnb | Inessa Liskovich, Head of Quality & Community Data Science, Airbnb |
| 2-2:30 | Open Questions from Experimentation at Meta | Dominic Coey, Director, Central Applied Science, Meta |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Nonparametric Jackknife IV Estimation and Confounding Robust Surrogate Indices | Nathan Kallus, Associate Professor, Cornell University & Research Director, Netflix |
| 3:00-3:15pm | Break | |
| 3:15-4:45pm | Session 3: | Session Chair: Yiquing Xu |
| 3:15-3:45pm | Modeling Tradeoffs with Ellipses | Tom Cunningham, Data Scientist, OpenAI |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Counterfactual Model Evaluation for Uber Rides Product Recommendation | Ali Rauh, Director of Applied Science and Data Science, Uber; Shirley Zhu, Staff Applied Scientist, Uber |
| 4:15-4:45pm | Design of Experiment Platforms for the Technology Sector | Dawn Woodard, Distinguished Engineer, LinkedIn |
| 4:45-6:00pm | Reception |