Welcome to the 15th Symposium!

Speakers:

• Lindsey Anderson, SM ‘79, Chair, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium (@LindseyA75)
• David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management (@MITDeanDave)

After a brief overview of the Symposium program, we will introduce the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award finalists and announce the winner. We will also share what you need to know to get the most out of the day, including the use of the Q&A app, Sli.do.

Creating a Digital Culture

Moderator:

• George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@gwesterman)

Speakers:

• Tanguy Catlin, MBA '04, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company (@TanguyCatlin)
• David Gledhill, Group CIO & Head of Group Technology & Operations , DBS Bank (@GledhillDavid)
• Andrei Oprisan, Vice President of Technology & Director of the Boston Tech Hub , Liberty Mutual Insurance (@andreioprisan)
• Melissa Swift, Global Leader for Digital Solutions, Korn Ferry Hay Group (@meswift)

Can large organizations adopt the cultures of digital native companies like Amazon and Google? Every company wants to be faster and more innovative, but how can you do that on a pre-digital foundation? This panel will examine how CIOs are helping their companies to develop cultures that can compete with - and surpass - digital native companies.

What is Your Digital Business Model?

Moderator:

• Wolfgang Bauriedel, Executive Director, Russell Reynolds Associates (#WolfgangBauriedel)

Speakers:

• Peter Weill, Chairman, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (@peterdweill)
• Stephanie Woerner, Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (@SL_Woerner)

Many company leaders recognize the threat from digital and the potential opportunity. However, they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess the degree of threat to their business and, more importantly, to give them direction about what they should do. They don’t know how to think about their digital business model. The discussion will focus on four distinct business models to help firms clarify where they stand in the digital business landscape.

The Future of Work in a World of AI, ML, and Automation

Moderator:

• Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, PhD ‘91, Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@erikbryn)

Speakers:

• Prof. Jason Jackson, PhD '13, Assistant Professor in Political Economy and Urban Planning, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (@JasonBJackson)
• Prof. Iyad Rahwan, AT&T Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab (@iyadrahwan)
• Elisabeth Reynolds, PhD '10, Executive Director, Work of the Future Task Force (#elisabeth_reynolds)

Technology has always been a double-edged sword. In many instances taking jobs away, but ultimately providing many more. It is easy to count the number of jobs lost from technologies like AI, Machine Learning, and Automation. But it is very difficult to envision what jobs will be created from them. The focus of this panel is on the latter – how can these brilliant technologies enable the creation of jobs, optimize mind and machine, and present us with the opportunity of broader income equality in a technology driven economy. More than this, we’ll explore the new skills needed, and the changes in how we educate the workforce of the future – regardless of who provides that education.

Safe and Sound Software for Digital Execution

Speakers:

• Frédéric Véron, Chief Information Officer & Head of Safety & Soundness, Deutsche Bank (#FredericVeron)

Creating the next gen digital platform for any business has a lot to do with the capability of the organization to build differentiating software. The CIO has to own the challenge of constructing the right digital platform as fast as possible, while keeping the business safe and sound. This talk will draw from the speaker’s experience of building resilient, safe software in a highly regulated but fast moving environment, while enabling process changes to Agile, CI/CD and DevOps.

Insights from the Leadership Award Finalists

Moderator:

• George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@gwesterman)

Speakers:

• Akash Khurana, Vice President, Chief Information & Chief Digital Officer, McDermott Inc. (#akash_khurana)
• Mike Macrie, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Land O’Lakes, Inc. (@mwmacrie)
• Harmeen Mehta, Global Chief Information Officer & Head of Digital, Bharti Airtel Limited (@harmeenm)
• Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer, Office of Information and Communications Technology, United Nations (@UN_CITO)

The Finalists for the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award have led their organizations to deliver exemplary levels of business value through innovative use of IT. Yet no two finalists have the same story. Learn how each CIO Finalist transformed their IT units and their companies for the better. Their experiences can provide lessons for every IT leader and service provider.

Protecting your Workforce with Secure Endpoints

Speakers:

• Eve Phillips SB '99, MNG '99, Group Product Manager, Google Chrome Enterprise (@evephillips)

With malware and phishing attacks more prevalent than ever, IT administrators are pressed to find new ways to protect their businesses. During this session, you will learn about Chrome OS & Browser's unique security model to deter against these threats, and how Google protects its own workforce.

Birds-of-a-Feather Networking Lunch 2018

If you have not selected one of the Lunch Breakout sessions, please join us for a Networking Lunch, on the Main Court of Rockwell. We will have working lunches set up at tables, with “Birds of a Feather” topics posted on signs. Feel free to sit at a table about a topic of interest. Many tables will be facilitated by an ‘expert’ (speaker, sponsor, organizer) who will help lead a lively and interesting discussion.

Mapping the Future of the IT Unit

Moderator:

• Joe Peppard, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (@Joe_Peppard)

Speakers:

• Jay Jamison, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product Management, Quick Base (@jay_jamison)
• Naufal Khan, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company (@Naufal_A_Khan)
• Bruce Lee, Senior Vice President and Head of Operations and Technology, Fannie Mae (@FannieMae)
• Adeel Saeed, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of Corporate Technology Services & Interim Chief Security Officer, State Street (@adeelsaeed)

No organization can hope to thrive with an IT unit that is designed, led, and managed on principles and practices from a previous era. The IT unit must change and evolve to reflect changing conditions and new requirements. This panel will explore how leaders are determining investments in information, systems, and technology.

Implementing AI

Moderator:

• Michael Schrage, Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (#michael_schrage)

Speakers:

• David Gledhill, Group CIO & Head of Group Technology & Operations , DBS Bank (@GledhillDavid)
• Cynthia Stoddard, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Adobe (@stoddardCA )
• Giorgos Zacharia SB '97, SM '99, PhD '09, Chief Technology Officer, KAYAK (@kayak)

As AI technology advances, it is becoming more integrated into the enterprise. AI technologies and AI-driven products are enabling new services never possible before, providing deep business intelligence, enhancing strategic decision making, improving customer experience, automating work, and cutting costs. This panel of experts will share insights on the current generation of intelligent systems and how CIOs can select and implement AI to improve capabilities and transform their organizations.

Realizing Synergies from Digital Innovations

Moderator:

• Nils Fonstad, SM ‘96, PhD ‘03, Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (@NilsFonstad)

Speakers:

• Alan Eddie, Chief Information Officer for Trading , Nordea
• David Hackshall, Chief Information Officer, Cochlear Ltd (@dhackshall)
• Akash Khurana, Vice President, Chief Information & Chief Digital Officer, McDermott Inc. (#akash_khurana)
• Bill Kracunas, National Management Consulting Leader, RSM US LLC (@billkracunas)

One of the toughest challenges of today’s companies is to coordinate interactions across their growing and increasingly diverse portfolio of innovations. When companies do not coordinate these interactions, they put their operations and customer experience at risk. By coordinating interactions well, they achieve significant synergies—the total impact of the company’s innovations is greater than the return on the sum. This panel will explore what firms are doing to realize synergies from digital innovations.

Platforms & APIs: How to Cut Costs, Raise Revenues & Boost Market Cap

Moderator:

• Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne, SM ‘91, PhD ‘98, Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business, Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@InfoEcon)

Speakers:

• David Berlind, Editor-in-Chief, ProgrammableWeb (@dberlind)
• Rudy Chang, Managing Director, Discover Digital Group (@rudychang1234)
• Travis Dunn, Chief Technology Officer, DraftKings (@iStackHeavy)
• Sam Ramji, Vice President of Product Management, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (@sramji)

Open ecosystems matter, whether they are internal or external. Internal platforms let firms reconfigure their assets. External platforms leave them open to outsiders. Critical to success is the technology, application programming interfaces (APIs), that make this happen. This panel will provide the pros and cons of APIs and detail the war stories of how these battles are won.

Building The Intelligent Enterprise using AI, ML, Mobility, and Cloud Services

Moderator:

• Ryan Mallory, VP, Global Solutions Architects, Equinix (@RyanMallory551)

Speakers:

• Alston Ghafourifar, CEO and Co-Founder, Entefy Inc. (@alstonology )
• Hugh Owen, Senior Vice President, Product Marketing, MicroStrategy (@MicroStrategy)
• Stephen Taylor, Global Head of Analytics, Reporting, Integration, and Software Engineering , Devon Energy Corporation (@DevonEnergy)
• Michael Woods, Vice President of Information Technology, CDM Smith (@CDMSmith)

Undeniable market trends are pushing enterprises to the digital edge, demanding a paradigm shift from traditional/centralized enterprise models to decentralized/edge computing models, in order to overcome significant challenges including latency, bandwidth, autonomy, and privacy. In this panel we will look at specific use cases on how leading organizations are overcoming these challenges using AI/ML and leveraging hyperscalers, including: preparing for GDPR regulations; using an interconnection strategy to ensure security, quality, and compliance; and transporting workloads being created from multiple IoT and mobile interfaces globally, internally and externally.

Blockchain: Rising Above The Noise

Moderator:

• Prof. Simon Johnson PhD '89, Professor, Global Economics & Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (@baselinescene)

Speakers:

• Prasanna Gopalakrishnan, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Boston Private (@BostonPrivate )
• Michael Hagler, President, Clevertech (@Clevertech)
• Peter Nichol, Managing Director, OROCA Innovations (@PeterBNichol)
• Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer, Office of Information and Communications Technology, United Nations (@UN_CITO)

What does Blockchain mean for a mainstream CIO? How do CIOs decide if and how to invest in blockchain based applications? Outside of the hype surrounding this early stage technology, what is happening inside enterprises that are embracing this technology, and how are these deployments evolving? What led these organizations to embrace Blockchain, and how did they execute? Our panelists will share their experience and predictions on the future of blockchain in the enterprise.

Redesigning the Digital Workplace for [email protected]

Moderator:

• Kristine Dery, Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (@kristinedery)

Speakers:

• Gail Evans, Global Chief Information Officer, Mercer (@CioMercer)
• Steve Kokinos, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Fuze (@stevekokinos)
• Harmeen Mehta, Global Chief Information Officer & Head of Digital, Bharti Airtel Limited (@harmeenm)
• Stephanie Mills, Digital Lead for Avanade Advisory Services, Avanade (@AvanadeInc)

Many organizations are thinking about ways to leverage Agile methodology beyond the IT unit to drive more project innovation and speed across the organization— [email protected] As this new way of working spreads beyond IT, there are significant challenges in designing the workplace to enable employees to work according to the principles of Agile. Companies need to think differently about the workspace, technologies, social networks, and management practices to realize the value from Agile and this becomes particularly challenging as the practices become more widespread. In this panel we will discuss these opportunities and challenges.

CIO’s Role in C-level Cybersecurity Leadership

Moderator:

• Prof. Stuart Madnick, SB ‘66, SM ‘69, PhD ‘72, Director, MIT Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, (IC)3 (#StuartMadnick)

Speakers:

• Don Anderson, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (@DonAndersonCIO)
• Lev Lesokhin, MBA '00, EVP, Strategy & Analytics, CAST (@levlesokhin)
• Lena Smart, Managing Director and Global Chief Information Security Officer, Tradeweb
• Lance Weaver, Vice President, Product Strategy & Emerging Services, Equinix (@lance_t_weaver)

The CIO’s role in managing C-level involvement in cybersecurity is assumed, but how it’s executed varies greatly across firms. Should the CIO ‘own’ cybersecurity, or is it the domain of another executive (eg. Chief Risk Officer, Chief Operations Officer, etc.)? What is the role of other C-level executives in cybersecurity? What do the C-level executives need to know about cybersecurity? In this session, we will explore these questions about C-Level cybersecurity leadership.

Articulating your Digital Vision

Speakers:

• Jeanne W. Ross, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (@jrossCISR)

Because established companies are not designed to be digital, they must transform to remain competitive. The first step in a digital transformation is articulating a clear vision of how the company will engage with customers to solve their problems. This is not easy—but without a clear vision, people in the company cannot design a coherent, executable business strategy. In this session, we will describe how senior business leaders formulate a vision that is inspired by both existing organizational competencies and the capabilities of digital technologies.

Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution

Moderator:

• Paul Michelman, Editor in Chief, MIT Sloan Management Review (@pmichelman)

Speakers:

• Anthony Christie, SF ‘98, Chief Operating Officer, Trace3 (@christieontech)
• Cathy Horst Forsyth, Founder and Managing Partner, Strongbow Consulting Group
• Mike Macrie, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Land O’Lakes, Inc. (@mwmacrie)
• Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (#IrvingWB)

In most organizations, strategy and execution are managed almost entirely separately. High-level strategy is set by a small group of executives; the implementation of that strategy is then delegated into the hands of a much larger and more heterogeneous group of functional managers and their far-flung teams. What happens? Those words that looked like a sure-fire recipe for success become mutated by the demands of day-to-day operations and the individual agendas of those who lead them. Digital technologies can exacerbate this problem as much as help address it. Is there a better way to develop strategy? Is there a more effective means of connecting strategic priorities to the realities of execution? The members of this panel say emphatically, “yes.”

Is Tech Screwing Up the Planet?

Speakers:

• Andrew McAfee, SB ‘88, SM ‘90, Principal Research Scientist/Co-Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@amcafee)

In past years Andrew McAfee’s keynotes have been pro technology: technology is critical for a high growth economy in the second machine age; technology is a great enabler of businesses that use machine, platform, and crowd; and technology will enable more jobs than it will take away. But the subject of the impact of technology on the environment is new territory. Are we paying a price for these benefits by harming the planet? Or is there a case for remaining pro technology?

9th Annual Innovation Showcase

The Innovation Showcase highlights 10 outstanding early stage companies with cutting edge solutions that combine both value and innovation to Enterprise IT.

Evening Reception and Networking

Wind down with a beverage and tasty snacks, reflect on what you've heard with colleagues, and plan what you'll take back to the office. Enter the Innovation Showcase raffle and perhaps get a book signed at the Authors' Table.