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Schedule and Speakers

Three days of leadership, ideas, and community across London with Northeastern’s global network

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Wednesday

3 June
Devon House, Northeastern University London | 58 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1LP, UK

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Registration Opens—Light Lunch

12:00 PM

Global Venture Forum: Pitch Sessions

12:30-2:30 PM

Details

Watch our student and alumni finalists pitch live for £100,000 in grant funding, led by Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray, Senior Vice President for University Advancement for Northeastern University, and Richard Corps, Director of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Partnerships for Northeastern University London.

Location:
Devon House
Rooms 121 – 123

Participants

Hosts

Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray

Senior Vice President for University Advancement, Northeastern University

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Richard Corps

Director of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Partnerships Northeastern University London

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Judges

Rich A. D’Amore

DMSB’76, Board Chair, Northeastern University · Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

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Julietta Dexter

PNT’20, Governor, Northeastern University London · CEO, Brand Potential Consulting

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Marco D’Ippolito

PNT’29, Managing Partner and CEO for Global Private Market Solutions, Patria Investments

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Chaitanya ‘Chet’ Kanojia

MS’93, Trustee, Northeastern University · Co-Founder, Starry and UnifyCX

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Christopher A. Viehbacher

PNT’18, Trustee, Northeastern University · President and CEO, Biogen

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Curated Conversations—Chapter I

3:15-4:00 PM

Details

Five concurrent sessions—attendees select one.

Founder’s Perspective: What Building a Startup Actually Looks Like

An unfiltered account of what entrepreneurship really looks like, from a serial founder who has taken on cable giants and built companies from scratch.

Location:
Devon House
Room 212

Brand Strategy: Positioning Your Business for Success

What separates brands that last from ones that plateau? A session on the positioning decisions that define whether a business breaks through or blends in.

Location:
Devon House
Room 214

Where the Money Meets Medicine: How Investment Banking Drives Healthcare

How capital markets shape the healthcare system and what the next wave of consolidation means for patients, providers, and investors.

Location:
Devon House
Room 224

Machines That Feel: The Future of Robots and Physical AI

What physical AI makes possible, from prosthetics to humanoid robotics, and how quickly it’s moving from lab to market.

Location:
Devon House
Room 226

Global Family Enterprise: Leadership, Legacy, and the Multigenerational Long Game

A candid conversation on succession, shared ownership, and how the best multigenerational businesses balance legacy with the need to reinvent.

Location:
Devon House
Room 228

Speakers

Session

Founder’s Perspective: What Building a Startup Actually Looks Like

Chaitanya ‘Chet’ Kanojia

MS’93, Trustee, Northeastern University · Co-Founder, Starry and UnifyCX

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Facilitator
• Jai Farswani, E’12, Young Global Leader · Co-Founder, AshaPops Water Lily Seeds

Session

Brand Strategy: Positioning Your Business for Success:

Peter Cameron

DMSB’70, Trustee Emeritus · Retired Chairman, The Lenox Group

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Julietta Dexter

PNT’20, Governor, Northeastern University London · CEO, Brand Potential Consulting

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John V. Pulichino

ME’72, Trustee, Northeastern University · Chair and CEO, Group III International Inc.

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Co-facilitators
• Drishti Dhamani, DMSB’21, Young Global Leader · Senior Manager of Strategic Brand Marketing and Partnerships, Dhamani Jewels
• Manit Ghogar, DMSB’17, Young Global Leader · Blockchain, Fintech, and Real Estate Executive

Session

Where the Money Meets Medicine: How Investment Banking Drives Healthcare

Darren Campili

DMSB’90, Global Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, RBC Capital Markets

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Co-facilitators
• Anne Halverstadt, S’18, MBA’26, Young Global Leader
• Mina Iskarous, E’19, Young Global Leader · Co-Founder and CEO, Chorus Health

Session

Machines That Feel: The Future of Robots and Physical AI

Ravinder Dahiya

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

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Facilitator
• Carlo Sartori, E’14, MBA’18, Young Global Leader · Sourcing Manager, Independent Purchasing Cooperative of Subway Restaurants

Session

Global Family Enterprise: Leadership, Legacy, and the Multigenerational Long Game

Subodh Chanrai

PNT’20, ’23, Trustee, Northeastern University · Group Executive Chairman, Chanrai Summit Group

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Irene Panagopoulos

Mills’85, PNT’15

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Co-facilitators
• Rahul Waney, DMSB’19, Young Global Leader · Executive Director and Board Member, The Arts Club Dubai

Networking Break

4:00-4:30 PM

Details

Live from London Podcast with Host Austin Grippo, SSH’12 · Head of AI GTM, UK, Salesforce; Founder, Agility Ethos

Location:
Devon House
Room 121 – 123

Host

Austin Grippo

SSH’12, Head of AI GTM, UK, Salesforce · Founder, Agility Ethos

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Curated Conversations—Chapter II

4:30-5:15 PM

Details

Six concurrent sessions—attendees select one.

Curious About the Quantum Moment? Frontier Tech, Early Bets, and What Comes After AI

From London’s frontier tech ecosystem on what’s real, what’s overhyped, and where the early opportunities in quantum computing are emerging.

Location:
Devon House
Room 212

How to Raise Venture Capital: The Real Rules of How Investors Actually Think

Decades of pattern recognition from one of the most respected venture investors on what gets a founder funded and what kills deals that should have worked.

Location:
Devon House
Room 214

The Transformation Playbook: Talent, Capital, and Hard Calls at the Highest Level

From taking Orbitz public to navigating the HP/Compaq merger to leading Kodak out of bankruptcy, learn what it takes to drive change: the hard calls, the talent decisions, and the leadership that brings people through.

Location:
Devon House
Room 216

Founder’s Perspective: Building at the Intersection of Real Estate, Tech, and Impact

From structural engineer to venture capitalist: what it takes to digitize and decarbonize in an industry resistant to innovation.

Location:
Devon House
Room 224

AI-Enabled Security, Sensing, and Entrepreneurship

What opportunity looks like at the intersection of AI, radar, and autonomous systems and what it takes to build a deep-tech company from university research to market.

Location:
Devon House
Room 226

Humanities as Technology

Why the humanities are precision instruments for leadership in an age defined by AI.

Location:
Devon House
Room 228

Speakers

Session

Curious About the Quantum Moment? Frontier Tech, Early Bets, and What Comes After AI

Eric Van der Kleij

Co-Founder and Partner, EdenBase

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facilitators
• Nicholas (Nikko) Lara, DMSB’15, Young Global Leader · Co-Founder, Otto AI

Session

How to Raise Venture Capital: The Real Rules of How Investors Actually Think

Rich A. D’Amore

DMSB’76, Board Chair, Northeastern University · Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

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Co-facilitators
• Julia Dunton, CFA, DMSB’15, Young Global Leader · Director, Institutional Client Business, BlackRock
• Yi Ya, DMSB’13, Young Global Leader · Family Business, Real Estate and Investments Hospitality Entrepreneur, Cultural Ambassador Between China and the West

Session

The Transformation Playbook: Talent, Capital, and Hard Calls at the Highest Level

Jeff Clarke

MBA’85, Trustee, Northeastern University · CEO, Insurity

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facilitator
• Wen Sabrina Ma, AMD’17, Young Global Leader · Co-Founder and CEO, CP Culture Group

Session

Founder’s Perspective: Building at the Intersection of Real Estate, Tech, and Impact

Julieta Moradei

E’16, Women Who Empower Innovator Fellow · Founder, Arcanvas

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Todd Manganaro

DMSB’95, Trustee, Northeastern University · President, Siena Corporation

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facilitator
• Eric Doroski, S’19, Young Global Leader · Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Zanzibar Capital

Session

AI-Enabled Security, Sensing, and Entrepreneurship

Gregory Waters

MS’89, Trustee · CEO, MatrixSpace · General Partner, Socratic Partners

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facilitator
• Andrea Dorta Muñoz, E’20, MS’20, Chair, Young Global Leaders · Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Robotics

Session

Humanities as Technology

A. C. Grayling

Principal and Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University London

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facilitator
• Luh Putu Kim Biesterfeld, CSSH’13, Young Global Leader · PhD Candidate, International Development, King’s College London

New Family Welcome

5:00–5:45 PM

Details

An intimate reception for new students and their families.

Location:
Devon House
Room 136

Speakers

Marco D’Ippolito

PNT’29, Managing Partner and CEO for Global Private Market Solutions, Patria Investments

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Paula Médicis D’Ippolito

PNT’29

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Chano Fernández

PNT’23, ’30

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Esther García Martín

PNT’23, ’30

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facilitator
• Ken Henderson · Chancellor and senior vice president of learning, Northeastern university

GLS Opening Reception and Community Showcase

5:30–8:00 PM

Details

Connect with the Northeastern University London community at an evening of networking, student and alumni venture showcases, faculty research, and a performance by our award-winning a cappella group, the Nor’easters.

Speakers

Joseph E. Aoun

President, Northeastern University

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Rich A. D’Amore

DMSB’76, Board Chair, Northeastern University · Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

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Julietta Dexter

PNT’20, Governor, Northeastern University London · CEO, Brand Potential Consulting

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Calypso Newman

NCH’21, Women Who Empower Innovator · Founder, Rock Badger

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Thursday

4 June
BAFTA | 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN

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Registration Opens

9:00 AM

Welcome

9:30 AM

Speaker

Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray

Senior Vice President for University Advancement, Northeastern University

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Human Leadership in the Age of AI

9:45 AM

Details

President Aoun on why the leaders who thrive won’t wait for the terrain to stabilize and why the qualities AI will never possess—curiosity, cultural agility, the capacity to listen and lead across any environment—are exactly what this moment demands.

Speakers

Joseph E. Aoun

President, Northeastern University

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facilitators
• Austin Grippo, SSH’12, Head of AI GTM, UK, Salesforce · Founder, Agility Ethos
• Cynthia Orofo, RN, BHS’19, PhD’24, Women who empower innovator · co-Founder and ceo, culture care collective
• Cheuk Yan (Kat) Tse, AMD’24, Young Global Leader, Women who empower innovator · Founder, Terms and Conditions

Reconnect and Recharge—Networking Break

10:30 AM

Details

Featuring the Global Connections Hub, presented by Mastercard

The Future of Technology and How the World Moves Money

11:00 AM

Details

Under Michael Miebach, Mastercard has moved from cards to code — building the infrastructure that powers digital identity, open banking, and real-time payments across 200+ countries. A conversation on technology, trust, and what it means to build financial systems that work for everyone.

Speaker

Michael Miebach

PNT’28, CEO, Mastercard

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Moderator
• Kathy Sun, DMSB’18, Young global leader · Manager partner, yatir capital

Lunch—Gather and Roundtable Exchange

12:00 PM

Details

Lunch is an opportunity to connect with your fellow community members. We will offer ample open seating as well as a series of optional roundtable discussions for those who’d like a more focused conversation.

Hosts

Austin Grippo

SSH’12, Head of AI GTM, UK, Salesforce · Founder, Agility Ethos

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Vallabhi Singh

DMSB’17, Young Global Leader · Women Who Empower Innovator · Founder, Creatives Around The World

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The Science of Leading Through Change

1:30 PM

Details

The healthcare and life sciences industries are being reshaped by AI, shifting regulations, and unprecedented scientific possibility. Two executives at the center of that transformation on leadership, reinvention, and what the next decade demands.

Speakers

Christopher A. Viehbacher

PNT’18, Trustee, Northeastern University · President and CEO, Biogen

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Dame Emma Walmsley

DBE, PNT’29, Former CEO, GSK · Board Director, Microsoft

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Moderator
• Haley ward, Pt, BHS’12, DPT’13, Young global leader · Co-founder, eggPlan

Reconnect and Recharge—Networking Break

2:30 PM

Details

Featuring the Global Connections Hub, presented by Mastercard.

Exclusive Global Venture Forum Meet-Up

2:30 PM

Details

Invited grant finalists, judges, and mentors meet for 1:1 coaching and connection by Jeff McCarthy, DMSB’77, Co-founder of The McCarthy(s) Venture Mentoring Network and General Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners.

The Transformation Principles:  How to Lead, Invest, and Build for What Comes Next

3:00 PM

Details

The investor behind companies like Stripe, Anthropic, and Anduril on what separates ventures that endure from ones that plateau, and why the next generation of leaders must build with as much moral clarity as technical ambition.

Speaker

Hemant Taneja

PNT’25, Trustee, Northeastern University · CEO, General Catalyst

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Moderator
• Ayesha Arora-hughes, DMSB’21, Young global leader · venture capital investor

Reconnect and Recharge—Networking Break

4:00 PM

Details

Featuring the Global Connections Hub, presented by Mastercard.

Global Venture Forum Awards Presentation

4:30 PM

Details

Presentation of the Global Venture Forum Grant Prizes.

Innovation, Creativity, and the Future of Human Expression

5:00 PM

Speakers

Sir Lucian Grainge

CBE, PNT’16, H’17, Trustee, Northeastern University · Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Group

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Joseph E. Aoun

President, Northeastern University

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Global Entrepreneurship Award and Celebration

6:00 PM

Details

Ceremony honoring Sir Lucian Grainge, CBE, PNT’16, H’17, as the inaugural recipient of the Northeastern University Global Entrepreneurship Award, culminating in a celebratory reception featuring our award-winning student a cappella group, the Nor’easters.

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Schedule and Speakers

Wednesday

3 JuneDevon House, Northeastern University London | 58 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1LP, UK

View Agenda PDF

Registration Opens—Light Lunch

12:00 PM

Global Venture Forum: Pitch Sessions

12:30-2:30 PM

Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray

Richard Corps

Rich A. D’Amore

Julietta Dexter

Marco D’Ippolito

Chaitanya ‘Chet’ Kanojia

Christopher A. Viehbacher

Curated Conversations—Chapter I

3:15-4:00 PM

Chaitanya ‘Chet’ Kanojia

Peter Cameron

Julietta Dexter

John V. Pulichino

Darren Campili

Ravinder Dahiya

Subodh Chanrai

Irene Panagopoulos

Networking Break

4:00-4:30 PM

Austin Grippo

Curated Conversations—Chapter II

4:30-5:15 PM

Eric Van der Kleij

Rich A. D’Amore

Jeff Clarke

Julieta Moradei

Todd Manganaro

Gregory Waters

A. C. Grayling

New Family Welcome

5:00–5:45 PM

Marco D’Ippolito

Paula Médicis D’Ippolito

Chano Fernández

Esther García Martín

GLS Opening Reception and Community Showcase

5:30–8:00 PM

Joseph E. Aoun

Rich A. D’Amore

Julietta Dexter

Calypso Newman

Thursday

4 JuneBAFTA | 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN

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Registration Opens

9:00 AM

Welcome

9:30 AM

Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray

Human Leadership in the Age of AI

9:45 AM

Joseph E. Aoun

Reconnect and Recharge—Networking Break

10:30 AM

The Future of Technology and How the World Moves Money

11:00 AM

Michael Miebach

Lunch—Gather and Roundtable Exchange

12:00 PM

Austin Grippo

Vallabhi Singh

The Science of Leading Through Change

1:30 PM

Christopher A. Viehbacher

Dame Emma Walmsley

Reconnect and Recharge—Networking Break

2:30 PM

Exclusive Global Venture Forum Meet-Up

2:30 PM

The Transformation Principles: How to Lead, Invest, and Build for What Comes Next

3:00 PM

Hemant Taneja

3 June
Devon House, Northeastern University London | 58 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1LP, UK

4 June
BAFTA | 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN

The Transformation Principles:  How to Lead, Invest, and Build for What Comes Next