Avasant Empowering Beyond Summit 2024 | Avasant | 6 May 2024 | Loews Hollywood Hotel, 1755 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA

This event will be an incredible platform for visionary insights from influential leaders across industries. Our theme, Enlightened Disruption – Harnessing Innovation to Navigate Uncertainty, will be an exploration into harnessing new age tech along with disruptive business models to help Global 2000 firms navigate an uncertain business environment. This will be an exclusive and immersive opportunity to connect with executive peers and incredible thought leaders on how to leverage the power of tech enabled services to drive sustained success.

The empowering beyond experience:
• 2 Days of Immersive Experiences
• 350+ C-Level Executives
• 50+ Thought Leaders
• 25+ Inspiring Sessions

Featured Sessions:
• Art of Disruption: Turning Intelligent Digital Investments Into Business Outcomes
• The Next Wave of Value Creation: Architecting a People and Data Centric Enterprise
• Big Tech vs Emerging Tech: Where Is Real Innovation Happening?
• Re-Shaping the Future of Tech Enabled Services
• The Future of Health: Harmonizing Cost and Care Through Digitalization
• Leveraging Generative Ai for Enabling Enterprise Transformation
• Sustainable Enterprise: Nurturing Growth in A Responsible Way
• The Rise of Gbs: How Captives Can Deliver Competitive Edge
• Managing Business Risks in A Complex Multi-Vendor Ecosystems
• Cyber-Proofing the Enterprise: Protecting from Core to The Edge
• Digital Talent at Scale: Building the Hybrid Workforce of Tomorrow
• Driving Business Agility: Shifting to A Digital Operating Model
• Re-Imagining Travel: Aligning Tech and Ops to Drive Cx and Profit
• From Aisles to Algorithms: Navigating the Phygital Retail Experience
• Innovation in Aerospace & Defense: Embracing New Tech, Managing Risks
• Ai Powered Healthcare: Advancements, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Enabling the Smart Enterprise: Harnessing Ai for Industry 4.0
• Reality Check: How Can Media Survive the Coming Disruption?
• Digital Transformation at Scale: Leveraging Platforms for Innovation and Growth
• Butterfly Effect: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
• The Winds of Digital Change: Thriving in Perpetual Transformation
• Harnessing Innovation to Navigate Uncertainty
• The Enterprise Odyssey: Living in The Age of Ai

2024 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Kevin S. Parikh
Chairman & CEO, Avasant

Atti Riazi
SVP and CIO, Hearst

Rodrigo Kede Lima
President of Americas Enterprise, Microsoft

Yuri Aguiar
Chief Enterprise Data Officer, The WPP Group

Yogesh Agrawal
VP, Data Center GPU Business, NVIDIA

SESSION SPEAKERS:

James Whatley
Chief Information Officer, Mary Kay Inc.

Luke Rockenbach
Regional CFO North California, Providence

Jyoti Chopra
Chief People, Inclusion & Sustainability Officer, MGM Resorts International

RJ Hazra
SVP and CFO, Equifax

Gareth Gaston
Chief Digital Product Officer, Enterprise Platforms, U.S. Bank

Richie Etwaru
Chief AI Officer, @Mobeus

Patricia Geli
Co-Founder and COO, C10Labs

Oliver Gall
Chief Procurement Officer, Prudential Financial

Walter Yosafat
CIO, Capri Holdings

Daphne E. Jones
Award-Winning CEO, The Board Curators

Tim Skeen
EVP and Enterprise CIO, Sentara Healthcare

Daniel Yang
Chief Customer and Innovation Officer, MGM Resorts International

Chris Donahoe
Executive Vice President and Head of AI Strategy, Edelman Smithfield

Sanjay Bhakta
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Condé Nast

Bharat Krish
Chief Product Officer, Newsweek

Anish Sethi
Chief, Digital Solutions Centre, UN ICC

Nora Osman
President/CEO, Norvana

Ganesh Kumar
SEVP, OFG Bancorp

Dan Hedstrom
VP & CIO, Cubic Corporation

David Whitaker
VP & CIO, General Atomics

Vincent Cirel
Chief Technology Officer, Gannett | USA Today Network

Brian Kernan
Vice President, Indirect Procurement & Vendor Management, Republic National Distributing Company

Trina Ford
Chief Information Security Officer, iHeartMedia

Brian Tossan
Chief Technology Officer, Greater Toronto Airports Authority

Raj Kadam
SVP, Health Plan Operations & CIO, Liberty Dental

Tom Soderstrom
Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services

Alexandra Landeggar
CISO, Collins Aerospace

Pankit Desai
Co-founder and CEO, Sequretek

Cynthia McKenzie
VP, Co-founder and Board Member, STEM Advantage

Peter Nag
Global Head Business Process Outsourcing, Shared Services & Transformation, Merck

Rick Hopfer
SVP & CIO, HMSA, Blue Cross Blue Shield Hawaii

Will Setiyawan
Sr. Director ERP, Head of NG SAP COE, Northrop Grumman

Anand Nair
VP, Healthcare Technology, UST

Neeraj Khanna
Head of Global Services Delivery, Truist

Hiren Dave
CIO/CISO, Essen Health Care

Tembi Hommes
Global Chief Data Officer, Arup

John Fremont
VP, Business Leadership, DXC

Rusty Kennington
CIO, Oldcastle Building Envelope

Patricia Sedano
SVP Global Finance Shared Services, Sony Music

Vignesh Markandan
VP, Industrial and Retail, Hitachi Digital Services

Steven Allsop
Former Executive Director - Professional Services Category Lead, SMBC Group

Manish Vora
Business Unit Head, Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Products, WNS

Sandeep Sakharkar
CIO, GXO Logistics

Vikrant Karnik
SVP, Genpact

Tony Menezes
Global Managing Partner, Business Process Operations, IBM Consulting

Kirk Mitchell
Director, Vendor Management Organization, BCBSA

Oliver Parker
VP AI GM, Google Cloud

Miku Jha
Director, AI/ML and Generative AI, Google Cloud

Fred Pond
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Larry Godec
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Ruth Steinberg
Principal & ERP Practice Lead, Avasant

Anupam Govil
Managing Partner, and Summit Chair, Avasant

Frank Scavo
Sr. Partner and President, Avasant Research

Dave Wagner
Sr. Research Director, Avasant

Nishant Verma
Managing Partner, Avasant

Matthew Barlow
Managing Partner, Avasant

Mike Wheeler
Supply Chain Practice Leader, Avasant

Jo Ann Tan
Strategic BU Leader, Capital Markets, Cognizant

Joel Raper
General Manager and SVP of Digital Workplace Solutions, Unisys

Chitra Rajeshwari
Principal, Avasant and Executive Director, Avasant Foundation

Akshay Khanna
Managing Partner, Avasant

Bharat Amin
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Shael Roopchand
Director, Avasant

Swapnil Bhatnagar
Sr. Research Director, Avasant

Naresh Lachmandas
Partner and Sr. Fellow, Avasant

Chandrika Dutt
Research Leader, Avasant

Robert Joslin
Managing Partner, Avasant

Shobhit Patnaik
Partner and Business Transformation Lead, Avasant

Carlos Hernandez
Partner, Avasant

Andre Sole
Principal, Avasant

Jim Rinaldi
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Hiten Patel
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Steven Gerst
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Jay Weinstein
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Julia Bardmesser
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Shobhit Patnaik
Partner, Avasant

Rakesh Patro
Partner, Avasant

Chirag Rawat
Sr. Research Director, Avasant

2024 Sponsors

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS:
• DXC Technology
• HCLTech
• IBM
• Infinite

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Cognizant
• Genpact
• Hitachi Digital Services
• Sequretek
• Unisys
• UST
• Wipro
• WNS

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Accenture
• Capgemini
• Deloitte
• Tata Consultancy Services