Léonard Boussioux speaking at AI Spark: Foster AI Day

Talks.

Léonard Boussioux — Human-AI Collaboration for a Living Planet
Stanford · Sustainable & Responsible AI · May 2026
Human-AI Collaboration for a Living Planet
Léonard Boussioux — TEDxMIT
MIT
TEDxMIT
Léonard Boussioux — The Creativity Paradox of AI
MIT Universal AI · May 2026
The Creativity Paradox of AI
Léonard Boussioux — Berkeley Culture Connect
UC Berkeley · 2026
Berkeley Culture Connect
Léonard Boussioux — Generative AI to Accelerate Problem Solving
MIT Universal AI · May 2026
Generative AI to Accelerate Problem Solving
Léonard Boussioux — Teaching in the Age of GenAI
Berkeley Global Venture Lab
Teaching in the Age of GenAI

Selected talks

On the Ecology and Taxonomy of Agentic AI Ecosystems

  • HarvardOpen & User Innovation ConferenceJul 2026 · Boston
Slides

The Crowdless Lab? Vibe Coding, Agent Ecosystems, and the Future of Research

  • HarvardOUI Conference · Plenary sessionJul 2026 · Boston

Designing Human-AI Collaboration: From Narrative Explanations to Agentic Artifacts

  • University of WashingtonTacoma · Milgard School of BusinessJun 2026
  • UBC Sauder School of BusinessSWIS — UW–UBC IS WorkshopMay 2026 · Vancouver
  • University of TorontoRotman Young Scholar SeminarMay 2026

Teaching in the Age of Generative AI: From Vibe Coding to AI Champions

  • UW FosterAI Spark · Foster AI Day — organizer, panel, workshopMay 2026
  • AI-SCORE Summer SchoolMay 2026 · Chicago
  • UC BerkeleyGlobal Venture LabMay 2026
  • Columbia UniversityBusiness SchoolJun 2026 · New York
  • University of WashingtonAI Lunch & Learn — Teaching Claude to Co-Work2026
▶ Video

The Creativity Paradox of Generative AI

  • MITSloan Management Review · Work/26May 2026
Slides

Generative AI to Accelerate Problem Solving

  • MITUniversal AI · WarsawMar 2026 · Warsaw
  • MITHorizon · Live EventMay 2026
  • Microsoft ResearchThe Age of Agents (Microsoft)Mar 2025

Human-AI Collaboration for a Living Planet

  • Stanford UniversityMay 2026
  • Trilogy BirdersMay 2026

Generative AI and Evaluation of Early-Stage Innovations

  • UBC Sauder School of BusinessSWIS — UW–UBC IS WorkshopMay 2026 · Vancouver
  • ICIS 2025 — NashvilleDec 2025 · Nashville, TN
  • CISTOct 2025 · Atlanta
  • Wharton — University of PennsylvaniaAI at WhartonSep 2025 · San Francisco
  • Academy of ManagementJul 2025 · Copenhagen
  • POMSMay 2025 · Atlanta, GA
  • ICIS 2024 — BangkokDec 2024 · Bangkok
  • University of WashingtonIMDS Seminar SeriesDec 2024 · Remote
  • Microsoft ResearchResearchNov 2024
  • INFORMSAnnual MeetingOct 2024 · Seattle
  • CISTOct 2024 · Seattle
  • HarvardLaboratory for Innovation ScienceOct 2024 · Remote
  • Wharton — University of PennsylvaniaAI at WhartonSep 2024 · San Francisco
  • POMSApr 2024 · Minneapolis
Slides

Optimizing Wildfire Suppression: Branch-and-Price-and-Cut & Double-ML

  • INFORMSAnnual MeetingOct 2025 · Atlanta
  • Carnegie Mellon UniversityYinzORAug 2025
  • INFORMS MSOMMSOMJun 2025 · London
  • Workshop on AI & Analytics for Social GoodMay 2025 · College Park, MD
Slides

From LLMs and Optimization to a Decision Optimization Copilot

  • POMSMay 2025 · Atlanta, GA
  • INFORMSAnnual MeetingOct 2024 · Seattle
  • Stanford UniversitySeminarSep 2024 · Palo Alto
  • POMSApr 2024 · Minneapolis

Socratic Iterative Prompt Engineering: LLM Decision-Making in the Beer Game Supply Chain

  • POMSMay 2025 · Atlanta, GA

Generative AI and Creative Problem Solving

  • UW FosterLegacy & LeadersOct 2024 · Seattle
  • HarvardEconomics of AI CourseSep 2024 · Remote
  • Academy of ManagementAug 2024 · Chicago
  • Technical University of MunichGenAI LabMay 2024
  • POMSApr 2024 · Minneapolis
  • University of Southern CaliforniaAI in ManagementMar 2024 · Los Angeles
  • Wharton — University of PennsylvaniaAI at WhartonMar 2024

The Crowdless Future? How Generative AI Is Shaping Human Crowdsourcing

  • Academy of ManagementAug 2024 · Chicago
  • INFORMSAnnual MeetingOct 2023 · Phoenix

Human-AI Collaboration to Accelerate Problem-Solving

  • POMSApr 2024 · Minneapolis
  • MITSalonOct 2023 · Boston

Multimodality, Models, Algorithms, and Applications to Sustainability

  • Mila — Québec AI InstituteQuébec AI InstituteSep 2023
  • UW FosterFoster School of BusinessNov 2022 · Seattle
  • IESE Business SchoolBusiness SchoolNov 2022 · Barcelona
  • MITOM SeminarNov 2022
  • INFORMSAnnual MeetingOct 2022 · Indianapolis

Hurricane Forecasting: A Novel Multimodal ML Framework

  • National Tropical Weather ConferenceApr 2024 · South Padre Island, TX
  • NeurIPS — Climate Change with AI (spotlight)Dec 2021
  • INFORMSAnnual MeetingOct 2021
  • Montreal AI SymposiumSep 2020

Reducing Air Pollution Through Machine Learning

  • INFORMSDoing Good with Good OR — FinalsOct 2023 · Phoenix

Combating False Negatives in Adversarial Imitation Learning

  • IJCNN (spotlight)Jul 2021
  • AAAIFeb 2020 · New York
  • Mila — Québec AI InstituteResearch ShowcaseJun 2019 · Montreal

Email leobix@uw.edu for slide decks, recordings, or speaking invitations.

Panels & appearances

  • INFORMSPanel · Moderator

    AI for Decision Making

    INFORMS Annual MeetingNov 2026 · San Francisco
  • Webinar · Panelist

    AI Horizons Webinar Series

    Sep 2025
  • Speaker & Panelist

    Machine Learning for Healthcare

    OwkinJul 2025 · Paris
  • UW FosterSummit

    AI and the Future of Work

    UW Foster Global AI SummitMar 2025 · Seattle
  • University of WashingtonWorkshop

    Scholarly Writing for Non-Native English Speakers

    UW PhD Students WorkshopSep 2024
  • UW FosterWebinar · Panelist

    How AI & Human Ingenuity Can Solve Global Issues

    UW Foster Instructional MediaJan 2024 · Remote
  • University of WashingtonPanel · Panelist

    International Career Panel

    UW ABSA × AIESECNov 2023

Podcasts

  • UC BerkeleyPodcast

    AI and the Future of Human Creativity

    Berkeley Haas PodcastNov 2024 · Remote