The conference where operators, investors, and builders show, on stage and in real time, how AI is reshaping the way decisions get made.
This is a conference. One stage, one day, three blocks: operators, investors, and builders, each showing, live, how AI is changing the decisions they make for a living. No keynotes about the future. Real workflows, real capital allocation, real product demos.
One day. Three blocks. Everything on stage.
BIC 0 is a single‑day conference structured as a narrative arc. Morning: operators show how AI is changing their workflows. Midday: investors explain where capital is moving and why. Afternoon: builders demo the products behind it all. Every session runs on proof: live screens, real data, working products.
Practitioners who use AI in their actual day‑to‑day. Bankers, PMs, consultants, and founders walking through how they really build a deal memo, run a market scan, or produce a competitive analysis, with the tools open on screen.
Investors who have deployed real capital into AI infrastructure, data, and applied technology. Where the money is moving, what they’re skeptical of, and how they use these tools in their own process, not just what they’re funding, but how they think.
Founders and product leaders creating the tools and infrastructure that operators depend on, and investors are underwriting. Live demo of what they’re building, the product thesis behind it, and a real use case running on stage.
AI has already rewritten the job description. The recruiting stories you heard last year are out of date, and the tools adopted six months ago are changing how analysts, associates, and PMs actually work.
This conference puts you in the room with the people living that shift: operators who rebuilt their workflows, investors who rewrote their theses, builders who shipped the tools behind it. You leave with a concrete view of how your target role works now and a short list of what to learn before you walk in the door.
You make AI decisions every week: what to pilot, what to scale, what to cut. Most inputs you see are either too abstract or too technical to inform a real call.
This conference brings operators walking through live workflows, investors explaining allocation decisions, and builders demoing actual products in use. You connect with peers facing the same choices and with Michigan talent ready to work on them.
You’ve built something real. You need a room that understands it and can do something with it.
This conference puts you in front of operators who could deploy it, investors who could fund it, and students who could become your first five hires. This is not a pitch competition. It’s a working demo for the people who use, underwrite, and extend the tools shaping tomorrow’s business.
Three schools. One campus. The only student‑led AI conference built around proof, decisions, and the full chain from workflow to capital to product.
Ann Arbor is where the decision layer comes together. Ross delivers strategy, capital, and deal‑making. The School of Information drives data, ML, and product design. Engineering powers the infrastructure behind it all.
No other conference on campus is student‑led, decision‑focused, and built around the chain from workflow to capital to product. BIC closes that gap, and brings Ross’s legacy of world‑class conferences to the most pivotal shift in business since the Internet.
BIC is a conference first. Here’s what makes it different.
We’re recruiting across Ross, SI, and Engineering to produce BIC 0 from the ground up. The best conferences are built by cross‑functional teams, and so is this one. Year one sets the standard for everything that follows.
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Michigan has always filled rooms for business in sports, music, and fashion. Those events matter, but the most significant shift of our generation LANDED, and no one built a conference for it.
The conversation has moved on from “What is AI?” Now it’s: Where does it create leverage? What do we automate? Who gets funded? Operators, investors, and builders are answering these questions in real time. They deserve a conference that matches the seriousness of the work.
That’s BIC. One day. Three blocks. Operators show how work changes. Investors reveal where capital flows. Builders demo what’s next. Every session runs on proof: live workflows, real numbers, working products on stage.
If you’d rather see how it works than hear someone guess where it’s going, this conference is for you.