Featured Panelists

Hanh Brown

Hanh Brown is a dedicated age technologist and AI innovator, dedicated to transforming the aging experience. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as ChatGPT, she addresses key challenges in age-tech, housing, healthcare, and caregiving. Her strategic approach to digital health, combined with a commitment to revitalizing communities, drives her to create sustainable solutions. Mrs. Brown’s notable projects include a future-proof digital platform that revolutionizes operations. As an impassioned advocate for older adults, she builds vibrant, respectful environments where aging is celebrated.

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the founding Executive Director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context. Prior to joining Fletcher, Bhaskar was a Partner of McKinsey & Company, a Distinguished Scholar at MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, and on the faculty of Harvard Business School and Harvard University Center for the Environment. In a 30-year career, he has been an advisor to CEOs, senior management, and Boards of over 30 companies. He is the author of the best-selling book, "The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World" (Harvard Business Press), and is the creator of the widely used Digital Evolution Index. His papers and articles appear in top-tier academic journals, books, and media outlets, including Bloomberg, Businessweek, CNN, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Partha Ghosh

A world-renowned thought leader, philosopher, problem solver, futurist, and inspirer in the field of business and technology, government, and public service. Given his wide range of interests – Arts to Science, Philosophy to Philanthropy, Business to Economics, he is known as a “modern day Renaissance man”. Over four decades, as a strategist and a true global citizen, as a former Partner at McKinsey & Company and a leader of his own Global firm - Partha S. Ghosh & Associates, he has served has inspired leaders of businesses, multinationals, and governments on significant strategic and organizational issues across cultures in developed and developing socioeconomic environments, in close to thirty countries in Asia, Africa, EU, North America, South America. His clients view him as a “creative problem solver” and a “visionary leader.

He has two advanced Engineering (MS) and Management (MBA) degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did his undergraduate work at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. An avid public servant, he is one of the founding members of The Boston Pledge, and is involved with multiple philanthropic initiatives around the world. A new school, first of the kind "Partha S. Ghosh Academy of Leadership " is being established at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. The school integrates Eastern and Western wisdom to provide young students as well as senior executives with the opportunity to uncover their inner powers to influence positive outcomes in society.

James Intriligator

James Intriligator is Professor of the Practice and Director of Strategic Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (School of Engineering) at Tufts University. Prior to his broader role in innovation at Tufts, he was the Director of the Human Factors Engineering Program. An interest in vision and the brain originally brought James to Harvard where he earned his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience (1997). After a postdoc in neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he left academia for five years and worked in venture capital and high-tech consulting firms as an entrepreneur, offerings designer, and innovation catalyst. In 2003, he merged his business experience with his scientific expertise and went to Bangor University (Wales, UK) where he was “Professor of Innovation and Consumer Psychology”. In his 13 years at Bangor, Intriligator created Europe's leading consumer psychology master's programs and co-developed several multidisciplinary design programs (Enterprise by Design and Social Enterprise Accelerator). He was named a UK National Teaching Fellow in 2014. He raised over $300 and launched “Attention Retraining Technologies (ART)” - a spin-out company that developed an app to help reduce excessive drinking via gamification.

Intriligator is the author of over 50 publications in fields as diverse as design, human factors, neuroscience, neurology, consumer psychology, physics, and literary criticism. Since arriving at Tufts Intriligator has been nominated for a Tufts Distinction Award, shortlisted for Professor of the Year, and won a university-wide Teaching with Technology award.

Lori Mazor

Lori is an architect and visionary with a career in higher education spanning three decades. She has led the planning, design, and operations at some of New York City’s leading academic institutions, including New York University and the City University of New York. She is known for her innovative approach to leading communities through the process of envisioning the future. She turns visions into reality by laying down an agile roadmap to navigate complex political ecosystems and uncertain economic conditions. Her projects range from physical buildings to technology products and services. She is currently on the faculty at Fordham University and the ED3DAO teaching Generative AI workshops.

She regularly guest lectures on design thinking, strategy, and operations. She is a multimedia artist and her creative work has been published in the New York Times, Inside Higher Education, Crain’s New York Business, and the Wall Street Journal. The American Institute of Architects presented her with the AIA Award for Design Excellence, and Crain’s New York Business named her one of its 40 Under 40 rising stars.

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