Petteruti Lounge, 2nd Floor, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman Street

Kick-off the weekend by meeting up with former classmates and new friends on the historic Brown campus. Coffee, tea and desserts will be provided as you pick up your name-tag and connect with other alumni. 

Petteruti Lounge, 2nd Floor, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman Street

From this central meeting space, choose your own adventure by signing up for one of the offered tours and events of the afternoon. 

Guided tour opportunities include:

Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour: This tour examines the history behind Brown University, the State of Rhode Island and their roles in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The tours help students (K-12 +college) as well as adult groups think critically about the University and state histories.(2 one hour tours)

College Hill Architecture Tour with Dietrich Neumann: Tour the historic Brown University campus with your EMBA professor. (2 one hour tours)

University Greenhouse Environmental Tour: The Plant Environmental Center is the home to the university's botany teaching collection that includes plants across many families and many environments. We also have research being conducted on tomatoes and hog peanuts, that revolve around climate change. (Docents await visitors)

Bell Gallery Art Exhibit: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration explores the impact of the US prison system on contemporary visual art. This exhibition highlights artists who are or have been incarcerated alongside artists who have not been incarcerated but whose practices interrogate the carceral state. Seen together, their works reveal how punitive governance, predatory policing, surveillance, and mass imprisonment impact everyday life for many millions of people. Art made in prisons is crucial to contemporary culture, though it has been largely excluded from established art institutions and public discourse. Marking Time aims to shift aesthetic currents, offering new ways to envision art and to understand the reach and devastation of the US carceral state. (Docents await visitors)

Virtual Reality CAVE Tour in the Granoff Arts Center: Our Cave is a TAN VR-Cube, an 8' cubic room in which 3-D images are projected on 3 walls and the floor. It uses stereo depth-perception glasses by Volfoni, an OptiTrack motion capture system, and the Unity game engine with a plugin from MiddleVR. Positional audio is provided by a 5.1 surround sound system. Each system works in parallel, creating the illusion of virtual reality in an open space without head-mounted devices. Software packages available through the CCV include volume visualization, molecular visualization, and simple 3-D model manipulation. (2 one hour tours with limited headcount)

Self-guided tour opportunities include:

The RISD Museum: The RISD Museum acquires, preserves, presents, and interprets works of art and design representing diverse cultures from ancient times to the present. The RISD Museum—southeastern New England's only comprehensive art museum—was established in Providence in 1877, alongside the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Museum’s collection of about 100,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art and design from all over the world, from ancient periods to the latest in contemporary art. (Expect to enjoy this exploration for 2 hours)

The Haffenreffer Museum: The Haffenreffer Museum on the College Hill campus presents “A Verry Drunk Hunter’s Dream”: Modernist Expression in Africa presents late 20th-century art from Ghana and Nigeria alongside related traditional objects. The exhibition celebrates a generation of African artists who embraced a new medium of expression, mapping an engaging visual vocabulary cognizant of their cultural and historical pasts. (Expect to enjoy this exploration for 1 hour)

The Providence Athenaeum: For nearly 200 years, the Providence Athenæum has welcomed illustrious writers, spirited thinkers, and intellectually curious community members to engage in reading, conversation, and debate. Today, our mission is to enrich the mind, inspire the spirit, and elevate the public discourse. 

Three self-guided tours will help you explore the Athenæum, its history, and its collections: History & Building Tour; Art & Sculpture Tour; Collections & Authors Tour. (The tours can be taken separately or sequentially, and each takes about 20 minutes to complete.)

Petteruti Lounge, 2nd Floor, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman Street

Mr. Waqar Malik, CEO at Fauji Foundation

Transformational Turnarounds through Leadership and Change Management

Hear from international leader, Waqar Malik, on the Fauji Foundation's impactful support of education and healthcare and its unique business model of for-profit and nonprofit companies. This story-form talk is crafted especially for the EMBA Reunion with valuable insights from Mr. Malik about leadership, change management and organizational turnarounds. Come together in Petteruti Lounge to gain inspiration before heading to the alumni reception.

Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street, Providence 

Join us for cocktails and light fare at the beautifully restored and maintained Maddock Alumni Center. Named in honor of Paul L. Maddock '33, the Maddock Alumni Center occupies the former home of Chancellor William Goddard, Class of 1846, whose family built the house around 1830. Take time out with your friends or faculty to stroll the alumni brick walkway and garden as the evening sets in. 

Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street, Providence

A toast from the new Dean of the School of Professional Studies, Shankar Prasad. Welcome remarks from Zack Langway '09, Vice President for Alumni Relations.

Pick-up at 38 Brown Street

Shuttle service will be provided to whisk our guests to dinner at a downtown venue. If you choose to drive (and remove your car from College Hill) valet parking is available.

Hotel Providence, 139 Mathewson Street, Providence

The festive evening continues with a specially planned meal at the luxurious Hotel Providence. Enjoy a sumptuous dinner and try a signature cocktail, the "Brown Ivy"!

School of Professional Studies, 5th floor reception, 225 Dyer Street, Providence

Get the day started by checking out the "Class Notes'' bulletin board and picking up your EMBA Reunion gift. Name tags will be available for those that did not pick them up on Friday. Whose class has the highest representation for the Reunion?

School of Professional Studies, 4th floor kitchenette

Breakfast food is available as well as coffee, tea and cold beverages.

Room 565

Sylvia Carey-Butler

As Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Brown University, Dr. Sylvia Carey-Butler oversees the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan implementation, Title IX and gender equity, and more. Dr. Carey-Butler is an accomplished higher ed leader with  a deep understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion and the role these play in enabling leaders to build relationships and create a more equitable community. 

Effecting Change through a DEI Lens in Large Organizations: A Conversation with Brown’s Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity

In today’s global climate and economy, diversity must be core to both espoused values and culture within an organization-including leadership, decision-making, and day-to-day operations in order to maximize success. This session will cover how to create a DEI culture that is inclusive and supports organizational excellence. We will discuss how to establish DEI goals, develop DEI strategies and set organizational DEI priorities and expectations.

Room 565

Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Winner of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and a Test-of-Time awardee at ICDE, Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian recently finished a stint in the Biden-Harris administration, where he served as Assistant Director for Science and Justice in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In that capacity, he helped co-author the Blueprint for an AI BIll of Rights. . Venkatasubramanian is also a professor of Computer Science and Data Science at Brown University.

Machine Readable or Human Readable? Ensuring that we design, develop, and deploy technology responsibly and fairly

In the last decade, we've seen the rapid spread of data-driven technology in virtually all areas that affect our civil rights, civil liberties, opportunities for advancement, and access to vital services and resources. We've also seen the many problems that arise when we try to fit people into a machine readable format: algorithmic discrimination, opaque and faulty technology, pernicious surveillance, and a dehumanization of social systems. 

I've been in the fray addressing these problems for the past decade, first as a researcher, then as an activist alongside the ACLU, and finally as a policy maker in the White House, where I helped develop the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/). I'll talk about the journey towards responsible design of tech, and how Brown will be in the forefront of this shift. 

4th Floor Lounge and Room 475

Join former classmates, faculty, staff and prospective students for an energetic networking lunch. Each table will be led by a faculty member or a program leader, and each table will be labeled with a topic or career theme identifying each roundtable discussion. Choose your niche, sit with your favorite faculty member, or try something new! Prospective students to the program will be joining this activity.

Room 565

Participate in the redux of the alumni-run BrownIE Award competition. Successfully run virtually in 2020, the award is meant to connect, inspire and recognize the exceptional work of the IE Brown EMBA alumni and their impact on the world. Join this dynamic activity to hear diverse alumni perspectives that exemplify the uniqueness of an IE Brown EMBA at work! Springboard via your Key Reflection Project or current professional achievement to represent the following criteria: innovation in thinking, impact on the world, an implementation, a particular incarnation of an IE Brown education. Finalists will pitch their projects in this session. A zoom link will be posted here to invite global participation.Submissions can be made via this link - due October 21st. Have questions? Check out the FAQs or contact Anthony, Florian or Paul (contact info on the submission form).

Our global alumni are invited to participate at 1:30pm EDT via this BrownIE Award Zoom link

Location TBD – possibly outside if weather permits

Room 565

Norman Kurtis

Norman Kurtis, the new Dean of Programs at the IE University Business School, has over twenty years experience in marketing and consumer-insight and behavior. Prior to joining IE, Kurtis served as the CEO of two companies. 

Positive Talent Development

In this session, we will focus on the importance of creating the best possible work environment for teams to thrive. We will explore a) the importance of emotions in the workplace b) the power of aligning individuals’ strengths with their professional roles and c) how they are connected. From a theoretical perspective, the session will draw from the research done on the impact of emotions at work by B. Fredrickson out of the University of North Carolina and strengths management theory from M. Csikszentmihalyi out of the University of Chicago and T. Rath from Gallup.

Community gathering space, 5th floor

After a robust day of intellectual content and invigorating connections, mingle at this concluding event in the School of Professional Studies' signature space overlooking the downtown landscape, the pedestrian bridge and the Providence River. Enjoy a final toast with friends old and new before any dinner plans you have made, or a stroll through the city's famous WaterFire event (see next entry).

Downtown Providence hosts this amazing and notable WaterFire art installation along the Providence River and Basin. Burning braziers "float" just above the surface of the rivers that flow through Waterplace Park and the middle of downtown Providence. The public is invited to come and walk the riverfront and enjoy the beauty of the flickering firelight. Food vendors and performers dot the streets and sidewalks to make the experience one-of-a-kind. The scheduled lighting honors veterans; free and open to the public.