Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

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Cloud Computing: Growth, Adoption and SMBs Sep 14, 2016

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The buzz: “I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.” -Elizabeth Taylor. By 2019, cloud software delivery will grow to 112 Billion dolars –five times faster than traditional software– leveling the IT playing field. With uneasiness, skepticism and “technical acrophobia” about the cloud mostly a thing of the past, cloud adoption could grow from 22 percent today to 32 percent in the next 24 months. The main beneficiaries? Small and mid-sized businesses -SMBs. But should they still worry about reliability, availability, data security, and pricing complexity? The experts speak. Tim Fuller, EY: “Sooner or later, everything old is new again” -Stephen King. Eric Gunther, SAP: “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that” -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Steve Day, SAP: “I shall either find a way or make one” -Aut viam inveniam aut faciam, Hercules, Oedipus, Hannibal. Join us for Cloud Computing: Growth, Adoption and SMBs.

Chemical Industry: Digital Transformation as Success Model Sep 07, 2016

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The buzz: It’s NOT like “déjà vu all over again”! -Yogi Berra. Wake up call for the Chemical industry: Digital Transformation is real and more relevant than ever for your businesses. Reality check: Many of them still think of “digital” only as a way to improve manufacturing and supply chain. But today’s digital is a path to becoming more agile and productive, growing profitability and achieving sustainable competitiveness. The time has come for the industry to refocus your digital lens on the future – and that starts now. The experts speak. Greg Gorbach, ARC Advisory Group: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine” -Jim Barksdale. Charles Wallace, Solenis: “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster” -Elon Musk. Rich Seltz, SAP: “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong” -Charles Kettering. Join us for Chemical Industry: Digital Transformation as a Success Model.

Templosion, Technology and the Future of Finance - Part 3 Aug 31, 2016

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The buzz: Knock Knock! Futurist Edie Weiner coined the term ‘templosion’ to describe rapid and massive changes in increasingly shorter timeframes. As the templosive acceleration of digital transformation – Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Smart Machines – disrupts tech-laggard Finance, do they need a new business model to adopt and adapt? The experts speak. Sam Parikh, Deloitte: 'Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn' -S. Jobs. Jon Essig, SimpleFi: 'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home' -K. Olson. Srikanth Tamma, Deloitte: 'Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius…to move in the opposite direction' -E.F. Schumacher. Karuna Mukherjea, SAP: 'Insight is not a light bulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out' -M. Gladwell. Join us for Templosion, Technology and Future of Finance Part 3.

Making Cities Safer and Smarter: The Internet of Things- Part 2 Aug 24, 2016

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The buzz: Living for the City -Stevie Wonder, 1974-. Violent attacks in Florida, France, Texas and Turkey make public safety a top global concern. Can governments protect us in our homes, in public, at work and play? Tech advances in facial recognition, geo-fencing, streaming multi-source data analytics offer law enforcement and security organizations better awareness, sensing, detection and prediction across the public safety value chain. But must we choose between personal safety and data privacy? The experts speak. Sara Gardner, Hitachi Insight Group: 'Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future' Niels Bohr. Ruthbea Yesner Clarke, IDC: 'The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get olds ones out' Dee Hock. Marlyn Zelkowitz, SAP: 'Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate' Alvin Toffler. Join us for Making Cities Safer and Smarter: The Internet of Things – Part 2.

CHROs: Time for a New Conversation - Part 2 Aug 17, 2016

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The buzz: Talk is not cheap! With dramatic workforce and business changes – multi-generations at work, gender inequity challenges, developing economies and globalization –it’s high time for the CHRO role to evolve. How? For starters, the CHRO can build transformational value-based relationships with HR supporting the business and strategies, engage permanent and external workers in new collaborations, use consumer-style tools and social HR to better engage the workforce, and more. Where to begin? The experts speak. Tim Good, Accenture: 'To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time' -Leonard Bernstein-. Dan Ward, Author: 'I get a lot of ideas at the beach' -Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, 'Feynman' biography-. Jewell Parkinson, SAP: 'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel' -Maya Angelou-. Join us for CHROs: Time for a New Conversation – Part 2.

Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners - Part 4: Dont Make a Federal Case Out of It Aug 10, 2016

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The buzz: The Gambler (K. Rogers). Business ownership can be a Coney Island rollercoaster. One moment, an exhilarating ride up; the next, a frightening plummet down. There are thousands of guidebooks, but no one has ever walked in your shoes with precisely your mix of talents, opportunities, and obstacles. How do you know “when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em?” if you don’t know what’s “normal” or how to solve the unique challenges of running your own business? The experts speak. Nina Kaufman, Esq.: “I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party” (Ron White). Nance L. Schick, Esq.: “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else” (Les Brown). Renée L. Duff, Esq.: “Conflict cannot survive without your participation (Wayne Dyer). Join us for Legal Lessons for Women Business Owners Part 4: Don’t Make a Federal Case out of It.

Build A Business, Not Just a Job Aug 03, 2016

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The buzz: 'Takin’ Care of Business'. According to Forbes Magazine, 543,000 new businesses launch each month in the U.S. The catch: of the 28 million U.S. small businesses, 22.5 owners are self-employed, average 44,000 in annual revenue and have no employees. Is that the life you want now? Could you ever retire? Tune in for secrets -and not so secrets- to building a business that runs independently, instead of running your life. The experts speak. Nina Kaufman, Esq.: 'As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you’re not failing, you’re likely not pushing yourself hard enough' Alexa von Tobel. Susan Solovic, THE Small Business Expert: 'The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips' John Paul Getty. Edward 'EJ' Jackson, SAP Anywhere: 'There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore' Gregory David Roberts. Join us for Build a Business, Not Just A Job.

Here's Looking at YOU, Kid: IoT of the Self and CyberCrime - Part 3 Jul 27, 2016

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The buzz: The Internet of Who (Whom)? The Internet was created in 1969 to facilitate the free flow of information. The IoT inherited this spirit. Fast forward to 2016. With cameras and emerging connected devices collecting and reporting data about our lives, it seems we’re designing the IoT to quantify and see ourselves clearly, like a virtual mirror. It’s time to take a step back and examine what this all means and whom it benefits now and in the future. What to call it? The “IoT of the Self”. Are you ready or do you need to run for cover? The experts speak. Gray Scott, Futurist: “Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives” (Kevin Kelly). David Jonker, SAP: “… if hundreds of millions of people do that, you have a big cloud of data about people's behavior that can be crawled through by pattern recognition algorithms” (John Battelle, The Human Face of Big Data). Join us for Here’s Looking at YOU, Kid: IoT of the Self and CyberCrime – Part 3.

Radical Resiliency: Start Your Engines, People! - Part 2 Jul 20, 2016

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The buzz: Stressed? Join the crowd. 78% of employers in the 2013/14 Staying@Work™ Survey said stress is the #1 workforce risk. We have a solution: Radical Resiliency. But individuals, managers and senior executives face tough challenges in achieving it for themselves, their employees and their culture. How to overcome and prevail? The experts speak Eileen McDargh, The Resiliency Group: “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’” (Winnie the Pooh). Bill Jensen, Mr. Simplicity: “What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived” (Capt. Jean Luc Picard). Dr. Terry Paulson, Paulson and Associates: “A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee’ (Eric Berne). Kathy Dempsey, Keep Shedding!: “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened” [Dr. Seuss]. Join us for Radical Resiliency: Start Your Engines, People! – Part 2.

Bitcoin/Blockchain: Hype or Hope for a New Secure Cryptocurrency? Jul 13, 2016

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The buzz: Show me the money? Our current financial world is rife with inefficiencies: cross-border payments take days and cost money, inter-bank funds are slow, accessing money is cumbersome, trading securities takes time. Hail, cryptocurrency! Bitcoin and blockchain were created to solve some of these challenges. How does it work? Should your business, your industry, and you personally adopt this new form of currency? What are the risks? The experts speak. Angus Champion de Crespigny, EY: “It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing” (Terry Pratchett). Richard McCammon, Delego: “…Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” (William B. Cameron). Gerlinde Zibulski, SAP: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas, but in escaping from old ones” (John Maynard Keynes). Join us for Bitcoin/Blockchain: Hype or Hope for a New Secure Cryptocurrency?

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