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How Public-Private Partnerships Foster Innovation E35

February 27, 2023 by Karen

AZ TechCast

How Public-Private Partnerships Foster Innovation E35

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How Public-Private Partnerships Foster Innovation E35

Public-private partnerships play a pivotal role in Arizona’s economic development and positioning the state as an attractive place for technology companies to do business. So, what are some of the partnerships contributing to Arizona’s continued growth?

The February 2023 episode of the Arizona Technology Council’s AZTechCast podcast featured experts including Ryan Hendrix, general manager of the ASU Cloud Innovation Center; Shelbe Hunsaker, southwest region public policy manager at Amazon Web Services; and Vic Narusis, executive vice president of business development at the Arizona Commerce Authority. These leaders joined Steve Zylstra, president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council, and Karen Nowicki, president and owner of Phoenix Business RadioX, in discussing the collaborations between industry, government and education shaping Arizona’s future.

In this hour-long episode, the panel of three experts started by discussing the momentous month that February 2023 has been for Arizona’s economic development between the Super Bowl, Waste Management Open and Barrett Jackson, among other signature events that attracted tourists to the state from far and wide. On top of that, TSMC recently announced that they are deepening their investment in the state to the tune of $40 billion and thousands of new jobs being created. With this exorbitant growth in mind, the panel set their sights on the public-private partnerships that are working behind the scenes to continue making Arizona an even more attractive place to do business.

Arizona State University is a public University of higher education.

Ryan Hendrix earned his BSM and MBA from the University of Phoenix and has worked in higher education for nearly 2 decades. Professional interests and experience include Project Management, Agile/Scrum, Business Development, Smart Cities and Cloud Technologies.

Prior to his current role Ryan managed the ASU Technology Office Cloud Migration Program. Ryan is currently the Partnership Portfolio Manager for the Enterprise Technology Office (ETO) and General Manager of the ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center (CIC).

The CIC is a partnership between the ASU ETO and Amazon Web Services working with local community leaders to solve pressing urban challenges with technology.

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Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 99 Availability Zones within 31 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand.

Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

Shelbe Hunsaker is a Regional Public Policy Manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Arizona, covering six states in the southwest. Shelbe has eight years of experience working within the state and local political scene. During that time, she has garnered extensive knowledge in community engagement, state procurement and policy development that has translated to successful advocacy and public policy.

Shelbe started her career in political campaigns, managing 12 successful municipal campaigns in 2016. She also acted as the project manager for the David & Gladys Wright House Foundation, overseeing a successful digital strategy campaign in 2017 that was later awarded “Best Earned Media Around a Single Event” by the National Campaigns & Elections’ Reed Awards.

As a lobbying consultant in Arizona, Shelbe advocated for various policy initiatives in healthcare, transportation, education and technology. Her passion for public policy led her to AWS where she has continued to advocate for policies that foster innovation and improve the over citizen experience through the utilization of technology.

Throughout her experiences, Shelbe has established strong rapport within the Arizona political community naming her one of the 2019 40 under 40 rising stars in Arizona politics and a nominee for the best Lobbyist under 40 in 2020.

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The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) is the state’s leading economic development organization with a streamlined mission to grow and strengthen Arizona’s economy. The ACA uses a three-pronged approach to advance the overall economy: recruit, grow, create – recruit out-of-state companies to expand their operations in Arizona; work with existing companies to grow their business in Arizona and beyond; and partner with entrepreneurs and companies large and small to create new jobs and businesses in targeted industries.

Victor Narusis leads the Business Development Team of the ACA and is responsible for bringing businesses to Arizona and assisting companies already in Arizona to grow and thrive. Daily activities include site selection, coordination of local communities, utilities, education, workforce, and logistics partners to identify and solve business needs and management of ACA’s Foreign Trade/FDI and Film/Digital Media teams.

In previous roles, Victor has served Economic Development for over twenty years in various capacities including the State of Illinois as Deputy Director of the Business Development Team; the Village of Huntley, Illinois as the Business Attraction Coordinator; the Delta Regional Authority of Illinois as Delegate and Executive Board Member; the McHenry County Economic Development Corporation as Vice President & Treasurer; the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce as President of Real Estate Development.

Additional expertise includes six years as partner at Centerville Properties-Site Selection and Entitlement and 18 years in Commercial Banking with major US and regional banks including US Bank, Bank One. He has served as Lead Analyst and on lending teams dedicated to serving the lending and other financial needs of medium and large businesses.

About AZ TechCast

AZ TechCast is dedicated to covering innovation and technology in Arizona and beyond.

Through the art of connected conversation, AZ TechCast’s guests will share their expertise, success stories, news and analysis about the region’s leading startups, companies and emerging technologies, as well as the latest industry trends and critical issues propelling the state’s growing technology ecosystem.

About Your Hosts

Steve Zylstra serves as president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council, a role he assumed in 2007. He is responsible for strategy, operations, finance and policy development. Zylstra is a vocal spokesman for the value technology can provide in raising social and economic standards in Arizona.

Zylstra serves on numerous councils, committees and boards, was named “Leader of the Year, Technology,” by the Arizona Capitol Times, and “Most Admired Leader” by the Phoenix Business Journal. In addition, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science in technology from the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Ariz.

Zylstra earned a bachelor’s degree in automotive engineering technology from Western Michigan University.

Karen Nowicki is a successful author, speaker and the creator of Deep Impact Leadership™ and SoulMarks Coaching™. She is a two-time recipient of the prestigious national Choice Award® for her book and personal development retreat. Karen was crowned the first-ever “Mompreneur of the Year” Award in 2010 for the southwestern states. She was recognized for her leadership, business acumen, and work-life balance.

Karen has been an expert guest on regional TV and radio shows, including Fox Phoenix Morning Show, Sonoran Living, Good Morning Arizona, The Chat Room, and Mid-Day Arizona. She has been a regular contributor to many print and online magazines – publishing articles and blogs for business and education.

In addition to working with private coaching clients, Karen is also the Owner & President of Phoenix Business RadioX. The Business RadioX Network amplifies the voice of business – serving the Fortune 500,000, not just the Fortune 500. Phoenix Business RadioX helps local businesses and professional associations get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, profession, and community.

Of all the experiences Karen has had the privilege of participating in over her vast career, she shares that Phoenix Business RadioX is a pinnacle adventure!

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Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Bianca Buliga is a trilingual first-generation American of Romanian ethnicity. A marketing professional with experience in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, Bianca currently works as Director, Marketing & Communications for the Arizona Technology Council.

Previously, Bianca worked as Marketing Communications Lead at Proctorio, a learning integrity platform that offers remote proctoring software ensuring exam integrity for learners around the world.

Bianca also worked as Senior Marketing Manager at SEED SPOT, a social impact incubator that educates, accelerates, and invests in impact-driven entrepreneurs creating market-based solutions to social problems. In January of 2020, Bianca was selected as an awardee of the Mandela Washington Reciprocal Exchange Program and traveled to the African island of Mauritius to run entrepreneurship programming for 15 impact-driven ecopreneurs on behalf of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Bianca has also completed comprehensive consulting projects for IBM, ESAN Business School, and the Peruvian government, and interned at the Arizona House of Representatives and U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania.

Bianca earned her Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from Northern Arizona University in 2014 and her Master’s degree in Global Affairs and Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 2017. She is an avid reader, yogi, and world traveler always planning her next trip.

Connect with Bianca on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

The Arizona Technology Council, Arizona’s only statewide organization serving the technology sector, fosters a climate of innovation to enhance technology in Arizona.

A trusted resource in strengthening Arizona’s technology industry, the Council proactively eliminates impediments that companies face, accelerates the entrepreneurial mindset in the state’s expanding innovation ecosystem, and works to create a destination for companies to be, thrive and stay.

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Bonus Mentorship Panel E6

February 11, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Bonus Mentorship Panel E6

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Bonus Mentorship Panel E6

AGILE DATING?! Don’t miss out on an interesting topic on the importance of mentorship. These amazing women discuss their thoughts on the idea of mentorship and their journey throughout the agile workforce.

What does mentorship mean to you? Why is it relevant for all stages in life? The conversation we had amongst these incredible women is one to not miss. No more struggling to find the confidence to go and do what you always wanted to do, this episode has the motivation you need!

Deepti Jain is an Agile practitioner, experienced in creating, leading, and managing Agile teams in a distributed setup. She is an active Agile community builder in India and loves to connect and interact with people and prefers to call herself a Social Scientist. Always feel herself where technology meets people.

Based out of Gurgaon, she is very Agile to work with International and National Clients. To get access and share Agile abundance she founded “AgileVirgin” in 2015. In addition to Consulting, Coaching, and Training, AgileVirgin also runs Countrywide Community of Practices. It’s flagship programs & initiatives are AgilityToday, Agile-A-Thon, Funconf, Change Agents Summit, Elucidate, Agile Coach Camp, Agile Career Bootcamp, Narrathon, Agile Job fair and Women-in-Agile-and-Tech. Further Women in Agile and Tech runs Global Mentorship Program, Dream Big, Visuallect, Gamify it, Unleash Yourself and Agility A2Z.

Deepti Jain has served Agile Alliance as Initiative Director for the initiative “Building Future Leaders and Change Agents”. This initiative helps India meet the need to grow Lean-Agile Leaders and Change Agents who can shape the culture of the country and help its industries achieve a true Agile Mindset. Keeping India at the focal point, this initiative establishes a cultural exchange and growth platform for people across the globe.

Expanding her canvas this year, Deepti Jain joins Agile Alliance in a new capacity as India Agile Community Development Head.

You can connect with her over one of the following channels:
Email: deepti.jain@agilealliance.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-j/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agilevirgin

Kardia Advisory Group, a niche management consultancy, envisions a world where every organization has talented, socially conscious, and innovative teams that honor diversity, equity and inclusion.

Their dynamic team of advisors are committed to building a better world and workforce by helping industry leaders cultivate anti-racist, high- performing, and inclusive cultures that deliver innovative solutions and quality products and /services.

Denisha Jenkins is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Kardia Advisory Group, a niche management consultancy that focuses on cultivating inclusively diverse organizations.

As a purpose driven entrepreneur, trauma informed speaker and IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity and access) strategist, Denisha is on a mission to restore humanity within communities – one leader at a time. She has been developing talent, designing leadership programs, and facilitating workshops on anti-racism, implicit bias, intercultural communication and innovation within the education, healthcare, manufacturing, economic development (and now travel and tech) industries for the past 15 years.

She holds a masters in Intercultural Relations, Consulting and Management and a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs and Development. Denisha has lived and studied intersectionality and how beliefs impact the systems we create and how we navigate them. Having travelled to over 17 countries, Denisha is deeply invested in hearing, elevating and sharing stories as a way to increase empathy and activate change. She is a 2016 Leadership Austin Alum and serves as the Vice President Board Member for the Institute for Diversity and Civic Life.

While candid discussions on race, gender, ability and religion are challenging, Denisha is known for her uncanny ability to disarm, affirm and equip leaders with the tools they need to identify, understand and transform harmful bias, so they can confidently lead with integrity and “create spaces where people can thrive.”

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Arizona State University is a public research university on five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. ASU is one of the largest public universities in the US and ranked #1 in Innovation by US News for 6 years in a row. ASU Preparatory Academy is a network of 5 charter schools, K-12, under the umbrella of Arizona State University.

Karina Jones is the Director of Information Technology for ASU Preparatory Academy.

Karina is a PMP certified Project Manager and CSM certified Scrum Master. Her focus is on developing structure out of the most complex and innovative operations and projects.

In addition to her strong background in Computer Science and Mathematics, she holds a Masters of Nonprofit Studies from Arizona State University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Murcia, Spain.

She came to Arizona State University in 2012. Before ASU she worked for Procter & Gamble Latin America where she occupied diverse regional leadership roles in Information Technology for Latin America. She is originally from El Salvador but while working for Procter & Gamble she lived in Mexico city and Guatemala.

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Ad Meliora Coaching is a boutique coaching and consulting practice that provides personal, organizational, and leadership coaching.

Founded by Erin Randall, a longtime agile, coactive, and ORSC-trained coach, Ad Meliora Coaching has a deep passion for helping both people and organizations transform from humdrum to remarkable. She grounds her work in foundational, humanist principles, coaching people and teams alike to greater group cohesiveness.

Ad Meliora Coaching has helped engineering, mining, software development, and non-profit organizations make the hard, necessary changes to move forward. Transformation is an inside job, and great coaching can help you to get there.

Erin is a longtime agile, coactive, and ORSC coach with a deep passion for serving people, teams, and organizations. Through her work with her coaching and consulting practice, Ad Meliora Coaching, she helps her clients to find the pain points and then reimagine a new way forward. Her goal in all that she does is simple: happy people doing great work.

Erin lives in Austin, Texas, and can often be found in bookstores, on hiking trails with her dogs, or at one of the Agile Coaching Circles (she’s one of the co-founders).

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Yvette Francino, LLC provides coaching, training, workshops, and technical writing in the areas of Agile leadership, software development, and personal self-development.

Yvette Francino has enjoyed a long career as a leader and coach in the leadership and Agile software development.

She’s an independent consultant and coach providing education to help leaders, teams, and individuals be happier and more productive, both in their personal and professional lives.

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About The Lurnist – Celebrating Women in Agile

We highlight fantastic women who are doing great things in the Agile field, all the while creating role models to inspire young women in high school and college to want to have a career in Agile.

Who do you know that leads scrum teams? Builds great products as a product owner or product manager? Coaches leading agile transformations? Or, is an agile teacher or trainer? We’d love to get to know her with the hope to feature her story and journey to success on The Lurnist Radio Show & Podcast.

About Your Co-hosts

Debra Hildebrand is the Founder and CEO of LurnAgile and has over 20 years’ experience in project management; including consulting and training in the public and private sector and teaching in higher education.

She is one of the architects for the Project Management Certification program at the University of Washington, where she received the Team-Teaching Excellence Award and currently instructs in the online portion of the program. Additionally, she developed and currently teaches traditional and agile project management courses at Stanford University.

Her passion projects include Celebrating Women in Agile through her Business RadioX Show, The Lurnist Show, and helping veterans transition into meaningful careers in project management after service disconnection through her work on the board of Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA).

She is a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY.

Lauryn Jenne is a senior student at University of Washington Bothell (UWB), majoring in Management Information Systems with a minor in Computer Science IT. Lauryn currently works for UWB School of Business and is also the Digital Marketing Manager at Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA), a non-profit that assists veterans and military spouses in gaining careers in project management.

Additionally, she is the Vice President of Fundraising for Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity at the University.

Lauryn aspires to work for an organization as a project manager and eventually create her own brand and startup company.

Lauryn currently lives in Seattle, WA

About Our Sponsor LurnAgile

LurnAgile is a Boutique, Woman Owned Small Business that delivers top quality Agile Certification courses and Agile Coaching. We are a Scaled Agile Silver Transformation Partner, which shows our clients that we have invested in and are committed to the Scaled Agile training standards and coach offerings.

Each of our team of Elite coaches/instructors have over 10 years of leading and coaching Agile Transformations in some of the largest Fortune 100 and 500 companies in the world. This means that your organization is learning from someone who has “been there and done that”.

Roundtable – The State of Higher Education in Arizona E3

June 30, 2020 by Karen

AZ TechCast

Roundtable - The State of Higher Education in Arizona E3

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Roundtable – The State of Higher Education in Arizona E3

Arizona proudly boasts of having some of the best universities and educational institutions in the country, and in the world. Arizona is home to three world-class universities— Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona.

Moderated by Phoenix Business RadioX President Karen Nowicki and Arizona Technology Council CEO Steve Zylstra, the state university presidents, Dr. Rita Cheng of Northern Arizona University, Dr. Michael Crow of Arizona State University and Dr. Robert Robbins of the University of Arizona discussed the state of higher education in Arizona and how COVID-19 has shifted higher education, the university programs that are helping to create a highly skilled workforce, collaborations with the private sector, how each university is working to bring about innovation-based economic development to the state, the relationship between the tech community and the university system, as well as what challenges and opportunities are on the horizon.

Students, educational institutions and faculty have all been tossed into an unprecedented situation during the pandemic. Home to three world-class universities—Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona—the state university presidents shared valuable insight into what the new paradigm will look like to keep students and faculty safe in the fall, as well as discussed the importance of fostering local start-ups and the exciting new innovations coming out of each university.

The University of Arizona, a land-grant university with two independently accredited medical schools, is one of the nation’s top public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. Established in 1885, the UA is widely recognized as a student-centric university and has been designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education.

The UA ranked in the top 25 in 2018 in research expenditures among all public universities, according to the National Science Foundation, and is a leading Research 1 institution with $687 million in annual research expenditures.

The UA advances the frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships as a member of the Association of American Universities, the 62 leading public and private research universities in the U.S. It benefits the state with an estimated economic impact of $4.1 billion annually.

Dr. Robert C. Robbins assumed his position as the 22nd president of the University of Arizona on June 1, 2017. Previously, he served as president and CEO of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston from 2012 to 2017. In this role, he significantly enhanced TMC’s commitment to collaboration, introducing five cross-institutional research initiatives centered on innovation, genomics, regenerative medicine, health policy and clinical research.

Prior to his time in Houston, Dr. Robbins served as professor and chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, founding director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, president of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, president of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, president of the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate, president of the Bay Area Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and chair of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Council, among other roles. In 2016 he served as president of the American Heart Association Southwest Affiliate.

An internationally recognized cardiac surgeon, Robbins has focused his clinical efforts on acquired cardiac diseases with a special expertise in the surgical treatment of congestive heart failure and cardiothoracic transplantation. His research work includes the investigation of stem cells for cardiac regeneration, cardiac transplant allograft vasculopathy, bioengineered blood vessels, and automated vascular anastomotic devices. Robbins is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and a former guest editor of the Circulation Surgical Supplement.

In addition to his role at the UA, Dr. Robbins serves on the boards of the Arizona Commerce Authority, Southern Arizona Leadership Council, Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. He is also a member of the Chairman’s Circle of Sun Corridor, Inc., and a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership. While at TMC, Robbins served on the Houston branch of the Dallas Federal Reserve board, the board of directors of the Welch Foundation, and the American Heart Association Southwest Affiliate in 2016. He served on an independent blue ribbon committee to evaluate the Veterans Affairs health system, and the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston honored him as the 2016 International Citizen of the Year.

His educational background includes a B.S. in chemistry from Millsaps College, medical degree from the University of Mississippi, general surgical training at the University of Mississippi, cardiothoracic training at Stanford University, postdoctoral research at Columbia University and the National Institutes of Health, and congenital heart surgical fellowships at Emory University and Royal Children’s Hospital.

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Founded in 1899, Northern Arizona University delivers world-class academic programs for a world-ready generation. In every classroom, top-flight research powers personalized teaching. With a commitment to delivering research-driven curricula and personal attention to our students, NAU provides the college experience, elevated.

NAU has much to be proud of, including nationally ranked programs, high-research status, and emergence as a leader in sustainability, science, business, green building and cultural arts.

Recognized as an institution that has thrived due to strong leadership, the devotion of alumni and faculty and community support, NAU offers more than 150 combined undergraduate and graduate degree programs, all distinguished by an ongoing commitment to close student-faculty relationships.

Dr. Rita Cheng serves as the 16th president of Northern Arizona University. As a first-generation and non-traditional college graduate, Dr. Cheng firmly believes in making higher education accessible and affordable for all students.

Under her leadership, NAU has embarked on an aggressive agenda to thrive in the fast-changing environment of higher education. She has amplified the university’s strengths and set forth a vision of excellence in education through student-centered teaching, a robust research environment, an extensive global engagement program, and inclusive support services focused on success measured through retention and graduation rates.

Prior to NAU, Dr. Cheng served as chancellor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She previously held positions on the faculty and various administrative roles including, provost and vice chancellor, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is internationally recognized for her research in government and nonprofit accounting.

Dr. Cheng earned a Ph.D. in management from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management, where she was recently recognized as one of 100 notable alumni in the school’s 100-year history. She also holds an MBA from the University of Rhode Island and a bachelor’s in business administration with honors from Bishop‘s University in Quebec. Committed to service, Dr. Cheng also serves on a variety of local and national boards.

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Arizona State University is a public research university ranked #1 in the U.S. for innovation, dedicated to accessibility and academic excellence. Commonly referred to as ASU, the university is comprised of five campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona.

One of the largest public universities by enrollment in the country, in 2019 the university had nearly 90,000 students attending classes across its metro campuses, more than 38,000 students attending online, including 83,000-plus undergraduates and more nearly 20,000 postgraduates. The university is organized into 17 colleges, featuring more than 170 cross-discipline centers and institutes.

ASU offers 350 different degree options for undergraduates students, as well as more than 400 graduate degree and certificate programs.

Dr. Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s best public metropolitan research universities. As a model “New American University,” ASU simultaneously demonstrates comprehensive excellence, inclusivity representative of the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the United States, and consequential societal impact.

Lauded as the ”#1 most innovative” school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, ASU is a student-centric, technology-enabled university focused on complex global challenges related to sustainability, economic competitiveness, social embeddedness, entrepreneurship and global engagement. Under Dr, Crow’s leadership, ASU has established twenty-five new transdisciplinary schools, including the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and launched trailblazing multidisciplinary initiatives including the Biodesign Institute, the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and important initiatives in the humanities and social sciences.

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About the Show

AZ TechCast is dedicated to covering innovation and technology in Arizona and beyond.

About Your Hosts

Zylstra earned a bachelor’s degree in automotive engineering technology from Western Michigan University.

Of all the experiences Karen has had the privilege of participating in over her vast career, she shares that Phoenix Business RadioX is a pinnacle adventure!

Connect with Karen on LinkedIn and follow Phoenix Business RadioX on Facebook and Instagram.

About Our Sponsor

The Arizona Technology Council, Arizona’s only statewide organization serving the technology sector, fosters a climate of innovation to enhance technology in Arizona.

Follow Arizona Technology Council on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.