Program

Digital Transformation in Action promises a full day packed with inspiring conversations with top global leaders.
This curated event will feature engaging conversations that you can view live or on-demand.

Here is a snapshot of the day's program, the complete program will be available soon.

* Session titles and speakers can change closer to the event.

9 - 9:30 AM ET

Setting the stage and Welcome

9:30 - 10:00 AM ET

Digital Transformation-What’s Next

What does digital transformation mean in 2021? And what drives the elusive success? Transforming technology and its experience comes in all shapes and sizes. Didier Bonnet will help us understand the why, how and what of what it means to be transforming in the digital age.

10:00 - 10:30 AM ET

How to Put People at the Heart of Digital Transformation

What is the link between transforming employee, customer experience and achieving growth? Tiffani Bova will highlight how successful transformations focus on technology, process and people.

10:45 - 11:15 AM ET

The Digital Transformers’ Dilemma

Digitization is pervasive and requires businesses to adapt fundamentally. Surprisingly few know how to go about this, though. Sprinkling some ‘digital glitter‘ does not suffice. Organizations need to upgrade their traditional business while exploring new (digital) ways of value capture. Let us discuss this digital transformer’s dilemma.

11:30 - 12:00 PM ET

How to unlock the potential of citizen development in your organization

What can leaders do now to build and empower their teams in an age where any one can turn their ideas into apps? How are the drivers of empowerment, hyper-agility and evolving technologies democratising software development? Alwin Magimay talks about how to prepare your organisation for this exciting future of work.

11:30 - 12:00 PM ET

Optimizing your Organization’s Ways of Working for True Business Agility

Are you getting the benefits that the agile movement promised? Research shows that value delivery improvements often stall as the guidance of typical frameworks and methods is exhausted. Let’s discuss a proven approach for avoiding this situation so that we can punch through the agile “glass ceiling” to get to next-level agility.

12:00 - 12:30 PM ET

How to Deliver Human-centered Transformations in the Digital Age

Is survival the mission number one for you? In light of accelerated technological change, every organization has been forced to rethink their business and operating model. How do you keep up, adapt and innovate keeping your people at the core? Join Tony O' Driscoll and Tahirou Assane for a conversation on taking the first steps to become a human-centered leader in the digital age.

12:45 - 01:15 PM ET

Reimagining the Company, Digitally

Technology is fundamentally changing how companies organize and compete. To succeed, leaders need to go beyond digitizing the status quo and ask how their technology agendas will enhance their competitiveness. Drawing on his new book, The Imagination Machine, Martin Reeves will discuss how to gain advantage with technology and what steps leaders can take to reimagine their businesses for the new context.

01:15 - 02:00 PM ET

How Millennials and Gen Z are Driving the Digital Revolution [Panel]

Is technology that is driving digital transformation or the digital natives? The millennials and Gen Z are growing up with a unique experience of digital transformation. In fact, they are driving it. This discussion will focus on their role in framing the digital revolution and projecting what’s next when the young ones lead, consume and live digitally.

01:15 - 02:00 PM ET

Successful Digital Transformations Through Working Smarter [Panel]

Can agile practices help support successful digital transformation? Being successful at digital transformation means different things for different enterprises. And so does being agile. Let us find out how leaders are thinking about smarter ways of working to achieve successful outcomes for their digital transformation.

02:15 - 03:00 PM ET

Leading Change when Next is Now

What does digital transformation look like now? Let us double-click on digital transformation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who built the first ever web server and the protocols for it. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s conversation with PMI President & CEO Sunil Prashara will delve deeper into the understanding of digital transformation. How has the experience of digital transformation transformed during the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic? How will this understanding evolve?

03:00 - 03:15 PM ET

Conference Recap

* Session titles and speakers can change closer to the event.