Research Ideation Lunch

What happens when everything falls apart? How do we keep doing business when the world stops working the way it used to?

Join us for a bold and thought-provoking Apocalypse Pop-Up Café, where we’ll explore interdisciplinary collaborations through the lens of doing business in uncertain, even apocalyptic times. This is not your typical research ideation session.

Imagine this:

● The economy is unstable.

● Resources are scarce.

● The rules have changed.

Now ask yourself: Do we revert to business-as-usual? Or do we innovate, collaborate, and adapt together?

Athena Aktipis, associate professor of psychology and associate director of research at ASU’s Global Futures Lab, invites us to embrace a spirit of academic adventure. Drawing from evolutionary theory, cooperation science, and her work on managing risk during crises, she’ll help us reimagine what it means to build resilient, collaborative systems for doing business — even in the face of major disruption.

This highly interactive session will blend inspiration, inquiry, and ideation. Come ready to think differently, connect deeply, and co-create new ideas. Leave with fresh perspectives, actionable collaborations, and the kind of curiosity that just might survive the end of the world.

Where collaboration meets innovation and inspiration.

Hosted by the W. P. Carey School of Business, the Global Futures Lab, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Psychology, and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics.

Lunch will be provided. All disciplines welcome. Adventurous minds encouraged.