OPEX Week Business Transformation World Summit 2018 - San Diego | International Quality & Productivity Center | 27 August 2018 | Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa, 1775 East Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, CA 92109, USA

An increasingly competitive global market full of disruptive challenger brands together with evolving digital marketplace and workplace continue to push leading companies to reinvent and transform to achieve business excellence, only this time, with a much more aggressive goal.

Anything less than 10x improvements is no longer enough to impress your CEO and CFOs – they demand more from you, their COOs, Transformation and OPEX leaders.
They need you to lead the charge to true business excellence, and to use technology, people and process methodology to deliver cutting-edge operational excellence.

Join Operational Excellence Leaders from companies from across North America, all exclusively under one roof. With the ability to benchmark and learn from operational leaders across industries, leading brands, market disrupters and industry gurus, OPEX Summer: Business Transformation leaders summit will leave you inspired to take your technology, people and process strategy to the next level.

2018 Speakers

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

Codin Caragea
Senior Vice President, Business Process Management CoE, Riyad Bank

Vipul Vohra
Enterprise Director, OPEX & Quality, Aon Affinity

Amber Brown
Director, Strategic Initiatives, UnionBank - MUFG

Melissa Hall-Cohn
Vice President, Customer Experience Process Improvement, Equifax

Beth Schmidt
Vice President Business Process & Project Management, Mutual of Omaha

Brian Williams
Senior Vice President Continuous Improvement and Shared Services, Voya Financial

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

Betty Xu
Vice President, Operational Excellence, American Express

Rita Magann
Vice President Operational Excellence, American Express

Dwight Harris Jr.
Senior Lean Six Sigma & Agile Leader, Dun & Bradstreet

Dietrich Fisher
Senior Vice President, Director Business Transformation and Process Strategy, BBVA Compass

Richard Mellow
First Vice President – Enterprise Agile Transformation, SunTrust

Penny Meier
Vice President, Lean Deployment, Ameriprise Financial Services

Vic Alexanian
Director, Quality & Process Excellence, CME Group

Reka Mishra
Director Enterprise PMO Centre of Excellence, SVB Financial Group

Susan Armstrong
Senior Vice President, Global Process Improvement, Equifax

Kush Pathak
Enterprise Head, Lean COE, The Standard

Steven Hall
Vice President, Process Excellence Leader, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Nathan Hillman
Head of Performance and Transformation, Ericsson North America

Meagan Boson
Senior Director Business Transformation, ADP

Mikeal Scott
Manager, Product Management, Amazon

Kevin Goldsmith
Chief Technology Officer, AVVO

Rakesh Amerineni
Senior Manager, Finance Transformation & Architecture, Linkedin

Charlotte Lewis
Senior Manager, Business process Transformation, CDW

Bob Masterson
Manager, Business Process Transformation Solutions, CDW

Peter Malek
Director, Process Performance and Operational Excellence, VMware

Rakhi Seth-Forrest
Manager Operations Process and Consumer Fraud, HBO

Brandon Gerig
Process Design Manager, Veritas

Dennis Deas
Managing Director, Enterprise Performance Improvement, Kaiser Permanente

Damon Werner
Vice President, Business Optimization & Six Sigma, McKesson

Cindy Young
Program Manager, Fleet and TYCOM Enterprise Support, McKean Defense

John Gomez
Regional Director, Performance Improvement, Kaiser Permanente

Chuck DeBusk
Vice President, Performance & Process Improvement, Universal Health

Kevin Wojcikewych
Vice President Business Optimization, Labcorp

Dennis Narlock
General Manager, Catalent Pharma Solutions

William Botha
Senior Director Operational Excellence, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical

Jean Hammelev
Vice President, Operational Excellence, Sonora Quest Laboratories

Karen Tilstra
Executive Fellow of Innovation, Santa Clara University

Lynn Garofalo
Managing Director, Performance Improvement, Kaiser Permanente

Mohamed Saleh
Director, Operational Excellence, Hartford Healthcare

Connie Flores
Lean Sensei, Hartford Healthcare

Lee Blackburn
Director, PMO, Getinge

Daniel Abrantes
Global Change and Communications Manager, IKEA

Robin Gomez
Director Data and Analytics, Radial

Shane Wentz
Global Director Continuous Improvement, Radial

Jamion Berry
Director of Continuous Improvement, McDonald’s Corporation

Stella Mooraj
Former Director Business Excellence, Nestle

Jim Hinderks
Global Operations & Continuous Improvement, Hertz

Jeff Foster
Director Of Performance Improvement, San Diego Zoo Global

Sundar Chari
Director, Change Management, Revenue Management, Hertz

DC Chang
Director Internal Audit, Nordstrom

Dan Jarmel
Director of Process & Quality Excellence, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Rémi Raphael
Director Business Transformation, Duke Energy Corporation

Mike Fenocketti
Chief Operating Officer, Alameda County Community Food Bank

Randy Batchelor
Director, RP Construction Services

Kristin Clarke Batoy
Manager, Enterprise Continuous Improvement Center of Excellence, Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Leslie Behnke
Business Transformation and Operational Excellence Executive, Leslie Behnke OPX Consulting Inc.

Ravi Rao
Top 20 Emotional Intelligence Expert, Author of "Emotional Business"

Diane Magers
Chief Executive Officer, Customer Experience Professionals Association

Rob Stewart
Chief Executive Officer, OpusWorks

Massimiliano Delsante
Chief Executive Officer, Cognitive Technology

Stefano Pedrazzi
Vice President Sales and Marketing, Cognitive Technology

Dan Griffith
Director, Everteam

Guy Kirkwood
Chief Evangelist, UiPath

John Huettel
Executive Vice President Sales, TrackVia, Inc.

Paul Docherty
Chief Executive Officer, i-nexus

Robert Thacker
Director, Global Product Marketing & Enablement, iGrafx

Percy Johnson
Vice President of Solutions, AI Foundry

Lyle Wells
National Director Leadership Processes, The Flippen Group

E. Scott Menter
Vice President of Business Solutions, BP Logix Inc.

Brian Simpson
Senior Management Consultant, Major Oak Consulting – A Verint Company

Candace Collins
Head, US Field Marketing, Signavio

Therese Costich
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Salient Management Company

Sofia Passova
President, StereoLogic

Stan Passov
Senior Vice President Product Management, StereoLogic

Scott Gorman
Senior Vice President, New Business & Product Development, ivari Canada

2018 Sponsors & Partners

SPONSORS:
• AI Foundry
• Automation Anywhere
• BP Logix
• Cognitive Technology
• Everteam
• i-nexus
• iGrafx
• MEGA International
• Minitab
• MoreSteam
• OpusWorks
• Salient Management Company
• Signavio
• Skuid
• StereoLogic
• TrackVia
• UiPath
• Veritn

MEDIA:
• ABPMP
• Automation-Review
• Business Chief USA
• Business Process Improvement
• Customer Experience Professionals Association
• Gigabit Magazine
• i-nexus
• Innovation Excellence
• Intelligent Sourcing Magazine
• International Supply Chain Education Alliance
• Lean for Banking
• Lean Six Sigma
• Manufacturing Journal
• Plant Automation Technology
• PMI San Diego
• Process Excellence Network
• Quality Assurance and Process Improvement
• Technology Evaluation Centers