BHEF Member Meeting (Winter 2014)

Thursday, February 6, 2014 to Friday, February 7, 2014

Meeting Materials

Advance materials (pdf)
Photo gallery of meeting
Post-meeting proceedings (pdf)
 

Schedule Overview

Thursday, February 6, 2014
       
Hotel Monaco
700 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

3:30 p.m.    Opening Remarks: Barbara R. Snyder, chair, Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), and president, Case Western Reserve University

3:40 p.m.    CEO Remarks: Brian K. Fitzgerald, CEO, BHEF

4:00 p.m.    Opening Program

Data Science for Corporate Decision-Making: Preparing Undergraduates to Unleash the Power of Data
Moderator: Barbara R. Snyder, president, Case Western Reserve University
• P. Chip Bell, managing director - Technology Growth Platform - Financial Services North America, Accenture
• Mark R. Chance, Charles W. and Iona A. Mathias Professor of Cancer Research; vice dean for Research, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; director, Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics
• Roger H. French, F. Alex Nason Professor of Materials Science; director, Case Western Reserve University Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension Center
• C. Martin Harris, CIO and chairman, Information Technology Division, Cleveland Clinic
• David T. Liederbach, vice president, Global Strategy and Sales Transformation, IBM
• Stephen McHale, CEO, Explorys

6:00 p.m.    Reception and Opening Dinner

Friday, February 7, 2014

6:45 a.m.     Breakfast

Gallup Headquarters
901 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

8:00 a.m.    Opening Remarks: Barbara R. Snyder, president, Case Western Reserve University

Plenary I
Financial Services Industry Workforce Project
Moderators: Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., BHEF vice chair, and president and CEO, TIAA-CREF, and Peter A. Weinberg, partner, Perella Weinberg Partners
•    Jorge Benitez, managing director – North America and chief executive – United States, Accenture
•    Amy G. Brady, CIO, KeyBank
•    Governor Tim Pawlenty, CEO, Financial Services Roundtable
•    Larry D. Zimpleman, chairman, president, and CEO, The Principal Financial Group

9:00 a.m.    Plenary II
Data Science: Driving Innovation and the Demand for Talent
Moderator: David A. Jones, Jr., chairman and managing director, Chrysalis Ventures; board member, Humana, Inc.; board member, Humana Foundation
•    Michael Chui, principal, McKinsey Global Institute
•    Jim Manzi, chairman, Applied Predictive Technologies
•    Christine Tovee, CTO, Airbus Group, Inc.

10:15 a.m.    Plenary III
BHEF Member Roundtable: Advancing Regional Workforce Projects
Moderator: Eduardo J. Padrón, president, Miami Dade College
Supported by BHEF’s National Higher Education and Workforce Initiative, members are creating strategic partnerships between business and higher education that drive innovative undergraduate programs in emerging fields. During this session, members and their representatives will discuss how partnerships and regional projects are utilizing BHEF’s strategic business engagement model to respond to their region’s high-skill, high-demand workforce needs, how these initiatives are progressing, as well as successful mechanisms for scaling and disseminating findings.

11:15 a.m.    Special Session
The Gallup-Purdue Index
•    Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO, Gallup
•    Governor Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., president, Purdue University
•    Jamie P. Merisotis, president and CEO, Lumina Foundation

12:15 p.m.    Lunch

1:30 p.m.    Closing Remarks