Continuous disruption has been the hallmark of the digital era, as upstarts displace incumbents and new ways of doing business quickly become the norm. Future proofing your business is the only way forward — through sustainable innovation, agile practices and leveraging the most promising technologies. The right applications of AI, cloud and blockchain are smart business today – enabling growth and managing risk – for a strong business tomorrow. Hear how one leading organization is building out practices in these areas and its recommendations for all industries based on its experiences.

Join us for this fresh new take on peer networking and start the conversations you want to have before the networking break. This topic-based session will have you sharing insights with new contacts in record time.

Eighteen months ago, Novant Health established its Institute of Innovation & Artificial Intelligence to explore uses for AI across multiple disciplines. How? Professionals cycle in and out along with their projects — from consumer-level initiatives to operational projects and clinical innovations – with funding from a variety of sources. This session will illustrate this approach to innovation with examples of the groundbreaking work it’s enabled and how it supports Novant’s digital health strategy.

Novant Health is a $6 billion, four-state integrated network of physician clinics, outpatient centers and hospitals with 30,000 employees at more than 700 locations. It is a winner of a 2020 FutureEdge 50 award.

As the IT leader of an aggressive digital transformation that has earned Unisys Corp. two CIO 100 awards in a row, CIO Upinder Phanda has transformed the economics of IT within this $3 billion technology services provider from a capital model to an on-demand expense model. Unisys IT has successfully moved more than 500 servers, 530 Terabytes of storage and 300 core data center applications securely to the cloud over the past 3 years – while also lowering support costs, retraining IT staff and enabling business growth. In this highly practical session, Upinder will talk candidly about the technical, business and cultural challenges of moving to the cloud. What organizational changes do you need to consider? How will your cost structure change? What happens to security? How do you insure ongoing innovation? Join this veteran CIO as he shares a real-world perspective on moving to the cloud.

Looking for a use case for new technologies is always a challenge – as are business stakeholders clamoring for the latest tech to solve their business problems. Yet experienced executives know the first step is identifying a customer or stakeholder pain point and then figuring out the most effective way to address it. Our panel will share their insights on innovating in a time of fast technology cycles; then you’ll work through an innovation challenge with your peers. The outcome: new techniques to help you move your organization forward.

Rapid-fire product demonstrations

Omnivex
Easily collect, process, and deliver targeted information on any screen with the Omnivex Platform
Craig Marshal, Product Manager, Omnivex

Apptio
Optimize cost. Invest for growth. Apptio Cost Transparency automates analysis of your available IT cost data so you can quickly uncover insights to drive business value.

Unisys
Find out how you can stay current with regulatory and security compliance, move your provisioning from weeks to hours to minutes and ensure that your cloud architecture is continually optimized to take advantage of best practices and configurations, even when the cloud providers are releasing 1000’s of changes monthly.

Stories of companies launching digital lines of business or commercializing their digital innovations continue to grow. But so does the scope of such innovation, given the unrelenting speed of change and the mounting complexity of issues involved:
• Addressing new customer requirements around personalization and trust;
• Developing new capabilities for digital innovation, work and intelligence;
• Building a digital IT infrastructure that supports resilient operations and pervasive experiences;
• And indeed, defining the organization’s new role in the digital economy.
Consider this the CEO’s new agenda for senior executives. And in this session, hear how those at the most successful organizations are tackling it.

Time was when a commercial real estate firm leased buildings, from office space to factories. Then along came IoT, and the HVAC, elevator and other systems got smart about energy usage and predictive maintenance. But it hasn’t stopped there. Technology innovation at world leader CBRE is a continuous cycle, and recently led to award-winning workplace software for tenants. In this session, you’ll learn how CBRE, in the midst of building the most tricked-out modern offices for top clients, continues to innovate with technology and create new revenue streams in the process.

CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment company, as well as the largest commercial property developer in the U.S. It has more than $106B of assets under management and more than 90,000 employees. It is a winner of a 2020 FutureEdge 50 award.

Join us for this fresh new take on peer networking and start the conversations you want to have before the networking break. This topic-based session will have you sharing insights with new contacts in record time.

Our ability to operate in the technology-enabled world requires that we evolve, mature, and transform our technology organization to work differently. We must shift from being a “shared services” function to a strategy capability for the company. This shift affects all the underlying aspects of IT, including how technology is taken from idea to value delivered. We must create and evolve new sub-capabilities with new models of resourcing, delivery, and operations – all while not losing sight of the things that keep the balance between risk, cost, and benefit intact. The session will explore how the technology organization can make shifts in six areas:
• From infrastructure management to integrated ecosystem management
• From architecture to technology governance and value creation
• From application development to next generation systems delivery
• From data management to analytics & insight enablement
• From project management to investment & outcome management
• From a technology-centric culture to a business value delivery culture

The session will be interactive, so bring your thoughts & ideas as well as your energy.

One of the biggest concerns about AI and machine learning is bias. Training your system with data that’s not representative of a larger group will skew results and recommendations, with repercussions for your business and your customers – and for the world we build. Through examples and experience, this panel will share their insights on this urgent issue as well as the steps they’ve taken to correct, if not avoid, the problem.

Today’s workplace continues to evolve at a startling place. Gone are the days of stability and routine, where employees have predictable sets of responsibilities and “that’s the way we’ve always done it” prevails. As we enter an era of continuous innovation, automation and cross-departmental collaboration, leaders need a fine mix of empathy and change management savvy to set a vision, drive the change needed and keep the engines running. We’ll explore how this works in practice as well as hiring and retention techniques to set you up for success.

Join us for a festive beginning to the evening’s events. Open to all conference attendees. Business/cocktail attire suggested.

Celebrate the recipients of the FutureEdge 50 and the Ones to Watch Awards as we transform the Grand Ballroom for this gala affair. Open to all conference attendees (with ticket, included in your registration). Business/cocktail attire suggested.