Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Summit 2020 | Proqis | 23 March 2020 | Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, 5601 Universal Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819, USA

The Largest Premier Cross-Industry Gathering of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Leaders & Senior-Executives

2020 Speakers

Brian Kedzior
Sr. Director, Organizational Development and Change Management, Walgreen

Lisa Wardlaw
Former Executive Vice President Global Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Munich Re

Atif Meraj
Global Head Supply Chain Operations, Delta Air Lines

Travis Hahler
Americas Change and Culture Lead, Google Cloud

Mark Arrigotti
Global Head Procure to Pay, Uber

Dr. Saul J. Berman
Chief Strategist & VP of Digital Strategy, IBM, IBM Services

Louise Kyhl-Triolo
VP, Intrapreneurial Culture Airbus Global & Talent Development, Airbus

Nicola Hodson
Vice President of the Field Transformation Office , Microsoft

Kelli Pierce
SVP Operational Excellence, Mastercard

Yosi Kossowsky
Culture and Business Change Management Leader , Cisco

Rami Shafiei
Head of Operational Excellence Program, Saudi Aramco

Anu Pujji
Principal of Operational Excellence and Transformation, Amazon

Ed Brewer
Vice President Operational Excellence, Duke Energy

Mark Webber
Strategic Program Manager Lead, Google

Vishal Gupta
Global CTO and Senior Vice President, Technology, Unisys

Dr. Jeff Sutherland
Inventor and co-creator of Scrum, creator of Scrum@Scale, scruminc

Rajeeve Kaul
Corporate Vice President, McDonalds

Jerry Storey
Managing Director Regulatory Affairs & Compliance - Transportation, FedEx Trade Networks

Kelvin Manning
Associate Director - John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA

Eoin O'Reilly
Head of Digital Automation, MetLife

Mark Whitten
Director of Operations USA, Martinrea

Benjamin-Josiah Huff
VP, Product Management & Business Architecture, Wells Fargo

Dr. Elhanen (Eli) Abramov
Executive Advisor and Director (ex EVP Global Operations in ADAMA), ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd.

Subhro Gupta
VP and Head of Business Process Transformation, Prudential

Philip Payne
NA Managing Partner, IBM Services, IBM Services

Donald Kuk
Chief Transformation Officer, SVP Operational Excellence and Quality, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Mednax

Anthony Brunshtein
Senior Business Consultant, Southwest Airlines

Thom Keehan
Vice President, Enterprise Quality & Operational Excellence, Daikin Applied

Joseph Dudas
Vice Chair Supply Chain Management, Mayo Clinic

Vic Nanda
Head, Quality Capabilities and Consulting, Nokia

Dr Marlene Kolodziej
Vice President, Centralized Services, Ricoh USA Inc

Dan McCoy
Chief Operating Officer, Harrison Financial Services

Gil Marques
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Operations, HMS

Lakshmi Shankar
Senior Director, Strategy & Operations, Twitter Inc.

Dr. Keith Clinkscales
Director Strategic Planning & Performance Management, BOCC-Palm Beach County

Dr. Rodolfo Santamaria
Vice President Global Supply Management, Stanley Black and Decker

Dr. Karen Tilstra
Co- Founder, AdventHealth Innovation Lab (FHIL)

Oliver Maeckel
Partner & Vice President, Siemens AG

Steve Waszak
VP Operational Excellence, Greene Group Industries

Anu George
Chief Quality and Transformation Officer, Morningstar, Inc.

Rias Attar
Vice President – Enterprise Project Management Office & Strategic Initiatives, Caesars Entertainment

Iassen Deenitchin
Head of Global Process Management, ING

José Pires
Former Global Vice President of Enterprise Business Improvement & Productivity, Andeavor Corporation

Rodney Leonard
Director, Global E2E Product Supply, Johnson & Johnson

Allyn Bailey
Talent Acquisition Transformation Manager, Intel Corporation

Bruna Braga
Head of Partnerships, Solve, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mia Leondakis
Vice President, Business Transformation and Automation, VMware

Adam Lawrence
Managing Partner, Process Improvement Partners LLC

Oliver Maeckel
Partner & Vice President, Siemens AG

Bryant Yee
Vice President of Advanced Analytics, Performance Excellence and Automation, National Grid

Dr Remi Raphael
Director of Business Transformation, Duke

Dessalen Wood
Chief People Officer, Thoughtexchange

Matthew Marino
AVP Lean Management- Operational Effectiveness, Prudential

Gregory Lipper
Chief Operating Officer and SVP, Nasdaq

Padmini Nidumolu
Enterprise Lean | Agile Coach, Fannie Mae

Brou Gautier
Chief, USAF Improvement and Innovation Division, United States Air Force

Randy Shumway
Chairman, Partner, Cicero Group

Anu McFreen
Global Sales Strategy & Operations Transformation Leader, Eli Lilly and Company

Andy Tilstra
Chief Information Officer, Advent Health Innovation Lab

Wendy Sherrock
Vice President Operational Effectiveness, Finastra

Aaron Anderson
Senior Partner, Cicero Group

Tony Benedict
President, Omicron Partners

Tony Johnson
Customer Experience Officer and Director of Service Excellence, Aramark

Dr. Mathias Kirchmer
Managing Director and Co-CEO, BPM-D

Ronald Lear
Director of IP Development, CMMI Products & Services Chief Architect, CMMI Institute

Don Magnuson
RVP Sales, Software AG

James Feldman
The Bright Idea Guy, Shift Happens

Lisa Kaplan
VP of Relationship Development, Moxtra Inc.

Alka Bhave
Vice President of Performance Excellence, Perspecta

Joe Crady
Chief Improvement and Innovation Training, US Air Force

Tamara Nation
Director of Curriculum Product Management, Scaled Agile

Carol McEwan
CEO & Chief Product Owner, Scrum@Scale

Rob Stewart
CEO, OpusWorks (by The Quality Group)

Pranav Shahi
Head of Business Systems, IT , Atlassian

Melissa Reeve
Vice President of Marketing, Scaled Agile

Marcus Gropp
Managing Director & Head of Digital Transformation, Klöckner Shared Services GmbH

Michael Gallagher
Senior GE Aviation Performance System (GEAPS) Leader, GE Aviation

Shane Yount
President, Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI)

Bryan Corazza
Regional Offering Lead – Modern Workplace, Avanade

Brad Orluk
Strategic Alliances Manager, Nintex

Amy Sawtell
Regional Offering Lead – Modern Workplace, Avanade

Theo Bell
President, CEO, Delane Consulting & Talent Management

John R. Davis
President, Founding Partner, AdaptOne

Fady Zachary
Partner & Vice President of Consulting Services, Delane Consulting & Talent Management

Mark Mc Gregor
Author, Performance & Business Coach

Randy Clark
Director of Six Sigma, Upland Software

Shyamal Addenki
VP North America, FireStart, Inc.

George Bennett
VP Business Development, myInvenio

Cliff Tironi
CEO, Thinaer

Masimiliano Delsante
CEO, myInvenio

Ross M. Sparkman
Head of Strategic Workforce Planning, Facebook

Yuval Dvir
Head of Intl. Online Scaled Partnerships, Google Cloud, Google

Jeffery A. Davis
Executive Director of Operational Excellence, JP Morgan Chase

Rias Attar
Vice President – Enterprise Project Management Office & Strategic Initiatives, Caesars Entertainment

Attila Dobai
Head of Strategy and Innovation, Avis Budget Group

Edward J. Blackman
Global Leader of CI - GIS, Whirlpool

Iassen Deenitchin
Head of Global Process Management, ING

Nuray Gurtekin Sen
Head of Global Process and Quality Siemens Corporate Technology Research in Digitalization and Automation, Siemens

Alex Goryachev
Managing Director, Innovation Strategy and Programs, Cisco, Cisco

José Pires
Former Global Vice President of Enterprise Business Improvement & Productivity, Andeavor Corporation

Brian McDonald
Vice President Strategic Planning - Finance, International Paper

Minette Norman
Vice President, Engineering Practice, Autodesk, Inc.

Griselda Abousleman
Vice President, Operational Excellence, Transport Solutions NA/EMEA, Ingersol Rand

Kishore Kandru
Enterprise Business Architecture Leader, CSAA Insurance Group

Jo Murray
Matron, Achieving Excellence, NHS Foundation Trust

Matt Aguilar
Operational Excellence Guru, Becton-Dickinson

Steve Waszak
VP Operational Excellence, Greene Group Industries

Ryan Leuty
Operational Excellence | Black Belt, Country Financial

Phillip Murphy
Headquarters CI Team Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, US Postal Service

Dr. Keith Clinkscales
Director Strategic Planning & Performance Management, BOCC-Palm Beach County

Peter Fritsche
VP Global Operations, Data Sciences International

Kevin Duggan
Shingo Award-Winning Author, Founder, Institute for Operational Excellence

Helen Figge
Chief Strategy Officer, MedicaSoft

Agustin Stengel
VP, Way of Working, Fannie Mae

Anu George
Chief Quality and Transformation Officer, Morningstar, Inc.

Brent Williams
Director\MBB Lean Six Sigma, Corporate Functions, McKesson

Brian Gallagher
SVP, Operational Excellence, CACI

Ira J. Perlmuter
Founder/Managing Director and Chairman,

Michael Greenidge
IT Director, Enterprise Applications, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Sarbari Basu
Director - Global Talent Operations, Cummins

David Coleman
Finance Business Partner and Continuous Improvement Manager, Goodyear

Rob Stewart
CEO, OpusWorks (by The Quality Group)

Alina Aronova
Chief of Staff for the Global Product Technology, Cengage

Steven Remsen
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Enterprise Process Excellence (PEx), Intel

Kyle Mielke
Position/Title: Director, Strategic Planning / Project Execution – US Commercial Operations, Cardinal Health

Corey Rathburn
Regional Value Oriented Architecture and Clinical Excellence, Providence Health & Services

Holly Rogers
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Farmers Insurance®

Robert Crotty
AVP - HCA Building Capital Productivity and Strategy, HCA Healthcare

Ronald Lear
Director of IP Development, CMMI Products & Services Chief Architect, CMMI Insitute

Dr. Mathias Kirchmer
Managing Director and Co-CEO, BPM-D

Erin Pelletier
Director of Operational Excellence, Care New England Health System

Kenneth Giles
Quality and Continuous Improvement Principal, Fedex

Jeff Holmquist
Business Transformation Leader , Crowe LLP

Stefan Schmidt
Associate Partner, Global Head of Operations & Lean Practice, innogy Consulting , innogy SE

Matthew Krathwohl
Business Transformation Manager

Randy Shumway
Chairman, Partner, Cicero Group

Jim De Vries
Founder, Managing Director, Enhance International Group

Byron Tatsumi
Senior Director, Process Innovation, Salesforce

Marco Chmura
Director of Quality & Transformation, Morningstar

Farrah Pepper
Chief Legal Innovation Counsel, Marsh & McLennan Companies

César Bocanegra
NYU Adjunct Professor and Former COO, DonorsChoose.org

Anu Pujji
Principal of Operational Excellence and Transformation, Amazon

Randy Bradley
Vice Chairman, Trust Exchange; Former CEO - Head of Digital CoE, Broadridge Financial , Ames Watson Capital

Padmini Nidumolu
Enterprise Lean | Agile Coach, Fannie Mae

Leila Rao
Co founder, Lean In Agile

Bilal J Muhammed
Vice President, ISRM, Wells Fargo

Erich Heneke
Director of Business Integrity and Continuity, Mayo Clinic

Raymond Brand
Sr. Performance Improvement Engineer, Barnes Jewish Hospital

Matt Hansen
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, H&R Block

Caroline Whalen
Senior Business Transformation consultant, IBM

Dan Cockerell
Magic Kingdom Vice-President (Retired & Inspired), Walt Disney World® Resort

Kristof Kovacs
Program Director, Transformational Leadership Development Program, IBM

Sandra Lechiaro
Business Transformation Manager, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Randy Clark
Director of Six Sigma, PowerSteering

James Shirey
Partner, Cicero

Jason Richards
Principal, Cicero

Catherine Jaynes
Principal, Cicero

Shane Yount
President, Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI)

Jennifer Hurst
Global Performance Excellence Leader, Nielsen

Virgil Miller
EVP and COO, Aflac

Matt Retterer
Senior Strategy Consultant, IBM

Zack Adams
Senior Advisory Consultant, IBM

Kyle Koszuta
Innovation Experience Designer, Florida Hospital Innovation Lab (FHIL)

Dr. Karen Tilstra
Co- Founder, AdventHealth Innovation Lab (FHIL)

Aruna Ranganathan
Director of Analytics and Automation, Mastercard

Roger Watson
Principal, jTask, Inc.

Till Reiter
Product Lead, Signavio

David O'Toole
Director, Strategic Program Operations, World Wide Technologies

Mark McGregor
Head of Strategy, Signavio

James Feldman
The Bright Idea Guy, Shift Happens

Jennifer Ehresman
Consumer Client Services Executive, Bank of America

Jon Gilman
Founder & CEO, Clear Software

Jacques Hamel
Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Trisotech

Nash Sivaganesh
Executive Director - Sys Engrg, Verizon

Robert Cartia
Vice President, Operational Excellence, Global Container Terminals

Anirudha A Joshi
Director -Sys Engrg, Verizon

Brian Barrick
Director, Operational Excellence and Strategy, Eskenazi Health

Jeff Dalton
Chief Evangelist, AgileCxO

Steve Willoughby
President & Principal Consultant, LSSBB, MBOE, Lean-BPM

Carolyn Gibson
Strategy Execution Expert/Professional, i-nexus

Todd Weston
Pex National Co-Lead, Centric Consulting

Angie Burris
Director of Customer Experience, GCI

Cedro Toro
Founder and CEO, KPI Fire

Darren Rehrer
National Practice Lead, Centric Consulting

Tony Mauro
Director of Consulting Services, Erwin Inc.

Anaysha Parker
Senior Business Transformation Consultant, IBM

Jon McGraw
Principal, Vision Pursue

Southard Jones
Vice President of Product Marketing, Celonis

Anantha Pudukkottai
Market Leader – Provider and Health Systems Digital Operations, Cognizant

Jan Freyburgher
SVP Americas, I-nexus

2020 Sponsors and Exhibitors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Avanade
• IBM
• Nintex
• Scaled Agile
• Signavio
• Thoughtexchange

GOLD SPONSORS:
• FireStart Inc
• ABBYY
• Moxtra Inc.
• Nureva
• Scrum@Scale, LLC
• Software AG
• Upland Software
• Visual Enterprise Architecture (VEA)
• Celonis
• OpusWorks

SILVER SPONSORS:
• AdaptOne
• ABPMP
• CMMI Institute
• Cognizant
• Competitive Solutions Inc.
• Delane Consulting & Talent Management
• Process Improvement Partners LLC
• Thinaër

EXHIBITORS:
• BPM-D
• FIS Global
• myInvenio