On February 11-12, MSI and the ARF hosted a two-day forum exploring the frontier of AI’s impact on marketing – where emerging tools, behaviors, and models are challenging traditional assumptions and shaping new possibilities. Attendees gathered in LA to hear the latest work around five threads driving this disruption: synthetic data for marketing research, consumer response to generative AI, LLM-based search and information discovery, AI-generated advertising and the new video economy, AI and the future of marketing analytics.
Featured Speakers
Vas Bakopoulos SVP, Head of Insights & Research
MMA Global
Dante Donati Assistant Professor in the Marketing Division
Columbia Business School
Megan FranklinVP, Creative Excellence
Ipsos
Ron Friedman Vice President
Mattel Future Lab
Runshan Fu Assistant Professor of Marketing
NYU Stern School of Business
David Gilbert Global Director, Analytics & Insights
Mars Inc.
Kartik Hosanagar John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Zainab JamalDirector of Data Sciences & Analytics
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Tai Lam Assistant Professor of Marketing
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Zipei Lu Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business
Scott McDonald, Ph.D. President & CEO
ARF
Samantha Moore Director of Market Research
Microsoft
Oded NetzerVice Dean of Research and the Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business
Columbia Business School
Richard Qiao Director of Marketing Science
State Farm
Taylor Schreiner Senior Director and Head
Adobe Digital Insights
Jiwoong Shin Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management
Senior Editor, Marketing Science
Keith SmithManaging Director
Marketing Science Institute
K. Sudhir James Frank Professor of Marketing, Private Enterprise and Management
Yale School of Management
Artem Timoshenko Associate Professor
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management
Stephanie Tully Associate Professor of Marketing
USC Marshall School of Business
Grant WestSenior Director
Marketing Science
Helen Wolf, Ph.D.Senior Director, Global Consumer Experience Insights
Colgate-Palmolive Company