Discover and discuss near and long-term benefits and risks AI brings to business travel and corporate programs. The presentation briefly lays out what artificial intelligence actually is, how it has evolved to this point and where it's headed.  We will relate this development to how it's being both currently applied in the travel industry and where is it is likely to be applied in the future.  It also addresses the potential and probable impacts/consequences of these applications on those in the industry.

Peter A Stark 

Professor Peter Stark is recognized internationally as a passionate and engaging educator as well as a culturally sensitive, insightful and accomplished strategist and “change master” with specific expertise in cross-cultural organizational effectiveness/culture change initiatives and cross-cultural leadership. Honored as “Professor of the Year” in 2007 at the University of Minnesota, he currently teaches strategy, leadership, and global business at Gustavus Adolphus College as well as in the areas of cross-cultural leadership and change in Visiting Professorships at both the Helsinki School of Economics and the Berlin Institute of Management.

In addition to teaching, Peter also consults worldwide on transformational leadership, cross-cultural organizational effectiveness, strategy, and systems thinking. He is frequently recognized for his abilities to work at all levels and across all functions of complex organizations as well as within emerging economies and across multiple cultures to deliver consistently superior results in the design and delivery of human performance improvement initiatives.  

Peter’s background encompasses more than 25 years of senior executive experience in the global transportation industry and includes starting and/or leading businesses in China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He has lived and worked in countries on five continents, is functionally fluent in Mandarin and Swedish, as well as socially conversant in Japanese and Spanish. He is an avid climber, kayaker and traveler having experienced more than 125 countries thus far.

Peter’s doctoral studies at both Pepperdine University (Malibu) and the Fielding Graduate Institute (Santa Barbara) were in Strategic Organization Change and Leadership; in addition, he holds an MBA from Pepperdine University (Malibu), an MA also from Fielding  and a BS in Cognitive/Neuropsychology from Northwestern University (Evanston).

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