McCombs Calendars

Baxter Hines is the Chief Investment Officer at Honeycomb Digital Investment, and author of the book “Digital Finance: Security Tokens and Unlocking the Real Potential of Blockchain”. Baxter will discuss how security tokens will be the next major milestone in the digital revolution. You'll learn about how these digitized forms of traditional ownership certificates will have momentous ramifications for mainstream assets like stocks, real estate, bonds, intellectual property, and derivatives. Baxter is a proud Longhorn, having earned his MBA from McCombs in 2008.

Matt Ridley joins us for a special Policy@McCombs Event to discuss his book "How Innovation Works".

Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything. His book on “How Innovation Works” was published in 2020. His new book with Alina Chan “Viral: the search for the origin of Covid-19” will be published in November 2021.

Join the Bay Area for McCombs Board for a networking reception with the new McCombs School of Business Dean Lillian Mills. This event takes place from 5:30-7:30 p.m., PT (7:30-9:30 p.m., CT).

Cocktails begin at 5:30 p.m., with brief remarks from Dean Mills at 6 p.m. There is limited space available and we’d love to see you there, so please register using this link by October 28, 2021 to secure your spot. The alumni reception will take place in Westin's Courtyard of the Moon and Stars, an outdoor space.

Ready for take-off? Presented by Undergraduate Business Council and the Center for Leadership and Ethics, the VIP Speaker Series at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation's foremost executive speaker series. An event dedicated to highlighting the views, insights, and perspectives of accomplished and inspiring business leaders, students are given the opportunity to learn from some of the most prominent speakers in modern business. This session will be moderated by Dean Lillian Mills and will be livestreamed. RSVP now!

Industry Leaders, Austin Renfroe, Vice President at E.A. Renfroe & Company and Cato Felán, CEO of La Hoja Capital Management will discuss their experience in new and cutting-edge areas of industry

Bay Area for McCombs Board and New York for McCombs Council invite you to join us for a discussion on the current state of cryptocurrency. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link for this event so please RSVP at this link. This event takes place from 6-7:30 p.m., CT (7-8:30 p.m., ET or 4-5:30 p.m., PT).

PANELISTS:

Scott Bauguess
Director, Program on Financial Markets Regulation, McCombs School of Business

Cesare Fracassi
Director, Blockchain Initiative, McCombs School of Business

Samuel Proctor
CEO, Genesis Block

Machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms hold great promise for many business applications. As these systems become more widely adopted, business and technical leaders require trusted ML/AI systems to exhibit increased transparency, fairness, and interpretability.

The implications for organizations are sweeping, including for: risk management, ethics, compliance, reliability, and customer relationship management.

This conference will explore best practices and current research on effective, interpretable, and explainable AI. RSVP now! This event starts on Nov. 11 with Welcoming Remarks at 12:45 p.m. and ends with Closing Remarks on Nov. 12 at 12:50 p.m.

Webinar Conference on Nov. 11 - 12.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms hold great promise for many business applications. As these systems become more widely adopted, business and technical leaders require trusted ML/AI systems to exhibit increased transparency, fairness, and interpretability.

The implications for organizations are sweeping, including for: risk management, ethics, compliance, reliability, and customer relationship management.

This conference will explore best practices and current research on effective, interpretable, and explainable AI.

Twenty+ speakers and panelists.

 Our McCombs Executive MBA students, faculty, and staff are visiting New York City for an immersive seminar this fall. We would like to invite you to join us as our guest for an evening of networking centered around the Executive Career Panel at the Penn Club. This event takes place from 5:30-8 p.m., ET.

Panel Topic: "Executive Conversations Shaping Today’s Workplace"
A dialogue about executive careers and hot topics impacting today’s workplace across different industries. As seasoned leaders in their organizations, panelists will discuss how their teams are innovating to respond to the new challenges and emerging workplace trends.

PANELISTS

Miki Edelman
Co-CEO Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc & Head of Strategic Client Solutions (Equities), Macquarie Group

Marc Gelnett
SVP, Operations & Innovation, Cooper Surgical

Todd Haskins
Managing Director, Reverence Capital Partners

Adam Haughton

Chief Investment Officer, New Energy Solar Manager

Ryan Nelson
Managing Principal, Turnbridge Equities

Janneke VanGeuns
Head of Measurement & Analytics, Google

Webinar Conference on Nov. 11 - 12.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms hold great promise for many business applications. As these systems become more widely adopted, business and technical leaders require trusted ML/AI systems to exhibit increased transparency, fairness, and interpretability.

The implications for organizations are sweeping, including for: risk management, ethics, compliance, reliability, and customer relationship management.

This conference will explore best practices and current research on effective, interpretable, and explainable AI.

Twenty+ speakers and panelists.

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used to support decision-making in many organizational settings. However, there is currently a gap between the design and evaluation of ML algorithms and the functional role of these algorithms as tools for decision support. The first part of the talk will highlight the role of humans-in-the-loop, and the importance of evaluating decisions instead of predictions, through a study of the adoption of a risk assessment tool in child maltreatment hotline screenings. The second part of the talk will focus on the gap between the construct of interest and the proxy that the algorithm optimizes for. Using a proposed machine learning methodology that extracts knowledge from experts’ historical decisions, we show that in the context of child maltreatment hotline screenings (1) there are high-risk cases whose risk is considered by the experts but not wholly captured in the target labels used to train a deployed model, and (2) we can bridge this gap if we purposefully design with this goal in mind.

Maria De-Arteaga is an assistant professor at the Information, Risk and Operation Management (IROM) Department at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is also a core faculty member in the Machine Learning Laboratory. 

The Austin Chapter is excited to bring back monthly, in-person networking breakfasts. We will kick-off the first breakfast with complimentary coffee and tacos at Moontower Cafe in Robert B. Rowling Hall on campus. Alumni will be joined by special guests, MBA Assistant Dean Tina Mabley, Austin Chapter President Joey Martin, MBA '18, and current MBA students.

Dean Mabley will share school updates and Joey will provide chapter updates on upcoming programs and events.

Complimentary parking. Enter the garage off of W 20th St. The café is located on the first floor of the building.

Rob Habermeier is the co-founder of Polkadot Network, the 8th largest crypto-currency in the world. Rob will talk about how the Polkadot protocol can facilitate the cross-chain transfer of any data or asset types, enabling blockchain interoperability.

Graduate Women In Business is thrilled to welcome prospective students, members, and allies back to the Forty Acres for Evolve | Enhance | Empower: the 2021 Women in Business Leadership Symposium.

The past year and a half has been challenging for everyone, and Evolve | Enhance | Empower will provide a much-needed opportunity to reconnect and find community in-person. Gather with us on November 19 to hear from McCombs’ first woman dean, Dr. Lillian Mills, along with a number of distinguished women business leaders. Learn more what this Symposium here.