Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum

October 21st-23rd, 2025

Introducing our 2025 Corporate Startup Week Sponsor!

AGE of NexT: Beyond Use Cases Full Agenda:

8:00 -  Registration Opens and Networking Breakfast

9:00 - Welcome by Jim Jen, Director of the Corporate Startup Lab, 

9:15 -  Introduction by Isabelle Bajeux Besnainou, Dean of the Tepper School of Business

9:20 -  Introduction by Meredith Grelli, Director of the Swartz Center of Entrepreneurship

9:25 - Solving New and Complex Problems with AI & Robotics

with Meredith Grelli, Director of Swartz Center of Entrepreneurship

Vishakha Gupta, Founder & CEO ApertureData

Toshiro Kiura, Chief Technology Strategy Officer Honda R&D Co.

Hemathri Balakrishnan, Managing Director, Head of Data & Analytics Platforms, J. P. Morgan Chase

10:05 - Unlocking Exponential Value with AI Agent Orchestration

Diana Kearns-Manolatos, Tech Transformation Research Leader, Deloitte’s Center for Integrated Research

10:35 - break

10:50 - From Moneyball to AI: The Evolving Sports Analytics Industry

Rebecca Nugent, Head of the Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Ron Yurko, Director of Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center, Carnegie Mellon University

11:20 - Fireside Chat with Gecko Robotics

Jake Loosararian, Co-Founder and CEO, Gecko Robotics 

Dave Mawhinney, Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

11:50 - break

12:00 - "Context is Everything" Lunch Session

Dominic Rasini, Principal and Jon Atkin, Managing Director, Deloitte LLP

1:00 - break

 1:15 - Designing an AI Collaboration Stack 

Sean Ammirati, Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business

1:35 - Beyond Agentic Use Cases

Chida Chidambaram, Managing Director, Deloitte LLP

Jonathan Valenti, Principal, Deloitte LLP

Maciek Dlugosz, Head of Decisioning Infrastructure, PNC Bank, N.A.

2:15 - Using AI to Uncover Analogies for Innovation

Niki Kittur, Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

 2:35 – break

2:50 – Investing in Physical AI: The Next Frontier

Amulya Vishwanath, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Techable VC

Jim Jen, Director of CSL, Carnegie Mellon University 

3:10 - Realizing the Promise of AI: Practical Lessons from the Trenches

Jeffrey Brashear, Distinguished Service Professor of AI and Management, Executive Director of the Center of Intelligent Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. John Almasan, Global Head of AI and Emerging Tech, TIAA

Julia McDowell, VP of AI Strategy and Enablement, Highmark Health

Chris Martin, Senior Director, Responsible AI, BNY

3:50 Closing by Jim Jen, CSL Director

4:00 Networking Reception

LEARN

What are the newest advancements and trends that you should be aware of? What are the lessons learned in implementing and scaling innovations like AI and Robotics - how do you ensure driving to value?

NETWORK

With fellow and future leaders from industry, venture, and academia - ranging from venture-backed startups, Fortune 500 executives, CMU faculty and researchers, VC’s, corporate innovators, and enterprising students from across the country.

EXPERIENCE

A dynamic mix of stimulating conversations about the latest trends in innovation and how to realize their value with fellow leaders from industry, venture and academia.