2023 Phorum Conference - Embracing Volatility: AI in Technology, Talent, & Planet

Description

Each year, top CIO, CTO, and other business and technology executives from around the country gather at Phorum - Philadelphia’s premier enterprise technology conference - for company presentations, networking, and content and thought leadership, on how enterprises can maximize the business value of specific technologies and innovation.

This year’s Phorum takes place in a context of inflation rates not seen since 1990; costs of capital higher than they’ve been at any of our previous gatherings; and prospects of a pivotal disruption of human capital, due to simultaneous changes in demographics and work practices, even as AI challenges whole classes of employment. Whether starting a company (and needing to interest investors who can get risk-free returns of better than 4%/year in T-Bills), or seeking approval for a technology acquisition (and facing headwinds of macroeconomic and geopolitical turbulence that were not being predicted a year ago), the rules of many games have changed. We’re glad to say, though, that the uniquely multi-disciplinary breadth and outreach of our Phorum program team are still in play, and we’ll be exploring intersectional challenges and opportunities including:

• How will roles be redefined when costs of tasks like programming and copywriting effectively go to zero?
• How will innovation get funded when AI-driven R&D gets more efficient, but capital costs are higher?
• How will we manage and govern AI-generated work in different industries, especially regulated ones?
• Where will infrastructure hit limits – and what will be the outcome of decentralization versus winner-takes-most?
• How will companies’ data assets become buy-ins to collaborations aimed at high-impact problems?   

In addition, the conference will also feature the popular “Phorum Demo World” where conference attendees experience, first-hand, some of the most innovative technologies being developed in and around the Philadelphia region. We’ll also feature the Showcase Exhibition for cutting-edge technology companies to meet and demo their product with key enterprise decision makers.

PACT is committed to our attendees' health and safety. Therefore, we are following CDC and local government guidelines regarding COVID-19. We recommend vaccinations, but they are not required for PACT events at this time. For updates, please visit our website at www.philadelphiapact.com.

* Students will be required to show valid University ID card to receive student pricing.

Suggested Attire: Business Casual

Venue: Penn State Great Valley Conference Center
             30 E. Swedesford Road
             Malvern, PA 19355

Parking: Free on-site parking

Hotels: Please reference the Penn State Great Valley website for a list of hotels nearby.  Most offer free shuttles and a PSU room rate.  Hotels near Penn State Great Valley

Directions to Penn State Great Valley: https://greatvalley.psu.edu/directions

Phorum is sponsored by: AMETEK, Bentley Systems, Boomi, Comcast Business, Fairmount Partners, Fox Rothschild, Osage Venture Partners, SEI, Vanguard, MindCracker, Snowflake, TriNet, Cloudera, PSGV, Broadpath, and Toppan Merrill