Meet Tom Davenport
Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He has written or edited twenty books and over 250 print or digital articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. He earned his Ph.D from Harvard University and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, the Tuck School of Business, Boston University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Meet Sally Elatta
Sally Elatta is a thought leader in the space of Business Agility and Measurement. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker who advises top executives of leading global organizations through their Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) transformations using the Enterprise Business Agility Model. Sally strongly believes in measuring what matters, and that measurement without growth is effort without impact. These guiding principles inspired the creation of AgilityHealth® , the world’s leading measurement and continuous improvement platform, to help organizations accelerate their enterprise business agility transformations and thrive in ever-changing markets. She has three beautiful children, loves music and travel.
Meet Dr. Mik Kersten
Meet Laureen Knudsen
Laureen Knudsen is an award-winning senior business leader with 15+ year career that spans IT, financial and healthcare systems, and analytics. Co-Author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization. Laureen leads a team of experts working to define the future of business to bring Lean principles and agility to all parts of an organization, focusing on optimizing end-to-end process flows and removing waste.
Meet Serge Lucio
Serge Lucio is Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Software Division at Broadcom (ESD). In this role, he is responsible for the company's BizOps solutions that help organizations scale their digital transformation by fusing business and IT. Mr. Lucio joined the company through the CA Technologies acquisition where he was most recently SVP Product and Strategy for the mainframe business unit. Prior to this role, he held various leadership roles across Product Management, Strategy, and M&A at IBM. Mr. Lucio earned an M.S. in Computer Science from Telecom Nancy, France, and holds several patents in the Software Test Automation space.
Meet Kevin Surace
Kevin is a highly lauded entrepreneur and innovator and currently CTO and Chair of Appvance. He’s been awarded 93 worldwide patents, and was Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC Innovator of the Decade, a Davos World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, and inducted into the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame. Kevin has held leadership roles with SeriousEnergy, Perfect Commerce, CommerceNet and General Magic and is credited with pioneering work on AI virtual assistants, smartphones, QuietRock and the Empire State Building windows energy retrofit.
Meet Patrick Tickle
Patrick Tickle is chief product officer, responsible for Planview’s products and cloud operations organizations and delivering market-leading work and resource management solutions. Patrick has over 20 years of experience in product management, product development, and marketing across a wide range of technology solutions.
Meet Alfredo Colas
Alfredo Colas is the IT Senior Vice President for Digital Go-To-Market and leads the acceleration of Agile and DevOps across P&G IT. He leads an organization of more than 100 P&G IT professionals. As part of his Digital Go-To-Market role, he is accountable for developing cutting-edge capabilities that help P&G win by unlocking the full potential of P&G’s Sales organization. He also leads P&G’s Salesforce Center of Excellence (COE). Alfredo joined Procter & Gamble in 1996 in Spain and has led local, regional and global organizations in the Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and US. He has extensive experience in leading business transformations. Most recently, he led North America IT, P&G’s largest region. Alfredo thrives at the intersection of business and technology. He is motivated by applying technology to create value. He also has long-standing experience working in external forums to identify opportunities that improve the end-to-end value chain and ultimately benefit consumers. He has been in the board of GS1 US since 2016 and actively participates in key global industry initiatives.
