Watch edX for Business and Workplace Intelligence unpack some of the most significant implications AI is going to have on the the future of work. Gain insights from Anant Agarwal, a renowned MIT professor, edX founder, and Chief Platform Officer of 2U, along with Karim R. Lakhani, esteemed professor at HBS - led by Dan Schawbel, Managing Partner at Workplace Intelligence and a New York Times bestselling author.

The session will dove into the findings of a recent study that included the participation of more than 500 CEOs. When you watch this webinar, you will gain invaluable insights into the pivotal relationship between AI and the impact it will have on the skills needed in a world where careers and how work is done begins to change more than ever before.

Takeaways:

Discover how AI is reshaping the workforce and why nearly half of today's skills won't be relevant in 2025

How the C-Suite are thinking significantly differently to the rest of the organization about AI's impact

Insight into how employees are already adapting to AI by going outside the workplace to learn and the potential impact of not investing in AI-focused learning programs 

Gain actionable insights to effectively promote AI skill development and navigate the challenges and opportunities that AI presents

Since launching edX in 2012, Agarwal has guided the organization’s vision to expand access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere. Today, he leverages his expertise in building powerful online learning platforms to drive edX’s growth as one of the world’s most comprehensive free-to-degree online learning marketplaces, under parent company 2U.

As the first educator to teach an edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, Agarwal drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He remains a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT today. Previously, he served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Agarwal is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works. He has received multiple accolades over the years for his pursuit of great educational innovation. He won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. Additionally, Agarwal is a recipient of the Padma Shri Award from the President of India and was named the Yidan Prize Laureate for Education Development in 2018.

A pioneer in computer architecture, Agarwal is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World-Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012.

Agarwal holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits,” and in his spare time he hacks on WebSim, an online circuits laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras.

Anant Agarwal

Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). His innovation-related research is centered around his role as the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard and as the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory. Karim is known for his original scholarship on open source communities and innovation contests and has pioneered the use of field experiments to help solve innovation-related challenges while simultaneously generating rigorous research in partnership with organizations like NASA, Harvard Medical School, The Broad Institute, TopCoder, The Linux Foundation and various private organizations. His digital transformation research investigates the role of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping business and operating models. This research is complemented through his leadership as co-founder and chair of the The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard and as co-founder and co-chair of the Harvard Business Analytics Program, a university-wide online program transforming mid-career executives into data-savvy leaders.

Karim has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in leading management, economics and natural science journals, executive-oriented articles in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business School case studies. He is the co-editor of two books from MIT Press on open and distributed innovation models including Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities and Open Innovation (2016) and Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (2005). He is the co-author of Competing in the Age of AI (2020) a book published by the Harvard Business Review Press. His research has been featured in BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc., MarketWatch, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Science, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, WBUR, WGBH, and Wired.

Karim has taught extensively in Harvard Business School’s MBA, executive, doctoral and online programs. He has co-developed new courses on Digital Innovation & Transformation, Digital Strategy and Innovation, and Laboratory to Market. He co-chairs the HBS executive program on Competing with Big Data and Business Analytics, various custom executive education offerings and developed the HarvardX online course on Technology Entrepreneurship.

Karim was awarded his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds an SM degree in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University in Canada. He was a recipient of the Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship and a doctoral fellowship from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Prior to coming to HBS he served as a Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Karim has also worked in sales, marketing and new product development roles at GE Healthcare and was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.

Karim R. Lakhani

Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author and the Managing Partner of Workplace Intelligence, an award-winning thought leadership and research agency focused on the world of work. He is the bestselling author of three career books: Back to Human, Promote Yourself, and Me 2.0. Through his company, Dan has led over 65 research studies with major brands including Amazon, Oracle, Deloitte, American Express, and WeWork.

Dan Schawbel

edX is the global online learning platform that fuels the world’s ambition. edX was developed in 2012 by Harvard and MIT to make the world’s best education available to everyone. Today, as a part of 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), edX connects over 78 million people with online learning to meet every professional moment.

Chosen and trusted by enterprises across the globe, edX for Business is a comprehensive upskilling and reskilling solution for global business. It offers an expansive portfolio of outcomes-based online learning programs taught by the world’s top universities and industry leaders, including curated academies in artificial intelligence, supply chain management, data analytics, sustainability, and leadership. edX helps companies equip talent across all levels of an organization with the right competencies to increase engagement and maximize business impact, from entry-level workers to senior leadership. Find out why employees of more than 60% of the Fortune 500 are learning on edX at edX.org/enterprise.

Navigating the Workplace in the Age of AI: Hear from Industry Experts and over 500 CEOs on How AI is Reshaping the Workforce of Tomorrow

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Navigating the Workplace in the Age of AI: Hear from Industry Experts and over 500 CEOs on How AI is Reshaping the Workforce of Tomorrow

Anant Agarwal

Chief Platform Officer of 2U, and Professor at MIT

edX

Karim R. Lakhani

Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Business School

Dan Schawbel

Managing Partner

Workplace Intelligence

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