Stevens Institute of Technology Business+AI Lab

Business+AI Lab at Stevens is an effort by faculty members at the Stevens School of Business to make the latest knowledge of AI and data governance available to firms.

We offer training and workshops, host events, and publish resources that help firms to upskill their senior executives, managers, and employees to meet the challenges of AI-driven business.

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Email Aleksi Aaltonen, Lab Director aaaltone@stevens.edu

Training and workshops

Business+AI Lab faculty experts provide training and workshops that help you to understand the opportunities of AI-driven business and to upskill your personnel for seizing them.

  1. Corporate Data Assets and AI Workshop Series

    Audience
    Senior managers and executives

    The workshop series focuses on managing and developing corporate data assets for the AI-driven business environment. Aimed at senior managers and executives, the series enables your team understand and plan data governance, work, and innovation in your organization.

    Email Aleksi about this workshop

  2. Human-centered Design of AI Workshop/Course

    Audience
    Managers and employees

    AI is a general-purpose technology that can be applied to a wide range of problems in business and organizations. However, to make a successful application of AI, managers and employees need to be able to analyze practical situations and develop AI-based solutions that are desirable to their intended users. This course trains your team to harness the power of design thinking for AI.

    Email Aleksi about this workshop

  3. Applied AI for Finance Workshop

    Audience
    Employees

    This workshop is a hands-on, no-code introduction to applying Generative AI in everyday finance workflows.

    Email Aleksi about this workshop

Events

Oct. 8, 2026

AI Conference 2026 Sold out

Stevens AI Conference 2026: Leveraging AI for Business Value

October 8, 2026 · University Center Complex (UCC) Gallery · Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

The day features executive fireside chats with leaders from Regeneron, Pfizer, FICO, Alliance Health, and Stevens Institute of Technology.

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Sept. 25, 2026

Hackathon 2026 Past event

Business + AI Hackathon 2026: Leveraging AI for Innovation in Business

Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 · 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. · Tech Flex, University Center Complex · Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

The Stevens School of Business presents a one-day, student-run hackathon on leveraging AI for innovation in business.

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Forums, faculty lectures and research talks

  1. Posted Sept. 23, 2026

    Forum

    Business+AI Forum, September 2026

    Our featured speakers include Gene (Gennadiy) Barskiy, Connie Mui-Reilly and Vikram Nair.

  2. Posted May 14, 2026

    Faculty lecture

    Delivering Value with AI: Business Model Transformation

    This lecture explores how AI is rewriting the rules of competition.

  3. Posted May 7, 2026

    Faculty lecture

    Data: The Next Frontier

    Aleksi Aaltonen explores what data are (or is), why their importance is going to grow, and what are the emerging trends and issues that organizations will need to tackle in the AI-driven economy.

  4. Posted April 30, 2026

    Faculty lecture

    AI Entrepreneurship: Bootstrapping Autonomous Robotaxi Services

    Jordan Suchow looks at a key strategic decision that companies in the autonomous navigation space have all wrestled with: how to bootstrap a product when the data needed to train the system requires deploying it.

  5. Posted April 23, 2026

    Faculty lecture

    AI in Finance: Rewiring Robo-Advising for the Autonomous Portfolio

    Zachary Feinstein explores the transition toward truly autonomous wealth management by bridging artificial intelligence with decentralized market structures.

  6. Posted April 16, 2026

    Faculty lecture

    Responsible AI: Foundations of Ethics and Algorithmic Fairness

    Violet Chen introduces the AI ethics landscape and examines how principles of fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability apply in real-world business decisions.

  7. Posted April 9, 2026

    Faculty lecture

    Managing AI Technologies: AI-in-the-Loop, AI-on-the-Loop, Human-out-of-the-Loop?

    Michael zur Muehlen introduces a framework for understanding three AI deployment postures: AI-in-the-loop, AI-on-the-loop, and human-out-of-the-loop, raising hard questions about the point at which augmentation becomes automation.

  8. Posted March 31, 2026

    Research talk

    Miaoze Han: "Generative AI and Firm-Candidate Dynamics in the Labor Market"

    The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is significantly reshaping the labor market.

  9. Posted March 13, 2026

    Research talk

    Dominik Molitor: "Customer Responses and Economic Consequences of Data Breach Announcements

    Cybersecurity incidents and data breaches are increasingly common and pose significant financial risks for firms.

  10. Held March 11, 2026

    Forum

    Business+AI Forum, March 2026

    The first Business+AI Forum on how AI is transforming business strategy, operations, and decision-making took place on March 11, 2026.

  11. Posted March 6, 2026

    Research talk

    Jinan Lin: "Delegating Returnless Refund Authority to Sellers: Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform"

    Balancing consumer protection with seller welfare is a central challenge in platform governance.

  12. Posted Feb. 6, 2026

    Research talk

    Sagit Bar-Gill: "LLMs and Consumer Bias: 'Paying Not to Go to the Gym' with an LLM Advisor?"

    Large language model (LLM)–based advisors increasingly interact directly with consumers, raising the question of whether they mitigate or exacerbate well-documented consumer choice biases.

Faculty members

Business+AI Lab faculty experts provide teaching, advising, and consulting in which they combine the latest research with practical relevance.

Resources

Online launch, April 1, 2026

Research Handbook on Digital Data Online Launch Event

Research Handbook on Digital Data: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing). The book is co-edited by Aleksi Aaltonen with Marta Stelmaszak and Kalle Lyytinen.

Contact

For more information, send an email to Business+AI Lab Director Aleksi Aaltonen, aaaltone@stevens.edu, or Aron Lindberg, IS&A Area Chair, alindber@stevens.edu.

Email Aleksi Aaltonen, Lab Director

Business+AI Lab
Babbio Center
525 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030