CHAPEL HILL – The Kenan Institute is shifting its Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Conference to a virtual-only format, and organizers have updated the schedule accordingly.

“Given the surge of COVID-19 cases across the country and for the safety of all, we have decided to cancel in-person attendance and make the conference available to all virtually,” wrote Greg Brown, a professor of finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and the director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, on behalf of the conference’s program co-chairs, in an email sent on Tuesday morning.

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The virtual event will be free to attendees and will be held on Thursday, Jan. 27, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. ET.

“The condensed one-day line-up will feature several keynote speakers, including University of Oxford Professor Tim Jenkinson, Forward Cities President and CEO Fay Horwitt and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Vice President of Entrepreneurship Philip Gaskin,” reads Brown’s email.  “Attendees will also have access to sessions about current entrepreneurship trends and a panel discussion between Kenan Institute Chief Economist Gerald Cohen, Duke University Professor Eric Toone and MIT Professor Jacquelyn Pless.”

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