University leaders joined business and civic leaders from across Niagara Wednesday to discuss the role all members of the community can play in shaping the region\u2019s future at this year\u2019s Niagara Economic Summit.<\/p>\n
Emceed by Goodman School of Business Dean Barry Wright, the Summit featured opening remarks from President and Vice-Chancellor Lesley Rigg, who spoke about Brock\u2019s critical role in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrock isn\u2019t just in <\/em>this community \u2013 it’s of <\/em>this community,\u201d said Rigg. \u201cAnd after students choose Brock, they become our work force, supporting us as we navigate an ever-changing world.\u201d<\/p>\n Rigg also highlighted the University\u2019s recent opening of the Brock-Niagara Validation, Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute, and its expansion of academic programming in areas such as nursing and education to support local labour market needs.<\/p>\n Anteneh Ayanso, Director of the Centre for Business Analytics at the Goodman School of Business, was part of an expert panel which discussed the ways in which artificial intelligence is offering new solutions and opportunities in diverse fields.<\/p>\n The theme of this year\u2019s summit was \u201cShaping a Better Future.\u201d Other panel topics included environmental and climate change, and population growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University leaders joined business and civic leaders from across Niagara Wednesday to discuss the role all members of the community can play in shaping the region\u2019s future at this year\u2019s Niagara Economic Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1],"tags":[9498,2409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89085,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89064\/revisions\/89085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}