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Executive Webinar Series
Bringing Cutting-Edge Faculty Expertise and Policy Insights on Today's Most Urgent Global Challenges to Leaders Around the World
The Columbia SIPA Picker Center for Executive Education, in partnership with Columbia+, has launched a new executive webinar series designed to bring leading policy insights and applied expertise directly to professionals around the world. Featuring distinguished SIPA faculty and practitioners, the series explores timely global challenges and offers actionable strategies for leaders across sectors. These sessions provide organizations with a flexible opportunity to engage with Columbia’s thought leadership and deepen their understanding of the forces shaping today’s public policy, non-profit, and business environments. All sessions are complementary.
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PREVIOUS WEBINARS
AI Power: Putting People, Platforms, and Politics to Work
How can leaders turn Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a buzzword into real organizational advantage? In this webinar, Professor Zachary Tumin provides a practical framework for “AI power” built around six core engines–pattern-making, entity recognition, dynamic mapping, optimization, personalization, and generative synthesis–and shows how AI can reshape competition, public purpose, and work, which will be addressed in greater detail in the new executive course, AI Power: Putting People, Platforms, and Politics to Work. In addition, the webinar focuses on the levers managers control in the AI space: building the right platforms, mobilizing the right data, and aligning the people and politics needed to deliver results. By the end of the session, participants will be able to diagnose where AI can create value in their organizations; understand how to manage the triangle of platforms, people, and data; outline strategies for building coalitions and legitimacy around AI; and draft an “AI power action brief” for testing and scaling an AI project.
Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
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There are weekly headlines about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is supercharging cyber threat actors. But while AI is helping threat actors automate and scale their attacks, it is also strengthening defensive operations—from faster vulnerability discovery and patching to more effective detection and response. In this webinar, Professor Jay Healey and Professor Greg Rattray cut through the headlines to summarize recent developments and deliver a structured analysis across various frameworks to help participants understand and navigate cybersecurity in the age of AI. The webinar examines the security of AI model companies’ infrastructure, the risks and opportunities AI presents for companies using it, and how AI is reshaping the balance between attackers and defenders. These topics—as well as other critical issues—are covered more extensively in the course, Cyber Resilience and Collaboration, led by Professors Healey and Rattray.
CSR: Now More Than Ever
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is increasingly recognized as a core element of effective business strategy, and evidence has shown that the recent retreat of some companies from CSR is likely to undermine both their strategic positioning and economic performance over the long-term. This webinar led by Professor Stanley Litow outlines the essential components of high-impact CSR: finance and operations, environmental sustainability, reporting and rating, diversity equity and inclusion, supply chain management, corporate philanthropy, employee engagement, and public private partnerships. It also explores what next-generation CSR initiatives may look like as the private sector’s role continues to evolve. In addition, the session highlights how CSR directly contributes to business value, offer strategies for achieving sustainable and measurable results, and provide guidance on selecting and applying performance metrics. These subjects, among others, are examined more comprehensively in the course CSR/ESG: From Risk to Reward.
The New Frontiers of Sustainable Investing:
System-Level Investing and Blended Finance
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The 21st century has brought with it profound challenges to our economic, social, and planetary wellbeing. We now face an accelerating pace of change and disruption to our social and political institutions, as well as growing global systemic-level threats, from global warming to pandemics and poverty. In addition, we face a large financing gap to effectively address these challenges and the question is: how can we crowd in more private capital to finance innovative solutions in climate tech, renewable energy, nature-based solutions, and social inclusion, especially in the Global South where capital is most needed? Investors, corporate executives, and directors alike need to understand both i) how to effectively navigate these system-level challenges, and ii) understand new investment opportunities in order to build shareholder value. In this webinar, Professor Caroline Flammer explores system-level investing and blended finance – the new frontiers of sustainable investing – and the skills required to develop and implement effective investment strategies. These and other topics are explored in greater depth in the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI)'s Sustainable Business Stewardship Academy (SBSA), Sustainable Finance Stewardship Academy (SFSA), and the new SIRI Blended Finance Academy.
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Contact Us
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Contact us to learn how the Columbia SIPA Picker Center can work with your team to develop a program uniquely tailored to your organization’s learning goals and deliver a profound impact on your long-term organizational success.
Laura McCreedy
Manager of Executive Education and Training
[email protected]
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