How should business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and strategists direct their organizations to prepare for the future? How is the organization you lead adapting and evolving to this “Next Normal” and guiding your stakeholders into an uncertain future?

Discussing the Future of Digital Business with Special Guests:

Raj Veeramani, Executive Director of UW E-Business Consortium and

Doug Barton, Director of UW E-Business Consortium

Hear how Wisconsin leaders are coping and adapting to COVID-19. How should business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and strategists direct their organizations to prepare for the future? How is the organization you lead adapting and evolving to this “Next Normal” and guiding your stakeholders into an uncertain future?

Close the Distance: CEO Leadership Conversations on Higher Education

Special Guests: Mark Mone, Chancellor of UW-Milwaukee & Cecil Youngblood, Dean of Students and Chief Diversity Officer at Beloit College

 

How should business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and strategists direct their organizations to prepare for the future? How is the organization you lead adapting and evolving to this “Next Normal” and guiding your stakeholders into an uncertain future?

Which characteristics will the market reward with share in the New Normal economy for transportation and logistics?
Moderator: Arik Johnson
Lead Analyst: Dr. Craig Fleisher

Creative Destruction Segment How will transportation and logistics firms leverage technology and other potential disruptions to evolve to the changing needs of their markets for the future?
Moderator: Arik Johnson
Lead Analyst: David Conley

Learn from Wisconsin CEO’s in transportation and logistics.

Specials Guests: Todd Gilbert of Valley Companies and John Spiros of Roehl Transport

How should business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and strategists direct their organizations to prepare for the future? How is the organization you lead adapting and evolving to this “Next Normal” and guiding your stakeholders into an uncertain future?

Which characteristics will the market reward with share in the New Normal economy for energy utilities?
Moderator: Arik Johnson
Lead Analyst: Dr. Craig Fleisher

How will energy utilities leverage technology and other potential disruptions to evolve to the changing needs of their members for the future?
Moderator: Arik Johnson
Lead Analyst: David Conley

Special Guest:  David de Leon – President, Wisconsin Power and Light Company

A two-part series hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Wisconsin Technology Council, Michael Best Strategies and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Part One: Why Midwest Assets Are Vital for Growth
Tuesday, August 11 | 11 a.m. CDT | Webinar

Join us for a 60-minute discussion with regional thought leaders on why Midwest states are uniquely equipped to spark the nation’s economy and drive meaningful innovation. The session will explore recent research on how place-based investments in emerging growth centers across the country can remedy regional gaps in capital investment, maintain U.S. leadership in innovation and attract the tech stars of the future to the nation’s heartland.

John Austin, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Ruben Anthony, CEO and President, Urban League of Greater Madison
Erik Iverson, CEO, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
Tom Still (moderator), President, Wisconsin Technology Council
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Part Two: How the Endless Frontier Act Will Catalyze Innovation and Economic Growth
Date of this event forthcoming

This 60-minute discussion will include congressional co-sponsors and advocates of the Endless Frontier Act who will explain why now is the time, and the Midwest is the place, for bold investments in science, technology and innovation. For the last century, the United States had been the undisputed global leader in university and industry research. Our panelists will explain how targeted federal investment in emerging growth centers focused on quantum computing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and manufacturing can extend and expand U.S. leadership into the twenty-first century and beyond.

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