Engineering and on behalf of my colleagues at northwest is my absolute to introduce to you today. My friend Ginni Rometty before we get started i wanted to thank trustees gordon segal and bill white as well as many members of the northwestern Senior Administration joining us today. So met jimmy for the first time when she got the alumni award in 2010. By then she was in the list of 50 most powerful women in business and abc did her later that year in 2010 and i had a conversation her that prompted us to create the master of science analytics. We started with 40 students and a thousand applications. Of course, going down ever since. So thank you for proposing that. And then we had when they ibm anniversary was coming, a genius, one of the first stops was here not this building, but in the ellen center for the centennial lectures, ibm. That was in march 11. And then she invited to an absolutely amazing event coinciding with a United Nations meeting new york for the ibm one coming anniver
Dean of the Mccormick School of engineering and behalf of my colleagues at northwestern, it is myte absolute pleasure to introduce to you today my friend ginni rometty. Before we get started i wanted to thank steve and bill white as well as many members of the northwestern organization to an estimate so i met ginny for the first time when she got the alumni award in 2010. By then she was in the list of the 50 most powerful women in business. And i visited her later that year in 2010, and had a conversation with her that adopted us to create a master of science in analytics, which started 40 students and 1000 applications and is now ellipsis ever since so thank you for proposing that. And then we had with the ibm anniversary was coming, ginni, one of the first stops was here, not in this building but in the center for the centennial lectures and ibm. That was in march 2011 part and then she invited me to an absolutely amazing event coinciding with a United Nations meeting in new york fo
My colleagues at northwestern, it is my absolute pleasure to introduce to you today my friend Ginni Rometty bit before we get started i want to thank steve and bill whiteof as well as many members of the northwestern Senior Administration joint custody. So i met ginny the first time when she got the alumni award in 2010. By then she was on the list of the 50 most powerful women in business and i visited her later that year in 2010, and i had a conversation with her that prompted us to create the master of science in analytics which started with 40 students and a thousand applications, so thank you for proposing that. And then we had when the ibm anniversary was coming, ginni one of the first stops was here, not inot this building but in te center for the centennial lecture for ibm. That was march 2011. Then she invited me to an absolutely amazing event coinciding with a United Nations meeting in new york for the ibm anniversary. And shortly thereafter she began she became ceo of ibm, a
[background noises] good afternoon everyone. You look like a great crowd here this afternoon. Before we even start give yourselves a big round of applause for coming to learn more about closing the wealth gap in diversity and inclusion. We have some wonderful panelist with us this afternoon. I am so pleased to be here today and honored to be hosting this panel on Financial Services closing the wealth gap and providing access to capitol my name is maxine waters. [cheering] formerly chair of the Financial Services committee of the house of representatives and now the ranking member. Still trying to carry on the work that we were doing as a chair. As you know after the recent election they were able to get control of the house of representatives and they dismantled our subcommittee that i had created on diversity and inclusion. But we are going to talk about what it means to have this wealth gap. You are going to talk to some people who are dealing with clothing this wealth gap have to cl
[background noises] good afternoon everyone. You look like a great crowd here this afternoon. Before we even start give yourselves a big round of applause for coming to learn more about closing the wealth gap in diversity and inclusion. We have some wonderful panelist with us this afternoon. I am so pleased to be here today and honored to be hosting this panel on Financial Services closing the wealth gap and providing access to capitol my name is maxine waters. [cheering] formerly chair of the Financial Services committee of the house of representatives and now the ranking member. Still trying to carry on the work that we were doing as a chair. As you know after the recent election they were able to get control of the house of representatives and they dismantled our subcommittee that i had created on diversity and inclusion. But we are going to talk about what it means to have this wealth gap. You are going to talk to some people who are dealing with clothing this wealth gap have to cl