EMPOWERING BEYOND SUMMIT 2022
The world as we know it is accelerating towards a new era. As entire industry value chains get re-wired, businesses have to re-invent themselves to achieve agility and hyper-velocity. Stepping into new territory has never been easy, but with the power of disruptive technologies and an ecosystem of partners, possibilities are limitless. Immersive technologies and transformational business models are paving the path to the future of sustainable and equitable growth.
Avasant remains at the forefront of this journey as the world shifts to align itself with the wave of digital regeneration. The hyper-convergence of AI, IoT, 5G, the Metaverse, NFT, digital avatars is culminating in the birth of a new era: The Imagination Age. Harmonizing all these elements together to create intrinsically richer experiences and business paradigms will spawn the next epoch of mega companies. Join us on this quantum journey to explore our collective future!
THE EMPOWERING BEYOND EXPERIENCE
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On May 9th and 10th join over 250 technology leaders from Fortune 500 companies at the breathtaking bluffs of the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Enjoy compelling sessions surrounded by tranquil waves and stunning views of the Pacific Coast.
SECURING THE DIGITAL FRONTIER: PREPARING FOR THE CYBER WARS
THE FUTURE WORKPLACE: ENGINEERING THE OFFICE OF TOMORROW
ACCELERATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH AI AND HYPER AUTOMATION
THRIVING IN AN EVERCHANING WORLD: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC
THE POWER OF DATA: UNLOCKING VALUE THROUGH DATA MONETIZATION AND HYPER-PERSONALIZATION
DATA MONETIZATION AND VALUE CREATION : UNLOCKING THE VALUE OF YOUR DATA
BALANCING PROFITS AND PLANET: HYPER-GROWTH WITH SUSTAINABILITY
ENABLING BUSINESS AGILITY THROUGH AUTOMATION AND DIGITAL OPERATIONS
LESSONS FROM A MEGACITY: INNOVATING FOR CUSTOMER CENTRICITY AND HYPER-SCALING
POWERING UP: THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR ECONOMY
AGENDA
| Time | Session | Speakers |
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| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Registration Opens Location: Marineland Ballroom Prefunction |
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| 1:00 - 1:30 PM | Welcome Remarks Location: Marineland Ballroom |
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| 1:30 - 2:20 PM | Opening Keynote: "Lessons from a Megacity: LA's Digital Roadmap for 2028 Olympics" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Ted Ross - CIO, City of Lost Angeles Information Agency |
| 2:20 - 2:55 PM | Fireside Chat: "The Disruptive Potential of new Real Time Economy: Harnessing 5G, IoT and Beyond" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Srinivasa Samudrala - SVP, Digital & IoT, Infinite Computer Solutions Moderator: Anupam Govil - Managing Partner, Avasant |
| 2:55 - 3:15 PM | BREAK Location: Marineland Ballroom Prefunction |
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| 3:15 - 3:55 PM | Panel Session 1A: "The Future Workplace" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Gary Ahwah - CTO, Molina Healthcare Howard Miller - CIO, UCLA Anderson School of Management GL Zunker - Senior Managing Director, Accenture Moderator: Robert Joslin - Managing Partner, Avasant |
| 3:15 - 3:55 PM | Panel Session 1B: "From Crypto to Quantum: How Emerging Technologies Will Change The Game!" Location: Point Vicente Ballroom |
Ed Soo Hoo - Innovation & Transformation Executive, Lenovo Kenneth Wood - Global Business Leader, Quantum Computing, IBM Moderator: Akshay Khanna - Partner & Head of Avalabs, Avasant |
| 3:55 - 4:35 PM | Panel Session 2A: "Innovation in Financial Services: From Digital Banks to Digital Wallets" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Samir Ghuge - Strategy & Planning, Office of COO, Fiserv Rajat Wadhwani - SVP, Emerging Business, Cetera Sankar Krishnan - Executive Vice President & Head of Digital Assets, Capgemini Moderator: Nuria Simo - Former CIO, IADB, Campofrio Food Group, Quest International, Avasant Distinguished Fellow |
| 3:55 - 4:35 PM | Panel Session 2B: "Intelligent Sourcing: Collaborating for Success" Location: Point Vicente Ballroom |
David Elop - GVP, Head of Corporate Development, Providence Health Rohan Ranadive - Head Third Party Risk Management, Truist Peter Nag - Global Head Business Process Outsourcing, Shared Services & Transformation, Merck Moderator: Joe Frampus - Managing Partner, Avasant |
| 4:35 - 5:10 PM | Closing Keynote: "An Innovator's Story: Creating a Business for Lasting Success" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Jamie Siminoff - CEO & Founder, Ring |
| 5:15 - 7:00 PM | OPENING NIGHT PARTY Location: Cielo Point Pool |
| Time | Session | Speakers |
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| 7:00 - 8:05 AM | BREAKFAST Location: Marineland Ballroom Prefunction |
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| 8:00 - 8:15 AM | Welcome Remarks Location: Marineland Ballroom |
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| 8:15 - 8:50 AM | Opening Keynote: "Journey to the Imagination Age" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Kevin Parikh - CEO & Chairman, Avasant |
| 8:50 - 9:25 AM | Fireside Chat: "Powering Up: The Next Trillion Dollar Economy" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Greg Goff - Board of Directors, ExxonMobil, Former CEO, Tesoro Ray Barnard Former EVP Fluor Corporation, Avasant Distinguished Fellows Chairman |
| 9:25 - 9:55 AM | Keynote: "Leading in Evolving Times: Preparing for Operational Excellence & Resiliency" - Bharat Amin - CIO & EVP, Huntington Ingalls Industries Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Bharat Amin - EVP & CIO, Huntington Ingalls Industries |
| 9:55 - 10:20 AM | BREAK Location: Marineland Ballroom Prefunction |
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| 10:20 - 10:55 AM | Fireside Chat: "Securing The Digital Frontier: Preparing for the Cyber Wars" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Trina Ford - SVP & CISO, AEG Amir Desai - CIO, Molina Healthcare John Caruthers - Former Supervisory Special Agent, FBI, Avasant Distinguished Fellow |
| 10:55 - 11:35 AM | Panel Discussion: "Business Velocity Through Smart Factories & Digital Supply Chains" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Maher Al-Haffar - CFO, CEMEX Vic Verma - Global CIO, International Flavors & Fragrances Frank Antonysamy - Chief Digital Solutions Officer, Hitachi Vantara Moderator: Marie Smith - Former VP of IT, Edward Lifesciences, Eaton Corp, Avasant Distinguished Fellow |
| 11:35 - 12:05 PM | Keynote: "Thriving in Disruption: Reshaping Your Business Through Digital (R)evolution" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Yuri Aguiar - Chief Enterprise Data Officer, The WPP Group |
| 12:05 - 1:15 PM | LUNCH Location: Point Terrace |
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| 1:15 - 1:50 PM | Fireside Chat: "Accelerating Digital Transformation Through AI and Hyper Automation" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Jairo Quiros - SVP, Global Shared Services & Head Global RPA/AI COE, Equifax Rajesh Sitaraman - SVP, Oil & Gas & Travel & Transportation Head, HCL Technologies Moderator: Walter Yosafat - Former CIO & Regional CEO Wyndham Worldwide, Avasant Distinguished Fellow |
| 1:50 - 2:30 PM | Panel Session 1A: "The Future Workplace: Engineering the Office of Tomorrow" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Robert Taylor - CIO, Fluor Corporation Joshua Zalen - Vice President IT, Independent Health Beth Howen - Global Head of Digital Transformation, Atos Moderator: Jim Rinaldi - Former Chief IT Advisor and CIO NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Avasant Distinguished Fellow |
| 1:50 - 2:30 PM | Panel Session 1B: "Re-imagining Healthcare: Achieving Patient Centricity and Value Based Care" Location: Point Vicente Ballroom |
Rick Hopfer - SVP, CIO, HMSA Chuck Podesta - CIO, Renown Health Kyle Seiter - CIO, Elara Caring Moderator: Nishant Verma - Partner & Head of Healthcare & Lifesciences, Avasant |
| 2:30 - 3:10 PM | Panel Session 2A: "The Power of Data: Unlocking Value Through Predictive Analytics & Hyper Personalization" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Soyal Momin - SVP, Chief Analytics Officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services Greg Geary - VP of IT, DigitalBridge Moderator: Renee Lahti - Principal & Distinguished Fellow Avasant |
| 2:30 - 3:10 PM | Panel Session 2B: "Balancing Profits & Planet: Hyper Growth with Sustainability" Location: Point Vicente Ballroom |
Raquel Moses - CEO, Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator Magdalena Coronel - Chief Investment Officer, IADB, IDB Labs Moderator: Chitra Rajeshwari - Principal & Head of Global Development, Avasant |
| 3:10 - 3:35 PM | BREAK Location: Marineland Ballroom Prefunction |
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| 3:30 - 4:10 PM | Panel Session 3A: "Transforming the Digital Core: Next Gen Cloud and Advanced Networks" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Vince Gutosky - Senior Director, Enterprise Connectivity, CapitalOne Financial Naresh Lachmandas - Former CIO General Atomics, L3 CSW & City of San Diego, Partner & Sr Fellow, Avasant Daniel Lawson - VP Solutions Architecture, Verizon Business Group Moderator: Henry Guapo - Managing Partner, Avasant |
| 3:35 - 4:15 PM | Panel Session 3B: "The Future of Retail: From Omnichannel to Omniverse" Location: Point Vicente Ballroom |
Glenn Kalokira - Executive Director, Global Transformation, Applications, Project Delivery & Strategy, Estee Lauder Drew Martin - CIO, Jenny Craig Fred Pond - Former CIO, Columbia Sportswear, Avasant Distinguished Fellow Moderator: Shirin Alipanah - Principal, Avasant |
| 4:15 - 4:50 PM | Fireside Chat: "The Shift to Digital Operations: Driving Business Agility and Innovation" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Jesus Caviedes Mondragon - VP Global Commercial Development, CEMEX Karyn Furstman - Head of CX Strategy & Solutions, Designit (A Wipro Company) Moderator: Matt Barlow - Partner, Avasant |
| 4:50 - 5:15 PM | Closing Fireside Chat: "The Art of the Possible in The Imagination Age" Location: Marineland Ballroom |
Sidney Madison Prescott - Global Head of Intelligent Automation, Spotify Sasi Pillay - CIO, Washington State University Moderator: Anupam Govil - Managing Partner, Avasant |
| 5:15 - 7:00 PM | CLOSING RECEPTION Location: Point Terrace |
WHY ATTEND
“Empowering Beyond means that we can all work together through the technological innovations that we have created, and will be creating in the future to solve problems.”
-Larry James, COO & Deputy Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Empowering Beyond Speakers
Kevin S. Parikh
CEO & Chairman
Avasant
Bharat Amin
EVP & Chief Information Officer
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Jamie Siminoff
Founder & CEO
Ring
Ted Ross
Chief Information Officer
City of Los Angles, Information Technology Agency
Sidney Prescott
Global Head of Intelligent Automation
Spotify
Robert Taylor
Chief Information Officer & SVP
Fluor Corporation
Maher Al-Haffar
Chief Financial Officer
Cemex
Trina Ford
SVP & Chief Information Security Officer
AEG
Yuri Aguiar
Chief Enterprise Data Officer
The WPP Group
Greg Goff
Board Member
Exxon Mobil
David Elop
GVP, Coporate Development
Providence Health
Nuria Simo
Former Chief Information Officer
IDB, Campofrio Food Group and Quest International
Glenn Kalokira
Executive Director, Global Transformation, Applications, Project Delivery & Strategy
Estee Lauder
Vic Verma
EVP & Chief Information Officer
International Flavors and Fragrances
Drew Martin
Chief Information Officer
Jenny Craig
Magdalena Coronel
Chief Investment Officer
Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Labs
Rick Hopfer
SVP & Chief Information Officer
HMSA
Amir Desai
Chief Information Officer
Molina Health
Chuck Podesta
Chief Information Officer
Renown Health
Jesus Caviedes Mondragon
VP Global Commercial Development
CEMEX
Rajat Wadhwani
SVP, Emerging Business
Cetera
Rohan Ranadive
Head of Third Party Risk Management
Truist
Jairo Quiros
VP Global Shared Services
Equifax
Peter Nag
Global Head Business Process Outsourcing, Shared Services & Transformation
Merck
Shirin Alipanah
Principal
Avasant
Joshua Zalen
Vice President, IT
Independent Health
Renee Lahti
Principal & Distinguished Fellow
Avasant
Gary Ahwah
Chief Technology Officer
Molina Healthcare
Marie Smith
Former VP IT
Edward Lifesciences, Eaton Corp
Vince Gutosky
Senior Director, Enterprise Connectivity
Capital One Financial
Howard Miller
Chief Information Officer
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Racquel Moses
CEO
Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator
Samir Ghuge
Strategy & Planning, Office of the COO
Fiserv
Kyle Seiter
Chief Information Officer
Elara Caring
Soyal Momin
SVP, Chief Analytics Officer
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Greg Geary
VP of IT
DigitalBridge
Dale Pfeifer
Founder & CEO
Goodworld
David Ellington
Founder & Executive Chairman
Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
Dev Singh
Head of Autonomous Robotics, Drones and Intelligent Machines
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Ed Soo Hoo
Innovation & Transformation Executive
Lenovo
Ray Barnard
Former EVP
Fluor Corporation
Sankar Krishnan
EVP & Head of Digital Assets
Capgemini
Daniel Lawson
Vice President, Solutions Architecture
Verizon Business Group
Srinivas Samudrala
SVP, Digital & IoT
Infinite Computer Solutions
Rajesh Sitaraman
SVP, Oil & Gas & Travel & Transportation Head
HCL Technologies
Karyn Furstman
Head of CX Strategy Solutions
Designit, A Wipro Company
Jim Rinaldi
Former Chief IT Advisor and CIO
Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory
John Caruthers
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent & Executive Advisor
Evotek
Walter Yosafat
Former CIO & Regional CEO
Wyndham Worldwide
GL Zunker
Senior Managing Director
Accenture Health & Public Service
Frank Antonysamy
Chief Digital Solutions Officer
Hitachi Vantara
Beth Howen
Global Head of Digital Transformation
Atos
Sankar Krishnan
EVP & Head of Digital Assets
Capgemini
Naresh Lachmandas
Partner & Senior Fellow
Avasant
Kenneth Wood
Global Business Leader, Quantum Computing
IBM
Fred Pond
Former Chief Information Officer
Columbia Sportswear
Chitra Rajeshwari
Executive Director & Principal
Avasant Foundation
Joe Frampus
Managing Partner
Avasant
Nishant Verma
Partner
Avasant
Frank Scavo
Partner
Avasant
Robert Joslin
Partner
Avasant
Anupam Govil
Managing Partner
Avasant
Akshay Khanna
Partner
Avasant
Matthew Barlow
Partner
Avasant
“The best thing about Empowering Beyond is the interaction with colleagues and groups. To know that you’re not alone in the steep challenges we face in our businesses.”
-Mary Gendron, CIO & SVP, Qualcomm
Hotel Accommodations
Avasant is pleased to provide an exclusive discounted rate on hotel accommodations at the stunning Terranea Resort. Experience all that EBS22 has to offer just footsteps from your hotel room!
Book Your Stay
EMPOWERING BEYOND SUMMIT 2022 HEALTH AND SAFETY
In accordance with CDC, Los Angeles County guidelines and Terranea Resort’s policies, at check-in, all guests are encouraged to carry proof of vaccination; although, per local rules, Avasant will not be asking to show proof of vaccine.
We are thrilled to host Empowering Beyond Summit 2022 in person at Terranea Resort. Avasant deeply values the health and well-being of its guests and will adhere to all health and safety guidelines of both the CDC and the Terranea Resort.
For more information regarding updates of Terranea’s COVID-19 policies please visit: https://www.terranea.com/updates.
SUMMIT CHAIR
Anupam Govil
Partner, Head of Global Sales & Strategic Partnerships,
Chair of Empowering Beyond Summit
Avasant
