Transforming tomorrow - building the agile, innovative enterprise
This summit is a platform for leaders, innovators, and visionaries to explore the latest advancements in digital transformation. With a focus on driving agility, fostering a culture of innovation, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, this event will showcase the strategies and practices that are reshaping organizations. Through interactive panels and in-depth roundtable discussions, attendees will gain insights on how to overcome resistance to change, scale digital initiatives, and build collaborative ecosystems that fuel the next wave of innovation.
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Exclusively curated from our previous
Digital Innovation Physical Summit
Core Themes
Accelerating Agile Transformation
Discover how agile frameworks, empowered teams, and cross-functional collaboration enable organizations to overcome resistance and drive rapid innovation, reshaping enterprise operations in the digital age.
Leading a Culture of Innovation
Explore the essential leadership behaviors, mindsets, and strategies that foster continuous learning, risk-taking, and idea generation—creating a sustainable innovation culture across all levels of the organization.
Designing Future-Ready Digital Ecosystems
Gain insights into scaling digital transformation, integrating AI into user experience design, and building innovation ecosystems through open collaboration, intelligent architectures, and strategic partnerships.
Speakers
Uta Knablein
Ken Knapton
Mohan Nair
Srikanth Geedipalli
Jaya Kandaswamy
Mohammed Quadri
Shaam Farooq
Peter Feinberg
Manoj Kuppam
Andy Horvitz
Agenda
1:10 pm - 1:35 pm
Keynote
Breaking the Executive Plateau: The Executive Impact Navigator
The keynote provides career mapping and instant diagnosis of executives' precise leadership positions, revealing hidden advancement barriers that explain why brilliant leaders plateau despite driving results. "The Executive Impact Navigator" (my proprietary developed framework) gives each executive a personalized action plan with 3-5 high-leverage strategies calibrated to their exact position to accelerate leadership advancement, creating sustainable enterprise value that outlasts their tenure.
1:40 pm - 2:20 pm
Panel
The Agile Enterprise: Driving Innovation in the Digital Age
As organizations race to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world, many face the daunting challenge of overcoming internal resistance to digital transformation. In this panel discussion, we will explore the strategies organizations can implement to foster an agile mindset, break down silos, and accelerate the adoption of new technologies. From leadership-driven initiatives to creating an environment where experimentation and iteration are embraced, this session will provide actionable insights on how to build cross-functional teams that are empowered to innovate and execute at speed.
Experts from various industries will discuss their experiences in driving digital change within their organizations, addressing the common obstacles that impede progress, and offering practical solutions on how to navigate these challenges. Attendees will learn how to implement agile frameworks and create organizational structures that allow for rapid testing, iteration, and deployment of new technologies, all while maintaining alignment with broader business goals. The session will also dive into the importance of fostering a culture that encourages risk-taking and learning from failure, ensuring that innovation becomes part of the organizational DNA.
2:20 pm - 2:45 pm
Keynote
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Roundtables
Track 1: Designing with Intelligence – The Future of Product Experience
As AI technologies evolve rapidly, product and digital leaders are entering a new era where intelligent systems are not just backend enhancements but core to the user experience. This roundtable explores how AI agents, real-time decision engines, and emerging architectures like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and edge intelligence are creating opportunities to rethink how digital products are designed, built, and experienced. Attendees will explore how to stay ahead of the AI curve while creating intuitive, personalized, and future-ready user experiences.
Key Takeaways:
- Reimagining the Product Experience: Understand how new AI technologies are shifting the paradigm from static UX to dynamic, responsive, and personalized interactions that adapt in real time to user behavior and context.
- Architecting for Intelligence: Explore how next-gen AI systems—such as autonomous agents, edge deployments, and multimodal interfaces—are enabling smarter, leaner, and more responsive digital products.
- Building Trust in AI-Powered Interfaces: Discover design and product strategies for integrating AI in ways that maintain user trust, support transparency, and deliver value without overwhelming the experience.
Track 2: Transformation at Scale - The New Era of Digital
Through practical case studies and lessons learned from organizations that have successfully scaled digital initiatives, attendees will gain insights into the complexities of large-scale implementation. The discussion will cover strategies for overcoming resistance to change, aligning teams across different business units, and ensuring continuous improvement while safeguarding the core operations that keep the organization stable.
Key Takeaways:
- Balancing Innovation and Stability: Learn how to strike the right balance between driving disruptive digital innovations and maintaining the stability of your organization’s core operations, ensuring minimal disruption while maximizing impact.
- Overcoming Scaling Challenges: Gain practical insights from case studies on the key hurdles organizations face when scaling digital initiatives, including challenges related to culture, technology integration, and process alignment—and how to overcome them.
- Strategies for Cross-Departmental Alignment: Understand how to ensure alignment across different departments and business units, fostering collaboration and support for digital initiatives, from the executive level down to operational teams.
Track 3: Building and Expanding Innovation Ecosystems
By leveraging partnerships, collaboration across industries, and open innovation frameworks, companies can unlock new ideas and capabilities that fuel growth and adaptability. The session will highlight real-world examples of companies that have successfully embraced these ecosystems to introduce groundbreaking products, enhance operational efficiencies, and respond faster to market changes.
Key Takeaways:
- The Power of Open Innovation: Learn how embracing open innovation—by collaborating with external partners, startups, and research institutions—can lead to breakthrough products, faster development cycles, and a competitive edge in the market.
- Building Strategic Partnerships: Discover strategies for identifying and cultivating meaningful partnerships with organizations across different industries to unlock new technologies, business models, and market opportunities.
- Scaling Innovation Ecosystems: Gain insights into how to scale your innovation ecosystem for long-term success, overcoming challenges related to governance, resource allocation, and aligning multiple stakeholders with shared goals.
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
1:1 Meetings
4:10 pm - 4:40 pm
Workshop
The Future of SRE: Where AI Becomes the New Reliability Partner
As digital systems grow in complexity, traditional Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are reaching their limits. This session explores how AI is transforming the SRE landscape, shifting from reactive incident response to proactive and predictive operations. Attendees will gain insights into the key trends shaping next-generation reliability, including AI-driven anomaly detection, automated root cause analysis, and predictive capacity planning. The session will also examine the challenges organizations face when integrating AI into critical systems, such as managing complexity, mitigating AI limitations, and upskilling teams. Discover how AI is not just supporting reliability but redefining it as a strategic business advantage.
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Hot Headlines
7:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Gala Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Diamond Toast
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner Keynote
How NOT to lose your mind with AI
Join innovation and AI thought leader Mohan Nair for a groundbreaking keynote that explores the balance between the immense power of generative artificial intelligence and growing your unique human cognitive capabilities. Drawing from decades of research and experience, Mohan Nair reveals how AI-obsession can lead to cognitive atrophy while offering inspiring practical strategies to be Insight-powered and AI-enabled. This thought-provoking session challenges the audience to move beyond AI-fear bypassing AI-obsession to be an AI-enabled transformative innovator.
8:00 am - 8:40 am
Panel
The Role of Leadership in Fostering an Innovation Culture
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, leadership plays a pivotal role in shaping an organization’s ability to innovate and thrive. This panel discussion will dive deep into how leaders can intentionally build and nurture a culture of innovation within their teams, ensuring that adaptability, curiosity, and continuous learning become foundational elements of their organizational DNA. With innovation at the heart of long-term success, this conversation will explore the leadership behaviors, mindsets, and strategies necessary to create an environment where new ideas can flourish, and experimentation is encouraged.
Our expert panelists will share their experiences in leading transformative change within their organizations, discussing the critical role of leadership in modeling and championing innovative thinking. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how to lead by example, foster an open exchange of ideas, and create a supportive environment where teams are empowered to challenge the status quo and push boundaries. From instilling a growth mindset to supporting cross-functional collaboration, this discussion will highlight the essential leadership strategies that drive innovation and promote continuous learning at every level of the organization.
8:40 am - 9:10 am
Keynote
9:20 am - 12:10 pm
1:1 Meetings
9:20 am - 10:20 am
Roundtables
Track 1: Designing with Intelligence – The Future of Product Experience
The session will focus on practical applications of AI in executive decision-making, highlighting case studies, best practices, and tools that are transforming the way leaders make critical decisions. Participants will also examine how AI can foster a more adaptive, proactive leadership style, enabling businesses to stay ahead of emerging challenges and seize new opportunities.
Key Takeaways:
- Enhanced Predictive Decision-Making: Learn how AI tools like predictive analytics can help leaders anticipate future trends, mitigate risks, and make decisions with a higher degree of confidence, driving business growth and resilience.
- AI as a Leadership Accelerator: Understand how AI can elevate leadership strategies by providing real-time insights, improving operational efficiency, and supporting data-driven decision-making that aligns with long-term goals.
- Practical Implementation Strategies: Gain insights into the key steps and best practices for integrating AI into leadership workflows, including overcoming common challenges and maximizing the potential of AI technologies to optimize business outcomes.
Track 2: Transformation at Scale - The New Era of Digital
Through practical case studies and lessons learned from organizations that have successfully scaled digital initiatives, attendees will gain insights into the complexities of large-scale implementation. The discussion will cover strategies for overcoming resistance to change, aligning teams across different business units, and ensuring continuous improvement while safeguarding the core operations that keep the organization stable.
Key Takeaways:
- Balancing Innovation and Stability: Learn how to strike the right balance between driving disruptive digital innovations and maintaining the stability of your organization’s core operations, ensuring minimal disruption while maximizing impact.
- Overcoming Scaling Challenges: Gain practical insights from case studies on the key hurdles organizations face when scaling digital initiatives, including challenges related to culture, technology integration, and process alignment—and how to overcome them.
- Strategies for Cross-Departmental Alignment: Understand how to ensure alignment across different departments and business units, fostering collaboration and support for digital initiatives, from the executive level down to operational teams.
Track 3: Building and Expanding Innovation Ecosystems
By leveraging partnerships, collaboration across industries, and open innovation frameworks, companies can unlock new ideas and capabilities that fuel growth and adaptability. The session will highlight real-world examples of companies that have successfully embraced these ecosystems to introduce groundbreaking products, enhance operational efficiencies, and respond faster to market changes.
Key Takeaways:
- The Power of Open Innovation: Learn how embracing open innovation—by collaborating with external partners, startups, and research institutions—can lead to breakthrough products, faster development cycles, and a competitive edge in the market.
- Building Strategic Partnerships: Discover strategies for identifying and cultivating meaningful partnerships with organizations across different industries to unlock new technologies, business models, and market opportunities.
- Scaling Innovation Ecosystems: Gain insights into how to scale your innovation ecosystem for long-term success, overcoming challenges related to governance, resource allocation, and aligning multiple stakeholders with shared goals.
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Future Focus Speakers
How Digital Innovation is Redefining Legacy Industries
11:05 am - 11:35 am
Interactive Workshop
The Future of SRE: Where AI Becomes the New Reliability Partner
As digital systems grow in complexity, traditional Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are reaching their limits. This session explores how AI is transforming the SRE landscape, shifting from reactive incident response to proactive and predictive operations. Attendees will gain insights into the key trends shaping next-generation reliability, including AI-driven anomaly detection, automated root cause analysis, and predictive capacity planning. The session will also examine the challenges organizations face when integrating AI into critical systems, such as managing complexity, mitigating AI limitations, and upskilling teams. Discover how AI is not just supporting reliability but redefining it as a strategic business advantage.
12:35 pm - 1:00 pm
Closing Keynote
Unveiling Tech Debt
Is Tech Debt a four-letter word in your organization? Do you have trouble communicating the concept of tech debt with your executive leadership team, CEO, CFO or board?
In this session we dive into the concept of Technical Debt Leverage to level the playing field when communicating these concepts with non-technical business leaders. By communicating with business leaders in terms they understand (such as leverage) CIOs can elevate the discussion around tech debt to a more strategic, business-oriented discussion. In much the same what that financial debt leverage can be used as a tool to support strategic growth, tech debt leverage can similarly be strategically utilized as a lever within the organization. The key to both financial debt leverage and tech debt leverage is understanding the payment plan and to measure the leverage and manage to that plan.
1:05 pm - 2:10 pm
1:1 Meetings
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Beyond the Challenges
Get ready to ignite your marketing strategies! Join us for an engaging and interactive session where we'll extract the most impactful takeaways from the summit's roundtable discussions. Led by our led our summit host, Rebecca Solomon, a panel of our roundtable moderators will share their most eye-opening observations, game-changing insights, and unexpected discoveries.
We’ll explore the following:
Key Challenges:
- Uncover the most pressing challenges identified during the roundtables and potential solutions.
- Emerging Trends: Discuss the latest trends and innovations shaping the industry landscape.
- Actionable Strategies: Gain practical insights and actionable strategies to overcome obstacles and drive success.
Fairmont Dallas - Dallas TX
Fairmont Dallas is ideally located in the heart of the downtown Dallas Arts District, surrounded by an array of fine-dining restaurants, shopping, arts and entertainment.
Why attend?
Connect with like-minded senior leaders for a curated agenda, focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Be a part of exclusive shared learning, horizon scanning and actionable insights enabling organizations to deliver transformative strategies.
Build meaningful relationships with solution providers matched to your business priorities to help accelerate your projects and deliver your objectives.
