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DT21

ONLINE FORUM / DECEMBER 7, 2021 / 11:00AM - 3:00PM EST

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE READY 


Registration is complimentary and open to all industry professionals.

Technology has revolutionized every industry and outsourcing is no exception. Join us on December 7th for Digital Technologies 2021, the third event in IAOP’s Center of Excellence Virtual Series.

In a digital world, technology is no longer an enabler but a strategic asset and a competitive advantage. Companies today are leveraging technology to create new business models and provide enhanced experiences to their customers. Teams are tasked with creating strategic digital and technology partnerships, in areas including automation, cloud, professional services, software and analytics.

DT21 addresses the new disruptive technologies that will continue to challenge us as well as showcases success stories of those doing it right.

Thank you to our key sponsor, IBM.

    

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
 

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM     Welcome and Introduction of the Center of Excellence

  • 11:15 PM –  12:00 PM     DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES CENTER OF EXCELLENCE LEADERS SHARE THEIR JOURNEYS

  • 12:00 PM –  1:00 PM       ORCHESTRATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: NEW STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMIZING DISRUPTION

  • 1:00 PM –  1:15 PM         BREAK

  • 1:15 PM –   1:45 PM        OPTIMIZING THE JOURNEY TO AI TRANSFORMATION

  • 1:45 PM   –   2:30 PM     THE POWER OF CONTRACT AUTOMATION: A CASE STUDY IN COLLABORATION 

  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM          ACCELERATE BUSINESS OUTCOMES THROUGH SOURCING & GOVERNANCE AUTOMATION AND DATA SCIENCE

*All times listed are reflected in EST time

 

PROGRAM

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES CENTER OF EXCELLENCE LEADERS SHARE THEIR JOURNEYS

  • Atul Vashistha, COP, Chairman & Founder, Neo Group and Supply Wisdom
  • Lee Coulter, CEO, transformAI (formerly) and past Chair, IEEE Working Group on Standards in Intelligent Process Automation
  • Eric Bokelberg, Associate Partner, Global HR Innovation, IBM
  • Andrew Spanyi, Ecosystem Development Lead, Cognitive World Think Tank
  • Mike O’Brien, Chief Procurement Officer & Head of ContractAi, App Orchid

Hear the latest thinking from the leadership team of IAOP's Digital Technologies Center of Excellence, as well as the views and progress on digital and automation maturity models, tools, success criteria, and lessons learned by the experts at the forefront of this transformational movement.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

ORCHESTRATING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: NEW STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMIZING DISRUPTION 

        

 

  • Nicolette Freeman, Vice President, Senior Partner, IBM 

The waves of new disruptive technologies that will continue to challenge us will require novel strategies from our industry. This Keynote will be a call to action for advisers, buyers and providers of outsourcing services who are working to maintain their competitive strength by mastering new capabilities quickly and effectively. 

 

 

1:15 PM –   1:45 PM

THE JOURNEY TO AI POWERED TRANSFORMATION: PRACTICAL STEPS FOR ACHIEVING REAL BUSINESS VALUE 


  • Seth Earley, CEO & Founder at Earley Information Science, Author of The AI-Powered Enterprise and CogWorld Think Tank Member
Digital transformation has become a broad, catch-all term meaning anything from improving the customer experience to streamlining internal business processes and everything in between.  Artificial Intelligence has also become a broad and ambiguous concept meaning everything from chatbots to self-driving cars.  Now put those two concepts and you end up with jargon soup, wasted resources, confusion and failed initiatives.  The industry is full of hype and confusion, buzzwords and bs, unrealistic expectations and some high visibility failures.  
 
Whenever a significant technology change comes about, it’s difficult to not get caught up in the confusion and end up on costly paths without business value due to the fear of missing the next big thing and losing out to the competition 
 
In this session, we will hear from award-winning author and popular conference speaker Seth Earley who will provide practical guidelines for getting real business value from Artificial Intelligence programs and projects and discuss what needs to be in place to be successful (hint: it’s not the technology). 
 
Attendees will leave with: 
•    An buzzword free understanding of AI 
•    The necessary business decisions when considering these tools
•    Cultural issues and how to address them
•    How to approach processes to maximize business value 
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
THE POWER OF CONTRACT AUTOMATION: A CASE STUDY IN COLLABORATION 

  • Mike O’Brien, Chief Procurement Officer and Head of ContractAI at App Orchid

This is the story of how bp partnered with their provider to solve a difficult problem:  taking time to contract from months to days.  bp has thousands of suppliers around the world, and an increasing number of contracts to process, but a fixed amount of procurement and legal resources. The time to contract for SaaS contracts had risen to an average of 92 days and resources were being stretched to a point where the team worried about increased downstream risk. There was no solution on the market that addressed reducing time to contract significantly while mitigating contracting risk.  bp set out to have a solution built that would streamline the contracting process while reducing contractual risk. The primary objective was to leverage AI and Machine Learning to reduce the average time to contract while minimizing the risk of errors introduced due to limited resources. Together, the bp and App Orchid team built a solution called ContractAI.

 

 

 


 

2:30 PM –   3:00 PM

ACCELERATE BUSINESS OUTCOMES THROUGH SOURCING & GOVERNANCE AUTOMATION AND DATA SCIENCE

 
 

  • Atul Vashistha, COP, Chairman & Founder, Neo Group and Supply Wisdom
  • John Bree, Chief Evangelist and Chief Risk Officer of Supply Wisdom
  • Joseph Martinez, former Global Chief Procurement Officer at Bank of New York Mellon

CPOs are leading the automation and digitization journey at many leading firms. As a former CPO at MUFG and BNY Mellon, hear how Joseph Martinez adopted sourcing automation, data science, and governance automation to enable agile procurement and accelerate business outcomes.  Atul sits down with John and Joseph for this timely fireside chat.

 

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