Wharton Neuroscience Summit
November 3, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Wharton Philadelphia Campus
3730 Walnut St., Eighth Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Brain Capital:
The Future of Human Creativity, Wellbeing, and Performance
Register for the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Annual Summit Below:
Topics of Interest
We aim to explore how academia, organizations and business, as well as government can best invest in brain capital to maximize cognitive, social, and emotional health and performance.
The 2023 summit will be our return following the gap during the COVID pandemic. We anticipate that the summit will appeal to students, faculty, and informed members of the academic and general community. Our goal for this year’s summit is to help a broad audience understand that investing in brain capital at every life stage will return crucial dividends for health, education, justice, democracy, innovation, environmental stewardship, and the economic competitiveness of individuals, teams, business, and society.
Speakers & Panelists
A full list of our speakers and panelist will be announced soon.
Mary “Missy” Cummings, PhD
Director, Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)
Leila Entezam, LMFT, MBA
Leadership Advisor to High Performers, EQ Thought Leader, Coach, Speaker: LEZAM.IT
Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD
Lead, Brain Capital Alliance; Fellow, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Michael J. Jabbour
Chief Innovation Officer, US Education, Microsoft
Gale M. Lucas, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD (Penn G’05, Penn Med’07)
Professor, Neuroscience & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
Stefano Puntoni, PhD
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor, Marketing (The Wharton School)
Scott Sandland
CEO, Cyrano
Lindsay Shaw, EdM, EdD (Penn C’05)
Director of Sport Psychology at the Cleveland Guardians
Cornelia Walther, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Norms and Behavior Dynamics (School or Arts and Sciences)
Jay Yelon, DO, FACS, FCCM
Commander, Medical Corps, US Navy
Lodging Recommendations
For those traveling to the summit, the following lodging accommodations are in close proximity to Wharton’s Philadelphia campus.
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Hosted by Wharton Faculty
Michael Platt, MD, PhD (Penn G’94)
Director, the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative,
James S. Riepe University Professor
Elizabeth “Zab” Johnson, PhD
Executive Director, the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative,
Senior Fellow
Summit Event Team
Schotland McQuade
Program Coordinator, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative
Pictures from the 2019 Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Annual Summit
The Future of Human Interaction and Performance
