Program
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Sunday, October 28
11:00am - 1:00pm Exhibitor Setup
12:00pm - 5:00pm Industry Job Fair - Interviews
Telegraph Hill, 4th Floor
3:00pm - 3:05pm Welcome Remarks
Grand Ballroom B&C
Kevin Swift, CBE; NABE President; Chief Economist and Managing Director, American Chemistry Council
3:05pm - 4:00pm Outlook for Tech Economics Careers
Grand Ballroom B&C
Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Carolyn Evans, Head Economist and Senior Data Scientist, Intel
Phil Leslie, Chief Digital Economist and Vice President, Amazon
Moderator: Michael Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
4:00pm - 5:00pm AI and the Future of Work
Grand Ballroom B&C
Michael Chui, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Moderator: Erica Groshen, Visiting Senior Scholar, ILR School at Cornell University
5:00pm - 6:00pm Reception hosted by Amazon
Pacific Terrace, 4th Floor
Remarks from Matt Taddy, Chief Economist, Amazon
6:30pm - 8:00pm Small Group Dinners
Area Restaurants
(pre-registration required)
Groups will meet at the conclusion of the reception. Look for your dinner host who will be holding the topic sign.
Monday, October 29
7:45am - 8:45am Continental Breakfast
Ballroom Foyer
8:00am - 5:00pm Industry Job Fair - Interviews
Telegraph Hill, 4th Floor
8:00am - 9:00am Poster Session Presentations
Union Square
Moderators: Paul Thomas, CBE, Co-Founder and Principal, Economic Stories LLC
Josh Wright, Chief Economist, iCIMS, Inc.
Vibhanshu Abhishek, University of California, Irvine; Linking Clicks to Bricks: Spillover Benefits of Online Advertising
Olga Boldarieva, eBay Inc. / Michigan State University; Hot or not: How Facial Attractiveness Affects Wages
Jason Dowlatabadi, Uber Technologies; Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
Cedric Garcia; Shehryar Hasan, Keystone Strategy; Neural Network-based Analysis of Trade Dress Infringement
Andrew Hillis; Salience through Information Technology: The Effect of Balance Availability on Smoothing of SNAP Benefits
Ross Knippenberg, Caterpillar, Inc.; Machine Learning Networks for High-Dimensional Distance Metrics
Ben Leyden, Cornell University; There’s An App (Update) For That: Understanding Product Updating Under Digitization
Liz Lyons, School of Global Policy & Strategy, UC San Diego; Who Does (not) Benefit from Entrepreneurship Programs?
Arnobio Morelix, Startup Genome; Real-Time Entrepreneurship Indicators: Inc. Entrepreneurship Index
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, New York University; Missing Women in Tech: The Labor Market for Highly Skilled Software Engineers
Tingting Nian, University of California, Irvine; Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community
Imke Reimers, Northeastern University; Benjamin Shiller, Brandeis University; Welfare Implications of Proprietary Data Collection: An Application to Telematics in Auto Insurance
Simon Rimmele, Streeteasy (Zillow Group); Tracking Hyperlocal Rent Affordability in New York City with a Bayesian Hierarchical Repeat-Rent-Index
Abhinav Sinha; Yash Kanoria; Fanyin Zheng, Decision, Risk and Operations at Columbia Business School; Zhenyu Lai, Wayfair; Optimizing Assortment Size and Variety in Online Platforms
Gauri Subramani, University of California – Berkeley; Getting on the Map: Estimating the Impact of Being Listed Online |
9:00am - 10:00am The Impact of Big Data on Firm Performance
Grand Ballroom B&C
Pat Bajari, Chief Economist and Vice President, Amazon
Martin Fleming, Chief Economist, IBM
Michael Schwarz, Chief Economist and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Moderator: Constance Hunter, CBE, Chief Economist, KPMG
10:00am - 10:45am Using Machine Learning for Economics
Grand Ballroom B&C
Sendhil Mullainathan, University Professor, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Introduction: Carolyn Evans, Head Economist and Senior Data Scientist, Intel
10:45am - 11:15am Poster Session / Networking Break
Ballroom Foyer
11:15am - 12:30pm The Promise and Perils of Experiments at Tech Companies
Grand Ballroom B
Elisabeth Costa, Director of Consumers, Economic Growth and Energy, Behavioural Insights
Duncan Gilchrist, Head of Rider Pricing and Marketplace Experimentation Data Science, Uber
Guido Imbens, The Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Joshua Parks, Data Science Manager, Netflix
Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Mike Bailey, Data Science Manager, News Feed, Facebook
11:15am - 12:30pm New Tools for Understanding the Macroeconomy
Grand Ballroom C
Andrew Chamberlain, Chief Economist, Glassdoor
John J. Stevens, Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board
Chris Wheat, Director of Business Research, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Moderator: Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
11:15am - 12:30pm Applications of Machine Learning
Union Square
Hyunjin Kim, Doctoral Researcher, Harvard Business School
Jacob LaRiviere, Economist, Microsoft
Jasjeet Thind, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence, Zillow Group
Moderator: Jodi N. Beggs, Economists Do It with Models
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch Outside
1:45pm - 3:00pm The Mountain of Privately-Held Data: Can It Be Leveraged for Good?
Grand Ballroom B
Matt Gee, CEO, Brighthive; Research Fellow, Center for Data Science and Public Policy, The University of Chicago
Leslie Jeng, Director of Research, Private Capital Research Institute
Jed Kolko, Chief Economist, Indeed
Frank Nothaft, CBE, Chief Economist, CoreLogic
Moderator: Amy O'Hara, Professor, Georgetown University
1:45pm - 3:00pm Applications of ML at Businesses Throughout the Economy
Grand Ballroom C
Elizabeth Conzo-Kershner, Analytics Leader, John Deere
Michael Januszyk, Senior Research Scientist, NuMedii, Inc
Zhenyu Lai, Associate Director - Pricing Algorithms, Wayfair
Moderator: Carolyn Evans, Head Economist and Senior Data Scientist, Intel
1:45pm - 3:00pm Management and Workers in the Age of AI
Union Square
Erica Groshen, Visiting Senior Scholar, ILR School at Cornell University
Kathryn Shaw, The Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Moderator: Maurine Haver, CBE, President, Haver Analytics
3:00pm - 3:30pm Poster Session / Networking Break
Ballroom Foyer
3:30pm - 4:30pm Building Economics and Data Science Initiatives: A Managerial Perspective
Grand Ballroom B&C
Svenja Gudell, Chief Economist, Zillow Group
Stephan McBride, Economist and Director, Netflix
Kane Sweeney, Director, Marketplace Data Science, Uber
Moderator: Drew Moxon, Data Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
4:30pm - 5:15pm Using Location Data to Understand Consumer Choice and Racial Segregation
Grand Ballroom B&C
Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Introduction: Michael Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
6:00pm - 8:00pm Offsite Reception at Trulia Headquarters (Hosted by Zillow)
Tuesday, October 30
7:45am - 8:15am Continental Breakfast
Ballroom Foyer
8:00am - 12:00pm Industry Job Fair - Interviews
Telegraph Hill, 4th Floor
8:15am - 9:00am Diversity in Tech
Grand Ballroom B&C
Iris Bohnet, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School
Introduction: Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science, Coursera
9:00am - 9:45am WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Grand Ballroom B&C
Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Introduction: Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
9:45am - 10:30am Big Data Insights on U.S. Economy
Grand Ballroom B&C
Diana Farrell, Founding President & CEO, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Introduction: Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, CBE, Senior Economist and Interim Associate Director of Social Science and Policy, University of Michigan Energy Institute
10:30am - 11:15am Networking break / Small informal talks in breakout rooms
Group A: Choosing and Navigating a Career in Tech, with Duncan Gilchrist
Union Sqaure
Group B: Tech Research and Collaborating with Academics, with Mike Luca
SoMa
Group C: Collaborations Around Increasing Diversity in Tech, with Iris Bohnet
Mission
Group D: Economics at Amazon, with Ana-Maria Mocanu
Marina
11:15am - 12:30pm Building Models that Go into Production: Viable Projects Emerging from Applied Research
Grand Ballroom B
Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science, Coursera
Wei Pan, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Thasos Group
David Reiley, Principal Scientist, Pandora
Steve Tadelis, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Moderator: Irina Tytell, Head of Secular Research, Fidelity Investments
11:15am - 12:30pm Reengineering Federal Economic Statistics
Grand Ballroom C
Jeff Chen, Chief Innovation Officer, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Wendy Dunn, Principal Economist, Federal Reserve Board
John Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Crystal G. Konny, Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Moderator: Ron Jarmin, Acting Director, Census Bureau
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch Outside
1:40pm - 2:50pm The Policy and Regulatory Landscape for Data
Grand Ballroom B
Ginger Jin, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Moderator: Christopher Hooton, Chief Economist, Internet Association
1:40pm - 2:50pm Experiments at Tech Companies: Illustrative Examples
Grand Ballroom C
Daisy Dai, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Solène M. Delecourt, Ph.D. Student, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Moshe Katzwer, Apprentice Data Science Manager, Uber
Moderator: Duncan Gilchrist, Head of Rider Pricing and Marketplace Experimentation Data Science, Uber
2:50pm - 3:15pm Networking Break
Ballroom Foyer
3:15pm - 3:45pm Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce
Grand Ballroom B&C
Liran Einav, Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Introduction: Michael Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
3:45pm - 4:30pm Using Company Data for Policy Analyses
Grand Ballroom B&C
Peter Ganong, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Dara Lee Luca, Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research
Moderator: Grant Long, Senior Economist, StreetEasy
4:30pm - 5:30pm Networking Happy Hour
Bar 888
(located in the lobby of the InterContinental San Francisco)