What’s Happening, and When

Interactive Workshop: Finding your Digital Trailblazers

Isaac Sacolick, Contributing Editor, InfoWorld, Foundry, formerly IDG Communications

The future of work requires a co-creation model between IT and business leaders seeking to improve employee experiences, become more data-driven, and hyperautomate intelligent workflows. These leaders want to build apps, dashboards, and other technologies and need IT’s best practices that support extendable, sustainable, and secure technologies. In this interactive workshop, Isaac will guide you on defining a starting plan for creating a citizen development center of excellence. This plan includes finding the top business opportunities and identifying the tech, data, and business leaders in your organization ready to challenge the status quo.

IT and LOB Partnerships That Add Value Beyond the Core

Zeeshan Tariq, CIO, Zimmer Biomet

How can you establish strategy, structure, governance, and controls that result in stronger alignment between LOB and IT, measurably improved performance, and all-time high stakeholder satisfaction? Zeesham Tariq, who has accountability for 1,000+ team members, scattered across the globe, and budget and portfolio accountability of over $700M, will share insights about his model for partnership and collaboration success.

Interviewed by: Julia King, Contributing Editor, Computerworld/CIO, Foundry, formerly IDG Communications

Live Discussion with Cheryl Cran – Personal High Performance: Lead with Energy, Passion & Power

Cheryl Cran, Founder of NextMapping – Future of Work Expert

After a powerful keynote presentation that provides a view into the “me to we” mindset and tips for leveraging technology to maximize team communication and performance, Cheryl is ready to take your questions. Join Cheryl and your peers to discuss how to create sustainable positive change and growth. Get your questions answered and be better prepared to lead into the future with passion and energy.

Live Discussion with Bob Johansen – Weathering Future “Office Shocks”

Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future

This lively discussion, with leading futurist Bob Johansen, will make you think beyond the current moment, to thinking back from the future to anticipate directions of change. Bring your questions and experiences to share about your strategies for ensuring that the Office (the place), Officing (the process for how we work together) and Officeverse (a new concept that pulls it all together) can result in more sustainable and productive ways of working.

Hosted by: Dan Roberts, Host, CIO Whisperers

The CIO’s Changing Role in Employee Engagement

Irwin Lazar, President & Principal Analyst, Metrigy

The role of the CIO is undergoing a fundamental transformation Working together with HR, facilities, and line-of-business leaders, CIOs must ensure that their IT strategies align with the overall goals and needs of the organization. We’ll look at how collaboration needs are changing, and how CIOs must focus on ensuring collaboration and meeting equity, security and performance, and employee engagement. We’ll also touch on future trends including augmented and virtual reality and the metaverse.

Leaning into the hybrid workplace future at SAIC

Nathan Rogers, SVP & CIO, Infrastructure Enablement, SAIC

Workplace flexibility means so much more than when and where you work, says CIO Nathan Rogers of SAIC, the $7 billion, DC-based defense contractor. Two years into its own companywide ‘Future of Work’ project, a collaborative cross-departmental team created a dynamic work model that is thriving today. “We’re really leaning in on this,” says the CIO. In this session, Rogers will delve into SAIC’s evolving paradigm for work/life balance and discuss its impact on productivity and employee well-being.

Interviewed by: Maryfran Johnson, CEO, Maryfran Johnson Media

With Work-life ‘Integration,’ is the 9-5 Workday Gone?

Homa Bahrami, Senior Lecturer & Faculty Director, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, CA
Stephen Kohler, Founder & CEO, Audira Labs LLC
Meg Madison, Senior VP, HR, Shure

Instead of forcing employees to choose between work and a personal life, companies are pushing work-life integration, effectively blurring the lines between the two. The end game? Results matter more than punching a time clock. Panelists will discuss how organizations can assist employees with combining their careers and personal life in a hybrid workplace. We will also explore why during The Great Resignation, attracting and retaining talent hinges on creating a “people-first” environment.

Moderated by: Lucas Mearian, Senior Writer, Computerworld, Foundry, formerly IDG Communications

An HR and IT Partnership that Builds Employee Engagement

Karen Mattimore, SVP and CHRO, Honeywell
Sheila Jordan, Chief Digital Technology Officer, Honeywell

Learn how Honeywell, a global leader in high-tech sustainability offerings, is aligning its people- and technology-focused objectives to create a place where current and prospective employees – Futureshapers – make an impact, make real connections and can be their best selves. Honeywell’s Chief Digital Technology Officer, Sheila Jordan, and Chief Human Resources Officer, Karen Mattimore, will discuss how a relationship born of necessity has grown into a highly collaborative partnership, enabling the company to set equitable work policies, implement hybrid work strategies, and deploy technology to optimize productivity and protect privacy.

Invest in the Best: Creating a Culture of Learning to Drive Competitive Advantage

Jennie Drimmer, Senior Regional Director, EMEA, Coursera
Bartosz Zieleznik, Director of Service Delivery Transformation & Automation, IBM, Head of Online Learning, Prosus

A culture of learning can be the difference between accelerating business outcomes and digital transformation or stagnation. However, as learning and development professionals know, this culture can often be difficult to build.

Join Jennie Drimmer, senior regional director at Coursera, and Bartosz Zieleźnik, head of online learning at Prosus, part of Naspers, as they discuss how they’ve adapted to the changing role of learning and development, their experiences with building a culture of learning, and how they’re investing in their workforce to maintain a competitive edge. You’ll learn how the learning and development role has evolved and how to overcome the challenges of building a culture of learning within your organization.

Optimizing Your BYOD Strategy with Motus

Robert Locklear, Wireless Solutions Engineer, Motus
Dan Dietz, Enterprise Sales Executive, Motus
Mark Albro, Director, Mobility Sales, Motus

Whether employees are hybrid, in-office or fully remote, mobile devices are key business tools for the modern workforce. While cost control and governance remain high priority across all device programs, business leaders are taking a fresh look at how to leverage mixed-use and corporate assets. Many are finding value in using a combination of company-provided-device (CPD) and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs as they progress to meet employee and cost reduction needs. Join us as we discuss both the advantages and challenges of each approach, including the benefits of individualized BYOD reimbursements.