Convenings & Symposia

Events

Workshops, symposia, and panels convening scholars, clinicians, and policymakers around AI, healthcare, and global operations.

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Upcoming

Next convening on the calendar.

Sep 172026
Upcoming

Envisioning the Future of Global Supply Chains

A Johns Hopkins Sesquicentennial (JH150) workshop on the future of global supply chains.

Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Co-organized by Tinglong Dai and Alessandro Rebucci

Five sessions across the day. Panels cover geoeconomics and strategic dependence, the economics and organization of supply chains, health and essential supply chains, and the supply chains behind artificial intelligence. Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan of Brown University gives the keynote. Moderators come from Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, and STAT. See the full program and register.
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Recent

Convenings held earlier this year.

Jun 42026

Hopkins AI and Healthcare Convening

An HBHI × DSAI capstone. After three and a half years of monthly Zoom sessions, the Johns Hopkins Workgroup on AI and Healthcare met in person for the first time, co-hosted by the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative and the Data Science and AI Institute.

Johns Hopkins at Mt. Washington, Baltimore · 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Co-chaired by Tinglong Dai and Risa Wolf · Opening remarks by Dan Polsky (HBHI) and Mark Dredze (DSAI)

About 60 faculty, researchers, and clinicians from Medicine, Public Health, Engineering, Nursing, and Business came for ten lightning talks. Risa Wolf chaired the session on AI in clinical care: Michael Oberst on evaluating AI tools whose models change faster than their trials, Kelly Gleason on the nursing data that most clinical machine learning quietly runs on, Chien-Ming Huang on conversational agents for sleep medicine, Harang Ju on how teams change when the partner is an AI agent, and Harold Lehmann on decision models. The second session, chaired by Tinglong Dai, moved across the health ecosystem, with K. Davina Frick on an AI platform for cataract surgery training, Anthony Leung on building a translation engine for health innovation, Marika Cusick on the removal of race corrections from hypertension guidelines, Gordon Gao on just-in-time diabetes management from glucose-monitor data, and Ananya Joshi on AI companions in psychiatry. Through the morning an AI agent built by Tinglong Dai read the running transcript and picked one line from each speaker; twelve quotes from twelve voices were projected at the close. Read HBHI's account of the morning or the recap on LinkedIn.
Attendees of the Hopkins AI and Healthcare Convening gathered in front of two screens reading AI and Healthcare, Johns Hopkins at Mt. Washington, June 4, 2026Risa Wolf and Tinglong Dai at the lectern opening the convening, with the audience seated in the conference roomLineup slide listing ten lightning talks: Session I, AI in Clinical Care, chaired by Risa Wolf; Session II, AI Across the Health Ecosystem, chaired by Tinglong Dai
The workgroup in one room for the first time. Below: Risa Wolf and Tinglong Dai open the morning, and the lineup of ten lightning talks.
May 282026

Reskilling with AI

Panel at Leading with AI: Building Trust and Powering Growth, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Technology and Society Initiative.

Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Washington, DC
Moderated by Tinglong Dai, with Hamsa Bastani (Wharton), Jayashankar Swaminathan (UNC Kenan-Flagler), and Jorge Tamayo (Harvard Business School)

What AI does to human skill, seen through three research programs. In Hamsa Bastani’s classroom trials, students surrendered their thinking to the chatbot instead of learning from it. Jay Swaminathan described a field study in which 82 percent of workers shunned an AI tool after a single try. When Jorge Tamayo’s team added the word AI to a job posting, applications fell by 30 percent, and the effect vanished once the posting promised training. From there the conversation turned to the risk of a generation that never learns to struggle, the middle managers who, once cut, leave no one to train the next experts, and a working vocabulary of upskilling, reskilling, deskilling, and neverskilling. Read the full transcript on LinkedIn.
Jorge Tamayo, Jay Swaminathan, Hamsa Bastani, and moderator Tinglong Dai seated on stage at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center during the Reskilling with AI panel, May 28, 2026Jorge Tamayo, Jay Swaminathan, Hamsa Bastani, and Tinglong Dai standing together after the Reskilling with AI panel at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, May 28, 2026
On stage at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, and after the session. Left to right: Jorge Tamayo, Jay Swaminathan, Hamsa Bastani, and Tinglong Dai.
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Conferences & Workshops

Major events organized or co-chaired across AI, operations, healthcare, and public policy.

Dec 82025

WOW 2.0: The Second Washington Operations Workshop

Theme: “AI in Supply Chains.” A one-day workshop built around four layers of AI-driven operations: intelligence, execution, strategy, and infrastructure.

Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Co-chaired by Tinglong Dai and Maxime Cohen (McGill University) · Welcome by Goker Aydin, Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, Carey Business School

Maxime Cohen opened the day on the intelligence layer with Pavithra Harsha (IBM), Ming Hu (Toronto), Georgia Perakis (MIT), Sridhar Tayur (Carnegie Mellon), and Dennis Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis). Leann Thayaparan took the execution layer with Vinayak Deshpande (North Carolina), Timothy DeStefano (Georgetown), Nikolay Osadchiy (Emory), Masha Shunko (Washington), and Jan Van Mieghem (Northwestern). Tinglong Dai moderated the strategy layer with Keler Marku (Charles River Associates), Lisa Pinheiro (Analysis Group), Anne Robinson (Robinson Insights), and Jayashankar Swaminathan (North Carolina). Şafak Yücel (Georgetown) closed on infrastructure with Gad Allon (Wharton), Wedad Elmaghraby (Maryland), and Jan Fransoo (Tilburg). Then the afternoon turned into a hackathon. In breakouts led by Caleb Kwon (Texas at Austin), Sheng Liu (Toronto), Maxi Udenio Castro (KU Leuven), and Yuqian Xu (North Carolina), participants brainstormed, coded, prototyped, and drafted early write-ups on the spot, a format the organizers called vibe researching. Colleagues came from seven universities around Washington and more than twenty others across the country, along with Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, and industry and policy circles. Many of the speakers are contributors to AI in Supply Chains: Perspectives from Global Thought Leaders, a forthcoming Springer volume co-edited by Maxime Cohen and Tinglong Dai. The day ended over wine and cheese. See the recap on LinkedIn.
Participants of the Second Washington Operations Workshop on a rooftop terrace overlooking the National Mall, Washington, DC, December 8, 2025A panel seated at a long table at the Second Washington Operations Workshop, with panelist headshots displayed on the screen behind themA speaker addressing the room from a lectern beside a Johns Hopkins Carey Business School banner at the Second Washington Operations Workshop
On the terrace at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center. Below: a panel in session, and remarks from the lectern.
May 102025

2025 POMS Doctoral Consortium

The flagship doctoral event of the Production and Operations Management Society, held at the 36th POMS Annual Conference. Four panels on the job market, teaching, tenure, and the long arc of an academic career.

Atlanta, Georgia · Chaired by Tinglong Dai
Opening remarks by POMS President Subodha Kumar · Closing reflections by Jayashankar Swaminathan (North Carolina)

Subodha Kumar opened with what he wanted from the room. “We really need new ideas, lots and lots of them.” Christian Kaps (Harvard), Alys Liang (McGill), and Ilan Morgenstern (Yale and Berkeley) then took up the job market, where Kaps warned that a committee rarely reads the paper before deciding whether to interview. “You have 30 to 45 seconds to explain why your work matters, and why it matters to them.” Liang found her research identity late, in a warehouse studying product returns. “Research identity is sometimes not created at the beginning. It is created through reflection.” Vishal Agrawal (Georgetown), Christopher Ryan (British Columbia), and Karen Zheng (MIT) turned to teaching and writing. “Nothing brings me more joy than deleting a paragraph and rewriting it for the fifth time until it finally works,” Agrawal said. Ravi Anupindi (Michigan) and M. Eric Johnson (Vanderbilt) took on tenure, moderated by Gizem Nemutlu (Brandeis). “You are only as interesting as the questions you ask,” Anupindi said. “Everyone fills out the answers.” Johnson put the case plainly: tenure turns on trust rather than metrics. Charles Corbett (UCLA), Hau Lee (Stanford), and Mohan Sodhi (City, University of London) closed with the long view. Tinglong Dai had first sat in the audience at the 2012 consortium. See the recap on LinkedIn.
Doctoral students and faculty gathered for a group photograph at the 2025 POMS Doctoral Consortium in AtlantaPanelists standing in front of a screen reading The Art of Teaching and Research at the 2025 POMS Doctoral ConsortiumTinglong Dai speaking from a lectern at the 2025 POMS Doctoral Consortium, with his name and affiliation on the screen behind him
Doctoral students and faculty at the close of the consortium. Below: the panel on teaching and research, and the chair opening the morning.
Jan 172024

WOW 1.0: The Inaugural Washington Operations Workshop

Theme: “Rethinking Global Supply Chains in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.” Four panels, run entirely as conversation, with no technical talks.

Washington, DC · Co-chaired by Tinglong Dai and Ho-Yin Mak (Georgetown University)
Opening remarks by Goker Aydin and Ricardo Ernst · Closing remarks by Hau Lee (Stanford University)

Morris Cohen (Wharton) and Hau Lee (Stanford) opened by tracing where the field came from. The term supply chain belongs to neither of them, Lee explained. Keith Oliver of Booz Allen Hamilton used it in a 1982 Financial Times interview, having reached for a metaphor that would explain to a Philips vice president why inventory in one location cannot be set without regard to inventory in another. Pull one end of a chain and the other end moves. Three panels followed. Goker Aydin, Wedad Elmaghraby, and Hau Lee took up ESG and global value chains, moderated by Shiliang Cui (Georgetown). Volodymyr Babich, Ricardo Ernst, and M. Eric Johnson examined how geopolitics reshapes operations, moderated by Doug Thomas. Morris Cohen, Michael Fu, and Tinglong Dai closed on artificial intelligence in supply chain management, moderated by Ho-Yin Mak. Attendees came from seven universities around Washington: American, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, and Virginia. Carey Business School and Georgetown McDonough sponsored the day, and the series exists, by Tinglong Dai’s own account, because the acronym was irresistible. See the recap on LinkedIn.
Participants of the inaugural Washington Operations Workshop gathered for a group photograph, January 17, 2024Four seated participants in Panel I on the history of supply chain as a field at the inaugural Washington Operations WorkshopA speaker addressing the room beside the title slide reading Rethinking Global Supply Chains in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, January 17, 2024
The inaugural workshop, January 2024. Below: Panel I on the history of the field, and the room at the opening.
2022to 2023

National Academies of Sciences (NASEM) Workshops

Washington, DC · Planning committee

  • “Supply Chain Disruptions: Impacts on Vulnerable Communities” (2023)
  • PPE and PPT standardization for a resilient public health supply chain (2022 to 2023)
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Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations

Chair, 2016 to present. A recurring forum convening scholars and decision-makers in healthcare operations.

Oct 152021
Third symposium

Building Resilient Healthcare Supply Chains for the Next Pandemic

Speakers from Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, CDC, FDA, and HHS

Apr 262019
Second symposium

Health Organizational Design

Speakers from Stanford, London Business School, Wharton, Johns Hopkins, Boston University, and CMS

Oct 12016
First symposium

When Organ Transplantation Meets Operations Research

Speakers from Stanford, Chicago Booth, MIT, Georgia Tech, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, UCSF, NYU, and Johns Hopkins

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Professional Service

Conference organization, program committees, and cluster chairs.

2021–23
Program Committee
EAAMO (Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization)
2021, 23
Healthcare Conference Cluster Chair
INFORMS
2022
AI in Healthcare Cluster Chair
INFORMS Annual Meeting
2022
Committee’s Choice Sessions Chair
CORS-INFORMS
2021
MSOM Cluster Chair
INFORMS Annual Meeting
2021
Healthcare SIG Chair
MSOM Conference
2017–18
Cluster Chair & Program Committee
INFORMS · POMS
2009, 17
Workshop Program Committee
COREDEMA at IJCAI-17 · QRASA at IJCAI-09

Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University · tinglongdai.com