Events

Feb

20

Wharton Webinar: The Business Case for Immigration – What Happens to Your Company When You Hire Foreign-Born Talent?

Led by:  Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez, Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor at the Wharton School Most of us are used to hearing about immigration as a political topic. However, it’s actually central to the long-term success of your business. Learn why in this webinar from Professor Zeke Hernandez, one…

February 20 | 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Feb

20

Bridging Language and Vision: A Hands-On Introduction to Vision-Language Models

Led by Artemis Panagopoulou, PhD Student from the University of Pennsylvania. Explore the fascinating world of vision-language models in this interactive workshop! We’ll dive into the evolution of these models, from earlier Convolutional Neural Network architectures (e.g., AlexNet) to more recent transformer-based models. We will explore both contrastive approaches like…

February 20 | 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM • Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 • Philadelphia

Feb

21

Zicklin Center Workshop in Normative Business Ethics

The following papers will be presented at this installment of the Zicklin Center Workshops in Normative Business Ethics. Workshops are pre-read. For access to the papers, please email Brian Berkey – bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu – or Amy Sepinwall – sepin@wharton.upenn.edu. •      Chris Bousquet (Syracuse), “The Gig Economy, De-Skilling, and Working-Class Loneliness” •      Daniel Friedman (Stanford), “The Costs of Collaboration”   •      Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar (Haifa), “Lean OUT! The Morality of Positional Competitions”

February 21 | 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM • Jon M. Huntsman Hall 641 (6th Floor) • Philadelphia

Feb

27

Navigating Attacks on Responsible Investment: How Higher Ed Can Inform Public Policy

In an era of increasing misinformation and political pressure to roll back the long-standing rights of businesses and investors to consider all material financial risks, academics play a key role in providing critical research, analysis, and thought leadership to inform policy and public opinion. Join Tensie Whelan, Director, NYU Stern…

February 27 | 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Feb

28

Wharton – Weitzman Future of Cities Conference*

The Wharton-Weitzman Future of Cities Conference is a student-led, faculty-advised event that brings together urban innovators and experts to discuss the trends, technologies, and policies shaping our cities. Past Sponsors: Honeywell, Hines, HR&A Advisors Past Speakers: Leah Johnson (CMO of Lincoln Center), Meera Joshi (NYC Deputy Mayor of Operations), David…

February 28 | 08:00 AM - 06:30 PM • The Study • Philadelphia

Mar

6

Penn Neuroscience & Society Public Talk Series

Socioeconomic Influences on Language Development: Neural Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience Rachel Romeo, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodologies, University of Maryland, College of Education Location: Goddard Labs, room 200, 3710 Hamilton Walk RSVP for in-person attendance here. RSVP for virtual attendance here. Each year the CNS Public Talk Series…

March 6 | 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM • Goddard Labs • Philadelphia

Mar

18

The Ethics of Personal Energy Consumption Choices

The Penn Program on Regulation, in collaboration with Perry World House and the Wharton Climate Center, invites you join us for a talk by Travis Rieder, Associate Research Professor and Director of Education Initiatives at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Drawing on his new book, Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose…

March 18 | 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM • Golkin 100, Michael A. Fitts Auditorium

Mar

21

Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks, Bonds (and Options), Redux

The Wharton School’s Jacobs Levy Center will host a webinar featuring Nikolai Roussanov, the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Finance at Wharton. Professor Roussanov will present his paper, Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks, Bonds (and Options), Redux, which explores the shared risk factors that are present among…

March 21 | 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM • Online Event over Zoom

Mar

21

Zicklin Center Workshop in Normative Business Ethics

The following papers will be presented at this installment of the Zicklin Center Workshops in Normative Business Ethics. Workshops are pre-read. For access to the papers, please email Brian Berkey – bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu – or Amy Sepinwall – sepin@wharton.upenn.edu. •      Elvira Basevich (UC-Davis), “A Duboisian Critique of Private Property: On Democracy and Economic Independence in the Reconstruction Era” •      Tyler Re & Mike Gadomski (Penn & Coastal Carolina), “Sufficiency and Capitalism” •      Carissa Veliz (Oxford), “The Do’s and Don’ts of Privacy in Corporate Settings”

March 21 | 01:00 PM - 04:30 PM • Jon M. Huntsman Hall 641 (6th Floor) • Philadelphia

Apr

10

Wharton People Analytics Conference

This two-day conference explores the latest advances and urgent questions in people analytics, including upskilling, AI and the Future of Work, as well as unique networking opportunities with our diverse audience, including students, academics, and industry experts.

April 10 | 09:00 AM - April 11 | 05:00 PM • The Wharton School • Philadelphia

May

5

Generative AI and Business Transformation

Once or twice in a generation, a general-purpose technology emerges that ignites innovation to the extent that multiple industries are utterly transformed. Think of discoveries like electricity or the internet. Today, research consistently supports the conclusion that generative AI is one of these rare general-purpose technologies and is on the…

May 5 | 12:00 PM - May 8 | 07:00 PM • Wharton Executive Education • San Francisco

May

21

AI and the Future of Work Conference

This two-day in-person academic conference will cover themes on AI’s impact on employee experience, the necessity for reskilling and upskilling for an AI-driven future, and forms of collaboration between AI and humans in professional settings.

May 21 | 08:00 AM - May 22 | 05:00 PM • Jon M. Huntsman Hall • Philadelphia