Upcoming Events

Each year, DFI organizes and hosts numerous conferences, workshops, lectures, and seminars featuring industry professionals and Columbia’s thought leadership. These programs bring together students, academics, alumni, government official, policymakers, and members of the private sector to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas on areas of critical importance.

4

April 2023

Time
12:30 - 1:30pm

"How Technical does a Product Manager need to be?" with Paankhuri Gupta ’19 (Amazon)

Lunch and Learn

One of the most common questions an aspiring product manager asks is "how technical does a PM need to be?" Join us to hear from Paankuri to demystify the different types of product managers and how the best often draw on a diverse set of skills.

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11

April 2023

Time
12:30 - 1:30pm

"Less is Better: Lessons in Internal Innovation and Personal Growth" with Tiffany Dockery (Etsy)

Lunch and Learn

Join Tiffany Dockery, Director of Product Management, Etsy, as she walks through lessons she's learned from launching Oto 1 products at some of the world's most recognized tech companies, including Amazon, Spotify, and Google.

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17

April 2023

Time
5:45 - 6:45pm

Paradigm with Dan Robinson

Briger Family Digital Finance Lab
Digital Finance Seminar Series

Event Registration forthcoming.

Registration Forthcoming

18

April 2023

Time
12:30 - 1:30pm

"How the New York Times is navigating changes in product and technology in their mission to help people understand and engaged within the world" with Alex Hardiman (New York Times)

Lunch and Learn

How has the New York Times managed to transform an over 100 year old publication into a leading digital publication? Come learn how The Times is navigating changes in product and technology in their mission to help people understand and engage with the world.

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25

April 2023

Time
12:30 - 1:30pm

"What is Quantum Computing and why does it matter?" with Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller (Google)

Lunch and Learn

Join Catherine, Quantum AI Product Manager, Google, to learn about what kinds of problems traditional supercomputers can't manage, why Google is investing in quantum and how to manage a product and build the ecosystem at the same time.

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5-6

May 2023

Time
TBA

3rd Annual CBER Conference

Briger Family Digital Finance Lab

The Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Forum is a conference of leading blockchain faculty from top universities to discuss the latest research in this area. In collaboration with Management Science, Columbia University’s Briger Family Digital Finance Lab and Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, Boston University’s Digital Business Institute at the Questrom School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique, FinTech at Cornell - an Initiative of the SC Johnson College of Business, the NYU Stern School of Business, the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management's FinHub, and the Wake Forest University School of Business.

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19

May 2023

Time
TBA

Workshopping the New MBA: Tech, Data, Analytics

Event Registration forthcoming.

Registration Forthcoming