Joshua Schiffer
Topic: Against Covid-19, Imperfect Measures Do the Most Good
Bio: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Vaccine and Infections Disease at the University of Washington
Reading Assignment: New York Times article by Schiffer is here
Tim Denoyer
Topic: What is Happening with Global Logistics: Rail, Trucking, and Shipping
Bio: Lead Analyst in ACT Research’s Transportation Group and primary author for the ACT Freight Forecast.
Marc Levinson
Topic: Globalization
Bio: Author of the Box and Outside the Box
Reading Assignment: Outside the Box Chapters 14 and 20 (20 pages) is here
WSJ article in WSJ 10/24/20 is here
Question and Answer for Denoyer and Levinson
Robert Knake
Topic: Cybersecurity
Bio: The Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. He served from 2011-2015 as director for cybersecurity policy at the National Security Council, responsible for the development of presidential policy on cybersecurity and vulnerability management.
Reading Assignment: The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country, our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats is here, read chapters 7 and 13 (34 pages).
Wendy Ferber
Topic: Virtual Team Building Events
Bio: CEO of ConnectRcentral
Howard Givner
Topic: Virtual Conventions: Pandemic Meetings and Event Design
Bio: Founder of Event Leadership Institute and former CEO of North America for Global Events Group
Question and Answer Session for Ferber and Givner
Imperfect Solutions for COVID, Global Logistics, Cybersecurity, and Virtual Events - 10.25.2020