Thursday, Sept 27

7:30am – 8:00am

Welcome Breakfast

Zsolt Katona, Professor, Faculty Director, Fisher Center for Business Analytics
Gauthier Vasseur, Executive Director, Fisher Center for Business Analytics
Thomas Y. Lee, Director of Data Science, Fisher Center for Business Analytics

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8:00am – 8:05am

Welcome Speech

Gauthier Vasseur, Executive Director, Fisher Center for Business Analytics

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8:05am – 8:45am

Digital Transformation & Changes in the Role of the CIO

David E. Smoley, CIO, AstraZeneca (Recipient of the 2018 Fisher-Hopper CIO Lifetime Achievement Award)

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8:45am – 9:25am

How Non-Tech Companies Hop on the Analytics Wave

Todd Wilson, CIO, Clif Bar

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9:25am – 10:00am

Networking Break 

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10:00am – 10:40am

Inclusive Analytics: More than a Goal, a Natural Fit for Business Analytics

Kellie McElhaney, Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership – Moderator
Beena Ammanath, Head of AI, HPE (Recipient of the 2018 Fisher-Witi Award for Leading Women in Analytics)
Sabrina Menasria, Head of IT, CHANEL Beauty Perfumes
Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO, Nutanix, Member of the Board at Girls in Tech

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­­10:40am – 11:30am

Digital Transformation from the Trenches: View from an Analyst

Maik Henkel, Senior Manager/Deputy Director Finance, Global Foundries

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11:30am – 12:10pm

Digital Transformation at Adobe

Parthiv Sheth, Sr. Director of Marketing Technology, Adobe

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12:10pm – 1:30pm

Digital Transformation at Adobe

Parthiv Sheth, Sr. Director of Marketing Technology, Adobe

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12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

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1:30pm – 2:10pm

A New Mindset in IT to Drive Business Digital Transformation

Sabrina Menasria, Head of Business Intelligence & Master Data governance, CHANEL

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2:10pm – 2:50pm

Do We Need to Fear the Point of Singularity
Cognizant – The Future of Work Group panel

Gauthier Vasseur, Executive Director Fisher Center for Business Analytics – Moderator
Robert H. Brown, AVP, Cognizant
Thomas Y. Lee, Professor & Director of Data Science, Fisher Center for Business Analytics
Russ Benson, Vice President of IT Product Systems, Boeing

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­­2:50pm – 3:10pm

Networking Break

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3:10pm – 3:50pm

Does Analytics Need All the Buzz to be Successful?

Dave Stark, President, Analysis Team

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3:50pm – 4:30pm

Cut to the Chase: Time to Bring the Technology to the People & Make Systems & Processes More People Friendly

Matteo Melani, CEO, Ellipsis

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4:30pm – 4:45pm

Networking Break

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4:45pm – 5:25pm

AI and ML: How we can all contribute to its success? 

Alexandre Robicquet, Co-Founder, Crossing Minds

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5:25pm – 6:15pm

Fire Side Chat – The New Role of IT in Highly Innovative and Agile Companies

Greg La Blanc – Professor, Finance, Strategy, and Law, Haas School of Business – Moderator
Wendy M. Pfeiffer – CIO, Nutanix, Member of the Board at Girls in Tech
Sumit Sharma – Founder, Journey Software
Sam Ramji, VP Cloud Platform, Autodesk

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6:15pm – 7:00pm

Describe Wine Like a Master

Sur Lucero, Master Sommelier. Vice President of Wine, Wine Access

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7:00pm – 9:00pm

Cocktail Ceremony: Walking the World of Wine