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Upcoming Public Lectures

The runtime revolution: how generative AI is reshaping value and organisations

Wednesday 10 June, 6.30pm to 8pm

Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Campus, and online

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 Professor 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.

Chair: Professor Sarah Ashwin, LSE

This public event is free and open to all. This will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience. In-person tickets will become available on Monday 11 May, online registration is open via the link below.

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For any queries, email dom.events@lse.ac.uk.

The world is your office: AI and the evolution of work from anywhere

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 6.30pm to 8.00pm

During the past decade, technological change and management practices have disrupted how organisations access global talent and organise work. Thousands of employees are now enabled to work from anywhere. Why? Because trailblazing organisations recognise that geographic flexibility offers a competitive edge.

These shifts have had profound implications for workers, organisations, and society. Now, a second wave of disruption is emerging. Driven by digital twins - a combination of AI, sensors, and automation - this new phenomenon is reshaping how we think about attracting talent beyond geographical boundaries. Join Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury for a research-rich deep dive into the future of work, drawing on over a decade of pioneering research on ‘Work from Anywhere’. Presenting insights from his recent book, The World is Your Office, Raj tackles the essential question: How should we organise work in a digitally flexible world?

Discussant:

Isabel Berwick

Chair:

Professor Sarah Ashwin, LSE

Reigstration Information:

This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience. In-person tickets will become available on Monday 9 February, online registration will open early January.

To register for this event online or in-person, please click here.

For any queries email dom.events@lse.ac.uk.

Building Adaptive Organisations for the AI Age

Monday 9 February 2026, 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Great Hall, Marshall Building, LSE Campus

Organisations today face a paradox: we strive for agility and innovation yet remain trapped in rigid systems designed for control and efficiency. Massive top-down transformations often make things worse. Is there a better way?

Join Amazon Web Services executives in residence Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner as they introduce The Octopus Organization, a bold new approach inspired by one of nature’s most adaptable creatures. Like an octopus – intelligent, resilient, and decentralised – organisations can thrive by balancing cohesion with autonomy and tapping into the distributed intelligence of their people.

Speakers:

Phil Le-Brun, Executive in Residence, Amazon Web Services

Jana Werner, Executive in Residence, Amazon Web Services

Chair:

Dr Will Venters, LSE

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