7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
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Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking
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8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
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Welcome and Introduction
Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy
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8:10 AM - 8:30 AM |
HMG Lead, Innovate, Disrupt Executive Interview: Angela Yochem, EVP Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Novant Health, interviewed by Hunter Muller, President & CEO, HMG Strategy
Key points of discussion will be around making the unconventional conventional, the changing role of technology leadership and the evolution of business in a digital world.
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8:30 AM - 8:50 AM |
HMG Lead, Innovate, Disrupt Tech Talk: Uncovering Value - Monetizing Data as a Strategic Asset and Profit Center
Dave Taddei, Founder & CEO, Integress
Data-driven companies want to increase profits, find new revenue streams, sustain customer value, and gain a competitive advantage. But how do you identify and execute data projects to achieve these business outcomes? This Tech Talk discusses how to align your business and technology efforts on a path for evolving your data management and analytical capabilities. CxO's will gain new ideas for monetizing their data as a strategic asset and profit center.
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8:50 AM - 9:10 AM |
HMG Lead, Innovate, Disrupt Tech Talk: The Ground Game - Succeeding in a Digital Evolution
Yuri Aguiar, Director of Innovation and Transformation, The Ogilvy Group
Business strategy that leads to Digital Transformation is the latest incarnation of a technological evolution that started decades ago. In today’s competitive environment, very few organizations are setting a comprehensive high bar. A majority of organizations are simply playing catch-up.
As IDC puts it, there is a strategic approach to transformation that separates the ‘digitally determined’ from the ‘digital distraught’. This session will cover some of the lessons that separate the two.
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9:10 AM - 9:40 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
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9:40 AM - 10:20 AM |
EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Data-Centric Architecture Driving Digital Transformation for Enterprises
Dr. Ajay Dholakia, Principal Engineer, Master Inventor, Lenovo
This session will describe how the explosive growth in data available to enterprises is creating new business challenges and driving a need to transform their IT architectures. It will then describe how a host of emerging technologies like analytics, big data, machine learning, IoT and blockchain can be harnessed in a data-centric architecture to address these business challenges.
Lenovo is working with partners like Intel in designing and developing high-performance infrastructure that leverages the latest CPU, memory, storage and networking components. The talk will outline how the infrastructure is then paired with the appropriate software to create an engineered solution building blocks for the next-gen enterprise architecture. The ultimate vision of digital transformation is only realized when not just one or two but all of the emerging technologies are leveraged judiciously.
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10:20 AM - 10:50 AM |
Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
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10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
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EXECUTIVE PANEL: New Technologies - Fueling Big Opportunities and a Competitive Edge
Lawrence Bilker, CIO, Pyramid Healthcare
Jim Gearhart, Sr. Director, Enterprise Business Applications & Development, Zendesk
Tony Kirk, VP, East Region, Rimini Street
Robert Lux, EVO & CIO, Cenlar FSB
Andrew Santacroce, VP, Technology Development, TMNA Services, LLC
Moderator: Joseph Puglisi, VP IT, Nice-Pak Products, Inc.
In the new digital era, successful companies aren’t working harder – they’re working smarter. Intelligent enterprises are harnessing new technologies that include Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to identify and act on new business opportunities, automate key facets of their operations, and boost organizational productivity. This panel of executives will discuss real-world applications of advanced technologies that are driving speed to market and a competitive edge.
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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
EXECUTIVE PANEL: Beyond Leadership – What Makes a Technology Executive Successful
Brian Anderson, President, The Judge Group
Renee Arrington, Senior Vice President, Pearson Partners International, Inc.
John Fidler, Managing Director, Retained Search, Fidato Partners, LLC
Candida Seasock, Founder and President, CTS Associates, LLC
Moderator: Hugo Fueglein, Managing Director, Diversified Search
Today’s technology executive plays a pivotal role in helping his or her organization respond to the forces of change needed to become a digital enterprise, no matter what industry they are in. What are the top skills and traits necessary to lead a successful digital transformation, develop collaboration with the C-suite and board, and to achieve the future vision? This panel of top technology search executives will share valuable advice on what key attributes and strategies, beyond leadership, are making some technology executives more successful than others.
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Luncheon
SIM Philadelphia News
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1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
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EXECUTIVE PANEL: Balancing Agility, Innovation, and Security
Todd Bearman, VP & CISO, TE Connectivity
Mark Eggleston, VP, CISO and Privacy Officer, Health Partners Plans
Donna Ross, CISO, Radian
Dave Snyder, CISO, Independence Blue Cross
Moderator: Anahi Santiago, CISO, Christiana Care Health System
Competitive advantage requires agility and innovation. At the same time data, assets, intellectual capital must be protected. This panel will focus on how to foster innovation and leverage security as a competitive advantage, providing strategies that can be quickly implemented to achieve the overall goal of secure innovation.
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1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
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Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE WORKGROUPS: Exploring the Most Impactful Technology Trends of 2018
These moderated executive roundtable discussions allow attendees to brainstorm on the top opportunities for applying specific technologies along with the challenges that must be overcome to succeed.
- AI and Machine Learning (Session Lead: Andrew Santacroce, VP, Technology Development, TMNA Services, LLC)
- Cloud (Session Lead: Anahi Santiago, CISO, Christiana Care Health System)
- Career and Leadership (Session Lead: Hugo Fueglein, Managing Director, Diversified Search)
- Digital Disruption (Session Lead: Lawrence Bilker, CIO, Pyramid Healthcare)
- The New Role of the CIO (Session Lead: Joseph Puglisi, VP IT, Nice-Pak Products, Inc.)
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3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
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Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners
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3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
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EXECUTIVE PANEL: Reimagine, Reinvent: Building a Customer-Centric Organization in Highly Disruptive Times
David Kaufman, SVP & CIO, Synovos
Steve Palmucci, SVP & CIO, TiVo
Gabriella Vacca, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Comcast
Angela Yochem, EVP Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Novant Health
Moderator: Candida Seasock, Founder and President, CTS Associates, LLC
As businesses strive to respond to shifting customer preferences and needs, CEOs expect CIOs and technology executives to serve as trusted business advisors who can help the C-suite to reimagine and reinvent the customer experience in the digital age and help the organization gain a competitive edge. This requires CIOs and their IT teams to gain a deeper understanding of external customers and their interests and to orchestrate how people, processes, and technologies can be melded to provide simplified customer experiences. This panel of technology executives will discuss their roles in leading customer-centric strategies along with how they can work with fellow members of the C-suite in fostering a customer-focused organization.
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Raffle Prizes and Executive Networking Reception
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