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10:45AM - 1:00 PM
| Global Virtual Tech Career Event, Co-hosted by IDG and Dice This is the launch of a unique opportunity for accomplished, highly qualified technology professionals. Co-hosted by IDG and Dice, this event connects skilled individuals with companies and organizations that need them. Those who participate will learn about specific opportunities that may advance their career. They’ll also benefit from the knowledge and guidance provided by technology career experts. Keep in mind this is a live event.
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12:30 - 12:50 PM
| FutureEdge 50 Awards Ceremony The 2020 FutureEdge 50 Award Ceremony will recognize 50 winning organizations pushing the edge with new technologies to advance their business for the future. The successor to the Digital Edge 50 awards, the FutureEdge 50 recognizes not only established initiatives driving business success but also early-stage projects pursued for their watershed potential.
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1:00 - 1:40 PM
| Breakout Sessions |
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How to Save Time and Money Throughout the Device Lifecycle Loren Hudziak, Chrome Customer Engineer, Google
Modern technologies can improve the quality of life for IT departments of all sizes throughout the entire lifecycle of a device fleet — from the initial set up of infrastructure, to device provisioning, support and more. Join us for this session to learn more about the ways Chrome Enterprise can streamline the device lifecycle for your business.
| How Travelers Uses AI to Accelerate Wildfire Damage Assessment and Claims Mojgan Lefebvre, EVP, Chief Technology & Operations Officer, Travelers
A Dow 30 company, Travelers is a leading provider of property and casualty insurance for auto, home and business, and a CIO 100 award-winning organization for 2020. Combining high-resolution aerial imagery with AI convolutional neural networks, they developed an image recognition system that accelerates the process to assess property damage and advance claims for wildfire-affected customers. Join us for this session to learn how it assesses damage to homes and buildings with 95 percent accuracy.
Interviewed by: Maryfran Johnson, CEO, Maryfran Johnson Media
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Breakout Room 1
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Adapting the Business with Data: How to Balance Curiosity with Governance Ben Schein, VP of Data Curiosity, Domo
Agility and openness are often at odds with data governance, and this can stifle an organization’s ability to adapt. Because of this, users need both curiosity in their organization’s data — and confidence in their decisions they make with that data — for it all to flourish. Join Domo VP of Data Curiosity Ben Schein to understand how governance strategies, and balancing curiosity and governance, allow users to not only make the right decisions, but make them in the right way.
| Bridging the Digital and Physical Workspaces with Analytics and AI Sandeep Davé, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, CBRE
Ranked 128 on the Fortune 500, CBRE Group is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. To improve the digital workplace environment, CBRE created an enterprise-grade, plug-and-play platform with a collection of workplace services becoming a single access point for workplace occupants. Join CBRE Chief Digital and Technology Officer Sandeep Davé to learn how this Future Edge award-winning tool connects the physical and digital worlds with analytics and AI.
Interviewed by: Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development & Strategy, IDG Communications, Inc.
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Breakout Room 2
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Value-Driven Innovation in the Cyber-Physical Age Chandrakant Patel, Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow, HP
Value-driven innovation has never been more critical as individuals, companies and nations wrestle with changing weather patterns, COVID-19, and world-shaping social, economic, and ecological mega-trends. Join us for this session as HP Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow Chandrakant Patel explores these trends and the technology shifts they’re spawning. He’ll outline how organizations can prosper with ingenuity and new products and services that empower creativity, collaboration, and innovation.
Interviewed by: John Gallant, Enterprise Consulting Director, IDG Communications, Inc.
| Leveraging AI and Data to Improve Value for Stakeholders Ajit Naidu, EVP, Head of Asset Management Operations and Technology ＆ Global Corporate Solutions Technology, Nuveen
Ranked 79 on the Fortune 500, TIAA is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and government fields. To add value, its Nuveen business unit created a responsible investment platform enabling users to include environmental, social and governance factors in their investment decisions. Join TIAA Head of Global Enterprise Technology Services and Nuveen Head of Technology and Operations Ajit Naidu to learn about this Future Edge award winning project.
Interviewed by: Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development & Strategy, IDG Communications, Inc.
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Breakout Room 3
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1:45 - 1:50 PM
| Welcome and Opening Remarks John Gallant, Enterprise Consulting Director, IDG Communications, Inc.
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1:50 - 2:15 PM
| Why Inclusion and Mentoring Are Critical to IT and Business Success Madhuri Andrews, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Jacobs
Madhuri Andrews is a CIO Hall of Fame inductee for 2020 and the Chief Digital and Information Officer at Jacobs, a Fortune 235 professional services provider of consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. In a career including experience as an aerospace engineer, she’s developed a passion for mentoring and an inclusive culture. Join us to learn how IT needs to be a co-pilot for the organization, and why listening is a core IT skill set.
Interviewed by: Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development & Strategy, IDG Communications, Inc.
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2:15 - 2:35 PM
| The Power of Asking: How a Curious Approach to Data Can Transform Your Business Donald Farmer, Principal, TreeHive Strategy
Jon Harding, Global CIO, Conair Corporation
John Mellor, Chief Strategy Officer, Domo
From understanding the impact of COVID-19, to learning to ask new questions about your organization, data provides the opportunity for curiosity to drive the innovations that will determine success — next year and beyond. Join Domo’s Chief Strategy Officer John Mellor as he highlights the challenges of 2020 and the role that data will play in moving past them.
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2:35 - 2:45 PM
| Networking Break |
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2:45 - 3:10pm
| How Decision Science Is Driving Innovation in Agriculture Jennifer Becker, Global Optimization Lead, Bayer Crop Science
Shrikant Jarugumilli, Head of Decision Science, Connected Virtual Systems, Bayer Crop Science
Naveen Singla, VP, Data Science, Bayer Crop Science
For the past several years, Bayer Crop Science has been working to embed analytics and decision science into every aspect of its business, from full-scale logistics and routing, to demand forecasting and planning, to genetic engineering. Bayer Crop Science’s Naveen Singla, Shrikant Jarugumilli, and Jennifer Becker discuss with CIO.com senior writer Thor Olavsrud how decision science is altering business processes at Bayer.
Interviewed by: Thor Olavsrud, Senior writer, CIO.com, IDG Communications, Inc.
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3:45 - 4:10 PM
| Moving IT from a Shared Services Function to a Strategic Business Capability Richard Wiedenbeck, CIO, Ameritas
Richard Wiedenbeck is a CIO Hall of Fame inductee for 2020 and the Chief Information Officer at Ameritas Mutual Holding Company that offers a range of insurance and financial products and services to individuals, families and businesses. As the future of customers, data intelligence, streamlined operations, and work continues to evolve, Richard’s proactive about how IT needs to evolve with them. Join us as we take a hard look at what successful IT needs to look like — and how to get it there.
Interviewed by: Maryfran Johnson, CEO, Maryfran Johnson Media
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4:10 - 4:30 PM
| Wanted: Innovation. Needed: Funding. How Your Peers are Achieving Both Sebastian Grady, President, Rimini Street
Drive innovation while cutting costs? That’s the dueling reality for many companies globally feeling the fallout of delayed and de-prioritized innovation initiatives. While innovation is now required for the survival of many businesses, IT organizations are struggling with competing business wants and budget realities. Hear how IT leaders are using a simple set of questions to reevaluate IT priorities and the actionable strategies they are implementing to reallocate capital and resources to stabilize operations and fuel innovation and growth.
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4:30 - 5:00 PM
| Live Chat: New CIO Priorities: How is the Landscape Shifting? IDG research has found that while the pandemic put the brakes on many IT initiatives, it accelerated others. Join Amy Bennett, executive editor of cio.com and CSOonline.com, for a conversation in the virtual Networking Lounge that explores some key trends driving IT as CIOs shift out of crisis mode. Participants will weigh in on what their organizations are experiencing for a deeper understanding of what’s happening on the front lines of IT.
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