Topic: “Digital to the Core, and the 2016 CDO Talent Map"

Topic: “The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer, Our CEO of the Future”

Summary: The rise of the CDO has been exponentially fast! So fast in fact, no other role comes close in comparison growth wise - not even the CIO. What may occur in the next 3-5 years could be similar to the thrills and twists of a great rollercoaster. There will be some exhilarating highs as the growing importance of digital in our organizations places the CDO at the heart of business growth, some stomach-churning challenges that will need to be faced, as well as unexpected twists.

How the CDO responds to ongoing disruption, digital skills shortages, market slowdowns and revenue responsibility will dictate its future. A future we believe blends for the first time the best of business, technology and marketing, and brilliantly positions the CDO to rise as our future CEO.

• David Palmieri (moderator): Chief Operating Officer at Centric Digital
• Jonathan Becher: Chief Digital Officer at SAP
• Kevin Eagan: General Manager, IBM Digital at IBM
• Lauren Lockwood: Chief Digital Officer at City of Boston
• Mayur Gupta: SVP, Head of Digital at Healthgrades
• Rich Napoli: CEO at ObjectFrontier Inc

• Meet & Greet: Brian Manning: Cofounder, President and CDO at Centric Digital and author of "REVIVE: How to Transform Traditional Businesses Into Digital Leaders"
• “Nobody’s Talking (But Everybody’s On The Phone)” Music Video - Jann Klose and Gary Lucas

Topic: "What Skills CDOs Need to Become CEO and Board Directors"
• Robertson Barrett: President, Hearst Newspapers Digital at Hearst
• Larry Kramer: Director at Harvard Business School Publishing

Topic: "Transforming Traditional Businesses into Digital Leaders"
• Special Guest: Phil Bienert: CMO & EVP, Digital Commerce at GoDaddy

• Andrzej Sienko: CDO Club/Community/Academy
• Alex Clyne: Co-founder of Jump Digital Ltd
• Amit Kama: Founder at CDO Club Israel
• Ali Malaz: Founder at CDO Club Turkey

• Magnus Gylje: Chief Digital Officer at Nobel Media AB
Topic: "The Nobel Prize – a Digital Journey"
• Michael Li: Founder, The Data Incubator

• Eric Hellweg (moderator): Managing Director of Product Management & Digital Strategy at Harvard Business Review / HBR.org
• Catherine Devine: Chief Digital Officer at American Museum of Natural History
• Dana Berchman: Chief Digital Officer at Town of Gilbert
• David Link: Chief Digital Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Nancy Hallberg: Chief Marketing Officer at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Susan Poulton: Chief Digital Officer at The Franklin Institute

Topic: "Understanding User POV to Launch Great Digital Experiences"

Summary: Today, simply providing a good app, web or mobile web experience is often insufficient. In today’s digital economy, your users expect a great experience no matter where the engagement occurs – the first time and every time. Because in today’s apps economy, where your digital presence is the gateway to your brand and switching costs are lower than ever, users determine quality. One bad experience and it’s off to a competing brand or site (and maybe even bad-mouthing your brand on social and in the app store). The solution? Listen to your users. They are giving you signals that you need to launch the great digital experiences they will love. Ben Gray, Digital Experience Analyst for Applause will share real-world examples of how understanding user POV has helped brands of all size end internal arguments about quality, connect with customers and beat the competition.

• Michael Krigsman (moderator): Founder of CXOTalk
• Anurag Harsh: SVP at Ziff Davis
• Daniel Colarusso: Executive Editor, Digital; Head of Global Programming at Reuters
• Múirne Laffan: Chief Digital Officer at RTE
• Sharon Feder: Chief Digital Officer at Rachael Ray/Watch Entertainment
• Todd Unger: Chief Digital Officer at Daily Racing Form

Meet & Greet: Brian Manning: Cofounder, President and CDO at Centric Digital and author of "REVIVE: How to Transform Traditional Businesses Into Digital Leaders"

Topic: "The Cisco Digitization Journey: Creating and Delivering Value to Customers in a Digital World"

Summary: As every CDO knows, the cost, speed and volume of innovation in today’s hyper connected market are driving forces behind the imperative to digitize, demanding organizations to re-architect their business models in order to compete and thrive. The role of the successful CDO is not to automate existing workflows or layer tools on top of existing processes but instead to connect all the motions of business—from engineering, to servicing customers, and everything in between—in a synchronized and agile way to create a continuous cycle of innovation in the product portfolio and operating model.

Please join Kevin Bandy, Cisco’s Chief Digital Officer, who will share Cisco’s digitization journey, an initiative based on reimagining value for customers and, in-turn, reimagining work for Cisco. In addition to outlining Cisco’s digitization vision, strategy roadmap and successes to date, the session will include key insights from Bandy’s first year in office, strategy-impacting customer perspectives and best practices globally implemented to ensure alignment and transformation of key global business processes.

Digitization across all industries will be achieved only through the implementation and orchestration of the right technologies. Enabling customers to fill in digitization gaps through analytic insights will drive innovation and long term staying power across all industries.

• Brian Dearth (moderator): Chief Strategy Officer at Centric Digital
• Anne Myong: Chief Financial Officer at Walmart eCommerce
• Jeff Dennes: Former SEVP - Business Development & Digital Transformation at BBVA Compass
• Jeff Reid: EVP Digital Center of Excellence at Humana
• Lauren Lockwood: Chief Digital Officer at City of Boston

Topic: "Unapologetically Digital: How GE Markets a Culture of Disruption"