2017-02-23 14:30:00 2017-02-23 15:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Moshe M. Barash Memorial Lecture 2017 - Ravi Venkatesan "Leadership & The Fourth Industrial Revolution" PMU, East & West Faculty Lounges
Moshe M. Barash Memorial Lecture 2017 - Ravi Venkatesan
| Event Date: | February 23, 2017 |
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| Hosted By: | School of Industrial Engineering |
| Time: | 2:30 PM |
| Location: | PMU, East & West Faculty Lounges |
| Contact Name: | Erin Gough |
| Contact Phone: | 765-496-0606 |
| Contact Email: | egough@purdue.edu |
| Priority: | No |
| School or Program: | Industrial Engineering |
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The 2017 Moshe Barash Memorial Lecture speaker will be Mr. Ravi Venkatesan (MSIE 1986), Chairman of the Bank of Baroda, and former Chairman of Microsoft India and Cummins India.
ABSTRACT
We are in the early stages of the fourth industrial revolution with fantastic advances in every field - witness driverless cars, autonomous drones, robots, 3D printing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and affordable space travel. Industrial revolutions are disruptive - they destroy established firms and jobs and create new ones. The fourth industrial revolution promises to be even more disruptive than the previous ones because we are tinkering with life itself. What does the fourth industrial revolution mean for societies, for jobs, and for how you think about your life and career in the coming decades?
BIO
Mr. Ravi Venkatesan is the current Chairman of the Bank of Baroda, the second largest bank in India. Prior to this, he was Chairman of both Microsoft India and Cummins India. He is a current board member at the Rockefeller Foundation, a Co-Founder and Chairman of Social Venture Partners India, and a Venture Partner at Unitus Seed Fund.
Mr. Venkatesan is the author of Conquering the Chaos: Win In India, Win Everywhere, published in 2013 by the Harvard Business Review Press.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.