About the Talk:

Many enterprises are experimenting with AI across different use cases and working to translate that activity into measurable business transformation.

Join OpenAI and Bain & Company for a conversation on their recent HBR article, How to Move from AI Experimentation to AI Transformation. Arjun Dutt and Gene Rapoport, partners at Bain & Company, and Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist at OpenAI, will discuss the article’s framework for enterprise AI transformation, what leading companies are doing differently, and how leaders can turn AI adoption into organization-wide impact.

About the Speakers:

Gene Rapoport, Partner @ Bain & Company

Gene Rapoport leads our global Generative AI initiatives for the Private Equity practice. He is also a member of our Advanced Analytics, Strategy, and Technology practices.In his role, Gene advises financial investor clients on developing AI-driven investment strategies, evaluating AI risks and opportunities during commercial due diligence, and identifying and executing actionable ways portfolio companies can leverage AI to drive enterprise value. Gene has also played a role in the development and scaling of various GenAI-enabled tools that our consultants use daily. He has 15 years of consulting experience. Gene earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from DePaul University.

Arjun Dutt, Partner @ Bain & Company

Arjun Dutt is a member of our Technology & Cloud Services practice. He is a leader of our perspectives and work in artificial intelligence, datacenter technologies, enterprise software and semiconductors. Arjun holds deep expertise in commercial applications of AI technologies, enterprise software go-to-market planning and semiconductor manufacturing. While with us, Arjun has worked closely with technology companies to develop their datacenter growth strategies, including designing and implementing go-to-market plans. This focus has covered several related topics across strategy, commercial excellence and performance improvement. Arjun holds an MBA from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar. He also holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester, where he majored in electrical and computer engineering.

Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist @ OpenAI

Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji, Ph.D., is OpenAI’s first Chief Economist. He is also the Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor at Duke University, working at the intersection of academia, policy, and business. He served in the Biden Administration as White House CHIPS coordinator and Acting Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, shaping industrial policy, manufacturing, and supply chains. Before that, he was Chief Economist at the Department of Commerce and a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is on leave as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and previously taught at Harvard Business School. Earlier in his career, he worked at Goldman Sachs and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Chatterji holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.