OPEX Week Summer - Virtual 2020 | IQPC | 25 August 2020 | Virtual Event

As the Event Director for the very first OPEX Week Summer - Virtual 2020 summit, it gives me great pleasure to share with you the new release of the re-imagined 2020 program. Having welcomed you to our West Coast home in San Diego for nearly a decade, I am delighted to be releasing a very first to our community: an incredible three days of learning, networking and business development opportunities online.

Transformation by nature is fraught with complexities, growing pains and opportunity for error. Organizations have their own unique DNA of strategy, people, process and technology. In the wake of a global pandemic, now more than ever businesses have to move from re-strategizing the ways in which they work, to operating on a whole new ecosystem.

Delivering operational transformation through process improvement and digital excellence
• Increasing business value and sustainable improvement through customer-centric OpEx strategies
• Design thinking to inspire a different way of working, and drive innovation
• Drive increased efficiency and speed through technology adoption and enhancing digital capability
• Engage and empower: Developing and sustaining a high performance culture
• Leadership and its importance to inspire continuous improvement, and sustain new ways of working

Who Attends Opex Summer?
It is the leaders of Operational Excellence and Business Transformation who will gather in San Diego. They are the ones who are tasked with leading, strategizing, building and delivering operational excellence and change across the business. They are people who make the decisions in what business transformation and the future of their business will look like.

OPEX Summer welcomes the most inspirational, progressive and game-changing Transformation Leaders on the stage. With over 100+ inspirational speakers, all of whom are OPEX leaders, you will be hearing from and networking with business leaders just like you.

2020 Speakers

Aseem Bansal
Head of Operational Excellence, Novartis

Kyle Beam
Senior Process Improvement Advisor, Arvest Bank

Joshua Beaudry
President & Automation Director, LPSTK

Jordan Benis
Director of Strategy and Operations, Federated Mortgage Corp.

Amonique Brown
Chief of Staff, Yahoo

Jason Chase
Head of Lean Management, T. Rowe Price

Dalen Copeland
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, EDF Renewables North America

Ekaterina Curry
Global Head of Ratings Operations, S&P Global Ratings

Ryan Davis
Director of Process Improvement, Arvest Bank

Chris DeBrusk
Managing Director, Head of Transformation, BNY Mellon

Raju Deshpande
Senior Vice President, East West Bank

Michel Farmer
Director, Operational Efficiency, Development Bank of Canada

Travis Hahler
Americas Change and Culture Lead, Google

Dwight Harris
Senior Vice President, Citi Bank

Christy Hartner
Senior Vice President, Commerce Bank

Eric Hedman
Former Managing Director & Global Project Lead, S&P Global

Scott Hoglund
Vice President, US Card Service Systems, Discover Financial Services

Rajesh Iyer
Lead Solutions Architect, American Express

Shruti Kakar
Change Management Lead GFTS - Governance & Data Analytics, Citi Bank

Nidhika Kapilla
Former Executive Coach - Global Strategy Sourcing & Operational Excellence, Manufacturing Design Engineering, Apple

Jason Kosmann
LVC Digital Transformation Advisor, ExxonMobil

Yosi Kossowsky
People and Business Transformation Lead, Cisco

Michael Levine
Senior Vice President, Retail Banking Technology Group, U.S. Bank

Jen Li
First Vice President, Process Design Manager, East West Bank

Angela Lopez
Vice President, Innovation Strategy Manager, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Kristian Martin
Senior Analyst, Delta Air Lines

Kelly McNeil
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Operations Program Manager, Fulton Bank

Matt Morgan
Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, Director, Savills North America

Hollimarie Motijo
Global Performance, Alstom

Padmini Nidulomu
Co-Founder, Lean in Agile

Luis Armendariz
Senior Operational Excellence Site Leader / Consultant, B. Braun

Kush Pathak
Head of Lean and Intelligent Automation, The Standard

Peg Pennington
President, Morestream

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

Anu Pujji
Principal of Operational Excellence, Amazon

Marvin Raymundo
Senior Director, Head of Corporate Strategy and Enterprise Project Management, Hyundai Capital America

Nadeem Saeed
Corporate Vice President, Risk Management and Quality Excellence, Verizon

Anish Sharan
Director of Business Improvement, CME Group

Nadeem Saeed
Corporate Vice President, Risk Management and Quality Excellence, Verizon

Anish Sharan
Director of Business Improvement, CME Group

Calvin St Juste
Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director, Head of Business Strategy, Morgan Stanley

Gerardine St. Jean Mobley
Vice President, Senior Diversity & Inclusion Relationship Manager, TD Bank

Abhinav Suri
Head of Process Excellence, TD Bank

Ankit Thakkar
Senior Director, Intelligent Process Automation, General Electric

Manas Tripathy
Head of Transformation and Delivery, Wells Fargo

Sedwin Vadukut
Global Data Acquisition Solutions Leader, Nielsen

Mark Webber
Strategic Program Manager Lead, Google

Adam Weiner
Vice President, AQR Capital Management

Beth Wheat
Vice President Global IT Transformation, Experian

Clifford Wilke
Chief Information Officer, UnitedHealth

Robert Wong
Assistant Vice President, Continuous Improvement Change Leader, Voya Financial

Cindy Young
Theater Mission Planning Center (TMPC) Curriculum Developer and Instructor, Leidos

Ed Jervis
Operational Excellence Black Belt, Change and Culture Lead, Serco

Dave Hughes
Global Business Services, OQ

Nicolette Freeman
Executive Director - Performance Improvement, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ozge (Saritosun) Kurtoglu
Executive Director, Global Pricing Strategy, DRiV

Pranav Shahi
Head of Business Systems, IT, Atlassian

Phil Ziegler
Enterprise Business Architect, Atlassian

Jamie Armstrong
Senior Solutions Strategist, erwin

Michael Orzen
President, Mike Orzen & Associates

Thomas Paider
Vice President, End User Solutions, Nationwide Insurance

Tony Higgins
Chief Technology Officer, Blueprint Software Systems

2020 Sponsors

• Blueprint
• erwin
• Minitab
• MoreSteam
• Opus Works
• Signavio
• Software AG
• StereoLOGIC
• Thought Exchange
• UST Global