Reinvent IT for
the Post-Digital Age.

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Map your course to extraordinary growth.

As you accelerate digital transformation, your IT, Finance, and Business functions must quickly evolve to meet modern customer expectations and remain competitive. Upskill your teams in this info-packed free event.

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Businesses are transforming

67%

companies increased
their digital transformation
investments due to the pandemic

42%

plan to automate
large numbers of
manual processes

36%

are transforming and
reimagining digital
business strategies

What you’ll learn:

Attendees can expect to leave the Summit with four tangible takeaways that will help move their businesses from ordinary to extraordinary:

  1. What’s changing in automation
  2. Keys to creating a culture of automation
  3. Why managing your tech stack just got both harder and easier
  4. How to chart your technologies for smarter implementations

Agenda

9:00-9:15 | Keynote:

The New Normal

John Bruggeman
CMO, Celigo
Digital transformation has accelerated exponentially in the last few years to the point that virtually everyone has reached a baseline of digital maturity. To achieve breakaway growth, companies now must move beyond basic automation to a level of smart, data-driven automation.

Celigo’s CMO, John Bruggeman, will set the stage for how IT, business and finance leaders can leverage their technology and people to create new opportunities for automation and innovation in the post-digital enterprise.

9:15-9:35 | Keynote:

Enabling the Workforce of the Future

Marcus East
Chief Digital Officer, T-Mobile US

As the Post-Digital world continues to take shape, it’s clear there has been a seismic shift in how businesses serve their customers and how their employees want to engage and work. Business team leaders grabbed the freedom to add technology as needed. Employees now demand access to accurate data anywhere, anytime. Leadership teams understand the agility and innovative spirit born out of the pandemic is now a permanent part of the organizational culture. Meeting these new expectations demands that technology leaders reimagine their roles to deliver the technology to empower this cultural change.

Hear from iconic brands how they reinvented their role by developing a vision for transforming technology, processes, and people to enable their organization to reach new, previously unimaginable, growth and competitive confidence.

9:35-9:55 |

Enabling “Innovation Squads” to drive game-changing growth

Kimberly Marx
Director of Alliances and Marketing, Big Bang
Akym Bonheur
Project Manager, Big Bang
Business process automation and innovation can no longer be contained in IT. Ideas for true innovation often come from the teams closest to the process. Future-thinking technology leaders need to successfully balance igniting an automation-first culture that enables agility and DIY innovation while ensuring IT maintains a strong governance role to maintain business continuity, scale, and data security.

Hear from Kimberly Marx and Akym Bonheaur from Big Bang on how they transformed their organizations by equipping every employee with the tools and skills needed to create high-performing innovation teams across the enterprise.

Track 1 – Ecommerce

10:00-10-20 |

The New CIO Imperative:

Create Exceptional Multichannel Customer Experiences

Mark Simon
VP of Strategy, Celigo
Ecommerce and B2B companies that don’t provide excellent and consistent customer experiences, regardless of engagement channel, risk losing repeat business and causing irreparable damage to the brand. The challenge of creating a unified customer experience is more complex with multiple SaaS technologies, processes, and third-party partners.

Mark Simon, Celigo’s VP Strategy, shares how multiple technology leaders at B2B and B2C companies successfully navigated these complexities to improve customer experience and accelerate growth into new markets.

Track 2 – FinOps

10:00-10:20 |

The New CIO Imperative:

Drive Innovation and Growth with a Strong CIO/CFO Relationship

David Cody
Director of Sales Operations, PandaDoc
As Saas organizations develop their technology and business process automation strategies to drive breakaway growth, there are two roles that sit at
the crossroads of success: the CIO and CFO.

The most significant challenges facing transformational tech and financial leaders stem from too many manual processes, insufficient access to real-time data across systems, and poor visibility to business performance insights.

David Cody, Director of Sales Ops at PandaDoc, presents strategies for technology and financial leaders to improve business agility, enable a culture of automation, and drive next-level growth.

10:20-10:45 | Expert Panel:

Customer Experience Innovators

Henk Kooiker
Owner & Director, ZangaBee

John Cymerman
Chief Technical Officer, Trellis

10:20-10:45 | Expert Panel:

FinOps Innovators

Jason Ross
CIO, GetBusy

Malcolm James
Director of Information Technology, CDC Foundation

Katia Malashyna-de Jong
Senior Director Enterprise Information Systems, WeTransfer

10:45-11:00 | Closing

Enabling the Vision

Kevin Ware
VP of Solution Architecture, Celigo
One of the most significant decisions technology leaders make is what technology platform will help enable their vision. Success depends on the ability for technology leaders to transform the enterprise culture to foster innovation and change in all parts of their business. The technology decisions made today will automate the business processes of tomorrow.

Kevin Ware, VP of Solution Architecture, outlines the critical capabilities to look for in any technology platform to enable agility while ensuring IT maintains visibility and governance for growth well into the future.

Hear from the experts

Click each speaker to learn more about them

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Marcus East

Marcus East is a digital technology and product leader with a passion for driving positive change through the use of technology – a love affair that started when he was taught to program in elementary school at the age of nine. Over the past 3 decades, he has built a reputation for being a ‘creative technologist’, someone who enjoys solving difficult problems in innovative ways, whether they are complex business challenges or life-changing social issues. Marcus spent one half of his career working for leading technology companies (Apple, Google & IBM), building world-class technology, and the other half helping brands to harness the power of technology to dive business value – including Comic Relief, Marks & Spencer, National Geographic, and most recently T-Mobile. Today he is the SVP & Chief Digital Officer at T-Mobile USA, America’s supercharged “Un-carrier” delivering and advanced 4g LTE and transformative nationwide 5G network that offers reliable connectivity for all. Before joining T-Mobile Marcus was Technical Director, Office of the CTO Google, EVP of Product & Technology and CTO of National Geographic, Global Digital Director for Marks & Spencer, Head of eCommerce Solutions at Apple, and CIO/CTO of Comic Relief. Marcus attended The Latymer Grammar School in London and subsequently read for an honors degree at the London Metropolitan University majoring in Management & Information Technology, and a Master’s in Management (major in Social Enterprise) from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society) Chartered Institute for Information Technology (FBCS) and Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI). He is an Expert in Residence for the University of Oxford Foundry.
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Marcus East
Chief Digital Officer
T-Mobile US

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Katia Malashyna-de Jong

Katia Malashyna-de Jong is the Senior Director Enterprise Informations SYstems team of WeTransfer. Her team includes all corporate systems teams (ERP, EPM, CRM, HRIS) and IT services team. Having started her career in financial audit, Katia switched to Finance systems and later to corporate systems, and considers integrating corporate systems across different departments the main goal of her team, bringing special focus on eliminating manual processes and workflow duplicates.
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Katia Malashyna-de Jong
Senior Director Enterprise Information Systems
WeTransfer

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Malcolm James

Malcolm James is a Senior Technology and Business Solutions Manager providing innovative vision, strategy, and leadership in all areas of technology use, planning, development, and support within CDC Foundation. He joined the CDC Foundation in 2017 and is responsible for the full range of information systems and management of the supporting IT staff. In his role, James leads technology-focused strategic planning and proactively identifies opportunities to improve existing areas of service delivery performance. James graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Computer Information Systems.
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Malcolm James
Director Of Information Technology
CDC Foundation

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Jason Ross

Jason Ross is the CIO of GetBusy. With over 16 years, experience, he places a heavy emphasis on facilitating and managing change within a business through the development and implementation of specialised software. Prior to his role at GetBusy, Jason was a Technical Project Manager at Lindenhouse Software. Away from work, he is a big football fan and likes spending time with his family. He also has a degree in Computer Science from Anglia Ruskin University.
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Jason Ross
CIO
GetBusy

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David Cody

David Cody
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David Cody
Director of Sales Operations
PandaDoc

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Kevin Ware

Kevin Ware has over 20+ years of working in the integration space. Having worked in a variety of industries from Public Sector, High Tech to Financial Services gained a unique insight into collaboration needs between entities and applications both on-premise and Cloud based. Through the use of automation and integration has helped companies drive greater business value and efficiencies in their organizations.
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Kevin Ware
VP of Solution Architecture
Celigo

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Mark Simon

Mark comes to Celigo having spent the last 21 years in technology. He started his career as a software developer in 1997, building e-commerce applications and custom integrations for several years. He then co-founded and led technology and operations as CTO for Evo, a successful e-commerce company that grew from $0 to $13M in revenue in three years. He then moved on to start a career in consulting with Explore Consulting, an award-winning Solution Provider and VAR.

Mark has worked with clients across several industries including multiple software clients and publicly traded companies pre and post IPO. His efforts for software clients included designing and developing automated processes for sales order processing, subscription management, and provisioning among others.

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Mark Simon
VP of Strategy
Celigo

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John Bruggeman

John Bruggeman is Celigo’s Chief Marketing Officer and heads Celigo’s entire Marketing organization. John has a long track record of leading marketing teams at companies of all sizes that leverage the inflection point to experience explosive growth.

Most recently, as CMO of Nauto, John productized and launched the company’s initial platform product, including packaging, pricing, sales enablement, and demand generation, leading to the acquisition of two of the five largest fleet customers in the world. He envisioned and executed Account Based Marketing programs, including advertising, social media, and email campaigns.

While at Mercury Interactive, Wind River, and Cadence Design, he created categories to capture market leadership. At each of those companies, John’s marketing teams partnered closely with Product and Sales to double the average selling price and revenue in the first 18 months. He has also been the CEO of Traxpay and Lunera.

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John Bruggeman
CMO
Celigo

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Kimberly Marx

Kimberly is at the core a process based person, who loves to create the foundation for innovation for her team at Big Bang. She has an honours Bachelor’s in Commerce and is a Certified Health Coach. She has a decade of experience in the field of Marketing in Montreal, New York and Toronto. She worked at several marketing agencies with a focus on wellness and luxury brands. She is the recipient of the Notable Award for Best Marketers in Montreal. However, limiting her role to Marketing would be an understatement – she is much more than that. Kimberly handles all internal and external communications, her impressive professional network allows her to introduce new opportunities to employees and clients. After celebrating her 6th year with Big Bang, she leads the Alliances practice working with partners to extend their reach and collaborate closely with Big Bang. Kim has also been invited on Global TV to speak on “The Future is Female” in the tech industry.
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Kimberly Marx
Director of Alliances and Marketing
Big Bang

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Akym Bonheur

Akym holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Administration from HEC Montréal, specialization in IT and Project Management, and a postgraduate certificate in Management and Entrepreneurship from McGill University. In addition to academic accolades, some of Akym’s notable accomplishments include being able to grow a fundraising team of 800 hours a week. He also won a business plan competition at École internationale des jeunes entrepreneurs – he has a real aptitude for Business Process Reviews. He is a consultant with diverse industry focus from Software Development, Retail & eCommerce, IT Services, Consulting, Internet & Telecom Providers, and Communication & Marketing. As an objective thinker, Akym is someone to go to when you want to strengthen strategies or to get a new big picture glimpse of a situation.
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Akym Bonheur
Project Manager
Big Bang

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Henk Kooiker

Henk worked at IBM for 19 years in application outsourcing & management for IBM and corporate Retail, WholeSale and Industrial customers like Ahold, Shell, Heineken and Sara Lee.

He started ZangaBee in 2006, a company specialized in Celigo integrations and NetSuite and guiding customers in their business transformations. He is focused on long term relationships with customers and making work a fun and sportive ride!

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Henk Kooiker
Owner & Director
ZangaBee

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John Cymerman

John has been doing web development his entire career, since 2005. He started working on e-commerce websites around 2008. His previous employment was at another e-commerce agency, and then joined Trellis in 2016 as the CTO.

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John Cymerman
CTO
Trellis

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