Full Agenda
Visit The Hub to learn about Supplier Bridge and Supplier Circle, meet with other attendees, catch up on work, relax and hydrate!
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Registration / Light Breakfast / Networking
Welcome Remarks
Brian K. Oglesby
President/CEO
EMSDC, GSCN, WTCPGH
Thomas Young
President/CEO
WTCGP
John Kalina
VP Administrative Services
Independence Blue Cross
Connected to Compete: How networks, resilience and innovation drive access to local and international opportunities
Ben Carroll
Exec. Advisor -
AI and Data
Vanguard
Shubhalok Ghosh
Founder | Fractional CGO & AI Enabled GTM Advisor
Tin Taal Advisory & Leadership
Shay Dorman
Founder & Managing Partner
Maren International LLC
Jeff Salvage
Teaching Professor
Drexel University
Infrastructure in Action: Explore how infrastructure, supplier and manufacturing investments create opportunities across the full lifecycle
Matt Cabrey
Project Director
PA Global Business Advisors
Managing Director
Ideas x Innovation Network (i2n)
Remo Rea
Managing Director Amtrak P3
Johnson Controls
Karla Trotman
President & CEO
Electro Soft, Incorporated
Networking Lunch
Making the Hard Pivot: Doing Business in Africa: When generative AI emerged, Emmanuel Jackson didn't just adapt—he went off-grid and built a custom AI stack. When others saw saturated markets, he saw Africa's 1.5 billion people with an average age of 19. Emmanuel Jackson, Founder & CEO of Evanston Technology Partners, will reveal how he transformed his Chicago-based cybersecurity firm into an AI Agent Factory and capitalized on one of the world's most compelling opportunities.
Karla Trotman
President & CEO
Electro Soft, Incorporated
Emmanuel Jackson
CEO
Evanston Technology Partners, Inc.
Bridge Exchange: Two connected, highly interactive discussions that move from where business and supply-chain opportunities are shifting to how companies finance and act on those opportunities.​
Randy Brooks
Vice President Commercial Banking
Fulton Bank
Alexander Mederos
Director, International Business Development
PA Dept. of Community & Economic Development
Closing Reception