Welcome and Opening Remarks

Welcome introduction to Surfing the Technological TidalWave by our esteemed Chairperson, Jim de Vries.

The Summit comprises six interactive Webinars and two Panel Discussions.

The Summit will focus on Surfing the Technological TidalWave from People, Process, Data, and Technology Perspectives.

Jim de Vries, Founder, Managing Partner at Enhance International Group

Initiating and Leveraging Change for Gaining Competitive Advantage

Are you ready to take full advantage of AI, the Knowledge Tsunami, and the Technological Tidalwave?  To gain and maintain a competitive advantage in this dynamically changing world, we have to create a seamlessly integrated, “Opportunity Maximizing,” change-ready, willing, and capable organization to effectively implement new technologies. We invite you to join our session to experience the following:

• Creating a culture and process of opportunity maximization, innovation, proactive introspection as well as continuous analysis and improvement.
• Understanding and addressing your significant opportunity maximizing inhibitors and enhancers.
• Capturing, replicating, and inculcating the intuition, thinking, planning, decision-making, and communication of top performers throughout your organization.
• Addressing the uninformed critical decision-making crisis.

Handouts:

Overcome Opportunity Blindness
Opportunity Blindness
What Does Opportunity Cost Your Company?

Marty Jacknis, President at Opportunity Maximizers.

In 2023, the predominant trend in remote/hybrid workforce management will be the ongoing rapid integration of technology and the workplace, resulting in the digital transformation of HR departments. Fairly or unfairly, the perception of HR from most company leaders is that they are focused on compliance and risk reduction.

HR needs to work with business leaders to define a strategic sourcing model to which the organization can commit. It's important for HR to recognize that building a sustainable capability in-house is a huge undertaking, requiring leadership, people development, career paths, roles and skills clarification, and a culture of lifelong learning and feedback.

Without the workforce properly prepared in advance to engage, transformation efforts are dead on arrival and a waste of money, according to research cited by Harvard Business Review indicating that without these advance preparations, "70 percent of corporate transformation efforts are doomed to fail.”

• Understanding why a change in leaders’ thinking about HR’s future role is critical to future digital transformation is required
• Suggestions on how to actively leverage technology to steer people's strategy in a future-focused way
• Why legacy tools, manual processes, and competing daily priorities hinder being data-driven
• The collaboration necessary for digital transformation to occur
• Tool specification requirements to aid in employee data management, on and off-boarding of employees, performance management, and managing the hiring process.

Jacquelyn Gernaey, CEO at SevenStar HR.

Join Dan Adams, founder of The AIM Institute, as he presents their landmark research linking voice-of-customer skills and AI technology to new product success. Learn how some of the world's largest firms are now using advanced technology in combination with well-honed human interviewing skills. And see how AIM's research reveals which of 12 interviewing skills have the greatest impact on new product success. Participants will receive a free copy of AIM's extensive research report on this topic.

Key takeaways: 

• Learn ""what's coming"" in terms of integrating Artificial Intelligence into customer insight.
• See the research linking VOC skills to understanding customer needs & new-product success.
• Explore 10 ways to virtually eliminate commercial risk in the front end of innovation.
• Learn practical ways to employ advanced technology in highly productive customer interviews.

Dan Adams, Founder at The AIM Institute

Soft Skills and  EQ of Employees will trump IQ and Hard skills

The technological Tidalwave will affect everyone in the workplace. Similar to the industrial revolution, new jobs will come, and some jobs will disappear.  Will you adapt or lose out?

The Panelists will discuss the following topics with active audience participation.

1. Fears/Challenges
2. Implications
3. Applications and Recommendations

Day 1 will focus on the human factor in AI and how it will affect the workplace.

• Importance of understanding where AI is ahead of humans and where humans are ahead of AI. 
• How to maintain a lead in areas where humans are ahead and how to close the gap in areas where AI is ahead.
• The need to differentiate your solutions earn the attention of the customers, employees, stockholders, and suppliers.
• The impact of the company's innovation prowess on integrating new technology into its internal processes and products
• The importance of focusing on the benefits and outcomes for customers and prospects, rather than just promoting the company and its products.
• What comes after ChatGPT?

Panelists

Marty Jacknis, President at Opportunity Maximizers.

Marty Jacknis | LinkedIn

Jacquelyn Gernaey, CEO at SevenStar HR.

Jacquelyn Gernaey | LinkedIn

Dan Adams, Founder at The AIM Institute

Dan Adams | LinkedIn

Reed Racette, 

Chief Operating Officer – Consultant, Coach, Leader at AgileXtended

Reed Racette | LinkedIn

Moderator

Jim de Vries, Founder, Managing Partner at Enhance International Group

Jim de Vries | LinkedIn

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Welcome introduction to Surfing the Technological TidalWave by our esteemed Chairperson, Jim de Vries.

The Summit comprises six interactive Webinars and two Panel Discussions.

The Summit will focus on Surfing the Technological TidalWave from People, Process, Data, and Technology Perspectives.

Jim de Vries, Founder, Managing Partner at Enhance International Group

Keeping your people in synch with your vision for change

AI is great. Radical. Tubular, even. It has valuable applications right now. But your teams are made of real people - no artificial ingredients. If you’re amped up to explore AI solutions to your business problems, remember this: Even small changes in technology will cause ripples in your organization. AI is a tidal wave.  Surfing that wave is hard as an individual. At the organizational level, it’s synchronized surfing.

Your OCM team is your Organizational Change Management (OCM) team is your lifeguard. We have developed an approach and a set of tools to help people to thrive in changing environments. If you want to surf the AI wave, you need everyone on “board”. OCM can be the difference between a sick ride and a wipeout. 

Some key things you'll take away from this webinar:

• How, by leading with Trust, Collaboration, and Empathy, you can change the way you are trying to drive change
• Poor human skills can crush any transformation and are as important as technical skills (if not more important) 
• You can develop better human skills through a time-boxed, iterative process
• You can have innovation without alienation
• There is a proven, effective approach to building trust and enabling change in any organization

Reed Racette, Chief Operating Officer – Consultant, Coach, and Leader at AgileXtended

Leila Rao, Founder at AgileXtended

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• The Dynamic Supply Demand Planning Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity (VUCA) World
• Unleashing the AI-Learning (Shadow) Data-Driven Digital Twin™
• Digital Twins – Enabling the Effective Worker
• 30-Days Digital Visibility | 90-Days to Real-Time Prescriptive Process Control
• Incorporating Chatbots and Generative AI within the Workplace
• The SMART Workerless Factory

Hosni Adra, Co-Founder at CreateASoft, Inc.

Springboard your digitization, achieve exceptional process productivity, and delight your customers with a supreme engagement experience by applying the latest technology advancements.

During our session, we will explore the various ways these technologies can revolutionize business operations, enhance efficiency, and enable digital innovation.

Discover how the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA), and low-code development can revolutionize your enterprise, propelling you towards exceptional process productivity and setting the stage for supreme customer engagement experiences.

We will share valuable insights, practical strategies, and real-world success stories to guide you through the intricate landscape of digital transformation. Learn how to harness the full capabilities of AI, enabling intelligent decision-making and task processing. Explore the transformative potential of RPA, streamlining operations, minimizing errors, and unlocking newfound efficiency. Unleash the power of low-code development, enabling modern user experiences and accelerating application delivery like never before.

You won't want to miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge in the digital age. Join us as we equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary to hyper-transform your enterprise. 

Get ready to make waves in the world of digitization - the future starts here!

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the immense potential of hyper-transforming your enterprise by leveraging AI, RPA, and low-code technologies
• Learn how to harness AI algorithms to unlock new opportunities and drive competitive advantage
• Discover how RPA can automate repetitive tasks, streamline operations, and eliminate manual errors
• Learn how to leverage low-code platforms to rapidly prototype, develop, and deploy enterprise applications
• Gain inspiration from real-world use cases and success stories where organizations have achieved hyper-transformation using AI, RPA, and low-code
• Walk away with a practical roadmap for implementing AI, RPA, and low-code solutions within your organization

Paul Gulbin, Partner at Accelance.

Himanshu Goil, Managing Partner at Accelance

The technological Tidalwave will affect how a company operates starting with the infrastructure.  The four walls will no longer be stationary, the walls will need to be adaptable to an accelerated hyper-automation.  What will companies need to adapt and thrive?

Integrating AI technology into the workplace will be emphasized, with a focus on the infrastructure changes that will need to take place to make AI integration practical.

The Panelists will discuss the following topics with active audience participation.

1. Fears/Challenges
2. Implications
3. Applications and Recommendations

Day 2 will focus on the technological aspect of “wiring” the AI revolution.

• What will be the leading indicators of the transition to an automated ecosystem?
• How to maintain a lead in areas where humans are ahead and how to close the gap in areas where AI is ahead?
• The need to differentiate your business model to adapt to the technology available to your competitors.
• What is the Interaction between the IT and the Business Sides?
• When will the data "pipes" be ready for data streams that are needed to automate?  When will  "the cloud" work?.
• Can Generative AI Overhaul IT?
• Will Artificial Empathy be viable?

Panelists

 Dr. Bülent Uyaniker, Physicist and the founder at DataSpeckle Scientific

Bülent Uyaniker | LinkedIn

Leila Rao, Founder at AgileXtended

Leila Rao | LinkedIn

Hosni Adra, Co-Founder at CreateASoft, Inc.

Hosni Adra | LinkedIn

Himanshu Goil, Managing Partner at Accelance

Himanshu Goil | LinkedIn

Paul Gulbin, Partner at Accelance

Moderator

Jim de Vries, Founder, Managing Partner at Enhance International Group

Jim de Vries | LinkedIn