Harnessing AI for Innovation and Global Impact: A Conversation with James Manyika
Thursday, November 5, 2026 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM
Cooperman Commons, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: James Manyika, President, Research, Labs, Technology & Society, Google & Alphabet
Moderator: Costis Maglaras, Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University
Notes: This in-person-only event will be held at Columbia Business School in Geffen Hall's Cooperman Commons and is limited to Columbia University community members and invited guests. Invitations are non-transferable. Registration links are emailed to school listservs and intended for the recipient only. Please do not share or forward them.
Admission will be on a first come first serve basis (in-person only; this event will not be live-streamed). Due to high demand and limited space capacity, an overflow room will be reserved for attendees once the main event space is at capacity. Columbia ID or government-issued ID that matches the name on your registration will be required to check-in to the event.
This event will be photographed and video recorded. The content may be used for webcast, telecast, social media, podcast, websites, advertising and other promotional purposes by Columbia Business School and its affiliates and representatives.
Biography:
James focuses on advancing Google, Google DeepMind and Alphabet’s most ambitious innovations in AI, computing and science and on their potential for broad beneficial impact on people and society. He also leads Google Research, Google Labs, Learning & Sustainability, and Technology & Society.
He was Vice Chair of the US National AI Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body, Vice Chair of the Global Development Council at the White House and member US Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
He’s a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of Stanford’s AI Institute, and in Ethics in AI at Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar, James has DPhil, MSc and MA from Oxford in AI and robotics, mathematics, and computer science, a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Zimbabwe.
Thursday, November 5, 2026 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM
Cooperman Commons, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: James Manyika, President, Research, Labs, Technology & Society, Google & Alphabet
Moderator: Costis Maglaras, Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University
Notes: This in-person-only event will be held at Columbia Business School in Geffen Hall's Cooperman Commons and is limited to Columbia University community members and invited guests. Invitations are non-transferable. Registration links are emailed to school listservs and intended for the recipient only. Please do not share or forward them.
Admission will be on a first come first serve basis (in-person only; this event will not be live-streamed). Due to high demand and limited space capacity, an overflow room will be reserved for attendees once the main event space is at capacity. Columbia ID or government-issued ID that matches the name on your registration will be required to check-in to the event.
This event will be photographed and video recorded. The content may be used for webcast, telecast, social media, podcast, websites, advertising and other promotional purposes by Columbia Business School and its affiliates and representatives.
Biography:
James focuses on advancing Google, Google DeepMind and Alphabet’s most ambitious innovations in AI, computing and science and on their potential for broad beneficial impact on people and society. He also leads Google Research, Google Labs, Learning & Sustainability, and Technology & Society.
He was Vice Chair of the US National AI Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body, Vice Chair of the Global Development Council at the White House and member US Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
He’s a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of Stanford’s AI Institute, and in Ethics in AI at Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar, James has DPhil, MSc and MA from Oxford in AI and robotics, mathematics, and computer science, a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Zimbabwe.