The runtime revolution: how generative AI is reshaping value and organisations
Hosted by the Department of Management
In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)
Wednesday 10 June 2026 6.30pm - 8pm
The modern world is built on principles of scarcity: the idea that value falls as supply increases, that technology and systems are designed to produce the same result every time, and that organisations form to minimise the costs and complications of exchange. Generative computing challenges each of these assumptions. Rather than relying on scarcity to create value, generative AI creates value through abundance, context, and variation. It generates unique, situation specific meaningful outputs at runtime, rather than replicating a predetermined design. In this new environment, increased supply can generate greater value, not less. And firms exist to create and capture value from abundance.
Join Youngjin Yoo for his inaugural lecture, where he will set out a new agenda for understanding how this technological and economic shift is reshaping value creation, technological design, and the organisation.
Meet our speaker and chair
Youngjin Yoo is Professor of Information Systems and Innovation at LSE, recognised as a leading thinker on digital innovation. His work spans academia and practice, from driving digital transformation at University Hospitals in Cleveland to collaborating with global organisations including NASA, Samsung, LG, Goodyear, and others.
Sarah Ashwin is Head of the LSE Department of Management and Professor of Comparative Employment Relations.
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