Market Design in the Age of AI

Event Details:

Friday, February 27, 2026
12:00pm - 6:00pm PST

Location

Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa, 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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This event is open to:

Alumni
Faculty/Staff
General Public
SDS Industry Affiliate Members
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The Market Design in the Age of AI Conference aims to catalyze interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation at the intersection of algorithm design, economics, machine learning, and operations research. As market platforms become increasingly complex and data-driven, this conference brings together leading thinkers from both academia and industry to explore how AI is reshaping the design, analysis, and regulation of modern markets.

Our goal is to foster a vibrant community that bridges research and practice—advancing both the theory and real-world application of intelligent, efficient, and equitable market systems. Over time, we envision the conference serving as a launch pad for novel marketplaces and platform innovations that emerge from these collaborations.

Agenda

Start TimeEnd TimeSessionSpeaker(s)
12:00 PM1:00 PMLunch & Registration 
1:00 PM1:15 PMOpening RemarksAmin Saberi, Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford; Computational Market Design Center Director
1:15 PM1:45 PMEconomic Mechanisms in the GenAI Era: Advertising Auctions and MarketplacesAranyak Mehta, Distinguished Research Scientist, Google
1:45 PM2:15 PMCarpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving CarsMichael Ostrovsky, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2:15 PM3:00 PMGenAI for Markets
3:00 PM3:15 PMBreak 
3:15 PM3:45 PMThe Interplay Between Market Design and GenAI: From Compute Allocation to GenAI for Mechanism DesignVahab Mirrokni, VP & Fellow, Google Research
3:45 PM4:15 PMFireside Chat: The Economics of AI
  • Michael Schwarz, Corporate Vice President & Chief Economist, Microsoft
  • Guido Imbens, Professor, Stanford University; Faculty Director, Stanford Data Science
  • Amin Saberi, Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford; Computational Market Design Center Director
4:15 PM4:45 PMMarket Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright BinaryNegin (Nikki) Golrezaei, Theresa Seley Associate Professor in Management Science, MIT
4:45 PM5:00 PMClosing Remarks 
5:00 PM6:20 PMNetworking Reception & PostersView the Poster Map

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