Agenda

MORNING WEBINAR 10:00am – 12:15pm PST

10:00 – WELCOME REMARKS

Jenna Kelly, Conference Producer, Bonhill Plc

Cheryl O’Donoghue, Founder, Emotional Intelligence Leadership Resources

Anita Gardyne, President & CEO, Oneva Inc

10:05am KEYNOTE

Speaker

Sally Eaves, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Foundation for Cyber Studies

STREAM 1: WHAT’S NEXT FOR TECH?

10:25am PANEL: The Future of Tech Investment
  • Making investments during a time of uncertainty – what’s changed?
  • The rise of certain technologies and innovations in fighting and emerging from the pandemic
  • From IT support, to artificial intelligence, to the Internet of Things: what will come out on top in post-COVID investment?
  • Will movements fighting for racial inequality have a positive impact on investment in black-owned tech firms?

Moderator

Jo Peterson, VP, Cloud & Security, Clarify360

Speakers

Rekha Venkatakrishnan, Senior Manager, Group Product Management, Walmart Labs

Matthew Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect, Sentara Healthcare

Kate O’Laughlin, Director, Tech & Investment, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Kiki Mwiti, Founder & CEO, DYVVYD

11:10am LIVE Q&A: Connectivity’s Time to Shine
  • With just over half the world connected to the internet, what changes need to be made to ensure digital accessibility?
  • How can governments and organizations ensure social distance compliance whilst supporting active connectivity?
  • Can regulations be adjusted to promote better internet equality, particularly in worst-affected areas?
  • The role of businesses and leaders in making connectivity a public good

Interviewer

Stephanie Bourdage-Braun, Head of Technical Operations, Intralinks, SS&C Technologies

Speaker

Nneka Emegwa, Security Consulting Senior Manager, Accenture

11:45am PRESENTATION: The Power of VR in the Workplace
  • What is the projected economic and employee benefits of VR in the workplace?
  • What are the top ways businesses can tactically incorporate VR in the workplace?
  • What companies are leveraging VR to create a sense of company culture in COVID-19, train employees remotely, and use VR in the long-term?
  • What are the challenges that early-adoption companies and leaders are seeing when using VR?

Speaker

Alley Lyles, Design Producer, USAA

STREAM 2: THE HUMAN IN DIGITAL

10:25am PANEL: Transformation: Cultural vs Digital
  • Digital transformation projects are no longer an option, but a necessity for companies wanting to survive
  • How do you ensure that your organisation is culturally transformed first and foremost?
  • What can you do for your human employees, to bring them into the conversation of digitalization?
  • The extra cultural shifts that will be needed in the wake of the pandemic, and the ongoing diversity movements worldwide?

Moderator

Ioana Bazavan, Security Managing Director, Accenture

Speakers

Helen Yu, Founder & CEO, Tigon Advisory Corp.

Eileen Mahoney, CIO, PVH Corp

Early Boykins, Venture Partner, Start Zero

11:10 LIVE Q&A: Virtual Relationship Management
  • Is maintaining a client relationship more challenging in a digital era?
  • What does the future of business travel look like, amidst video conferencing platform successes?
  • The new skills required to keep someone interested and on board, through the screen
  • How can your organisation train people-focused employees to keep up the momentum and client satisfaction?

Interviewer

Varsha Makharia, Business Relationship Manager, Tata Consultancy Services

Speakers

Tina Gravel, SVP Global Channels & Alliances, AppGate

Kathryn Ullrich, Technology Partner & Head of US Diversity, Odgers Berndtson

11:45am Are We Talking Like Bots? Maintaining Humanity in Digital Spaces
  • Why trying to communicate with too many people online may be counterproductive
  • Ways to assess whether your own communication has become “botified”
  • Strategies for delegating transactional conversations so you can focus on deeper conversations
  • The latest research regarding online communication, and actionable tips to communicate more effectively
  • The paradox of online connectedness, and how to move towards more deliberate forms of communication and interaction

Speaker 

David Ryan Polgar, Founder, All Tech is Human

12:10pm – CLOSING REMARKS

12:15pm – END OF MORNING WEBINAR

AFTERNOON WEBINAR 2:00pm – 4:15pm PST

2:00pm – WELCOME REMARKS

Jenna Kelly, Conference Producer, Bonhill Plc

Cheryl O’Donoghue, Founder, Emotional Intelligence Leadership Resources

Anita Gardyne, President & CEO, Oneva Inc

2:05pm KEYNOTE: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging – from the Inside Out

Speaker

Wendy Knight Agard, Leadership Coach, TEDx Speaker

STREAM 1: PROFESSIONALLY DEVELOPING 101

STREAM 2: REAL TALK – DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

2:25pm PERSONAL INTROSPECTIVE: What Type of Conversationalist are You?
  • How much self-awareness do you have around your own interaction with others?
  • The key ways of asking questions and using verbal cues to get the information you want
  • What role does body language have to play? How does this work in a world of video conferencing?
  • Are you an active talker, or an active listener?

Speaker 

Jani Lehtimaki, Vice President of Sales, Brella

2:50pm FIRESIDE CHAT: Creative Problem-Solving Under Pressure
  • As companies and teams experience new and unique challenges – are there new and unique solutions to dream up?
  • How can you collectively – and virtually – be more innovate in your problem-solving
  • What new tools do we have in addressing the glaring issues our companies and societies are facing?
  • The novel methods of ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking for straight-lined problems, and how to integrate them into your processes

Moderator

Veronica Millan, Global Chief Information Officer, MullenLowe Group

Speakers

Bernadette Rotolo, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Systems, Warner Music Group

Mark Nabong, Recruiter, Power Personnel

3:25pm MASTERCLASS: Bounce Back Better from Crisis
  • Why just bounce back from adversity, when you can bounce better?
  • What if you had an innate brain superpower to build resilience you could train starting today?
  • Build greater focus, creativity, make better decisions, collaborate better and be healthier.
  • Discover the evidence-based benefits of mindfulness and compassion for business

Speaker

Parneet Pal, Chief Science Officer, Wisdom Labs, Inc.

2:25pm PERSONAL INTROSPECTIVE: How Uncomfortable Will You Get?
  • Having uncomfortable conversations is necessary for unpacking key inequality issues
  • What is your experience of educating yourself and pushing your own mental boundaries in the realm of D&I?
  • Do you recognise your own privilege? How does it make you feel?
  • How can you become uncomfortable, to improve experiences for others?

Speaker

DeAnnah Stinson-Reese, CEO & Principal Consultant, E3 Professional Services

2:50pm FIRESIDE CHAT: Full-Time Carer, Full-Time Worker
  • The impact of spending more time at home as a parent or caregiver
  • How can employers support their employees who have caring responsibilities?
  • What shift is occurring as women spend more time at home? What issues are they facing in this virtual AND at-home sphere?
  • What impacts can flexible working policies have on the real-life schedules of full-time carers?

Moderator

Natalie Au, Director, Natalie Au Ltd.

Speakers

Gladys Kong, CEO, UberMedia

3:25pm INTERVIEW: ROI of Emotional Intelligence
  • The 3 levels of exclusion
  • The business cost of insulting your employees, and lacking EQ
  • The key element to remedy exclusion, and how to practically improve the working environment
  • How you can gain EQ, and maintain it

Interviewer

Sally Eaves, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Foundation for Cyber Studies

Speaker

Rajkumari Neogy, Founder, iRestart

4:00pm – CLOSING REMARKS

4:15pm – END OF SUMMIT