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Speaker Craig Shank

Vice President, Corporate Standards Group - Corporate, External and Legal Affairs at Microsoft

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leading to important advances in education, healthcare, transportation and many other areas. In this session, we will hear from a company that believes we must look to this future with a critical eye. There will be challenges as well as opportunities. Building on cultural change within, ethical principles to guide behavior and a conviction that responsible innovation for the benefit of society will demand input from a wide range of stakeholders, this company has been unique in using its technology and its voice to help solve societal problems, even taking the unusual steps of challenging government overreach at times and calling for strong ethical principles, evolution of laws, training for new skills and labor market reforms. Empowerment in the civic sphere doesn't end there: it is changing how individuals live, work, and consume. In this time of overarching transformation, what are the changes that should be pursued by businesses? In this session, we hear from one company that is making efforts for innovation in its corporate culture as well as its relationship to its consumers.