7 a.m.
REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30 a.m. - 8 a.m.
NETWORKING BREAKFAST
8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
GENERAL KEYNOTE SESSION: CREATE THE FUTURE
Speaker: Jeremy Gutsche
You are experiencing history’s highest rate of change, disruption, and opportunity. Technology is rapidly impacting and transforming our daily lives, ways of doing business and customer expectations. Jeremy Gutsche, CEO of Trend Hunter, the largest research platform, data-driven trend firm and innovation accelerator in the world says, ‘trends create empires, disrupt slow-movers and reshape our world’. Jeremy addresses the six patterns of opportunity and the top eighteen megatrends feeding the chaos of the current ‘roaring 20’s’. Add the recent proliferation of AI as an ingredient of exponential effect and now is a time of uncertainty, largest threat, AND your greatest opportunity.
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
BREAK
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
SCENARIO THINKING WORKSHOP
Facilitator: Jeremy Gutsche
Beginning in the late 60’s and early 70’s Royal Dutch/Shell developed a technique known as scenario planning. Scenario planning is grounded in the belief that imagining potential futures is crucial preparation for navigating the turbulent, opaque, and inevitable changes that a business must address to renew and thrive in any one of many alternative futures. Participants will engage in guided scenario planning - embrace uncertainty, challenge assumptions, examine forces of environmental change, explore supply-chain business what-ifs, and leave with a tool designed to challenge your thinking and prepare your organization to create its future.
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
NETWORKING LUNCH
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
DATA GOVERNANCE & CYBER SECURITY
Panel Discussion
Cybersecurity breaches have become commonplace in business. While tools and techniques to deter such incidents have become more sophisticated, so have the methods of hackers. In this session, industry leaders will share how they are wrestling with cyber-security to protect their organization, employee, and customer data.
Discussion Topics include:
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Current challenges in cybersecurity
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Lessons learned from cyber threats
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Cybersecurity advice from the trenches
2:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.
BREAK
3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
NO EXCUSES INNOVATION
Speaker: Bruce A. Vojak
In contrast to large companies, Small and Medium-Sized Mature Enterprises (SMMEs) are on their own to win or lose in the marketplace. They may feel they lack the relative economies of scale and scope available to large companies to understand and invest in innovation. Often, they are in a position of sustained disadvantage with no perceived path of renewal. But as Bruce A. Vojak, founder at Breakthrough Innovation Advisors would argue, this path of seemingly least risk and least resistance can be detrimental to a company in the long run. Bruce makes the case to owners, executives, and leaders―as well as those in the trenches―of the value of innovation: why it's worthy of investment and what it can do for the culture, health, and longevity of your company.
6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
NETWORKING RECEPTION (Dinner on Your Own)