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View from the Top

Perspectives from Alumni

View from the Top programs offer compelling content and great networking opportunities. Pictured here are attendees of an event held in Boston, Nov. 2008. Photo: Jess Dugan.View from the Top offers compelling content and great networking opportunities. Photo: Jess Dugan.

Through presentations by a panel of alumni experts, View from the Top is an energetic program that stimulates discussion among panelists and between the panel and audience on a number of trends and challenges facing a particular area.

Previous programs have included discussions on the financial crisis, renewable energy, and the impacts of technology on the entertainment industry.

View from the Top will be featured in Houston on Wednesday evening, April 18, 2012. Registration information will be posted closer to the event.

In Houston, the panel will be reflecting on exploration for their respective industry sectors: energy, media, and space.

Panelists:

Lawrence Dickerson P'11 CEO & President,
Diamond Offshore Drilling

Franklin Chang Diaz SCD '77 Founder, Chairman & CEO,
Ad Astra Rocket Company

Roberta Kowalishin SM '94 CIO Houston Chronicle and VP Web Technology Hearst Newspapers

Moderator:

Gene Norman '82 Chief Meteorologist,
KHOU-TV

 

 

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