2023 ANNUAL LUNCHEON

FULL SPEED AHEAD

A DECADE’S TRIUMPH, A DECADE’S PROMISE

Event Mission

Travel with One Region on a journey to celebrate a decade of progress and explore economic growth sectors for the decade ahead. Hear from Purdue’s new president Dr. Mung Chiang about generational public investments in infrastructure, workforce, and critical technologies that will drive NWI’s future economic growth and diversification.

SPEAKER: MUNG CHIANG

Mung Chiang is president of Purdue University and the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From July 2017 to June 2022, he was the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. From April 2021 to December 2022, he was the executive vice president for strategic initiatives. As an inventor and entrepreneur, Chiang has 25 U.S. patents, most of which have been licensed and deployed by the communications and networking industry. He co-founded three startup companies in mobile networks, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, based on the research at Princeton Edge Lab, and co-founded a global nonprofit, the OpenFog Consortium, now part of the global Industrial Internet Consortium. He was the founding CEO of DataMi, which has served over 60 million users around the world in bridging the digital divide. As a diplomat and policymaker, Chiang was the science and technology advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State and initiated the U.S. government’s tech diplomacy programs. Since returning from Washington, D.C., in 2020, he co-founded the Krach Institute of Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and serves as the technology and innovation advisor to his home state of Indiana.

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