Conor Grennan, creator of the AI Mindset framework, will deliver “Generative AI: Practical Strategies to Increase Productivity”—the Spring 2024 Bentson Dean’s Lecture—on Tues., April 2 at 5:30 p.m. EDT (Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts & Science, 31 Washington Place [at Washington Square East]).
Generative AI is seen as revolutionary, yet experts say many are still stuck using it at a basic level. Grennan will share the AI Mindset framework, which aims to increase productivity, that he teaches at NYU’s Stern School of Business and to thousands of leaders across the country.
Grennan is dean of MBA students at NYU Stern as well as the school’s head of generative AI—an initiative that trains students, faculty, and administrators on generative AI. He is also lead generative AI trainer for the Chief Executive Media Group, a founding member of OpenAI’s Community Forum, where he is a featured speaker on optimizing ChatGPT, and LinkedIn Learning’s official instructor for “AI for Business: Challenges and Opportunities”.
The author of Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (HarperCollins), Grennan has been named a Huffington Post “Game Changer of the Year” for his humanitarian work in Nepal and, in 2014, was given the Unsung Hero of Compassion Award by the Dalai Lama. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from NYU Stern.
The lecture is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please visit the event page. For more information, email [email protected] or call 212.998.8100.
For over a decade the NYU College of Arts and Science Bentson Dean’s Lectures have showcased current and visiting faculty and other guests. Funded by the Bentson Family Foundation, Bentson Lecturers have included, most recently, NYU Psychology Professor Emily Balcetis, who delivered “Overcoming Our Bias Blindspot” last fall, and NYU Stern Professor Dolly Chugh, who spoke about the research surrounding her book, A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change, last spring. Some previous Bentson Lecturers have included University of Minnesota Professor Michael Osterholm on “COVID 2023: Do We Know Where We’re Going?”; NYU Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, the New York Times “Ethicist” columnist, on “The Ethics of Work”; NYU Anthropology Professor Rayna Rapp on “The Implications of the Growing role of Genetic Testing”; Karen Adolph, professor of psychology and neuroscience at NYU, on early childhood development in her lecture “Learning to Move and Moving to Learn”; and Brooke Kroeger, an NYU journalism professor emeritus, on “What We Can Learn about Allyship Today from ‘Suffragents’.”
