2024 Business and Global Affairs Conference
Co-Creation and Digital Transformation
Agenda
| Key information | Date, time, and location |
|---|---|
| – Register for the conference here! – Click here for arrival Instructions – Dress code: Business casual | Date: November 15, 2024 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET Location: Fisher Colloquium, Rafik B. Hariri Building Georgetown University |
Agenda
| Time (ET) | Description |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Informal breakfast available before event |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome remarks By Paul Almeida, Dean of the McDonough School of Business and Joel Hellman, Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service |
| 9:15 – 9:50 | Opening Plenary with Izmirlian BGA Advisory Council Including: Ravi Aurora, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Mastercard Dan Bryant, Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Walmart Fabrizio Opertti (S’97), Manager, Integration and Trade Sector, IDB Lisette Voegeli, Head of Environment Analysis, Strategy, Academia, BMW Group Moderator: Zoe Niazi, Izmirlian BGA Student, Class of 2025 |
| 9:50 – 10:50 | Introduction to projects – Lightning-round description by student teams (30 minutes) – Initial reactions by subject matter experts (30 minutes) Including: Dan Bryant (Walmart), Sally Gilligan (Gap), Fabrizio Opertti (IDB), Lori Brock (USAID) Moderator: Mario Ramirez, Managing Director of the Izmirlian Program |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Break // Move to project presentations |
| 11:00 – 11:50 | Project presentations The Gap, Inc. – Bridging the Circularity Gap // Room: Hariri 440 // Moderator: Brad Jensen IBM – Red Teaming for AI // Room: Hariri 450 // Moderator: Nick Lovegrove Walmart – Bridging the Digital Transformation Trust Gap // Room: Fisher // Moderator: Mario Ramirez |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Break |
| 12:00 – 12:50 | Project presentations BMW – Data Privacy in a Fragmented Business Environment // Room: Hariri 440 // Moderator: Brad Jensen IBM – Sustainable Digital Transformation in the ASEAN Region // Room: Hariri 450 // Moderator: Nick Lovegrove Walmart – Digital Inclusion along the Value Chain // Room: Fisher // Moderator: Mario Ramirez |
| 12:50 – 1:00 | Break // Move back to Fisher Colloquium for lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:45 | Luncheon Plenary with Izmirlian BGA Advisory Council Including: Paul Freedman (L’96), Executive Vice President and General Counsel, AES Sally Gilligan (B’94), Chief Supply Chain, Strategy, and Transformation Officer, Gap, Inc. Paolo Mauro, Director, Economic and Market Research Department, IFC Zahid Torres-Rahman, OBE, Co-Founder, Business Fights Poverty Moderator: Isabella Stratta, Izmirlian BGA Student, Class of 2025 |
| 1:45 – 2:20 | Introduction to projects: – Lightning-round description by student teams (15 minutes) – Initial reactions by subject matter experts (20 minutes) Including: Philipp Janello (BMW), Paul Freedman (AES), Paolo Mauro (IFC) Moderator: Mario Ramirez |
| 2:20 – 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 – 3:20 | Project presentations BMW X Space // Room: Hariri 440 // Moderator: Brad Jensen Mastercard – Financial Inclusion // Room: Hariri 450 // Moderator: Nick Lovegrove AES – Co-Creation for Social Good // Room: Fisher // Moderator: Mario Ramirez |
| 3:20 – 3:30 | Break |
| 3:30 – 4:20 | Closing plenary with BGA Advisory Steering Committee Including: Welby Leaman, Senior Director, Global Policy Strategy, Walmart Stephanie Lester, Vice President, Head of Government Affairs, Gap, Inc. Mark Miller, Director, Government Relations, AES Philipp Janello, Manager, Innovation Strategy & Academic Relations, BMW Moderator: Nick Lovegrove, Professor of the Practice; Academic Director of the EMBA Program, Georgetown University |
| 4:20 – 4:30 | Closing remarks by Brad Jensen, Director, Izmirlian Program in Business and Global Affairs |
| 4:30 | Closing Reception – Room: Fisher 415 |