ParadigmShift is an invitation-only event that brings together courageous executives, thought leaders, and innovators to exchange new ideas about the ways emerging technology can enable business transformation and improve human interaction.
2019 Theme & Speakers
Connect & Collaborate: Accelerating Value Creation
To thrive in a hyper-connected world and accelerate value creation, we must embrace the urgent need to collaborate at every level. Platform-thinking forces us to move beyond organizational silos, digital talent demands collaborative ways of working; and we must build external partnerships to survive the rise of the ecosystem era.
ParadigmShift 2019 presents industry-leading experts, who will explore collaboration as a defining quality of modern digital businesses and the ways in which connection fuels innovation throughout the entire enterprise.
You will leave with inspirational ideas and practical approaches to collaborating for growth, as well as increasing your organization’s ability to deliver value to your customers, fast.
Erica Dhawan
Founder & CEO
Cotential
Get Big Things Done:
The Power of Connectional Intelligence
Erica is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that accelerates the connectedness of teams, customers and clients. Erica explores how leaders use connectional intelligence across industries to become modern digital organizations, improve customer centricity, and enable a people first approach to innovation and global competitiveness.
Douglas Rushkoff
Technology Theorist and
Best-selling Author
Team Human
Douglas is a technology theorist, futurist, and best-selling author. He argues that our hyper-connected, ever-expanding digital realm has allowed for unfathomable growth in businesses around the world, yet we remain disconnected as a society. He explores how to harness that growth to realize the happiness, productivity, and peace we could achieve if we worked together as social creatures.
Dr. Lisa Kwan
Senior Researcher and Executive Leadership Coach
Harvard University
The Collaboration Blind Spot
Lisa is a collaboration consultant and a senior researcher and senior executive leadership coach at Harvard University. She is passionate about bridging organizational silos and identifying and addressing enterprise blind spots in fostering collaboration. She explores how strong leadership can overcome these challenges to deliver results for their organizations.
Global technology and business leader, public speaker and advocate for the advancement of women
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Why Your Digital Transformation
is Destined to Fail
CTO
Gojek
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Go-Everything:
Building a Platform Ecosystem
to Connect a Nation
Technology Lead
Jungheinrich Digital Solutions
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A Whole New World:
Connecting to Unlock the Power of
Cyber-physical IoT Systems
Principal Consultant
Thoughtworks
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Connected Intelligence
Chief Inventor
REA Group
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Creating an
O2O Mindset
Global Advisory Lead
Thoughtworks
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Digital Fluency: Connecting the Dots of Digital Transformation
Senior Technology Strategist
Slack
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Small Changes, Big Effects
Chief Talent Officer
Thoughtworks
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The Talent Collaboration Connection
VP of Product Strategy
Telus Health
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Connecting for Better Outcomes: Why a Canadian Telecom Became a Healthcare Platform
Chief Digital Officer
LATAM Airlines
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Leveraging Technology
Innovations to Deliver Better
Customer Experiences
Deputy Independent Police Monitor
City of New Orleans
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Collaboration for Growth and
Social Change: Invisible Institute
and the NOIPM
Writer and Executive Director
Invisible Institute
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Collaboration for Growth and
Social Change: Invisible Institute
and the NOIPM
Partner
PwC
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Global Mobility: Enabling Collaboration
Managing Director, Technology
Southwest Airlines
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The Talent Collaboration Connection
MD/CEO
Questback
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Driving Collaboration Through
Experience Management
// more speakers coming soon //
2019 Agenda
Check-in at the Ace Hotel and join us at the rooftop pool at 6:00pm for a Welcome Reception. Enjoy creative cuisine and craft cocktails while getting to know your fellow guests, followed by a special Welcome to New Orleans surprise.
Begin the day with breakfast and a full day of thought-provoking content from industry leaders. Monday evening's not-to-be-missed Signature Event will be sure to lift your spirits and leave you feeling that New Orleans vibe.
After a morning packed with ideas and practical advice to take back to your own organization, ParadigmShift concludes at midday, with a sneak preview of where we are headed in 2020. There’s free time to explore the city of New Orleans before you return home, full of inspiration.