2025 SIEPR Economic Summit

Our 21st SIEPR Economic Summit brought together 500 influential leaders in business, academia, and government to discuss and debate pressing economic issues in a changing global and technological landscape. We invite you to explore the highlights, including insights from ��ɫApp President Jonathan Levin, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Alphabet President Ruth Porat, and Austan Goolsbee from the Chicago Fed.

Building community. Influencing policy.

Here's what stood out from the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit.

Summit Sessions

Deepen your understanding of the economic policy challenges and opportunities facing us.

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“How can we run the university more effectively?”

Jonathan Levin shares his outlook on higher education and ��ɫApp's future in a conversation with SIEPR Director Neale Mahoney.

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Competition policy

Battles between Little Tech, Big Tech

Ensuring a level playing field in high-tech has never been easy for regulators and antitrust enforcers. AI is going to make it harder.

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Time for a new game plan

The “Wild West” of college sports

Our all-star panel can’t agree more on the “chaos” in college sports surrounding payments to players, transfer portals, conference shakeups, and the arrival of private equity.

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President of Alphabet

AI’s disruption and the road ahead

Calling AI “the greatest vulnerability” for business models, Ruth Porat urges leaders to be prepared to pivot: “You can’t drive a car with mud on the windshield.”

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Defense tech and national security

“They don’t hack in anymore; they log in.”

The threat of cyberwarfare is more real than ever. And vulnerabilities are everywhere. So go get that software update.

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Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee

Could AI exuberance overheat the economy?

There's plenty of excitement for AI, but the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's boss says he’s also jazzed about the nation’s productivity growth.

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Scenes from the Summit

The 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit held on Feb. 28 convened 500 leaders from the worlds of academia, business and government.

Dennis Carlton of the University of Chicago talks about how antitrust regulation is not the end-all be-all and could inadvertently stifle innovation.

Raj Shah of Shield Capital, who previously directed the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, points out rising investments in security.

Brooke Jenkins, District Attorney of San Francisco and currently a SIEPR Policy Fellow, poses a question during the SIEPR Economic Summit.

SIEPR Senior Fellow, emeritus, Roger Noll, a.k.a. “the godfather of sports economics,” discusses the business and legal wrangling in college sports.

Gene Sykes, president of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, says “a big rethink of the college sports business model” is necessary.

��ɫApp’s legendary women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer called the world of college sports “the Wild West.”

��ɫApp economics PhD candidate Mitchell Watt engages during one of the Q&As — a key component to bolstering the event’s discussions.

The reception preceding the dinner keynote at the Summit is a key time for attendees to meet and make connections.

SIEPR Advisory Board co-vice chair Patty McKenna and Steven Hailey share some laughs after a day of thought-provoking sessions.

Douglass Given and Wolfgang Daum catch up with each other at the Summit cocktail reception.

Music from the Bob Murphy Jazz Ensemble fills the hall during the cocktail reception at the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit.

*All photos by Ryan Zhang

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