AI is becoming real with every new application and meaningful use case transforming how organizations create value, make decisions, and innovate. This Masterclass empowers leaders to understand what’s behind this transformation and how to leverage it strategically and responsibly. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how generative AI and large language models (LLMs) work, uncovering their potential to enhance performance, productivity, and customer engagement. The session then explores the AI frontier with Agents and agentic AI—systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting autonomously toward defined business goals. These new frontiers represent a shift from AI as a tool to AI as an active collaborator in strategy execution and operations. Finally, the Masterclass highlights how these technologies are reshaping organizational structures, leadership roles, and workforce capabilities.
DETAILS
- Date: 25.11.25 (Tuesday)
- Time: 6.00 – 8.00 PM, doors open at 5.30 PM
- Venue: HEC Paris, Doha, 1st floor, classroom 102 and Lounge https://maps.app.goo.gl/MBTwTcg3MNy4GFhT7
- Parking: We recommend using your GPS application to search for Galleria East Parking, which will direct you to the nearest parking near our building. You can take any spot at the B3 level.
AGENDA
| Time | Activity |
| 17:30 – 18:00: | Doors are open, guests’ registration, networking, refreshments are served |
| 18:00 – 18:10: | Welcome and program overview by El Mahdi Bentoumi |
| 18:10 – 19:10: | Masterclass by Professor Restrepo ‘The Next AI Frontier for Business Leaders’ |
| 19:10 – 19:40: | Q&A |
| 19:40 – 20:00: | Networking, refreshments to be served |
PROFESSOR DETAILS
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David Restrepo Amariles, Associate Professor of AI and Data Law, and Worldline Chair on the Future of Money at HEC Paris. |
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David Restrepo is the director of the Smart Law Hub and a Fellow at the Hi! Paris Center of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. He serves as Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Group (SIG) of the American Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and co-convenes the Law, Society and AI Seminar Series at HEC Paris IP Paris. His teaching portfolio includes courses on Policy and Regulation of Digital Finance, Blockchain, Innovation and Policy, Data Analytics and AI, and Data Law and Technology Compliance, delivered jointly with the Stockholm School of Economics (CEMS). Ecole Polytechnique (MSc Data Science for Business), and the MIT (LLM), and standalone in the MSc in International Finance, and the Major in Digital Business in Executive Education, he manages the Deloitte program on AI and Data, and has led tailored-made programs for leading firms and public organizations, including trainings for central banks and high public officials. He is also the director of the Certificate on the Future of Money and Payments. His research analyses the strategies of organizations to navigate digital innovation and the role of regulations in shaping the fields of privacy, finance, international business transactions, and corporate social responsibility He combines approaches from strategy, computer science and informatics, law, sociology, and science and technology studies He conducted R&D projects with public partners such as the French Cour de cassation and European Commission, and private partners such as Atos, Baker McKenzie, Dechert LLP, Natixis, BNPP, AXA. He accompanies digital transformation in the private sector and co funded several Tech startups He advises governments across the world in legal reform in the areas of data and technology. He is a panel member of the EU ERC Grants and co-chair of the CRN ‘Law and Development’ at the American Law and Society Association and at the RCSL He is a member of the editorial boards of AI and Law, European Journal of Risk Regulation and the World Arbitration and Mediation Review, and an Associate editor of Frontiers in Sociology. |
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