CEO2CEO Digital Transformation Summit
December 6, 2016
New York, NY
Transform. Or be transformed.
Half of the Fortune 500 companies listed in 2000 have fallen off since then due to mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies, and one reputable study estimates that 40 percent of today's companies on the S&P 500 will no longer exist in 10 years.
Companies large and small are being disrupted by more agile, digital-centric, customer-focused competitors or startups who are attacking cash-cows and creating new product categories.
Has your business been challenged by a disruptor? If it hasn’ t yet, it will be.
The CEO2CEO Digital Transformation Summit is your chance to meet with peer CEOs and industry experts to hone your digital strategy based on what’s working for other companies. Through speaker presentations and interactive breakout sessions, you will discover new ideas, discuss new ways of thinking and expand your strategic timeline for talent management.
This intensive single day event focuses on actionable items to implement at your middle-market company.
Strategies and solutions for navigating your digital transformation:
Our Speakers
Agenda
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8:00 - 8:45 AM
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Registration and Breakfast |
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8:45 - 8:50 AM |
Welcome and Kickoff |
8:50 - 9:40 AM
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The Real World of Digital Transformation Jim McCann / Founder & Chairman of the Board, 1-800-Flowers.com John H. Cunningham / Senior Vice President – Regional Market Director & Strategic Operations, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Judy Dunn / Head of Innovation, Roche Innovation
For Jim McCann, digital transformation is a way of life. When the 800 number created a new access modality, he turned his retail flower business into a telephone service, reflected in its new name. Then in 1990, years before Netscape made shopping on the Internet a national pastime, McCann launched a website. More recently there was a short-lived Second Life presence, a foray into social and mobile media, and a move toward artificial intelligence-powered conversational commerce, thanks to a partnership with IBM Watson. And those were just the transformations that worked. There were CD-ROMs and in-store kiosks—as well as some 50 other failed experiments he rarely talks about. The point, for McCann and his co-panelists, is always being open to change, rolling with the disruption that comes with doing business today, becoming disruptors themselves. Here’s an insider’s view into the mind of the disruptor—complete with important lessons on how to maintain your competitive advantage in a rapidly changing world. |
9:40 - 10:30 AM
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The CEO's Role in Leading Digital Transformation in an Established Business
Andrew Liveris / CEO & Chairman of the Board, Dow
Andrew Liveris says he has reinvented himself at least four times since assuming the role of Dow’s CEO in 2004. And he’s reinvented his company that many times as well. Key to this reinvention was moving the company from the basic-chemicals arena to an R&D fueled focus on specialty chemicals. By taking advantage of open source innovation, a new CTO, hundreds of new Ph.D.s on staff, and a retooled supply chain, the company, by 2015, was launching 5,000 new products a year—including new materials that have led to better athletic shoes, fuel-efficient cars, microchips prepped for smartphones, and drinking water created from sewage. On the verge of Dow’s merger with DuPont and on the eve of his own retirement, Liveris, known as “the eternal optimist,” reflects on his parallel reinventions—and the ways in which all companies, regardless of size, regardless of industry, regardless of pedigree, can learn from his experience.
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10:50 - 11:35 AM |
6 Building Blocks for Creating a High Performing Digital Enterprise Marc Singer / Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co.
According to McKinsey research, companies expect that their digital initiatives will bring them annual growth and cost efficiencies of 5% to 10% in three to five years. They’re usually wrong.
What would help them achieve—or exceed—their expectations? A deft ability to use six key building blocks to create a solid foundation for performance, allowing them to determine the value that is likely to be disrupted, identify digital opportunities to exploit, use data and analysis tools to better understand customer decision-making, employ automation and agile processes to reinvent processes, and speed up their technology in the process. At this session, Marc Singer will use data and case studies to show companies how to use these building blocks to hasten their digital transformation—with increasing success, across all metrics. |
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11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
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Concurrent Roundtables
Are You Ready for Digital Transformation? How--and Why--to Speed the Process Drew Carter / Managing Director, AlixPartners Digital
You came to this conference because you suspect that digital transformation is the key to increasing everything about your company: its value, its productivity, its competitiveness, its sales, its market share—its longevity. You’ve watched as other companies have either made this change…or perished. And you’ve spent the last three hours listening to CEOs and other experts detail their own innovative and successful journeys. But you’re still wondering: Are you ready? How can you tell? What path should you take? What tools do you need? How quickly can you move? How do you get started? How do you maintain momentum throughout your organization? Here’s how to take a diagnostic approach to your digital transformation readiness—with an eye toward speeding your progress and quickly reaping the rewards.
At the Heart of Digital Transformation: Customer Data
Joe Benson / President and Co-Founder, Knowledge Marketing
Most companies are sitting on a treasure trove of both online and offline customer data—demographic, behavioral, and contextual—that they haven’t yet figured out how to mine, let alone monetize. Harvested strategically, this data not only helps companies market their products and services better, it gives them insights into trends that will define the very direction in which they need to move—products to develop, services to offer, changes in their operational as well as their organizational structures. In this roundtable, CEOs will compare notes about the kind of data they’ve gathered about their customers, what they know about customer engagement, and how they can unify their customer database to turn big data into big revenue.
New Business Models and Strategies for the Digital Economy
Making Digital Change Happen - Implementing Change The Innovator's Dilemma and How to Attack Your Own Market |
1:00 - 2:00 PM
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Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation Luncheon
Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical, will be presented with Chief Executive Group's Lifetime Achievement Award at this special luncheon.
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2:00 - 2:50 PM
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The Internet of Things: What CEOs Need to Know John Donovan / Group President and Chief Strategy Officer, AT&T
While it’s great to control the temperature in your refrigerator through your smartphone and make sure you’re DVRing your favorite TV show when you know won’t be home in time to watch it, if that’s all you’re thinking the Internet of Things can do for you, you need an imagination recharge. As John Donovan will explain, the IoT is now moving far into the corporation, allowing companies not only to, say, engage in predictive maintenance and gain visibility into their supply chains but to leverage sensors and data in order to build whole new business models and revenue streams. Here’s a look at how the Internet of Things is becoming the Internet of Everything—and how you can use it to transform your business.
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3:00 - 4:00 PM
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Concurrent Roundtables
Facilitating Digital Transformation: How Companies Rethink, Retool, Reboot Alongside Government Partners Ian Steff / Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Indiana Economic Development Corporation
As companies look to meet disruptive change by transforming themselves, they're finding they can't always do it alone. And opportunities often come from a surprising place: the public sector. Whether it's taking advantage of incentives that states and municipalities provide or establishing training or applied research programs with local, often state universities, whether it's working with economic development agencies to assist with technological, manufacturing, and even real estate needs, savvy corporations are partnering with government and academia on their digital transformation. Ian Steff, executive vice president for Indiana Economic Development Corporation, and chief innovation officer for the State of Indiana will share some recent experiences—and results— setting the stage for a group discussion.
Digital Marketing: What's Wrong? R&D and Product Innovation in the Digital Age The New Rules of Recruiting and Engaging Talent Improving Your Supply Chain by Leveraging Digital Technologies |
4:00 - 5:00 PM
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The Digital Imperative: Talent, Data and Security David Kenny / CEO, IBM Watson Eric J. Felsberg / Principal, Jackson Lewis P.C. Dean T. Stamoulis / Head of the Center for Leadership Insight, Russell Reynolds Associates
Watson made its debut as a research project on Jeopardy! in 2011. Since then, the AI industry has blossomed, with more than 2000 companies building and offering “smart” products. David Kenny, the general manager of IBM Watson, will describe how Watson has evolved as a platform that can extend into industries such as health and financial services, infuse existing product suites like security and commerce with cognitive capabilities, and become the foundation for an ecosystem of developers who will help Watson further expand into the marketplace…all while keeping an eye towards the security requirements that today’s world requires. None of this would be possible without having a team capable of meeting the demands of growing a business nearly from scratch. Joining in a discussion with Jackson Lewis's Eric Felsberg and Russell Reynolds's Dean Stamoulis, David will touch on the importance of building a team empowered to make decisions and will share his view that today’s tech world requires a “servant” model of leadership. |
5:00 - 5:15 PM
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Wrap-Up and Takeaways |
5:15 - 6:30 PM
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Cocktail Reception |
*Agenda subject to change
Event Venue
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Apella Event Space at Alexandria Center
Apella is New York City's most innovative meeting and event space. Located within the Alexandria Center for Life Science – New York City 450 East 29th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10016 Apella is located on 29th Street between 1st Avenue and the East River. Private circular driveway is accessible from the east side of 1st Avenue at 29th Street. |
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