Transformative Technologies Sessions at the Wharton DC Innovation Summit

• These sessions -are reason enough for you to attend the Summit, with a major focus on these technologies that are dramatically transforming our lives and careers:

  • Breakouts:

    • AI's Impact on Cybersecurity

    • AI and the Future of Work

    • Quantum Rising: Accelerating Workforce Development in Quantum Literacy in the Quantum Age

• AI's Impact on Cybersecurity

• • This panel explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the cybersecurity battlefield — strengthening defenses while simultaneously empowering more sophisticated attacks.
  • Speakers will dig into the dual nature of AI: its ability to automate threat detection, accelerate incident response, and analyze massive data streams, alongside the risks posed by AI driven malware, deepfake enabled social engineering, and adversarial manipulation of models.
    Topics Covered include:
     
    •  •  Evolving threats — how attackers are weaponizing AI to scale phishing, exploit vulnerabilities, and evade detection.
      •  Next generation defenses — the role of machine learning in real time monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.
      •  Governance and trust — securing AI systems themselves, mitigating bias, and ensuring transparency in critical infrastructure.
      •  Strategic implications — what organizations must do to prepare for an AI accelerated threat landscape.
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    Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the opportunities and risks AI introduces, along with practical guidance for building resilient, adaptive security programs. 
    This session is ideal for cybersecurity leaders, technologists, policymakers, and anyone navigating the rapidly shifting intersection of AI and digital security.
     

AI and the Future of Work

• Artificial intelligence is reshaping labor markets, challenging traditional career pathways, and raising urgent questions about equity, access, and long term economic stability. 
• AI and the Future of Work examines how artificial intelligence is transforming jobs, skills, and organizational structures — and what that means for workers, employers, and society at large.  
  • This panel brings together innovators and executives to explore:
    • where AI is creating new opportunities
    • where it’s disrupting established roles, and
    • the strategies organizations need to stay competitive in an AI-driven economy.  
• Panelists will have a candid discussion on productivity, ethics, reskilling, and the policies needed to ensure that AI-driven progress supports economic mobility, protects workers, and strengthens the future of human–machine collaboration.

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Quantum Rising: Accelerating Workforce Development in Quantum Literacy in the Quantum Age

• The quantum age will not wait for us to prepare. Across the globe, nations are racing to command not only quantum computers but the full spectrum of quantum technologies: sensors, gyroscopes, clocks, and communications systems that will redefine navigation, medicine, defense, and finance.
• Yet beneath every quantum machine lies a vast and vulnerable bedrock of rare earth minerals, cryogenic systems, lasers, vacuum chambers, photonics, and precision electronics, a supply chain now contested by the world's most determined competitors. Someone must mine, refine, assemble, disassemble, calibrate, service, repair, transport, and sustain all of it. Most of that emerging workforce will never touch a quantum chip. They will build everything around it.
• This panel confronts a hard truth: the United States cannot win the quantum race with physicists alone. We must cultivate quantum literacy across the entire American workforce, from technicians, tradespeople, and veterans to analysts, educators, and executives, and we must do it now, not when it is too late.
• The quantum future is rising. The question before us is whether our workforce will rise with it.
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