Navigating Disruption: Technology, Business, and the New Economic Landscape

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Date

Wed Jul 23, 2025
6:00pm – 7:00pm MDT

Location

Paepcke Auditorium
1000 North Third Street

Presented as part of the Hurst Lecture Series.

This event has reached full capacity. To join the waitlist, please come to Paepcke Auditorium in person between 5:00 and 6:00 pm on July 23. If space allows, tickets will be released at the door on a first-come, first-served basis, five minutes before the event begins.

To view a livestream video of the event online, please click here.

Featuring Scott Galloway, best-selling author, professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, and host of “The Prof G Pod” and “Pivot” podcasts in conversation with Gillian Tett, columnist, and member of the editorial board at the Financial Times. Widely recognized for his sharp insights into technology, business strategy, market dynamics, and consumer trends, Galloway will explore how digital innovation is reshaping industries, economies, and society itself—covering everything from the rise of tech giants and shifts in consumer behavior to the implications of AI-driven disruption. With characteristic candor and clarity, he’ll also delve into how these shifts affect competition, policy, and everyday life, providing insights into how institutions, leaders, and citizens can adapt to navigate the complexities of a rapidly evolving world.
Paepcke Auditorium, doors at 5:30 pm

Parking
Parking is very limited. Please carpool, walk, bike, or ride RFTA.


Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. He was named one of the world’s best business professors by Poets & Quants. Scott has founded nine companies, including Prophet, RedEnvelope, L2, and Section School, where he also teaches. He is the New York Times best-selling author of “The Four,” “The Algebra of Happiness,” “Post Corona,” “Adrift: America in 100 Charts,” and “The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security.” Scott has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Panera Bread, and Ledger. He has won multiple Webby and Best Podcast awards, and his books have been translated into 28 languages. Across his “Prof G Pod,” “Prof G Markets,” “Raging Moderates,” and “Pivot” podcasts, No Mercy / No Malice newsletter, and his YouTube channel, Scott reaches millions.

 

Gillian Tett, OBE, is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge.

Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board US, ran Moral Money, the FT’s sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, and wrote two columns a week. Gillian’s earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT; assistant editor; capital markets editor; deputy editor of the Lex column; Tokyo bureau chief; reporter in Russia and Brussels.

She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America’s Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling and award-winning author of four books, and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science. She has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith’s, London in the UK. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology.

 


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