This workshop will be held in two parts in Room 37-212:
Register here. Registration is for both parts. Only attendees in the first part can attend the second part. Max. enrollment = 50 graduate students.
This workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership. (You must attend at least the first part to receive credit.)
The central question is no longer only “Do we trust AI?” but, more broadly: “How does AI engineering leadership shape whether others—human or machine—trust us, our work, our organizations, and our brands?”
This IAP workshop explores how trust is created, led, and engineered in a world shaped by intelligent systems and saturated with mediated, deepfake, and hallucinated content. Students will engage in practical exercises and learn from research on trust and AI engineering. Led by David Niño and Brian Subirana, with a guest appearance by MIT alumnus Carlos Torres Vila BS ‘88, SM ‘90, Chairman of BBVA, a $800B global financial group pioneering a large-scale AI transformation.
This workshop is designed to engage graduate students on a topic that will become a new academic class for our program in the fall 2026 semester. This class will be led by David, Brian, and other distinguished guests from academia and industry. In addition to the IAP session’s core learning, we also hope to gain your feedback, perspectives, and interests on topics at the intersection of leadership, engineering, AI, and trust.
David Niño is a Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program. He started the program with a single class and led its expansion into a portfolio of highly-rated academic offerings and a new graduate certificate in engineering leadership. His contributions were recognized with the School of Engineering’s Infinite Mile Award, and in 2022, the program secured a $10 million gift of support.
Niño has designed and delivered MIT leadership programs online to a global audience of more than 1,000 professionals annually, offered in multiple languages. Nationally, he has been a leading figure in the field, serving as Chair of the Engineering Leadership Development Division of the American Society of Engineering Education.
Before joining MIT, he was a Professor of the Practice at Rice University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D., M.A., B.B.A., and B.A. degrees.
Brian Subirana is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at EADA Business School and a member of the faculty for MIT’s Designing and Building AI Products and Services course, which he conceived and developed. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He has served on the faculty of the MIT School of Engineering, MIT Sloan and Harvard University. At MIT, he was also Director of the MIT Auto-ID Lab and the founding Director of the MIT–Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology. Before entering academia, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and he has since founded three startups.
Carlos Torres Vila is the current Chair of BBVA, a $800B global financial group pioneering a large-scale AI transformation.
Carlos graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Management from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he later also earned a M.S. at the MIT Sloan School of
Management. He also graduated in Law from UNED (Spain).
He was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 12 years. He joined Endesa in 2002
as Corporate Director of Strategy and member of its Executive Committee, and became company
CFO in 2007.
In September 2008, Carlos joined BBVA as Head of Strategy and Corporate Development, and
member of the bank’s Management Committee. In March 2014 he was appointed Head of Digital
Banking, until May 2015 when he became Chief Executive Officer of the bank.
Carlos was appointed Chair of BBVA and of the BBVA Foundation in December 2018.
Registration is for both parts: January 22 – 1:00-4:00 pm & January 29 – 10:30-12:00 pm.
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This workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership. (You must attend at least the first part to receive credit.)