A VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
OPEN TO ALL CIOs + IT Leaders
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PANEL DISCUSSION
Kim Ades is the Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching™ and Co- Founder of The Journal That Talks Back™. Recognized as a pioneer in the field of leadership coaching and thought mastery, Kim uses her unique philosophy and direct coaching style to help leaders identify their blind spots and learn to direct their thinking to achieve extraordinary results. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mom of five, Kim’s is dedicated to teaching her powerful coaching process to leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Kim is featured in a variety of online publications including Forbes, CHOICE Magazine, and Inc. and is a frequent speaker for several organizations including EO, YPO, TEC Canada, SHRM, Premiere Connects, and HRPA. In addition to being interviewed on many top-ranking podcasts, Kim is the host of The Frame of Mind Coaching™ Podcast and coaches leaders live on the show.
Kim Ades
Frame of Mind Coaching™ + The Journal That Talks Back™
Thomas Blazek is the Chief Information Officer of Arconic Corporation, a role that he has held since the company launched after separating from Arconic, Inc., on April 1, 2020. He was previously Global Information Technology Director for the company’s Building and Construction Systems (BCS) business. Prior to that role, which began in January of 2015, Thomas was a member of the company’s CIO Lead Team, responsible for leading multiple global application and support teams.
Thomas joined the company in 1999 and has held multiple senior leadership roles with a broad spectrum of progressive IT responsibilities within the business units and corporate functions. His experiences include strategic planning and implementation, large-scale enterprise application and cloud initiatives, digital transformations, global merger integrations and manufacturing technology integration.
Prior to joining the company, Thomas held IT leadership positions serving the gaming, pharmaceutical and banking industries, where he gained experience in company startups, expansions and leveraging technologies to transform businesses.
Thomas received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Indianapolis.
Thomas Blazek
Arconic
Bugajski joined U. S. Steel in 2008 and advanced through increasingly responsible roles in the company’s Information Technology organization, including leading the global teams for Infrastructure, Business Processes, Project Management and Administration, Transaction Processing and Enterprise Applications. He has served as Interim Chief Information Officer and General Manager – Global Business Service Center following the retirement of Charles Balawajder in May 2019.
Prior to his tenure with U. S. Steel, Bugajski spent much of his IT career in the healthcare field. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from Penn State University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Waynesburg University.
Steven Bugajski
United States Steel Corporation
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Moderator: Kim Ades, Founder + Co-Founder, Frame of Mind Coaching™ + The Journal That Talks Back™
Panelist: Thomas Blazek, CIO, Arconic
Panelist: Steven Bugajski, VP + CIO, United States Steel Corporation
IT Leadership has never been more demanding or more challenging. COVID has pushed our Leaders to stretch not only their time and their problem-solving skills to accommodate a virtual working environment, but it has also forced them to step up to the plate and lead with more confidence, conviction, and impact amid all the ambiguity we are facing
In this session we will explore:
Strategies and specific technologies that IT Leaders are using to keep their team engaged and rowing in the same direction
What makes it possible for some IT Leaders to soar even in these challenging times
Industry data to help navigate roadblocks and make better decisions
Perspective and lessons learned from your Industry peers facing similar challenges
How to deal with the stress, tension with an overwhelming workload
How to juggle excellent performance with a LIFE
Resources that are being used to overcome some of the toughest obstacles
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
2020-2022: Pat helped a mid-market supply chain company define their long-term growth strategy and helped activate two of the company’s top-ranked new ventures. He led the executive team in identifying and prioritizing new runways for growth by ranking emerging, adjacent industry segments where they had unique value proposition, defining ideal customer profiles within those segments, and developing needed financial, business development and strategic marketing plans. He then led that company’s new eCommerce fulfillment business unit.
2008-2020: Pat spent 12 years at a 100-year-old global tool manufacturer, working on the product innovation, strategic marketing, and mergers and acquisitions teams. He led dozens of innovation project teams to deeply understand their customer and generated award-winning product insights and share-stealing product differentiation. He also scoped the total attainable market and penetration rates for key territories in the company’s Industrial sales group, collaborating with leadership to rebalance them, dramatically improving sales in those territories. Pat also conducted competitive analysis on disruptive technology in core markets to help drive the company's Mergers and Acquisitions initiatives.
Patrick Donohue
eCommerce Fulfillment Leader
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Patrick Donohue, eCommerce Fulfillment Leader
Manufacturers are being pushed to enable more eCommerce capabilities, either through their own commerce sites or through marketplaces, and for good reason. First, there’s a push to capture more consumer wallet share by selling online across multiple commerce sites (AKA, “Omnichannel”).
Also, consumers are pulling Manufacturers to sell online, forcing merchants to adapt for fear of losing business to competitors. Manufacturers are left having to build out these capabilities, and tech leaders need to understand the impact on fulfillment operations in this new Omnichannel reality.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Daniel recently joined Google and the ChromeOS Enterprise team in November 2021. Prior to joining Google, he spent 12 years with Apple, where he ended his tenure as a Senior Systems Engineer focused on major enterprise organizations in the central U.S. In his role, he specialized in Manufacturing and Life Sciences, and helped develop innovative strategies to modernize processes with some of the largest companies in the world. Over the course of the last 5 years, Daniel has partnered directly with domestic and international carriers, large resell partners, managed service providers, and developers, to build custom solutions to fit the growing needs of his customers and their industries.
Daniel Busse
Google Chrome Enterprise
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Daniel Busse, Customer Engineer, Google Chrome Enterprise
According to a recent survey by Google & Accenture, 39% of enterprise contact center agents are expected to be remote in the next 1-2 years and this number is expected to increase to 59% in the near future. Contact centers need to increase their agility by embracing more flexible and secure solutions to provide best-in-class customer service, secure business data, and reduce cognitive load on agents to enable them to be more productive. With a flexible technology architecture, service leaders can focus on their strategy, innovation, and the future without being locked into legacy technology constraints. In this session, learn more about new trends, how to evaluate your technology stack, cloud-first OS platforms, and leading modern contact center solutions that can keep your business on the cutting edge of contact center technology.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Kerry Siggins is the CEO of StoneAge, Inc., a global leader in designing and manufacturing high-pressure waterblasting and sewer cleaning tools and equipment used in the industrial cleaning industry. StoneAge sells and supports its products throughout the world and has over 170 dealers in 45 countries. She is also the Vice President of the Waterjet Technology Association (WJTA)
Kerry joined StoneAge in January of 2007 as the Director of Operations. In 2009, she was named CEO by StoneAge’s Board of Directors and has since led the company in building a robust global presence resulting in double-digit growth year over year. She recently acquired Breadware, an Internet of Things (IoT) product development firm based in Reno, NV.
Kerry Siggins
Stone Age, Inc.
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Kerry Siggins, CEO, StoneAge, Inc.
Kerry Siggins, CEO of StoneAge, the global leader in high pressure water jetting equipment, will share how she is transforming her company from a traditional manufacturer into a “Solutions as a Service” technology company that is disrupting its industry and making dirty businesses cleaner and safer.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Jay Graboff has been an IT professional and transformation thought leader for over 30 years. He has launched both public and private cloud practices, but also brings significant application expertise as a Product leader. Jay is currently the AWS Channel Manager at NTT Ltd.
Jay Graboff
NTT
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Jay Graboff, Sr Product Manager - AWS + GCP Innovation, NTT
Migrating critical workloads to the public cloud can be complicated and time consuming. In manufacturing, replatforming SAP brings its own sets of unique challenges and considerations. In this presentation, we will explore (2) very different manufacturing client journeys, the risks, and the outcomes
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