Leadership and Digital Transformation with Stephen Brobst

Leadership and Digital Transformation with Stephen Brobst

Dear fellow meetup'ers-

Healthcare, Banking, Logistics, Retail, etc - just name it - every industry will be transformed by the new business models and revolutionary possibilities created by digital society in the 21st century. Whether you are in a leader role or not, in fixed employment or a freelancer- understanding the challenges and opportunities in the analytics revolution helps to sharpen the conversation, explore new paths and drive innovation. We are delighted to welcome Stephen Brobst, one of the top ranking global CTOs, as a speaker at our meetup. His talk will address the critical success factors that must be embraced when transforming an enterprise into a player for the digital age.

Together with Stephen we will discuss the importance of data-driven business models to transform from traditional customer relationship management to customer experience management in the new world of digitally enabled customers. We will present a framework that will emphasize the importance of real-time recommendation engines leveraging operational intelligence using self-learning algorithms with techniques drawn from the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. We will also propose an approach for monetizing data as a critical success factor for all enterprises who want to be successful in the digital age. Issues such as enabling cultural change, organizational skill set requirements, and governance will also be discussed. Case study examples of organizations that have been successful in executing digital transformation will be used throughout the presentation.
In a nutshell

* Learn about the critical success factors for competing effectively in the digital world.
* Learn about the cultural and organizational skill set requirements for transforming into a digital business.
* Learn how to use effective governance to transform from a traditional business model to a digitally enabled business model while sustaining profitable operations.

Short Biography of Stephen Brobst

Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer for Teradata Corporation. Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen is a TDWI Fellow and has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996. During Barack Obama's first term he was also appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). In 2014 he was ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs.

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