Yale Career Fireside Chat: The Impact of AI on Jobs and Careers (May 12, 2026)
This event is the 72th in a series of events covering different professions and career issues. There have been 57 Yale Career Panels, 10 Yale Career Fireside Chats, 3 Career Advice and Networking events and 1 Yale Career Conversations event. Organized 15 years ago by a group of Yale alumni volunteers, these panels strive to provide candid, unvarnished views of featured professions and opportunities for career advice and networking.
The issue of AI has dominated the headlines as the application of AI spreads across a wide variety of functions and tasks. There is a great deal of controversy about what impact AI will have on various tasks that humans perform and about the extent to which AI will be successful or not successful. For Yale students deciding on their careers and on Yale alumni of all ages who are in different professions, it has become imperative to figure out what jobs and functions will become extinct and what new opportunities will be created.
We have assembled a panel that will share and debate their perspectives about the impact that AI will have on jobs and careers, the extent to which AI continue to evolve and impact different tasks, and how one should think about these trends when you assess where to point your career.
This virtual event will feature a 45 minute panel followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.
Time: Tuesday, May 12 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm EST
If you would like to join us for this event, please register at:
Registration: http://yalecareerpanels-5-12-26.eventbrite.com
Panelists:
Sam Hendel, Co-Founder, Dataminr, Co-Founder of Chord Music Partners, and Managing Partner, Dundee Partners
Marc Rind, Chief Technical Officer – Data Banking, Fiserv
Gale Tenen Spak, Ph.D., Principal, Build Their Future, LLC
Moderator and Organizer:
Peter Young, CEO, Young & Partners and Member, Yale Career Panel Planning Committee
Biographies:
Sam Hendel
Sam Hendel is the Managing Partner of Dundee Partners, the Hendel family office, and Co-Founder of Chord Music Partners. In 2021, he founded Chord as a joint venture with Universal Music Group, serving as Universal’s exclusive global catalogue acquisition vehicle. Today, Chord is one of the largest independent music rights platforms in the world, with a portfolio of over 65,000 works spanning both legacy and contemporary artists, including The Weeknd, Fleetwood Mac, David Guetta, OneRepublic, John Legend, Diplo/Major Lazer, ZZ Top, and Morgan Wallen.
In addition to Chord, Sam and his family have invested in media and cultural enterprises such as Knitting Factory Entertainment, Partisan Records, Colors Studios, Kino Lorber, and a range of Broadway plays and musicals. He also founded Jukebox in 2022, a platform that enables catalogue owners and artists to offer shares of royalty streams as regulated securities to retail investors.
Sam is also a Co-Founder of Dataminr, a leading real-time AI company focused on event and risk detection. He began his career in investment management, serving as a Portfolio Manager specializing in merger arbitrage and event-driven strategies. Sam is an Associate Fellow of Davenport College at Yale and serves on the Yale Schwarzman Center Advisory Board.
Marc Rind, Chief Technical Officer – Data Banking, Fiserv
Marc is responsible for leading the Technical Direction empowering Development and Product teams in leveraging Fiserv’s Data. He is focused on building an enterprise-wide Data Platform which will connect and democratize the various FI and Merchant data sources. This Data Platform will ensure a safe and compliant means to innovate with data in order to generate Insights fueling product and monetization opportunities across all Business Units. Fiserv is now launching Data Compass; the productization of the platform and capabilities to enable Fiserv’s clients to democratize their data and gain the insights only Fiserv’s data can provide. Marc started at Fiserv in early 2020 building the Data platform within Bank Solutions and is now expanding the direction to the rest of the Enterprise.
Previously, Marc was responsible for leading the research and development of Automatic Data Processing’s (ADP’s) Analytics and Big Data platform as VP of Product Development and Chief Data Scientist. The ADP DataCloud Platform provides HCM Data Insight products to ADP’s client base, while also serving the data behind the ADP National Employment Report.
Prior to joining ADP, Marc’s innovative spirit and fascination with data was forged at Bolt Media--a dot-com start-up based in NY’s “Silicon Alley”. The company was an early predecessor to today’s social media outlets, producing behavior data on millions of users to build early data marketing capabilities during the earliest days of the Internet.
Marc received his Master’s degree in Business Communications from Emerson College in 1995 with a focused study on industry innovations through technology. He is also
currently serving as an adjunct professor for Seton Hall’s Masters in Business Analytics program as part of the Stillman School of Business.
Gale Teen Spak
Gale Tenen Spak established Build Their Future, LLC in 2019 to provide talent and workforce STEM and soft skill development training and education consultancy appropriate for “cradle to gray” generations based on what she has learned over 26 years at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where between 1992 and 2018, she served as Associate Vice President of Continuing and Distance Education. Through her oversight of NJIT’s centralized Division of Continuing Professional Education, she has extensive experience in professional STEM workforce development and continuing education programming, which she writes and presents on broadly. Her experiences include managing, developing, marketing, proposal writing, evaluating, and implementing academic and non-credit programs both in-person and online for working professionals and job seekers who require new education and training to keep their skill sets at the cutting edge. The programs she designs involve crosswalks among academe, industry, and government, and utilize, as appropriate, digital instruction and platforms. Currently, she focuses on studying and teaching about the impact of AI on jobs and society.
Before joining NJIT in 1992, Dr. Spak was Dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Education and CEO of “American Open University” at New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York; and, during America’s first energy crisis, she served as the Director of the Center for Energy Policy and Research and authored “how to” reports which were sent to every American Governor. This and other works were recognized by President Carter in a White House ceremony.
She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Political Psychology from Yale University, Master of Arts in Political Science from Yale University, and Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Political Science from Brooklyn College of City University of New York.
Previous Yale Career Fireside Chats and Yale Career Panels
The 57 previous Yale Career Panels have covered architecture, artificial intelligence (two times), biomedical, biotech, boutique consulting, consulting (five times), education, entrepreneurism (two times), film and drama, finance and investing, fintech, global health, healthcare and data services, internet and data services, investment banking (four times), investing (twice), K-12 education, government service, journalism and publishing, legal (six times), medical (five times), medical devices, music, non-profit organizations (twice), politics - the election process, post-Ph.D. non-academic careers, product management, R&D, real estate, sales, social media and influencers, start-ups, a comparison of venture capital and private equity and a comparison of investing/investment banking/consulting.
In 2016, we started a series called, “Yale Career Fireside Chats.” This series spotlights issues and opportunities which may be encountered during your professional career. So far, our 10 fireside chats have covered “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” “Managing Major Career Changes,” “Serving on Boards,” “The Art of Networking,” “Cybersecurity”, “ Managing Your Career in a Covid-19 Downturn,” Lessons from Kevin Ryan, a Veteran Entrepreneur,” “How has the Pandemic Impacted our Careers and Work-Life?,” and “How to Ace Your Interviews”, and “The Art of Effective Self- Assessment”.
In 2022, we started a series called, “Yale Career Conversations” that gathered attendees around virtual tables with a person at each table who is in the profession. The first one was on Investment Banking and Investing.
In 2024, we started a special event, “Advisors and Networking” where we brought Yale alumni in different professions together with Yale students and alumni in a virtual ballroom where they could meet with each other, share advice, and find mentors.
The recorded Yale Career Panels and Fireside Chats can be viewed at www.yalecareerpanels.com. The Yale Career Conversations and Advisors and Networking sessions, due to their structures, are not recorded.
The Series Sponsors
This series is jointly supported by various organizations at Yale University and Yale Alumni organizations, including the Yale Office of Career Strategy, the Yale Alumni Association (YAA), the Yale School of Management, Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), the Junior Class Council (JCC), the Yale.nyc (the Yale alumni association in New York City), and the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA).
