Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

The Largest Premier Gathering of Digital Process Automation Industry Leaders & Senior-Executives sharing key solutions.

Agenda

The business environment is changing faster than at any time in history, and smart organizations know that their company’s competitive advantage today and in the future will come only by transforming their business from end to endfunction by function and process by process.

This event unlike any other event in the industry truly represents the rapidly evolving  landscape.

Carefully crafted, the agenda has been uniquely designed through primary telephone research, to deliver exceptional content, to drive the best attendees, and become the most engaging event in the industry. 

The Agenda will cover from the basics of simple automation to achieving optimal results to understanding costs of failures.

Speakers

Just Some of Our Outstanding Speakers 

José Pires

José Pires

CEO, Global Excellence & Innovation, Innovation & Excellence

Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry Awards (BTOES18)

Wednesday 14th March 2018 | 20:30 - 21:15 pm

Biography

José Pires serves as the Global Excellence & Innovation (E&I) Leader for Andeavor Corporation, where he oversees the global identification, prioritization and execution of mission critical business improvements and innovations that add value to the company, business partners and external clients in multiple markets.

Prior to his current role, Pires held Excellence and Innovation leadership positions in large, global companies in the electronics (Sony), semiconductor (Cymer-ASML), food (Nestlé) and infrastructure (Black & Veatch) industries. Throughout his career, Pires developed and refined E&I as an award winning program for innovation, leadership development, strategy execution and value creation globally.

Pires is an advisory board leader and keynote speaker for several global conferences on innovation, operational excellence, leadership development, strategy execution, business transformation, customer engagement and growth acceleration.

He holds a Bachelor in Engineering Physics from the University of Kansas and a Master in Business Administration focused in Investment Banking and Entrepreneurship from the University of San Diego.

Hema Gandhi

Hema Gandhi

CEO, Latent Bridge

Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

Tuesday 17th October 2023 | 09:00 - 09:45 am

Biography

Over 25 years of experience bringing technology and domain knowledge together to deliver business value to clients. With LatentBridge, a global intelligent automation company, she aims to solve the key issues around business application of AI, Robotics and process automation – adoption and scale.

As an entrepreneur and business head, she has led large deals focussed on digital transformation, process optimisation and customer experience. 

She has been recognised in Women in Fintech Powerlist and has inspired many female entrepreneurs to contribute to the field of advanced information technology.

Rob Scott

Rob Scott

Head of Market Services, Commerzbank AG

Biography

Rob has over 25 years’ experience in the running and acquisition of front-office businesses lines and in the commercialisation of global core operations of Investment banks, broker dealers and investor service business lines, including Bank of America, Cantor Fitzgerald/BGC, Citi and Deutsche Bank.

He was instrumental in the creation of the first major European outsourcing investment banking global back office whilst at Accenture (Accenture Post Trade Services). He has written and spoken on many topics surrounding the post-trading landscape, business transformation and inclusion of FinTech. He also advises clients with respect to regulatory understanding and compliance.

Rob currently sits on the Board of the AFME Post Trade division, is the Strategic advisor to the CEO of ISITC Europe and is a Deutsche Borse (Eurex) FICC Board Advisory Committee member.

James Maxfied

James Maxfied

Managing Director, Ascendant Strategy

Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

Tuesday 17th October 2023 | 09:00 - 09:45 am

Biography

  • Held MD level positions running operations, middle office and change management within global financial institutions
  • Experienced first-hand the challenges driven by increasing regulation, cost pressure and legacy IT architecture
  • Operated within FCA regulated roles experiencing first hand the governance and oversight requirements relating to infrastructure change
  • Extensive experience with utility offerings, managed service strategies and blending new innovation into legacy architecture
Russell Dinnage

Russell Dinnage

Head of the Capital Markets Intelligence Practice, London, Greyspark

Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

Tuesday 17th October 2023 | 09:00 - 09:45 am

Biography

Managing consultant working for the Capital Markets Intelligence practice of GreySpark Partners, a consultancy founded in 2009 that focuses exclusively on providing services to capital markets businesses.

GreySpark Partners works with investment banks, hedge funds and asset management firms to deliver solutions that work across all asset classes, with a particular focus on risk management and electronic trading.

Brent Weichers

Brent Weichers

Senior Director of Continuous Improvement for North America, ICU medical

Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

Tuesday 17th October 2023 | 11:00 - 11:45 am

Biography

Brent Weichers has 35 years of lean transformation experience, with Toyota and Danaher as the biggest portion of his professional background. He has trained agencies of the federal government and major corporations through their lean journey. Brent is currently the Senior Director of Continuous Improvement for North America for ICU medical. He is based out of the Phoenix, AZ. area.

Conrad Banks

Conrad Banks

Senior Director, WW HEOR Strategy & Operations, BMS

Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

Tuesday 17th October 2023 | 10:00 - 10:45 am

Biography

 

Conrad Banks is a Global Strategy & Operations Leader with 22 Years of experience driving organizational transformation in highly complex and cross-functional matrix environments. He is currently the Sr. Director, WW HEOR Strategy & Operations.
Conrad started his career at Deloitte Consulting working on large scale acquisitions & cost reduction engagements. While at JP Morgan Chase for 5 years, Conrad played an integral role in the bank’s network expansion strategy, building innovative programs to drive sales goals and acquire new customers.
He later transitioned to Pharma in 2008, where he worked at Pfizer for 7 years in areas of increasing responsibilities, serving as Chief of Staff for the Global Innovation BU, and the Business Analytics, & Insights Group. Conrad also served as the Global Field Medical Operations Head at Sanofi’s Diabetes-CV Business Unit, where he developed the blueprint for the “MSL of the Future”. In his current role at BMS, Conrad has led large scale innovation/technology initiatives enhancing capabilities in the Global Medical and HEOR business units.
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Marcel Schachter

Marcel Schachter

Senior Vice President and Director of Information Technology, PNC financial services group

Digital Process Automation Live - A Virtual Conference

Tuesday 17th October 2023 | 12:00 - 12:45 pm

Biography

Marcel Schachter is currently a Senior Vice President and Director of Information Technology in PNC’s Retail Banking Technology Production Support group. 

Marcel leads teams of 150 Level 1 and level 2 technology professionals that provide operational support, maintenance, production control and system governance for over 300 applications and processes supporting Retail Banking. 

Marcel has worked in technology for 35 years including 25 years at PNC Financial Services Group. He has worked in various roles in his career spanning technical support, new development, systems analysis, networks, project management, and management at PNC, in Public Utilities, Consulting and an international Telco.   

In 2019, Marcel was awarded a US Patent for a Data Conversion Tool. Marcel obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a Master of Business Administration, a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification.

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