Roundtable

The Case for Change: Guiding Your Organization to Technology Evolution and Adoption

6 May 2026 9:30 am - 11:00 am EST
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Data-driven.
People first.
Executive Engagement.

How technology leaders can successfully assess their current capabilities, assess future needs, evaluate a new solution, and shepherd deployment without disrupting the business

Technology leaders are exceptional at building and maintaining stable systems, but every platform eventually reaches a point where stability alone becomes a constraint. Legacy architecture, mounting technical debt, and evolving business demands create pressure to modernize, yet the real challenge lies in orchestrating change without disrupting operations.

Leading organizations are approaching modernization as a disciplined, end-to-end transformation rather than a one-time upgrade. This includes re-engineering core platforms, such as evolving a loyalty technology platform from legacy architecture to a modern, scalable infrastructure, while maintaining continuity for major enterprise customers and billions of active loyalty members. Success requires a clear evaluation framework, strong cross-functional alignment, and a pragmatic roadmap that balances innovation with operational resilience, ensuring transformation happens without compromising performance or trust.

Join Phaedon and a select group of your peers as we explore how to identify the right moment to modernize, how to build alignment and momentum across the organization, and how to execute platform transformation without compromising business continuity.

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GDS Roundtable Environment with host, Jade
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Speakers

Mark Halterman

Chief Technology Officer

Discussion Topics

1

How do technology leaders objectively assess when a platform has reached the end of its effective lifecycle and separate that signal from organizational inertia?

2

What frameworks help leaders build internal consensus for modernization when the current system is still “working” and stakeholders are risk-averse?

3

How do you execute a full platform re-architecture at enterprise scale without disrupting the customers and operations that depend on it every day?

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Closed door, tailored conversations to benchmark, share and get better equipped to solve complex transformation projects.

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In-depth face time with the world’s leading tech companies pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges

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