ACG Wisconsin: Oct. 11 Event featuring Prof. Robert C. Wolcott | PROXIMITY - Transforming Every Industry, Society, and Daily Life

Join ACG Wisconsin for this special lunch event!

Professor Robert Wolcott explores PROXIMITY: Just-in-Time Breakthroughs Transforming Business, Society, and Daily Life

What if you could have whatever you want, produced, and provided immediately and affordably no matter how customized?with minimal environmental impact? Products, services, and experiences on demand. Just-in-time anything, anywhere, anytime. This radical change is underway, as digital technologies push the production and provision of value ever closer to the moment of demand.

Professor Robert Wolcott will discuss his latest book, PROXIMITY, which provides a framework to understand how rapidly advancing technologies?from generative AI and 3D printing to lab-grown meats, renewable energy, and virtual reality? are transforming every industry?and our lives.

Offering unparalleled foresight for leaders and innovators, he shares how pervasive this trend will be. PROXIMITY represents an entirely new way to serve customers, with critical implications for corporate strategy, investing, public policy, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. Incremental changes to existing business models won’t suffice.

PROXIMITY offers a playbook for business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs to win this rapidly emerging game?and for each of us to consider the implications for our careers, families, communities, and lives.

Each attendee will receive a copy of PROXIMITY.

This enhanced program is a joint event with the Kellogg and Harvard Business School alumni clubs from Wisconsin. We have extended the event agenda to allow more time to network and hear from our guest speaker.

11:00 a.m. - Networking
12:00 p.m. - Lunch
12:30 p.m. - Presentation and Q&A
2:00 p.m. - Meeting Adjourns
 

To attend, please register online.  Registration deadline is Friday, October 4.

Questions? Please contact ACG Wisconsin.

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About Robert C. Wolcott

Dr. Robert C Wolcott is Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

He is co-founder and chair of The World Innovation Network (TWIN), a global community of nearly 4,000 innovation and growth leaders from over 30 countries and across sectors (business, government, the arts, academia, defense). TWIN gathers 400 delegates for TWIN Global each year in Chicago to explore the future, in addition to smaller gatherings and online sessions. The objective is to build trusted relationships across sectors.

Wolcott serves on the boards of multiple companies including Abroad.io, Clareo and global non-profit CureBlindness Project, and is a venture investor in VC funds and directly in over 30 companies, many of which are leading the Proximity revolution.

He is a regular contributor for Forbes on the impact of technology on business, society and humanity. His book, Grow From Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2010) has been published in Chinese and Japanese. Wolcott’s work appears many other publications including the MIT Sloan Management Review, The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and many others.

Wolcott holds a BA, European and Chinese History; and an MS and Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University.

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About ACG Wisconsin

The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) is a global community with a mission to drive middle-market growth.  Founded in 1954, ACG’s global network operates within 61 local markets worldwide and comprises more than 100,000 middle-market professionals who invest in, own and advise growing companies.

The Wisconsin chapter of ACG is the premier network of over 185 executives and professionals in corporations, private equity, finance, and professional service firms. Our target members are the leaders of Wisconsin businesses and private equity firms who have the principal responsibility of corporate growth initiatives within their organizations. For more information, visit acg.org/wisconsin.