Author’s Corner
About this Program
Meet the Authors
- 05/06/2021 | 9:00 am – 9:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersR “Ray” Wang is the CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc,, He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and blogs at www.raywang.org. His ground-breaking best selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray's new book about Digital Giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World will be released July 2021. Wang is well quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, and Bloomberg.
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- 05/06/2021 | 9:15 am – 9:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersEsther Wojcicki is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They are the result of TRICK, Esther’s secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness.
Simple lessons, but the results are radical. Esther Wojcicki is a leading American educator and journalist. Mother of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Fulbright scholar Janet Wojcicki, and 23&Me founder Anne Wojcicki, as well as a teacher and mentor to James Franco and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Esther is widely heralded as the most successful parent and educator in the United States. Esther offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential.
She is the author of Moonshots in Education (2014) and best seller How to Raise Successful People (May, 2019). She is co founder of TRACT.APP (2020) the first "by kids, for kids" platform to empower students by gamifying education using a project based model. She also has a partnership with UC Berkeley Engineering using her pedagogy to teach engineering.
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- 05/06/2021 | 9:30 am – 9:45 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersI’m a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and my two nonfiction books were published in 2018 (DADDYKINS by Bloomsbury: bit.ly/2AMZDdy ) and 2019 (AN ENGLISH MADE IN INDIA by Aleph Book Company: bit.ly/AEMIIAmz ). To know more about my work, go to bit.ly/2KMpmoW. During my short stay in Singapore I’m writing weekly LETTERS FROM SINGAPORE ( bit.ly/38eCXf0 ).
My writing has appeared in several regional and national magazines in the United States. I was a monthly columnist for India Currents Magazine where I wrote a popular column titled “ON INGLISH”. A feature I wrote for India Currents won me a New America Media prize; some of these columns won the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club prize.
In 2011, I won a first prize—and the attention of an agent—at a competition at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park for the best one-minute book pitch; it catalyzed some of my book-length writing projects based on India. In fall 2019, my book, DADDYKINS, was used as part of the curriculum in a creative writing course, Uses of Personal Experience, at San Francisco State University: bit.ly/2kesfsu
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- 05/06/2021 | 9:45 am – 10:00 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersMohan Giridharadas is the founder and CEO of LeanTaaS. LeanTaaS is a 200-person predictive analytics company that uses AI and Machine Learning to help hospitals utilize their assets more effectively by unlocking capacity. Prior to starting LeanTaaS, Mohan was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company. During his 18 year tenure at McKinsey, Mohan ran their global Lean Service Operations. Mohan holds an MBA from Stanford University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
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- 05/06/2021 | 10:00 am – 10:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersDr. Jonathan Reichental is a multiple-award-winning technology and business leader whose career has spanned both the private and public sectors. He’s been a senior software engineering manager, a director of technology innovation, and has served as chief information officer at both O’Reilly Media and the City of Palo Alto, California. Reichental is currently the founder of advisory, investment, and education firm, Human Future, and also creates online education for LinkedIn Learning. He recently published the bestseller, Smart Cities for Dummies.
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- 05/06/2021 | 10:15 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersLauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of MarketingThe Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaJerry WindLauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaJerry (Yoram) Wind joined Wharton in 1967 with a doctorate from Stanford and since 2017 is the Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing. He founded the Wharton Think Tank – The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and ran it for three decades. Among his many innovations at Wharton he led the development of Wharton Executive MBA, the Lauder Institute and Wharton School Publishing. He has edited top marketing journals, published over 300 articles, and 26 books, and received the 4 major marketing awards: Buck Weaver, Parlin, Converse, and AMA/Irwin Distinguished Educator Award. He was inducted to the inaugural group of AMA Fellows. He was one of the original Legends in Marketing, with an 8-volume anthology published by Sage in 2014. He has consulted with over 100 companies, is a member of the executive committee of SEI, sits on the advisory boards of various companies and nonprofit organizations, and testifies in intellectual property cases. He is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Curtis Institute of Music and Grounds for Sculpture. He is a co-founder of the first private, non-profit university in Israel, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. His current research explores marketing-driven business strategy, creativity and innovation; and challenging our mental models. His recent books include Beyond Advertising: Creating Value Through All Customer Touchpoints and The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models. He is a 2017 inductee into the Marketing Hall of Fame. He is the Co-founder of the Purple Project for Democracy and of the Reimagine Education global competition and conference.Nitin Rakesh, a distinguished leader in the Technology and Financial Services industries, is CEO of Mphasis, a leading Global Software Services firm. Early in his tenure at Mphasis, Nitin introduced Mphasis’ C=X2C2=1TM formula for success, (hyper-personalization; drive n=1 powered by Cloud & Cognitive); driving multi-dimensions of business value with an integrated consumer-centric Front2BackTM (F2B) Digital Transformation, enabling Business Operations, Technology Transformation and Service Transformation, driven by IP assets. Under Nitin’s leadership, Mphasis set a remarkable growth turnaround, with a record of highest deal wins in the history of the company, re-defining benchmarks. His laser focus on quadra dimensional growth – consistent, profitable, competitive, and responsible, led to enhanced shareholder value. Nitin’s motto to accelerate value creation for customers, shareholders and employees builds a growth-focused culture within the company. Nitin is passionate about Innovation & Technology, and its impact on everyday lives, and works closely with many Fortune 500 companies in advising them on their transformation roadmap with an “Applied Technology” mindset. He was awarded the Gold Stevie for ‘Executive of the Year - Computer Services’, under the Management award category. He won the ‘2019 American Business Awards & International Business Awards – Gold Stevie’ under the ‘Tech Innovator of the Year – Services’ category. He is one of the first 250 CEOs globally across 26 countries who has committed to build an inclusive work environment, end disability inequality through business performance and create social and economic value of people living with disabilities across the world. Nitin is a founding member of Plaksha University in India, a new model of engineering education and research through collective philanthropy to transform higher education in India. He also serves as a founding Trustee of Ashoka University.
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- 05/06/2021 | 10:30 am – 10:45 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersMeenakshi AhamedFreelance Journalist
Self employedMeenakshi Ahamed is a freelance journalist and has written on American foreign policy for publications such as Foreign Policy, The Asian Age, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Seminar. She was the London correspondent for NDTV from 1989-1996. Meenakshi holds a post-graduate degree from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in development economics and public health. She is based in Washington, DC and New York City.
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- 05/06/2021 | 10:45 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersNaeem ZafarCo-Founder and CEO
TelesenseNaeem Zafar has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley since 2005. He is a Dean's Teaching Fellow, lecturer and Industry Fellow at the at the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He is also an adjunct professor at the Northeastern University. He teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategy, Innovation and New Venture Finance. Naeem is also a serial entrepreneur and currently the co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, a company creating solution in AgTech space. Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship. Information can be found on www.NaeemZafar.com.
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- 05/06/2021 | 11:00 am – 11:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersRadhika is a Leading speaker on blockchain + AI + IoT, personalized medicine, pharma supply chain, enterprise blockchain, blockchain security, privacy & identity management. She is a TEDx Speaker, Silicon Valley Woman of Influence, Keynote Speaker, Author and a Serial Entrepreneur. She is an Advisory Member for California Gov Ops Blockchain Working Group (Healthcare and Digital Identity) and a Board Member at TiE Silicon Valley, the world’s largest entrepreneur-focused organization. She has been invited as a keynote speaker at Stanford, Google, UC Berkeley, UCLA, plus major Silicon Valley, US and global conferences (Digital MedTech (Advamed), HLTH, MWC/MWC Americas), podcasts + radio shows. She has also been invited to speak at IBM Call for Code initiative focused on solutions for victims of natural disasters. She is a Blockchain and Healthcare expert and published articles on blockchain in healthcare + pharma (Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, RxDataNews, and blockchain publications). She is also a blockchain healthcare advisor to healthcare startups and a blockchain hackathon leader. She spearheaded multiple financial, healthcare, and power inclusion initiatives using blockchain technology in emerging markets and Advised to governments and international accelerators in digital health, AI/ML, big data/predictive analytics, and mobile. She raised $100+ Million for startups through international acceleration programs with EU and LatAm.She is a Multilinguist(9 languages) and has an extensive multicultural experience (Europe, LatAm, Israel, Asia). She is a certified Network Engineer and holds a MBA from Chapman University.
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- 05/06/2021 | 11:15 am – 11:30 am PDT
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Track Chairs
Shubangini is a passionate marketer with Deep Expertise In product, brand management, digital marketing and consumer behaviour. She has worked with businesses across 11 industries including real estate, education, consulting, advertising and eCommerce. She has helped many organisations entrepreneurs, Business owners build stronger brands, connect with customers and take their businesses online.
She is also passionate about education, women empowerment and animal rights. She is an active volunteer at the Front Street animal shelter, Weave, United way and Girls who code (NRIVA)
She holds an MBA from MICA, India. She is a certified scuba diver and finds exploring the underwater is a great source of joy, beauty, confidence and strength.
Books
Gary A. Bolles is Chair for the Future of Work with Singularity University and is a partner in the strategy consulting firm Charette, LLC based in San Francisco, California. He is a frequent lecturer on the future of work, learning, and the organization.A globally recognized expert on the future of work, he consults with C-suite leaders of global companies, labor and education leaders from Brazil to Canada and non-profits and non-governmental organizations around the world. He is the co-founder of eParachute.com, inspired by his father's bestselling book "What Color Is Your Parachute?", the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and former editorial director for five enterprise technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Network Computing.
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Organizations, managers and workers still have an Industrial Era mindset towards work. How can leaders guide individuals and organizations to solve the increasingly complex work challenges of tomorrow?
By redefining the fundamental nature of work, teams and the organization, The Next Rules of Work goes beyond offering advice and predictions and provides organizational leaders with a guide to create truly agile organizations that can respond to perpetual change
Dr. Jonathan Reichental is a multiple-award-winning technology and business leader whose career has spanned both the private and public sectors. He's been a senior software engineering manager, a director of technology innovation, and has served as chief information officer at both O'Reilly Media and the City of Palo Alto, California. Reichental is currently the founder of advisory, investment, and education firm, Human Future, and also creates online education for LinkedIn Learning. He recently published the bestseller, Smart Cities for Dummies.
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At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across the world.
The movement to create smarter cities is still in its infancy, but ambitious and creative projects in all types of cities―big and small―around the globe are beginning to make a big difference. New ideas, powered by technology, are positively changing how we move humans and products from one place to another; create and distribute energy; manage waste; combat the climate crisis; build more energy efficient buildings; and improve basic city services through digitalization and the smart use of data.
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Youth Organiser is a book about how young people can build more powerful digital-first communities.
Ashley Lin wrote this book because after the pandemic started and schools went online, she felt incredibly disconnected from the clubs and communities she belonged to at school. Without the hallway conversations, lunch meetings, and other in-person connections of convenience, it was really hard to stay connected with people and accomplish everything that we had wanted to do.She wanted to help young people adapt our communities online and continue creating impact together.
She hopes that this book will help you discover how to build powerful online communities. This book hopes to instill in you the same sort of passion and excitement that she has for cultivating communities and building spaces of belonging and power online.
Hemant serves on the Stanford School of Medicine Board of Fellows and has worked on climate and energy issues as the co-founder and Chairman of Advanced Energy Economy.
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Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society -- the economies of scale -- on its head.
Her program nurtures and mentors candidates, opening up career avenues for them. Reena is the perfect person to write this book to inspire anyone and everyone dealing with a career crossroads. Reena loves spending time at home in Pleasanton, CA with her husband Rajeev, son Rohan, daughter Ritika, and her fur baby, Rocky.
Rebecca Cullen is an accomplished and passionate writer. After having experienced her own career interrupted, she bounced back as a finalist for an HBO Diversity Fellowship, published essays in the LA Times and Splitopia, and published Turbulence with Malahide Press in 2019.
Rebecca's current passion is reaching thousands of other people out there at a career crossroads, co-authoring the highly anticipated Career Interrupted with Reena Gupta, and nurturing and mentoring candidates through our program.
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As thought leaders in the talent industry, Reena and Rebecca reached out to high-level experts in the fields of coaching, staffing, entertainment, and tech, as well as people like you experiencing a career crossroads for whatever reason, to create a three-dimensional look at how to cope with the very real career disruptions happening right now. Career Interrupted is a skeleton key specially molded to unlock the most productive and alive version of you. Read it to find career fulfillment and achieve that ever-elusive work-life balance.
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You can also sign up for the webinars at careerinterrupted.net
Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship on topics ranging from conducting market research to seeking the right funding to successful ways to start a business. Information can be found on www.NaeemZafar.com. His books including "7-Steps to a Successful Startup" are available on Amazon and Kindle.
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DaddyKins Kalpana Mohan's tender, moving, and sometimes hilarious memoir is an account of a changing India captured in her father's life, from the sheer feat of surviving poverty in I920s India of his birth, to witnessing key moments in the nation's history and changing alongside them. Above all, Daddykins is an intimate and deeply relatable account of our relationships with our parents whatever our age, and the shared experiences of love and grief that unite us all.
Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship on topics ranging from conducting market research to seeking the right funding to successful ways to start a business. Information can be found on www.NaeemZafar.com. His books including "7-Steps to a Successful Startup" are available on Amazon and Kindle.
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Market reserach doesn't have to be expensive and time-consuming
Entrepreneurs don't like to do market research. Whether they find it unnecessary, think it takes too much time and money, or are simply terrified by the idea, they often start up their businesses without the necessary preparation or understanding of exactly what they are getting into. But market research doesn't have to be an expensive, unbearably time-consuming nightmare. It is an essential aspect of starting a new business that can be conducted quickly and easily if you know what to look for and where to look.
This eBook shows you techniques, tricks and secrets that help you learn what customers want, determine your target market, and test your company's viability all on a shoestring budget
Buy NowAkshat Tyagi is the founder of WorkHack, a startup building AI-powered interview experiences. Since selling his first company in 2014, he has been writing and working on alternative learning-livelihood systems. He is a 2019 Rajeev Circle Fellow.
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How do you prepare for a future if you don't know what it is? How do you specialize in anything if the horizon is constantly shifting? What's the goalpost and how do we get there? Is there even a goalpost?
The hyperconnected world that once seemed futuristic is now here. And now that we're here, it's time for us to educate ourselves for sweeping and endless possibilities. One way to do that is to blur the lines between technology, democracy, design, economics and data, and reconfigure our approach to learning altogether. This book is a giant leap in that direction. By harnessing the wisdom of thought leaders and intellectuals throughout history, by blending business and humanity, industry and society, and by covering cross-disciplinary themes, authors Akshay Tyagi and Akshat Tyagi give us a groundbreaking, genre-defying and utterly mind-bending collection of essays that will help us prepare for the here and now.
Heather lives in the Pacific Northwest and enjoys mentoring local entrepreneurs, angel investing, and taking advantage of all the beauty that living in the northwest has to offer!
Vidya Dinamani is a product executive, advisor and coach. She has over 20 years of experience in product management, including multiple executive roles at leading companies such as Intuit. Vidya is an expert in product-market fit and innovation, and founded a product training and coaching company, Product Rebels, that teaches people hands-on ways to become stronger, customer-focused product managers.
She's coached over 200 companies from startups to Fortune 50 through Product Rebels, and loves seeing people and teams transform when they understand how to build products that customers love. A holder of 9 US patents for software technology, Vidya earned a B.S. in Physics from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and a Masters from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Driven to create a better way to bring new products and features to market, product management experts Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin developed an easy-to-implement framework to help product teams get better at creating delightful experiences that drive growth.
Groundwork is a philosophy and methodology for product leaders and product teams that focuses on three Pillars—Convergent Problem Statement, Actionable Persona, Individualized Needs—and three Practices—Developing Hypotheses, Conducting Scrappy Research, Getting Commitment—that together center your efforts around the most impactful problems, prioritize the right customer needs, enable durable decisions and creates customer-driven organizations that consistently develop products people actually want.
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Understand what makes us human! Unleash Your Primal Brain is about the commonalities all 8,000,000,000 people on earth share.
Our ancestors were molded by ruthless survival pressures from the earliest days of life on the planet. Adaptations which worked long ago are still inside of us - also shared with insects and reptiles. Later additions are common to all mammals from the tiniest shrews to the most massive whales. Some capabilities were bolted on relatively recently and are only shared with our primate cousins. And the runaway explosion of humans on the planet can only be explained by our own bizarre species-level evolution.
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- Understand the power of Data-Driven Digital Networks and how they have driven the most successful companies of our time.
- Learn how extreme consolidation is changing the global business landscape and what this means for businesses of all types and sizes in terms of understanding where you fit in the value chain.
- Gain insights into what innovative companies are doing right now to position themselves in this new reality.
- Take your business from status quo to market leader.
Esther Wojcicki is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They are the result of TRICK, Esther's secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. Simple lessons, but the results are radical. Esther Wojcicki is a leading American educator and journalist.
Mother of YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Fulbright scholar Janet Wojcicki, and 23&Me founder Anne Wojcicki, as well as a teacher and mentor to James Franco and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Esther is widely heralded as the most successful parent and educator in the United States. Esther offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential. She is the author of Moonshots in Education (2014) and best seller How to Raise Successful People (May, 2019).
She is co-founder of TRACT.APP (2020) the first "by kids, for kids" platform to empower students by gamifying education using a project based model. She also has a partnership with UC Berkeley Engineering using her pedagogy to teach engineering.
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What makes a child successful in life? A successful student? These questions and more answered in one of the best books on raising children
Meenakshi Ahamed is a freelance journalist and has written on American foreign policy for publications such as Foreign Policy, The Asian Age, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Seminar. She was the London correspondent for NDTV from 1989-1996. Meenakshi holds a post-graduate degree from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in development economics and public health. She is based in Washington, DC and New York City.
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‘I thought India was pretty jammed with poor people and cows wandering around the streets, witch doctors and people sitting on hot coals and bathing in the Ganges, but I did not realize that anybody thought it was important.' - PRESIDENT TRUMAN TO AMBASSADOR CHESTER BOWLES, 1951
From Truman's remark to now, it has been a long journey. India and the US, which share common values and should have been friends, found themselves caught in a dysfunctional cycle of resentment and mistrust for the first few decades following Indian independence. In A Matter of Trust, author Meenakshi Ahamed reveals the personal prejudices and insecurities of the leaders, and the political imperatives, that so often cast a shadow over their relationship.
Showcasing their industry-leading approach, Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal reveal to audiences of CEOs, COOs, entrepreneurs, and healthcare professionals the power of predictive and prescriptive analytics, enhanced data, and how to digitally transform core processes for improving efficiencies and streamlining operations for the benefit of all stakeholders.
By using lean principles and advanced mathematics, Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal have helped make a difference in millions of patients' lives across over 100 health systems. The sophisticated methods their company has developed have shortened wait times and increased access for millions of cancer and surgery patients and enabled hospitals to provide better patient care.
Today, they are showing audiences across the country how to employ the methodologies that are changing the lives of patients everywhere. From lean principles to advanced analytics, you will discover what it will take to change healthcare operations meaningfully.
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GETTING A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT SHOULDN'T BE HARDER THAN BOOKING A VACATION. The US healthcare system excels in research, innovation, and clinical care, but is failing to keep up with the operational challenges of the digital age. Today's healthcare organizations face immense financial challenges, and their most valuable resources―people, rooms, and equipment―are being used inefficiently. The result? Long wait times for patients, overstressed staff, underused assets, and poor ROI for organizations.
Why do health systems struggle with optimization? The fundamental problem is one of matching an unpredictable demand for services with a constrained supply. The math being used to solve this problem is a holdover from the paper-and-pencil era.
In Better Healthcare Through Math, authors Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal show you that there is a better way. Healthcare systems can harness the power of sophisticated, analytics-driven mathematics to optimize the matching of supply and demand. By upgrading to software systems built on better math, they can enable staff to make data-based decisions to flatten peaks of demand and create smoother patient flow
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Nitin Rakesh, a distinguished leader in the Technology and Financial Services industries, is CEO of Mphasis, a leading Global Software Services firm. Early in his tenure at Mphasis, Nitin introduced Mphasis' C=X2C2=1TM formula for success, (hyper-personalization; drive n=1 powered by Cloud & Cognitive); driving multi-dimensions of business value with an integrated consumer-centric Front2BackTM (F2B) Digital Transformation, enabling Business Operations, Technology Transformation and Service Transformation, driven by IP assets. Under Nitin's leadership, Mphasis set a remarkable growth turnaround, with a record of highest deal wins in the history of the company, re-defining benchmarks. His laser focus on quadra dimensional growth - consistent, profitable, competitive, and responsible, led to enhanced shareholder value.
Nitin's motto to accelerate value creation for customers, shareholders and employees builds a growth-focused culture within the company. Nitin is passionate about Innovation & Technology, and its impact on everyday lives, and works closely with many Fortune 500 companies in advising them on their transformation roadmap with an "Applied Technology" mindset. He was awarded the Gold Stevie for ‘Executive of the Year - Computer Services', under the Management award category. He won the ‘2019 American Business Awards & International Business Awards - Gold Stevie' under the ‘Tech Innovator of the Year - Services' category. He is one of the first 250 CEOs globally across 26 countries who has committed to build an inclusive work environment, end disability inequality through business performance and create social and economic value for people living with disabilities across the world. Nitin is a founding member of Plaksha University in India, a new model of engineering education and research through collective philanthropy to transform higher education in India. He also serves as a founding Trustee of Ashoka University.Jerry Wind
Jerry (Yoram) Wind joined Wharton in 1967 with a doctorate from Stanford and since 2017 is the Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing. He founded the Wharton Think Tank - The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and ran it for three decades. Among his many innovations at Wharton he led the development of Wharton Executive MBA, the Lauder Institute and Wharton School Publishing. He has edited top marketing journals, published over 300 articles, and 26 books, and received the 4 major marketing awards: Buck Weaver, Parlin, Converse, and AMA/Irwin Distinguished Educator Award. He was inducted to the inaugural group of AMA Fellows. He was one of the original Legends in Marketing, with an 8-volume anthology published by Sage in 2014. He has consulted with over 100 companies, is a member of the executive committee of SEI, sits on the advisory boards of various companies and nonprofit organizations, and testifies in intellectual property cases.
He is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Curtis Institute of Music and Grounds for Sculpture. He is a co-founder of the first private, non-profit university in Israel, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. His current research explores marketing-driven business strategy, creativity and innovation; and challenging our mental models. His recent books include Beyond Advertising: Creating Value Through All Customer Touchpoints and The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models. He is a 2017 inductee into the Marketing Hall of Fame. He is the Co-founder of the Purple Project for Democracy and of the Reimagine Education global competition and conference.
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The coronavirus pandemic is the kind of unpredictable, global catastrophe of staggering proportions that comes along not just every few years but perhaps once in a hundred years. What started out as a health crisis, has quickly developed into an
economic crisis spurring social unrest across the world. And yet, despite the widespread distress, the picture is more complex than it may seem. For some companies, the crisis has and continues to provide opportunities for new growth.
This urgent and timely book by a visionary business practitioner, Nitin and Jerry Wind bridges the worlds of industry and academia to bring you the knowledge that can help your business thrive in the new world. The book defines 8 key principles that form a highly adaptive framework, that gives businesses the tools to adapt and succeed in a new reality.
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The book has a collection of 50 global thought leaders and visionaries centered on doing business in the Digital Age - from addressing disruptions caused by COVID-19, to driving digital transformation through innovation, to fostering a mutual understanding between technical and non-technical executives when it comes to existential issues surrounding cybersecurity.
The Book has three parts:
Part 1 : THE FUTURE OF THREAT AND RISKS- Seizing the opportunities, confronting the challenges.
Part 2 : LESSONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD -Cybersecurity awareness, understanding and leadership
Part 3 : MAKE SURE YOU'RE COVERED TODAY - Best practices on people, process and technology.
Each part has its own flavor and personality, reflective of its goals and purpose. Part 1 is a bit more futuristic, Part 2 a bit more experiential, and Part 3 a bit more practical. How we work together, learn from our mistakes, deliver a secure and safe digital future-those are the elements that make up the core thinking behind this book. We cannot afford to be complacent. Whether you are a leader in business, government, or education, you should be knowledgeable, diligent, and action-oriented. It is our sincerest hope that this book provides answers, ideas, and inspiration.If we fail on the cybersecurity front, we put all of our hopes and aspirations at risk. So we start this book with a simple proposition: When it comes to cybersecurity, we must succeed.
Radhika is a Leading speaker on blockchain + AI + IoT, personalized medicine, pharma supply chain, enterprise blockchain, blockchain security, privacy & identity management. She is a TEDx Speaker, Silicon Valley Woman of Influence, Keynote Speaker, Author and a Serial Entrepreneur. She is an Advisory Member for California Gov Ops Blockchain Working Group (Healthcare and Digital Identity) and a Board Member at TiE Silicon Valley, the world's largest entrepreneur-focused organization.
She has been invited as a keynote speaker at Stanford, Google, UC Berkeley, UCLA, plus major Silicon Valley, US and global conferences (Digital MedTech (Advamed), HLTH, MWC/MWC Americas), podcasts + radio shows. She has also been invited to speak at IBM Call for Code initiative focused on solutions for victims of natural disasters.
She is a Blockchain and Healthcare expert and published articles on blockchain in healthcare + pharma (Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, RxDataNews, and blockchain publications). She is also a blockchain healthcare advisor to healthcare startups and a blockchain hackathon leader. She spearheaded multiple financial, healthcare, and power inclusion initiatives using blockchain technology in emerging markets and Advised to governments and international accelerators in digital health, AI/ML, big data/predictive analytics, and mobile.
She raised $100+ Million for startups through international acceleration programs with EU and LatAm.She is a Multilinguist(9 languages) and has an extensive multicultural experience (Europe, LatAm, Israel, Asia). She is a certified Network Engineer and holds a MBA from Chapman University.
Jorden Woods is a Caltech-trained astrophysicist, successful 3-time serial entrepreneur with exits, and a pioneer in decentralized technology & online globalization strategy. He is a Founding Partner of StarChain Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture studio focused on solving significant global challenges with advanced technologies - blockchain, AI, IoT. Jorden is also a Managing Partner at DoubleNova Group, Silicon Valley-based advanced technology advisory firm. Jorden has raised over $48 million from top tier Silicon Valley and global investors for his own companies and an additional $170 million for advised startups.
He has generated millions of dollars in revenue and expanded startups both nationally and internationally. Jorden is an expert in enterprise blockchain (author of the best seller Enterprise Blockchain Has Arrived), fundraising, startup acceleration, and global entrepreneurship. He is on the Advisory Board of the World Business Angels Investment Forum Smart Cities Economic Development Commission and multiple US and international startups in fintech, healthcare and sustainability.
He has also been an invited guest speaker at Stanford University, Google, MIT, UC Berkeley, and leading blockchain and AI conferences in Silicon Valley. Jorden holds a BS in astrophysics from Caltech and an MS in physics from University of Washington.
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In this seminal book, enterprise blockchain experts Jorden Woods and Radhika Iyengar present their tour-de-force enabling executives, visionaries and entrepreneurs to benefit from blockchain's transformative power. Throughout the book, there are recurring themes of decentralized digital trust, value and identity that are fully explored and developed. These overarching themes comprise a new era, Web 3.0, and blockchain marks the first step in harnessing its power. Drawing on their experiences as experts, serial entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders, the authors provide real-world insights bolstered by incisive interviews that put you in the front row of conversations with key enterprise business and thought leaders shaping this new era.
Fortune 500 board member, Former CEO of MetricStream, Advisor and Author Shellye Archambeau is an experienced CEO and Board Director with a track record of accomplishments building brands, high performance teams, and organizations. Ms. Archambeau currently serves on the boards of Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies, and Okta. She is also a strategic advisor to Forbes Ignite and the President of Arizona State University, and serves on the board of two national nonprofits, Catalyst and Braven.
Ms. Archambeau has over 30 years of experience in technology. She is the former CEO of MetricStream, a Silicon Valley-based, governance, risk, and compliance software company. During her tenure MetricStream grew from a fledgling startup into a global market leader. She is the author of Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers and Create Success on Your Own Terms. A book that will inspire you and provide the tools to enable you to fight the battles, make the tradeoffs and create the life you want. She is also a Forbes contributor and the protagonist of the Harvard Business School Case Study: Becoming a CEO. Ms. Archambeau enjoys the performing arts, traveling, cooking and writing a blog that provides career advice, insights and other musings
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*Named a Best Business Book of 2020 by Fortune and Bloomberg*
Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals.
GO BIG OR GO HOME. Tarang is a tech & software investment banker at San Francisco based Atlas Technology Group. He is a former VC at SoftBank Capital, Senior banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, 3G Product Manager at Ericsson and Qualcomm and a published Startup & VC author.
He combines his experience & expertise as a technologist, venture capitalist, startup expert and investment banker to deliver exceptional M&A, capital raise and strategic growth advisory services to startups, private and public companies in key technology verticals including SaaS, E-commerce, fintech, martech, digital media, consumer internet, and telco software.
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Author Tarang Shah, a venture capital professional himself, interviews rising VC stars, Internet and software investment pioneers, and venture investment thought leaders. You'll learn firsthand what criteria venture capitalists use to make investments, how they structure deals, the many ways they help the companies they fund, avoidable mistakes they see all too often, the role of luck in a success, and why so many startups fail. Venture Capitalists at Work also contains interviews with those on the receiving end of venture money—entrepreneurs in high-profile startups that went on to achieve great success. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an aspiring VC, an M&A professional, or an ambitious student, the knowledge you will gain from Venture Capitalists at Work could provide a significant shortcut to success.
Tom Lawry serves as National Director of AI for Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft and previously served as Director of Worldwide Health. Tom works with providers, payors and life science organizations in planning & implementing innovative analytical solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe.
Tom focuses on strategies for digital transformation applied to performance optimization including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Cognitive Services. He previously served as Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft's health incubator (Health Solutions Group).
Prior to Microsoft Tom served as a Senior Director at GE Healthcare with global responsibilities for revenue cycle analytics and operational performance solutions.
Lawry was founder and CEO of Verus, a healthcare software company named as one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Washington Companies for three consecutive years and to the Deloitte Fast 500 Technologies list.
For twelve years Lawry served in various executive management roles in hospitals and integrated delivery networks. He has published numerous articles on using technology to innovate healthcare. His new book from HIMSS & CRC Press is: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Leader's Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems.
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AI in Health: A Leader's Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems
We are in the early stages of the next big platform shift in healthcare computing. Fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Cloud, this shift is already transforming the way health and medical services are provided.
As the industry transitions from static digital repositories to intelligent systems, there will be winners and losers in the race to innovate and automate the provision of services. Critical to success will be the role leaders play in shaping the use of AI to be less "artificial" and more "intelligent" in support of improving processes to deliver care and keep people healthy and productive across all care settings.
This book defines key technical, process, people, and ethical issues that need to be understood and addressed in successfully planning and executing an enterprise-wide AI plan. It provides clinical and business leaders with a framework for moving organizations from the aspiration to execution of intelligent systems to improve clinical, operational, and financial performance.
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Healthcare digital Transformation is an essential handbook and guide for digital health and digital transformation leaders in healthcare at a time when the industry is accelerating the adoption of telehealth and virtual care models in the wake of the pandemic in response to the pandemic and changing consumer preferences.
Based on the authors' extensive experience as hands-on practitioners, the book provides actionable insights on developing enterprise digital roadmaps and implementing digital health solutions at every touchpoint in a consumer's journey. With a strong background in healthcare technology, the authors provide practical insights and guidance on developing a robust technology strategy, picking the right technology partners and implementing enterprise digital roadmaps successfully