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Columbus panel: local startup pipeline and university programs position the city to compete in the AI economy, panelists say
Summary
Local entrepreneurs, university leaders and accelerator executives told a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum that the city's startup ecosystem and Ohio State's AI-fluency curriculum give Columbus a shot at leading the AI economy, while audience members warned about equity, workforce impacts and governance.
A panel of local tech and education leaders said Columbus has the pieces needed to compete in the growing AI economy but urged deliberate attention to workforce training, equity and governance.
At a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum held at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Sofia Pfiffner, the club's president and CEO, introduced a panel that included Shereen Agrawal, executive director of the Center for Software Innovation at The Ohio State University; Alex Froe, founder and CEO of Stack Health and chairman of Beam Benefits; Tim Grace, managing director of Techstars Columbus; and Carrie Ghosh, senior reporter at Columbus Business First, who moderated.
"We take on hard problems," said Shereen Agrawal, describing Ohio State's approach to AI fluency, which she said embeds applied AI training across more than 180 undergraduate programs so students learn…
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