OPENING REMARKS

Joao F. Gomes
Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics,
Senior Vice Dean of Research, Centers, and Academic Initiatives

Bob Paul
Senior Director, Corporate and Foundation Relationships

Research Spotlight:

FUTURE OF FINANCE

Itamar Drechsler
Ervin Miller-Arthur M. Freedman Professor, Professor of Finance,
Co-Director, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research

Sean Myers
Assistant Professor of Finance

Nikolai Roussanov
Moise Y. Safra Professor, Professor of Finance, Academic Advisor, MBA major in Quantitative Finance, Academic Director, “Wharton on the Markets” series

Parinitha (Pari) Sastry
Assistant Professor of Finance

Moderator: Joao F. Gomes
Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics,
Senior Vice Dean of Research, Centers, and Academic Initiatives

Break

Re-Imagining Academic Partnerships: A Fireside Chat with Industry Leaders

Moderated by:

DEAN ERIKA JAMES

Selen Karaca-Griffin
Global Life Science Research Lead, Accenture

Kenneth Munie, WG04
Sr. Managing Director, Global Lead of Products Strategy Practice. Accenture

Lauren Weymouth
Senior Director of University Partnerships, Ripple

Dalila Wilson-Scott
Executive Vice President & Chief Impact & Inclusion Officer, Comcast Corporation &
President, Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation

Erika H. James
Dean, The Wharton School
Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, Professor
of Management

Research Spotlight:

AI & INNOVATION

Ron Berman
Associate Professor of Marketing, PhD Coordinator, Marketing

Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe
Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Co-Director, Wharton Human-AI Research

Lynn Wu
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Director of Embodied AI and Robotics at the Mack Institute

Pinar Yildirim
Associate Professor of Marketing, Associate Professor of Economics

Moderator: Eric Bradlow
The K.P. Chao Professor, Professor of Marketing, Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton, Chairperson, Wharton Marketing Department, Professor of Economics; Professor of Education; Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Break

Research Spotlight:

WORKPLACE TRANSFORMATION

Peter Cappelli
George W. Taylor Professor, Professor of Management, Director,
Center for Human Resources

Judd B. Kessler
Howard Marks Professor

Henning Piezunka
Associate Professor of Management

Michael Platt
James S. Riepe University Professor, Professor of Marketing,
Professor of Psychology, Professor of Neuroscience,
Director, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative

Moderator: Nancy Rothbard
Deputy Dean, The Wharton School
David Pottruck Professor, Professor of Management