MIT CISR offers a selection of research events each year at which employees from our member organizations can hear and discuss findings from our ongoing research, presented by members of our research team. These events, based in varying locations globally—or virtually—provide opportunities for members to engage directly with the research, the researchers, and each other.
Past Events
Review Our Recent Past Events:
MIT CISR Board and C-Suite Online Summit
December 9 & 10, 2025
The MIT CISR Board and C-Suite Online Summit is an annual invitation-only event for board members and senior leaders at our member organizations. The 2025 program featured live sessions with Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner plus a recorded conversation with a special guest—Dontá L. Wilson, Chief Consumer and Small Business Banking Officer, Truist Financial Corporation; Director, Signet Jewelers; and Board Chair, UNC Charlotte’s Board of Trustees. For all available program content, please go to this filtered view of the MIT CISR research library.
Key Takeaways from the Event
- Enterprises are dramatically shifting away from value chains towards participating in ecosystems. This shift, enabled by new technologies—especially AI—is changing how enterprises are going to make money.
- The win of AI is not in operational cost savings but in creating revenue at scale.
- New forms of AI, like agentic AI, are coming into the market rapidly and are raising the bar for what it means to have Enterprise AI Maturity. Enterprises must be focused and disciplined to integrate new AI capabilities into the enterprise.
An Event Content Summary presentation is available here to MIT CISR members. If you are from an MIT CISR member organization and don't see the Summary, log in to the website.
MIT CISR Annual Research Forum
November 5 & 6, 2025
During our 2025 Annual Research Forum, recent research project findings were shared by MIT CISR team members Peter Weill, Stephanie Woerner, Barb Wixom, Ina Sebastian, Alan Thorogood, and Nick van der Meulen, who were joined by MIT Sloan Professor Roberto Fernandez and Vanguard Chief Information Officer and Managing Director Nitin Tandon. As always, the event featured plenty of time for audience participation and the peer learning and networking opportunities that make MIT CISR events unique. For all available program content, please go to this filtered view of the MIT CISR research library.
An Event Content Summary presentation is available here to MIT CISR members. If you are from an MIT CISR member organization and don't see the Summary, log in to the website.
Hot Topic Webinar: AI Agents for Business Change
October 1 & 2, 2025
In this webinar, MIT Sloan Assoc. Professor John Horton explored the surprisingly powerful use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for role-playing and creating rich social simulations. The presentation described how LLMs can create computational models of human behavior and explore potential business implications. These include simulating the effects of company decisions and creating models of customer behavior ("agentifying" customers) using historical data to explore trade-offs.
A video recording of this webinar is now available to logged-in site users from our member organizations.
Hot Topic Webinar: The Rise of Digital Minions—Transforming Business with AI Agents
June 3 & 4, 2025
In this session, Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz explored the concept of digital minions—AI-powered agents that are reshaping the landscape of modern business. Based on insights from his book, The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions, he discussed how these agents automate decision-making, enhance customer experiences, and drive operational efficiency. The session included real-world examples, strategies for leveraging digital agents, and an analysis of the evolving roles within organizations.
A video recording of this webinar is now available to logged in site users from MIT CISR member organizations.
MIT CISR AsiaPac International Executive Forum 2025
April 1 & 2, 2025
During our annual research forum in Melbourne, Australia, recent research project findings were shared by MIT CISR team members Peter Weill, Stephanie Woerner, and Alan Thorogood plus several guest speakers from the area. Australian and Asia-Pacific examples and case studies were presented and local business executives were interviewed.
MIT CISR executive forums are held for member organizations and invited guests. Content from this year's AsiaPac Forum is now available in this filtered view of our Research Library.
MIT CISR European International Executive Forum 2025
March 12 & 13, 2025
During our annual research forum in Europe—held in London and graciously hosted by Barclays—recent research project findings were shared by MIT CISR team members Stephanie Woerner, Barb Wixom, Nick van der Meulen and Ina Sebastian plus several guest speakers from the area. European examples and case studies were presented and local business executives were interviewed.
MIT CISR executive forums are held for member firms and invited guests. Content from this year's European Forum is now available in this filtered view of our Research Library.
Hot Topic Webinar: Quantum for the Enterprise
February 11 & 12, 2025
Quantum technology maturation incentivizes investment to uncover new applications by leading global enterprises. These enterprises aspire to harness properties of quantum mechanics to deliver more secure, more efficient, and more accurate analytic solutions underpinning core business models. Quantum technology also poses a large risk to the enterprise, along with opportunity, as it can provably break ubiquitous encryption protocols exponentially faster than classical algorithms. During this webinar, Dr. McGrew shared how HSBC developed and executed a quantum technology strategy designed to capture near-term value from quantum applications and mitigate cyber risk across the Group.
The video recording of this webinar is available to logged in users from MIT CISR member organizations.
MIT CISR Board and C-Suite Online Summit 2024
December 10 & 11, 2024
The MIT CISR Board & C-Suite Online Digital Summit is an annual invitation-only event for board members and C-level executives at our member organizations. Our 2024 program featured live sessions with Peter Weill, Nick van der Meulen, and Stephanie Woerner, plus a recorded conversation with a very special guest—Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and former CEO of Schneider Electric—on how Schneider transformed from selling products to providing energy services. Please see event-related content in this filtered view of the MIT CISR Research Library.
Key Takeaways from the Event
- The more capable the technology becomes, the more we need to focus on our people's digital skills. In recent MIT CISR research, participants estimated thirty-eight percent of people in the average enterprise will need to be replaced or fundamentally retrained in the next three years.
- Top-performing enterprises are making decisions in real time based on their trusted data.
- Schneider Electric has fundamentally transformed itself, moving from selling energy products to providing connected energy solutions. Fifty-five percent of the enterprise's revenues are from digital/IoT solutions, and the enterprise sees an average customer energy savings of thirty percent.