19th Annual OPEX Week: Business Transformation World Summit 2018 | International Quality & Productivity Center | 22 January 2018 | Hyatt Regency Orlando, 9801 International Drive, Orlando FL 32819 US

Creating and Empowering Business Growth: Ascend to the future

The 19th Annual OPEX Week: Business Transformation World Summit 2018 has arrived! This coming January, you will learn from 100+ of the most influential experts from the world's leading brands and most innovative companies. You'll have a front-row seat as they share real case-studies from the full spectrum of process, technology and people - Together you will explore the most effective strategies to help you ascend to the future of exponential growth.

Your one-stop destination that covers everything you need to accelerate your business transformation:
• The future state of C-suite: Achieving top line growth through business model innovation and digital transformation.
• A truly aligned business transformation and OPEX strategy: Building the next generation capabilities through Business architecture.
• Engage and empower: Developing and sustaining a high performance culture.
• Transform into the future with your digital workforce and technology enablement.
• Look no further, join 1000+ business transformation executives this coming January in Orlando.

Placing customer value at the center of your transformation: Adjusting your approach, process, and metrics to be customer focused.

2018 Speakers:

Johannes Giloth
Senior Vice President Global Operations and Chief Procurement Officer, Nokia

Chris Gelvin
Chief Operating Officer for Group COO, UBS

Liz Iversen
Senior Vice President, Chief Quality & Regulatory Officer, Philips

Ken Goldman
Chief Financial Officer, Yahoo!

Tony Saldanha
Vice President, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble

Janice Semper
Head of Culture, GE Corporate

Jon Theuerkauf
Managing Director and Group Head of Performance Excellence, BNY Mellon

Ken Gabriel
President and Chief Executive Officer, Draper

Nigel Leppitt
Global Head of Organisation and Business Transformation, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE

Ian Gordon
Senior Vice President Operations, Regence Insurance Holding Company

Vijay Bhuvanagiri
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Architecture, MasterCard

Maria Swainson
Director, Cyber Security Services, Symantec

Joel Smith
Director, Rapid Continuous Improvement, Dr Pepper Snapple

Diane Lopes
Vice President, Business Excellence, AETNA

Jorj Madalin Mihailovici, Chief Executive Officer
Veolia Group

Mihai Savin
Deputy General Manager, Apa Nova Bucuresti
Cristian Matei

Cristian Matei
Head of Business Transformation, Veolia Group

Victor Vizzuett
Director of Continuous Improvement and Project Management Office, AkzoNobel

Mia Leondakis
Vice President, Business Transformation & Automation, VMWare

Partha Baral
Senior Director, Business Architecture, Process Excellence,VMWare

Teresa Logue
Head of Operational Transformation, Zurich

Nina Muhleisen
Head of World Class Delivery Model, ANZ

John Fitzgerald
Executive Director, Design and Innovation, Verizon

Ivan Cespedes
Enterprise Excellence Manager, Dos Pinos

Samantha Bureau-Johnson
Vice President, Business Process Excellence & Project Management Offic, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

Rick Hepp
President, Enterprise Excellence Services, LLC

Sisir Padhy
Senior Vice President, Process Excellence and Innovation, Verizon

John Olson
VP Business Transformation, Johnson Controls

Ricardo Badillo
Director, Business Process Management, Western Union

Sandy Kemsley
BPM Architect and Industry Analyst, BPM Architect and Industry Analyst

Erika Westbay
Program Director, BPM, The Nature Conservancy

Shayne Ginder
Director of Performance Improvement, Sunrise Senior Living

James Dodkins
Board Advisor, BP Group

Michael Noonan
Director, Business Architecture, Capita

Steve Towers
Founder and CEO, BP Group

Rob Stewart
President, The Quality Group

Dr. Chuck Brandon
Director, Process Improvement Program Office, U.S Army

Anish Sharan
Manager, Business Process Improvement, CME Group Inc., Zurich

Sarah Snyder
Head of Methodology, Training and Sustainability, Zurich

Liz Harada
Director, SCM Solutions Governance & Process Management, HAVI

Adam Devine
VP, Head of Marketing, WorkFusion

Malcolm Ross
Vice President, Product , Appian Corporation

Anant Gupta
SVP, Global Head of Enterprise Architecture, Prolifics

Leslie Behnke
Senior Director, Business Integration, One Plan Change Office, Walgreen Co.

Marios Stavropoulos
Chief Executive Officer, Softomotive

Mihir Shukla
Chief Executive Officer, Automation Anywhere

Mehul Mehta
Director, Process Excellence & Innovation, Verizon

Salem Hadim
Global Head of Smarter Process Practice, Prolifics

Atul Phadnis
Chief Content Officer, Gracenote

Majorie Hook,, Vice President, Global Content Operations, Gracenote

Ieasha Taitano
Vice President of Design Thinking, LPL Financial

Rachel Lane
Director, Strategic Initiatives & Business Transformation, State of Indiana

Jim Natale
Vice President Business Operations, EMC

Doug Drolett
Head of Continuous Improvement, Americas, Shell Oil

Ifty Khan
Senior Business Excellence Leader, GE Renewable Energy

Ruben Del Toro
Enterprise Continuous Improvement, Strategic Planning, Southwest Airlines

Jennifer Hurst
Business Process Improvement Centre of Excellence Leader, Nielsen

Angela Marano
Senior Director, Business Performance Improvement, Southwest Airlines

Jithesh Ramachandran
Continuous Improvement SBC, adidas Group – Reebok

Christopher Cool
Vice President Operations Optimization, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Brett Hiltscher
Director of Transformation Office, Reebok

Biswajit Dasgupta
VP, Quality & Operational Excellence, Fidelity Personal Investing

Renaud Fournier
Chief Business Transformation Officer, New York University

Josh Seeman
AVP, Automation, OppenheimerFunds

Ashley Dougan
Director, Continuous Improvement, Kellogg Company

Loren Bishop
Vice President - Director of Lean Management Office, State Street

Jan Burnham
CEO, ROC Group

Kirk Botula
CEO, CMMI® Institute

Bror Muller
Vice President, Business Change, Tokio Millennium Re

Anu George
Chief Quality Officer, Head of Operational Excellence, Morningstar

Susan Brown
Executive Vice President, Wholesale Operational Excellence, SunTrust Bank

Tony Greco
Vice President, Operational Excellence & Business Transformation, Wyndham Worldwide

Sundar Chari
Director, Change Management, Revenue Management, Hertz

Jeff Stark
Vice President, Business Solutions, Firmenich Incorporated

Laurie Brooks
Global Director, Process Transformation, Kellogg Company

Lisa Grenier
Vice President Operations, Puratos

Beth Johnson
VP, Operational Excellence, Digital Finance, Goldman Sachs

Pranay Butala
Head of Continuous Improvement and Consulting, Guardian Life

Sisir Padhy
Vice President Process Excellence & Innovation, Verizon

Vipul Vohra
Vice President, Quality & Process Excellence, AON

Eric Lussier
Vice President of Operational Excellence, Handy & Harman

John Baranzelli
Director of RAPID Results Office, State of Illinois

Mikael Scott
Manager, WW Supply Chain Transformation, Amazon

Aaron Bozeman
Director, Professional Services, iGrafx

Naveen Agarwal
Manager, Business Analytics, Johnson &Johnson Vision Care

Craig Russell
EVP, Business Change, Tokio Millennium Re AG

Riad Ardahji
Senior Director, Production Engineering and Continuous Improvement, Leggett & Platt

James Webb
Chief Operating Officer, Farmers of North America (FNA)

Mathy Sales
VP of Performance Excellence, National Express

Raju Deshpande
SVP, Director of Operational Excellence, East West Bank

Anthony Brunshtein
Performance Excellence Coach, National Express, Tim

Tim Kubal MD
Malignant Hematology, Professor, Process Excellence, Moffitt Cancer Centre

Bilal Muhammed
Vice President, Product & Solution Engineering, Wells Fargo, Craig

Craig W Eagleson
Vice President, Global Business Architecture, State Street Global Markets

Brian Williams
SVP, Head of Continuous Improvement, Voya Financial

Jay Lebsack
Director, Process Excellence, Moffitt Cancer Center

David Pettit
Change Management Lead, AETNA

Uday Sawhney
Vice President, Lean Management Architect, Zurich North America

Aparna Singhal
Director, Sales Operations and Business Intelligence, Google Cloud

Brad Orluk
Technical Evangelist and Automation Specialist, Nintex

Andrea Arrowsmith
Vice President, Strategy PMO, Bed Bath & Beyond

Stefana Saxton
Business Excellence Innovation Leader, Black & Veatch

Stephan Blasilli
Head of Global Lean Operations & Corporate Initiatives, EDP Renewables North America LLC

Kishore Kandru
Senior Manager Business Process Architecture & Automation, CSAA Insurance Group

Jina Jayanetti
Head of Process Optimization Center of Excellence, Fifth Third Bank

Paul Docherty
Founder and Executive Director, i-nexus

Nick Hoppenjans
Assistant Vice President, Intelligent Automation Program Manager, Fifth Third Bank, Roger Price

Roger Price
Chief Executive Officer, EON

Jon Beller
Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence, First United Bank

Sally Toister
Senior Director, Operational Excellence – Americas Division, Marriott International

Pete Khanna
Chief Executive Officer, TrackVia

Shane Wentz
Global Director Continuous Improvement, Radial

Sudha Sundaresan
Director, Business Architecture, Comcast

Constantine Kokolis
Director, Strategic Customer Initiatives, Workiva

Ha Dao
Technical Quality Manager, ASQ Board of Directors, Emerson

Erik Anderson
Workplace Analytics Consulting Lead, Microsoft

Jeff Davis
Executive Director, Operational Excellence, JP Morgan Chase

Bao Do
Business Architecture Manager, Innovation & Strategy, Wells Fargo Advisors

Danielle Conner
VP Manufacturing, Ventura Foods

Ian Goudy
Vice President, Global Continuous Improvement, Hertz,

Therese Steiner
Director, Operational Effectiveness, Global Operations, LexisNexis

Martijn Gribnau
Chief Transformation Officer, Genworth Financial

Dan Semmens
Managing Director Transformation, ATB Financial

Lorraine Saintus
Associate Vice President, Performance Improvement, American Osteopathic Association

Peter Malek
Director, Process Performance & Operational Excellence , VMware

Rakesh Amerineni
Manager, Finance Business Transformation & Architecture, LinkedIn, Hauke Schupp

Hauke Schupp
Vice President, Enterprise Change Management, American Advisors Group

William Olmstead
Director, Continuous Improvement Americas, LEGO Group

Vikram Ganesan
Head of Continuous Improvement, Siemens Healthcare

Matthew DiGeronimo
Vice President of Operations, Veolia North America

Kristen Burton
Director of Digital Enablement, Cisco

Massimiliano Delsante
Chief Executive Officer, myInvenio - a Cognitive company

Richard Theodore
Senior Technical Specialist, K2

Dan Griffith
Director, Everteam

Stephanie Zeiler
Change Management Leader, Amazon Lab126, Claudio Gosiker

Claudio Gosiker
Director, Guidewell

Carmen West
Senior Director, Global HR Operations , McGraw-Hill Education

Melvin Steals
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Treasury Management, The PNC Financial Services Group

Lauren Graber
Program Director, MyHealth Access Network

Erin Eccles
Senior Manager Continuous Improvement, Change Healthcare

Adam Kozakov
Operational Excellence Manager, Aveva Drug Delivery Systems

Angel Garcia
Global Operational Excellence Leader, Televisa

Rodolfo Pous
Executive Director Network Broadcast Operations, TELEVISA

2018 Sponsors:

• AI Foundry
• Appian
• AuraPortal
• Automation Anywhere
• BluePrism
• BPM-D
• Centric Consulting
• CMMI Institute
• Co-Creation Partners
• Cognitive Technology
• CSL
• DST Systems
• EON
• Everteam
• FireStart
• IBM
• iGrafx
• Interfacing
• K2
• Kofax
• MEGA International
• Microsoft
• Micro Strategies
• Minitab
• Nintex
• OpusWorks
• Prolifics
• Processplan
• PROLOGICS
• ROC Group
• Signavio
• Softomotive
• Symphony
• TimelinePi
• TrackVia
• UiPath