{"id":23396,"date":"2024-05-20T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:41:32","slug":"esu-welcomed-vice-president-integration-executive-for-ibm-to-annual-economic-outlook-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-welcomed-vice-president-integration-executive-for-ibm-to-annual-economic-outlook-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Welcomed Vice President, Integration Executive for IBM, to Annual Economic Outlook Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University hosted the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Economic Outlook Summit on Friday, May 17 at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions. The program featured a keynote address by ESU Alumnus Tarun Chopra, Vice President, Integration Executive for IBM. Chopra\u2019s presentation was entitled \u201c<em>Balancing Ethics and Innovation: How to Harness Generative AI for Business Transformation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Economic Outlook Summit also featured Ryotaro Tashiro, Outreach Economist and Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Jennifer Gilburg, Deputy Secretary, Technology and Entrepreneurship, PA Department of Community and Economic Development, Matt Christopherson, Director, Business and Consumer Research, National Association of Realtors (NAR), Washington, D.C., and Eliot Hamlisch, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer,\u00a0Amtrak, Rail Service.<\/p>\n<p>A segment on Entrepreneurship in the Poconos was also included during this year\u2019s Summit. The segment was facilitated by Patrice Dume, Director, ESU Business Accelerator and Entrepreneurship, and George Boudman, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stourbridge Project. Featured entrepreneurs included: Carbon County \u2013 Jerry McAward, Owner, Lehighton Outdoor Center; Monroe County \u2013 Olga Diachuk, COO, Mosqitter; Pike County \u2013 Chris Morgan, Owner, M&amp;S Septic Services, Morgan Excavation Services, and Back Road Brewery and Restaurant; and Wayne County \u2013 Jason Deron, Owner, Fly Leaf Printing.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the 11<sup>th<\/sup> annual Economic Outlook Summit visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esu.edu\/economic-outlook-summit\/index.cfm\">esu.edu\/economic-outlook-summit<\/a>. To see photos from the event, visit ESU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHBqjBqP6a\">Flickr album<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU hosted the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Economic Outlook Summit on Friday, May 17 at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":23398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23400,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions\/23400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}