OpenAI's Sarah Friar joins Economist and Professor Tyler Cowen at ASU+GSV

One of today's top voices in AI, OpenAI’s Sarah Friar will join Tyler Cowen—one of the most influential economists of the last two decades—for a fireside chat on StageX at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit!

As OpenAI’s CFO, Sarah provides expert insights into how AI is transforming industries and shaping the future. Together with Tyler’s broad perspective and incisive interviewing, this must-see conversation will explore the role of Education in an AI-Driven Economy and how universities, education systems, and jobs are evolving to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.

Currently serving as the first Chief Financial Officer of OpenAI, Sarah Friar has previously served as CEO of Nextdoor and CFO of Block (formerly Square), where she led its initial public offering in 2015 and added $30B in market cap. Sarah currently sits on the board of directors of Walmart and Consensys, as well as on the advisory boards of HOPE Global, the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford University. In 2019, she was granted an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for her services to entrepreneurship. She is also the co-founder of Ladies Who Launch, a nonprofit that celebrates and empowers women entrepreneurs.

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books. He also writes for Bloomberg Opinion and his own blog, Marginal Revolution, where he’s contextualized “the plunge” of AI and, more recently, posited the future of the scientist in the age of AI. In his popular podcast Conversations with Tyler, Dr. Cowen engages with today’s most underrated thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between.

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