The COVID-19 pandemic magnified Arizona’s ongoing challenges and created new ones. But it also showed how the most innovative entities can thrive under the most extraneous circumstances. These are the kind of entities best positioned to take advantage of the New Economy in which emerging technologies – optics, robotics, AI, cybersecurity, engineering, biotechnology, etc.– play a bigger and bigger role. Join us for a conversation about why the state universities’ New Economy Initiative is even more important today than it was a year ago.