Key Takeaways:

• Driving strategy, change and transformation in complex environments
• Enabling your resilience as a leader during uncertain times
• Combating uncertainty with a safe culture and environment for employees

The Why: Has your company built a security story that clearly outlines your ethos, accomplishments and path to support revenue creation? If not, you might be at risk of losing your customers' trust. Come join this discussion to see how to build and maintain your customers' trust.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to win the trust of new and current customers by marketing your security practices
• Understand how to communicate cyber, physical, supply chain and business resiliency effectively to sales and non-technical people who influence revenue with customers
• Identify topics that your customer wants to hear more about like vulnerability management, global events and challenges to fulfilling services you offer them

This session is for... you if you thought that all areas of security in your company are just behind-the-scenes protection and an operating expense only. It is actually one of the most valuable areas to showcase as a trust & verify activity, creating revenue and ensuring customer's trust and loyalty.

The Why: As technology professionals, we need to remain informed on how future technology will impact what we do. Quantum computing promises to deliver results exponentially faster than today’s computers, and that is exciting and frightening at the same time. Come hear why.

Key Takeaways:

• A high-level understanding of the impact of Quantum Computing
• Why it threatens our current cryptography methods
• What you can do before it arrives

This session is for... you if you are curious about the future of technology and want to get ahead of protecting your information and technology assets.

Join this session to learn how to build an organization that can innovate for the future while delivering differentiated value today.

The Why: Innovation is key to the survival of Tech Companies. Innovating while managing uncertainty and innovating for the future while meeting current demands is challenging and needs intentional sponsorship and focus from Tech Leaders.

Key Takeaways:

• How to focus on future innovation while delivering differentiated customer value today?
• How to manage uncertainties and create an adaptive innovation strategy?
• How to build mechanisms and an environment that enables teams to innovate?

This session is for... you if you are a Senior/Director+ Tech Leader who is responsible for innovation and/or delivery of differentiated customer value.

The ability to recognize the potential for loss, make intelligent decisions based on information, and balance the analysis of prospective risks and benefits are two ways to mitigate risk, but both are flawed.

In this workshop, we'll dive into how individual risks can ultimately impact the organizations we support, gain an understanding of the technical concepts and flexible risk management solutions that firms can use to manage risk and how to lean on technology to pre-emptively predict and provide solutions to areas that could leave you susceptible.

Key Takeaways:

• Hands on activities to learn how to identify common risks and understand the potential impact on organizations.
• Gain deeper understanding of the technical concepts in risk management.
• Develop skills and strategies for managing risk from a personal and organizational perspective.

This session is for… everyone interested in learning more about risk management, has an appreciation for the importance of risk management in different industries and contexts, and how to proactively identify potential risks and develop action plans for resolving the risks.

Key Takeaways:

• Moving from Individual Contribution to Leadership
• Identifying the difference between a leader and a manager
• How to create psychological safety as a Leader during unstable times in your team

Join this session and learn how Hilton is leaning into cloud technologies, mobile and web innovations, and data to redefine the guest experience and create intuitive tools for Team Members.

The Why: Technologies should be leveraged as an extension of our business to drive value to our customers and reduce friction points; leveraging these modern technologies assists with expediting that.

Key Takeaways:

• Keep your customer at the center of your technology roadmaps.
• Seek opportunities to innovate and modernize in areas that will allow your employees to focus more on your customers.
• Meet your customers where they are.

This session is for… you if you would like to better understand how an industry leader is bringing cutting-edge technology innovation to hospitality.

Our future survival is dependent on how well we source and use our planet’s limited resources responsibly. Companies that have responsible sustainable designs will be the ones that come out ahead in the next 30 years.

The Why: Many countries will soon implement mandates for companies to operate and care about designing sustainability for a minimal carbon footprint to protect the planet and all species, including us.

Key Takeaways:

• Why you and your organization should care about sustainable design
• How your carbon footprint is generated in the life of a consumer electronics
• How to your reduce carbon footprint when designing next-generation consumer electronics

This session is for... you if you want to learn how to apply sustainable design or work for a socially responsible organization.

This interactive session will walk you through how industries outside of gaming and retail are leveraging the Metaverse to transform how they operate, achieve better outcomes and harness the power of the emerging technology for social good.

The Why: As companies continue to invest in the Metaverse and find new and innovative use cases, future tech leaders will need to be prepared to navigate the metaverse and acquire the skills needed for this emerging technology.

Key Takeaways:

• Gain insight into how the healthcare industry is leveraging the metaverse for good.
• Understand how the metaverse can be applied in other industries outside of gaming and retail.
• Get a sneak peek into the Metaverse in Healthcare.

This session is for... you if you are a curious learner with a growth mindset excited about learning and being exposed to the latest technologies.

Cloud computing is giving organizations unprecedented levels of agility, scalability, reliability, and above all, resilience by leveraging highly automated and scalable computer resources – self-provisioned, metered and on-demand! This is helping drive innovation in areas we have never seen before. Areas that demand always-on across hybrid environments, multi-clouds, supercloud/metacloud and the world of sky computing.

The Why: Per IDC there are 33 Zettabytes of data in the world and expected to grow to 175 Zettabytes by 2025. A lot of this will be newly generated data coming from all sorts of sources and in various forms like videos, documents, images etc. Trillions of IoT sensors generating high volume of high-frequency data that we can apply machine learning and AI to automate (AIOps), drive cost efficiency and provide new revenue opportunities. There is need for this data to be processed near real-time leveraging the power of the Cloud where a single hour of downtime can cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars. We need to pay attention to the skills required to exercise the true potential of the Cloud and a mindset shift towards building a resilient design to enable availability of data when we want it and where we want it.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand shifts in Infrastructure & Cloud technologies as enablers for always-on services
• Prepare to enable your enterprise proactively by identifying fit-for-purpose cloud resiliency capabilities
• Learn about the shift in Infrastructure traditional roles and what organizational capability- Technical competencies and skills will become your competitive advantage; Prepare an action plan for your career in Cloud Resiliency

This session is for... you if you are a seasoned professional or just starting out in the industry, and you are interested in learning about, being an evangelist for, or interesting in developing skills for an always-on world.

Organizations have to pivot to:

• Optimize Cloud Spend through better financial management techniques.
• Becoming a Data Driven Organization by utilizing AI/ML for better business decision making.
• Innovating in Cloud through Industry Clouds

The Why: Most of the organizations are not able to profile the benefits of cloud and at the same need to accelerate their journey on cloud transformations. In this session, the attendees would learn ways and mechanism on how to better optimize cloud spend and learn on how to innovate in cloud i.e. Industry Cloud to drive better business decision making.

Key Takeaways:

• Key tenets of the next frontier in Cloud
• Learn about pitfalls leading to increased spend in the cloud and mechanisms to optimize spend
• Learn about Industry Cloud and how to create one for your organization

This session will provide an overview of the multi-year journey ConocoPhillips has undertaken to partner with key stakeholders to design, build and implement a modern, integrated, sustainable next-generation ERP system that is sufficiently robust and innovative to meet the company’s current and future needs.

The Why: Delivering a next-gen ERP program is a business-driven transformation that will allow your company to innovate, drive efficiency, and simplify data access and transparency.

Key Takeaways:

• Why ConocoPhillips made the decision to implement a new ERP system
• How to use anchored agility principles in the decision-making process
• Anticipated benefits of the new ERP system

This session is for... organizations interested in implementing a new ERP system or modernizing an existing ERP solution.