Schedule

Check In Opens

Stewart Center - 2nd Floor

Continental Breakfast for Attendees

Stewart Center Room 206

Semifinal Round - Cornerstone for Business Undergraduate Case Competion

Stewart Center Rooms 202, 204, and 310

Welcome and Introduction

Stewart Center Room 302

• Melinda S. Zook ​
  Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History and Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, and Assistant Department Head of History, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University ​

250 Years of Technological Innovation Disruption

Stewart Center Room 302

• Victoria Prowse
  Marge Magner Chair and Professor of Economics at the Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Breakout Sessions 1

Fireside Chat: Free Markets and Foundation of American Success

Stewart Center Room 302

• Matt Miller
  Senior Vice President Government Affairs, Business Roundtable
• Kelly Blanchard (Moderator)
  Associate Dean for Student Experience and Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Professor of Economics, Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

The Floor Beneath The Algorithm: What AI Cannot See, and Why Markets Depend on It

Stewart Center Room 306

• Alok Chaturvedi
  Professor, Mitch Daniels School of Business and Institute for Social Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Knowledge (ISEEK), Purdue University

Lunch

Room 206 - Open Seating - Students and All Guests

Breakout Sessions 2

Final Round – Cornerstone for Business Undergraduate Case Competition

Stewart Center Room 310

Top 3 teams compete will compete in this final round.

Inspiring Virtue in a Commercial Republic: The American Founders as Civic Educators

Stewart Center Room 302

Panelists:

• Jonathan Dahlsten
  Assistant Teaching Professor, Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought, Purdue University
• Maria Goyette
  Assistant Teaching Professor, Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought, Purdue University
• Sebastian Graham
  Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Director of the Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought, Purdue University

Moderator:

• Melinda S. Zook
  Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History and Director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, and Assistant Department Head of History, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

DSB Honors Research Symposium: Opening Remarks and Welcome

Stewart Center Room 279

• Davi Moreira
  Director of Undergraduate Business Honors Program and Clinical Assistant Professor, Daniels School of Business

Student presentations and judging begin

Breakout Sessions 3

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Workshop:  Where Business & Technology Meet: Inventors, Founders, Entrepreneurs & Intrapreneurs

Stewart Center Room 302

• Rich Sikora
  Executive Advisor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Prosperity's Pros and Cons: Debating Development in a Cornerstone Class

Stewart Center Room 306

• Andy Baker
  Professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts

DSB Honors Research Symposium

Stewart Center Room 279

Break

Breakout Sessions 4

Can Markets Make Responsible AI Pay? Audits, Signals, and Consumer Trust

Stewart Center Room 302

• Daniel Schiff
  Assistant Professor of Technology Policy, Department of Political Science and Co-Director of Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University

Work-Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Student Perspectives on the AI Revolution

Stewart Center Room 306

Student Panelists:

• Alex Chen – Senior, Marketing and Creative Writing
• Akshita Choraria – Junior, Marketing
• Sophie Hua – Sophomore, General Management
• Adithya Mahasenan - Sophomore, Integrated Business and Engineering
• Dariana Mori – Sophomore, Economics

Moderator:

• Rhodes Pinto
  Assistant Teaching Professor, Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, Purdue University

DSB Honors Research Symposium

Stewart Center Room 279

• DSB Honors Students

Conference Day 1 Closing Remarks and Day 2 Preview

Stewart Center Room 302

• Kelly Blanchard
  Clinical Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Student Experience and Undergraduate Programs, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Connections Reception

Dauch Center

Dinner Banquet

Dauch Center

Check In Opens

Breakfast

Welcome & Conference Introduction

• Kelly Blanchard
  Clinical Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Student Experience and Undergraduate Programs, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought: Advancing the Study and Practice of Civic Life Foundations

• Cherie Maestas
  Associate Dean of Research, Innovation, and Graduate Education, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Fireside Chat with Yuval Levin: American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation and Could Again

Speaker

• Yuval Levin
  Author, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies and Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Moderator

• Christopher Yeomans
  Professor and Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Break

Undergraduate Award Announcements

Cornerstone for Business Case Competition Winners

Presenters:

• Doug Pruim
  Clinical Associate Professor of Business Communication and Director of the Center for Business Communication, Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
• James Mollison
  Assistant Professor, Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, Purdue University

DSB Honors Research Symposium Winners

Presenter:

• Davi Moreira
  Director of Undergraduate Business Honors Program and Clinical Assistant Professor, Daniels School of Business

New Undergraduate Award Program Announcement

Presenter:

• Tim Lemper
  Academic Director of Cornerstone for Business and Clinical Professor, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Evolution of the Corporation in America

Introduction:

• Tim Lemper
  Academic Director of Cornerstone for Business and Clinical Professor, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Panelists:

• Mitch Daniels
  Interim President, Purdue University and former Governor of Indiana
• Ambassador Kristen Silverberg
  President and COO, Business Roundtable
• Michael Woronoff
  Business Fellow for Daniels School of Business

Moderator:

• Jim Bullard
  Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean, Distinguished Professor of Service and Professor of Economics, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Lunch

Purdue Archives and Special Collections Special Exhibit

1^st Edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Breakout Sessions

Case Competition - Top Presentations

Stewart Center Room 202

Student Panel - Lessons in Business and Leadership 2.0

Stewart Center Room 302

Student Panelists TBA

Honors Student Award Winners - Poster Presentations

Stewart Center Room 306

Transforming American Infrastructure: From Westward Settlement to the Digital Frontier

Panelists:

• David Hummels
  Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Economics, Dean Emeritus of the Daniels School of Business, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
• Steve Schultz
  JD, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Purdue University
• John Butler
  Author and Historian of Modern U.S. History

Moderator:

• Kevin Mumford
  Ph.D. Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Kozuch Director, Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE), Professor of Economics

Fireside Chat with Jeanna Smialek: Economics, Culture and the Power of Story: How Maria Edgeworth Shaped Modern Economics

Speaker:

• Jeanna Smialek
  Author and Brussels Bureau Chief, The New York Times

Moderator:

• Kasie Roberson
  Clinical Associate Professor in OBHR, Head, Hayes LCI, Co-Director Business AI Fellows Program, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Closing Remarks

• Jim Bullard
  Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean, Distinguished Professor of Service and Professor of Economics, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University