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Entrepreneurial Connection Day

The 16th annual networking event for IU entrepreneurial students and alumni.

Friday, October 3 | Time: TBD
Kelley School of Business

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An exceptional event–open to all

The IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day is a unique event featuring three distinguished entrepreneurs and recognizing the success they have achieved in their careers. It is also an outstanding networking event for all IU students.

2025 Entrepreneurial Connection Day speaker

Ben Lytle portrait

Ben Lytle

Ben Lytle is a self-made serial entrepreneur and CEO known for being ahead of the curve. He has launched seven successful companies, including two listed on the New York Stock Exchange, creating billions in market value. The best known is Anthem, a Fortune 100 company with a market value over $100 billion. He is a healthcare policy expert who served on state and presidential healthcare commissions, a governance leader with extensive public company experience, a senior athlete, world traveler, father of three children, and grandfather to eight grandchildren.

Ben’s devotion to individual and collective human potential through accelerated wisdom guides his leadership, parenting, writing, speaking, entrepreneurial energy, and investments. He believes that people and organizations today underestimate the extent and speed with which they and the world are changing and how they can adapt to thrive. Opportunities are being missed, and unnecessary suffering will result unless prompt action is taken. He wrote The Potentialist: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years as a guide to success through wiser, timely actions and decisions in the opportunity-rich, turbulent times ahead.

In the highly anticipated second installment of The Potentialist series, The Pursuit of Wisdom, Ben offers a practical guide to unleashing potential and accelerating the decision-making wisdom that is vital during this period of the greatest change in human history.

Previous Speakers

  • Scott Dorsey, Co-Founder and Managing Partner High Alpha
  • Elliott Parker, Founder and CEO High Alpha Innovation
  • Eric Tobias, Co-Founder and Partner High Alpha
  • Christopher LaMothe, Founder and CEO, Ascendanci Capital
  • Neal Rickner, Chief Operating Officer, Makani
  • Jeff Stamp, PhD, the Chief Story Teller at Bold Thinking and the creator of Baked! Lays Potato Crisps
  • Jeff Hoffman, serial entrepreneur (Priceline.com and uBid.com) and CEO
  • Tom Ricketts, chairman of the Chicago Cubs and of Incapital LLC

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