Listen to an AI-generated podcast summarizing key insights from Reimagining Customer Service Journeys with LLMs: A Framework for Chatbot Design and Workflow Integration, a white paper from Mack Institute co-director Prof. Christian Terwiesch and Lennart Meincke, Mack Institute predoctoral fellow. The paper presents a framework for integrating chatbots into workflows,…Read More
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Announcing Our Spring 2025 Conference: Productivity in the Age of Intelligent Automation
Friday, March 21, 2025 The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Mack Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2025 conference, Productivity in the Age of Intelligent Automation. This one-day event will bring together leading Wharton researchers and expert business practitioners to examine the uncertain question of how artificial intelligence will impact…Read More Stentix Wins 2025 Y-Prize
Congratulations to this year’s Y-Prize winners, Stentix! The team proposed a bile duct stent that can be adjusted noninvasively, helping to maintain bile flow without additional surgeries. A biliary stent is a small, tube-like device inserted into the bile ducts to keep them open and allow bile to flow from…Read More
Y-Prize 2024-25 Finalists Announced
Congratulations to the four student teams chosen as finalists for this year’s Y-Prize competition: Serpent, EmBrace, Agentis and Stentix! The Y-Prize competition challenges students to build their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans for technologies invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help make…Read More
AI-Driven Ecosystems
AI-Driven Innovation Fall 2024 Conference Report Artificial Intelligence has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of our time, reshaping industries and redefining the competitive landscape. Yet the complexities and costs associated with AI development and deployment, coupled with the uncertainty of value creation, make it clear that no…Read More Announcing Our Fall 2024 Conference: AI-Driven Innovation Ecosystems
Friday, November 8, 2024 The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Mack Institute is pleased to announce our Fall 2024 conference, AI-Driven Innovation Ecosystems. Bringing together leading Wharton researchers with expert business practitioners, this one-day conference will explore how firms can overcome the risks and high costs of AI development and implementation…Read More
Y-Prize Competition Kicks Off for 2024-25 Academic Year
The Y-Prize Competition kicked off this week with a well-attended event held in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. Now in its thirteenth year, the Y-Prize challenges students to hone their entrepreneurial skills by creating business plans using cutting-edge technology developed at Penn Engineering. The team that comes up with the most promising commercial…Read More
Collaborative Innovation: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups
Collaborative Innovation: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups Spring 2024 Conference Report In this era of rapidly evolving, highly disruptive technologies, corporate venturing practices are evolving, too. High-profile partnerships like Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI or BMW’s move into the electrification space with ChargePoint underscore the current…Read More Insights From Tech Talks: Bridging Academia and Innovation in Philadelphia’s Tech Hub
Panelists Steven Nichtberger, Jen Gilburg, John Swartley, and Tempest Carter On April 24, the Mack Institute, together with Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce, presented Tech Talks, a panel discussion with government officials and entrepreneurs on how Penn and Wharton can help solidify the city’s future as a leader in innovation and…Read More
Join Us For Tech Talks: Bridging Academia and Innovation in Philly’s Tech Hub
Join Us For Tech Talks: Bridging Academia and Innovation in Philly's Tech Hub Wednesday, April 24 | 6:00 p.m. 8th Floor, Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Join us at the University of Pennsylvania for an event co-organized by the Mack Institute for Innovation Management and the City of Philadelphia Department of…Read More Announcing Our Spring ’24 Conference: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups
Friday, March 22, 2024 The Wharton School, Philadelphia The Mack Institute is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 conference, Collaborative Innovation: Shaping the Future with Corporate Venturing and Startups. In this era of transformative and disruptive new technologies, the relationship between established firms and startups is becoming more collaborative. These…Read More
LilyLoop Wins 2024 Y-Prize Competition
Congratulations to LilyLoop, winners of this year’s $10,000 Y-Prize! The team of first-year undergrads proposed a commercial application for Penn’s biodegradeable moisture sensors: a line of “smart” period products that alerts users when to change tampons and captures menstrual flow data for diagnostic purposes. One in five American women suffers…Read More
New Reports: Explore Topics in Generative AI
Our recent conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI, brought together representatives from academia, industry, startups, and the venture capital world to explore how this new technology is changing the business world. Read the full report on the conference here, then check out these deep dives into our expert panels. Tracking…Read More Driving Innovation with Generative AI: Strategies and Execution
The stratospheric rise of Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Bard has brought artificial intelligence to the forefront of innovation management. Driving Innovation with Generative AI, a conference jointly presented by the Mack Institute and AI at Wharton, brought together representatives from academia, industry, startups, and the venture capital world…Read More
Inquire About Attending Our November Generative AI Conference
Interested in attending our Fall '23 Conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI: Strategies and Execution? Please fill out the form below and someone will be in touch. Details: Friday, November 10 The Wharton School, Philadelphia PA Announcing Our Fall ‘23 Conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI
The Mack Institute and AI at Wharton are pleased to announce our joint Fall 2023 conference, Driving Innovation with Generative AI: Strategies and Execution. Inspired by the explosive interest in generative AI platforms like ChatGPT and Bard, this event will bring together representatives from academia and industry to discuss this…Read More
Y-Prize Competition Kicks Off for 2023-24 Academic Year
The semester is underway — and so is this year’s Y-Prize competition! For twelve years, the Y-Prize competition has challenged students to build their entrepreneurial skills. Students team up to create business plans using technology invented at Penn Engineering. The team with the best commercial application wins $10,000 to help…Read More
Creative Disruption? Innovations in Supply Chain Management
Executive Summary: Our Spring ‘23 conference, “Creative Disruption? Innovations in Supply Chain Management,” highlighted the challenges and opportunities faced by global supply chains in the wake of unprecedented disruptions. Speakers from academia and industry discussed such themes as the balance between efficiency and resilience, the role of advanced technologies in…Read More WATCH: ChatGPT for Work, Training and Education
Will ChatGPT take my job? Does the rise of AI mean should I change my college major? We gathered together three of Wharton and Penn’s leading experts on artificial intelligence to discuss how LLMs like ChatGPT will impact the workplace and education in the future. Watch the full video above.…Read More
Webinar: ChatGPT for Work, Education and Training
Join us for a webinar on Thursday, June 1, at 2:00 p.m. This event has passed. View recording here. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have emerged as a game-changing general-purpose technology with tremendous social implications and challenges. Wharton faculty have been on the forefront of these developments from the…Read More