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:

What’s changing in automation
Keys to creating a culture of automation
Why managing your tech stack just got both harder and easier
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.