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Energy Finance: Powering Progress Through Strategic Capital (Speaker: Sean Spence)
Posted: June 24, 2025 at 8:24 pm
Energy Finance is the specialized field dedicated to the financial structuring, investment, and management of projects and assets across the entire energy sector. It encompasses a vast array of activities, from funding the exploration and production of traditional fossil fuels to financing the research, development, deployment, and operation of renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency initiatives, […]
Pope Leo XIV’s Pontificate Focuses on AI Ethics and Regulation (Speaker: Sean Spence)
Posted: June 24, 2025 at 8:16 pm, Last Updated: June 24, 2025 at 8:18 pm
Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected American pontiff, has declared artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on human dignity, justice, and labor as a signature issue of his papacy. Drawing inspiration from his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, who advocated for workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution, Pope Leo XIV aims to address the challenges posed […]
Fintechs: A New Paradigm of Growth (Speaker: Sean Spence)
Posted: June 24, 2025 at 8:12 pm, Last Updated: June 24, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Over the past decade, technological progress and innovation have catapulted the fintech sector from the fringes to the forefront of financial services. And the growth has been fast and furious, buoyed by the robust growth of the banking sector, rapid digitization, changing customer preferences, and increasing support of investors and regulators. During this decade, fintechs […]
Exploring the Many Sources of Innovation (1-hour minimum presentation) (Speaker: George Siragusa)
Posted: September 8, 2023 at 2:34 pm, Last Updated: May 31, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Explore how and where business opportunities start and examine a framework for determining which technological innovations create real value.
A/V requirements: LCD Projector, Screen, White Board and Markers
Defining the role of Health Informatics (Speaker: Matthew Hicks)
Posted: November 12, 2019 at 1:10 pm, Last Updated: June 3, 2024 at 5:39 pm
Describe the role and benefits of health informatics in the delivery of quality patient-centered care. Discuss professional health care provider responsibilities for safeguarding confidential client information, including HIPAA regulations. Explain possible consequences for breaches in privacy and confidentiality. Discuss professional responsibilities in the use of social health care technology or media as it relates to […]
A/V requirements: Screen, White Board and Markers
Computing in Science and Society (Speaker: Rainald Lohner)
Posted: July 23, 2019 at 6:12 pm, Last Updated: June 3, 2024 at 7:24 pm
Computing is now so ubiquitous that we tend to forget the profound consequences it is having in science and society. The talk explores the advent and evolution of computing in science and society, and attempts to predict future developments.
A/V requirements: Laptop, LCD, Screen
Things That Keep Me Up at Night: Technology’s Severest Challenges (Speaker: Steve Ruth)
Posted: April 13, 2017 at 6:48 pm, Last Updated: June 3, 2024 at 8:08 pm
If you are pretty much comfortable with today’s information technology world, this course is probably not for you. The instructor, who teaches technology policy at Mason, has collected several dozen of what he thinks are the scarier, more worrisome, and potentially game-changing topics in information technology that may be in our near-term and longterm future. […]
A/V requirements: None