Digital Transformation: Reimagining Business for the Digital Age will combine keynote talks, panel discussions, stories of transformation, and engaging breakouts to cover the key questions business leaders, analysts and policy makers are asking:
How can businesses navigate and even ride this wave of exciting but disruptive change?
Can we borrow lessons from previous waves of wholesale organisational change?
What will all this mean for incumbents and challengers, platforms and communities, specialists and generalists?
Speakers
– Samantha Barry, Chief Editor, Glamour
– Matt Brittin, President EMEA, Google
– Zaka Mian, Group Digital and Transformation Director, Lloyds Banking Group
– Geraldine Calpin, CMO, The Madison Square Garden’s Company
Agenda
9:15 Registration
10:00 Welcome
Francisco Veloso, Dean, Imperial College Business School
Ian Walmsley, Provost, Imperial College London
10:20 Co-Chairs’ welcome
Mark Kennedy, Director of Imperial Business Analytics, Imperial College Business School
Erkko Autio, Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School
Ying-Ying Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School
Session 1: Opening keynote
A look at the public policy considerations raisedby digital transformation; we will hear a policymaker’s view of the key questions and concerns of corporate leaders.
10:30 Peter Estlin, Lord Mayor, City of London
10:45 Q&A
10:55 Break
Session 2: Transformation journey
What is it like for a large organisation trying to tackledigital transformation? We will hear from a seniorexecutive who has been leading the process.
11:25 Matt Brittin, President of EMEA Business &Operations, Google (TBC)
11:45 Q&A
12:00 Lunch
Session 3: Paths to transformation
A story about the implementation and management of digital transformation strategies from a leading light of media, followed by a panel discussion illustrating different ways of achieving similar change.
13:15 Samantha Barry, Editor in Chief, Glamour
13:35 Q&A
13:45 Panel discussion:
Bob Flint,Technology Director, BP
Mark O’Donoghue, CEO, AVADO Learning
Rashik Parmar Technical Executive, Europe, IBM
Gary Stewart Managing Director, WAYRA
Facilitated by Erkko Autio,Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School
14:30 Break
Session 4: Designing transformation
We zoom in to the actual content of corporate strategies. We will hear from speakers who are not only leaders in the theory of digital transformation,but also in assisting the process within businesses.
15:00 Panel discussion:
Lucy Cooper, Innovation Director, Accenture
Daniel Rowles, CEO, Target Internet Ltd
Chris Downs, CEO, Normally
Facilitated by Ileana Stigliani, Associate Professor of Design and Innovation, Imperial College Business School
Session 5: Sector specific stories
A discussion of what challenges leaders face indifferent sectors, from a panel of executives whohave been leading and managing the process in theirorganisations.
15:45 Geraldine Calpin, CMO, The Madison Square Garden Company
16:05 Q&A
16:15 Panel discussion:
Zaka Mian,Group Digital and Transformation Director, Lloyds Bank
Sukand Ramachandran, Partner & Managing Director, BCG
Fabian Vogelsteller, Founder, LUKSO
Vamsi Bodepudi, Google Cloud Engineer, Google
Facilitated by Ying-Ying Hsieh,Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School
17:00 Closing remarks
17:05 Networking drinks reception