What is the Future of Work?
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- 05/07/2021 | 9:00 am – 9:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakersBorn to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC. As the resident Work Futurist, Dom is Atlassian’s in-house “Team Doctor” helping them scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective, and spending over half his time helping their customers navigate transformation, agility, and the future of work. Dom helped pioneer Atlassian’s Team Playbook , and has a deep passion for understanding teamwork and the changes we need to make today to build thriving businesses. He has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and a Director at Deloitte. A keen traveler, Dom has traversed over 50 countries so far, but after 17 years on these shores, he calls Australia home.
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- 05/07/2021 | 9:30 am – 10:05 am PDT
- 35 mins Hall CSpeakersShankar Iyer is the SVP and GM of End User Computing at VMware Inc. This responsibility includes overall business strategy and performance, product management and marketing, R&D, market positioning, and customer success. Previously, Shankar ran the Desktop business as part of EUC and as the SVP and GM of Desktop products. Prior to VMware, Shankar was the VP of Products and Engineering for Enterprise Mobility at Citrix Systems, where he was instrumental in building the XenMobile business and products from the ground up. Before Citrix, Shankar was at WebEx as VP of Products and Engineering. He was responsible for WebEx's next generation platform and ecosystem and continued that role as part of the Cloud Application Services group at Cisco Systems. Shankar has also held executive management roles at Tibco Software as VP of Products and at GemStone Systems as EVP of Products before its acquisition by VMware. He has an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MS from the Ohio State University, and a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.Nat Natarajan serves as the Executive Vice President of Products & Engineering at RingCentral, a global leader in cloud-based business communications, since December 2020. In this role, Nat leads product, engineering, cloud operations, IT, and security teams. Prior to joining RingCentral, Natarajan was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Ancestry, where he led product development, engineering, data science, and technology strategy and implementation. He also led the company's digital transformation, increasing the pace of innovation and moving Ancestry's 23+ petabytes of data to the cloud, unlocking Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to deliver smart, personalised experiences to millions of customers globally. Prior to Ancestry, Natarajan was Senior Vice President, Chief Product, and Technology Officer for Intuit's TurboTax, where he was responsible for product innovation that included driving broad customer adoption of their mobile apps. He was also the company's Chief Information Security and Fraud Officer, where he led the development of the companywide vision and strategy for information security. Before Intuit, Natarajan held multiple senior roles at PayPal, including Vice President of Global Product Development and Vice President of Platform Engineering and Operations. Natarajan is a board member at Alliance Data Systems and a Trustee at Harvey Mudd College, California. Natarajan has a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University in India.Karandeep is an experienced product leader with a specialization in building Enterprise SaaS, multi-sided marketplaces, developer platforms, monetization & growth hacking. As a VP of Business Products for Facebook, he runs the product and business that is making meaningful connections between people and businesses. Before leading Business Products, he helped build and scale Facebook's Marketplace and Payment ecosystem of over 800M people and businesses. Prior to that, he was responsible for several products and multi-billion dollar businesses at Facebook over the last 4 years, including Facebook’s developer platform, gaming, and mobile app ads. He joined Facebook from Microsoft, where he spent 14 years and helped incubate and build their cloud business, Azure. Outside of work, he helps mentor startups and spends time working with entrepreneurs who are working to bring access to technology in emerging markets and to the next billion people on the planet.
International, award-winning founder, speaker, and author whose work on The Future of Work, Learning, Diversity & Inclusion, and Conscious Leadership has influenced thousands across the world.
World-traveled keynote speaker and Singularity University Faculty member Jos Dirkx is a two-time founder, best-selling author, global D&I expert, and CEO of an Artificial and Emotional Intelligence startup.
Jos Dirkx is CEO and co-founder of Beenova AI which transforms lives through Emotional and Artificial Intelligence, enhancing leadership, personal and conscious development skills. With a diverse team of ten, the startup was featured on Peter Diamandis' Abundance360 and garners global interest given their use of conscious AI for sustainable and scalable 21st-century learning models. Alongside Esther Wojcicki, best-selling author and world-famous mother of three superstar daughters, she most recently co-launched The Trick Method, which takes the globally renowned TRICK methodology to corporates.
Jos has worked with international MNCs: Dell EMC, L'Oreal, PwC, World Economic Forum Women in Leadership, Van Cleef & Arpels, TED, BestJobs, and many others. Her speeches for top executives - from global banks, to advertising agencies, to large corporations - are honest, clear, and engaging. She has worked hand-in-hand with global dignitaries, including UN officials, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and Fortune50 CEOs. With experience across the US, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, Jos builds connections seamlessly to motivate, inspire and move the audience. She has spoken at online conferences, with virtual audiences upto 24,000.
Originally from The Netherlands, Jos was born in Brazil and has lived in thirteen countries - from Bangladesh to Senegal, to Norway, to Canada - having visited 100.
Jos co-founded Girls & Football SA, an award-winning NGO which received a letter from Former First Lady Michelle Obama. She co-launched mGirls, providing health information to over 65,000 girls across South Africa. Jos wrote 2017 Amazon Best-Seller Tackled! With contributions from Siya Kolisi and Fabio Cannavaro, launched in London, Dubai, and Johannesburg and 2018 Best Book Girls Do Good with forewords from Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee and self-made business mogul Huda Kattan. She has mentored, coached, and trained over 3,000 people in cities as diverse as Luanda, New York, Riyadh, and Amsterdam.
Jos was selected as a 50 Global Heroes Ending Violence Against Children (alongside others like Hilary Clinton and Maria Eitel), a 2019 Woman To Watch, a Women Deliver Young Leader, a Nike Girl Effect Challenge winner, a Microsoft YouthSpark winner, an Ashoka Changemaker, and has spoken at global events from the TEDx Stage, to Glowork in Saudi Arabia, to World Economic Forum: Women in Leadership in Dubai. Her work and research have been awarded and featured in publications worldwide.
Jos finds beauty and power at the intersection of creativity, technology, and education to change our world.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:05 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 25 mins Hall CSpeakersSandeep Mathrani is the Chief Executive Officer of WeWork, where he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to WeWork, Sandeep most recently served as CEO of Brookfield Properties Retail Group and as Vice Chairman, Brookfield Properties. Prior to that, he served as CEO of GGP Inc. for eight years, during which he oversaw the company's strategic rebranding in 2017 to a retail real estate company, as well as the successful $9.25 billion acquisition of GGP by Brookfield Property Partners in 2018. Sandeep was also part of the group that successfully helped GGP recapitalize and avoid bankruptcy.Prior to joining GGP in 2010, Sandeep was President of Retail for Vornado Realty Trust, where he oversaw the firm's U.S. retail real estate division. Before that, he spent nearly a decade as Executive Vice President at Forest City Ratner. Sandeep serves on the executive board and the board of trustees for the International Council of Shopping Centers, the executive board and 2019 chair of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, as well as on the board of directors for Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc and Dick's Sporting Goods. He also serves on the Miami Herbert Business School Real Estate Advisory Board. Sandeep holds a Master of Engineering, Master of Management Science and Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.Kirthiga Reddy brings over twenty years of experience leading technology-driven transformations to her role as an Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ Vision Fund. She was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and Middle East. She is co-founder of F7 seed fund. She served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board. She is a Board Member, Ballet and Beyond NYC. At SBIA, Kirthiga focuses on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments. She serves on the board of directors for Collective Health and WeWork, and is board observer for Pear Therapeutics. She holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India's "Most Powerful Women" and as Fast Company's "Most Creative People in Business" among other recognitions.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakers
Scott McKinley is a seasoned executive leading global innovation and corporate entrepreneurship in the education field throughout Asia, Europe, and the USA. He thrives on taking disparate facts, people, markets, and processes and distilling them into differentiated business models that drive sustainable innovation. Several noteworthy examples: Scott co-founded Neumont College of Computer Science (www.neumont.edu), led strategic and corporate engagement for Cisco’s Internet of Things education program, and led Laureate Education’s (the largest owner/operator of private universities) entrance into Asia.
He has lived and worked outside of the US for 20 years across many Asian countries and in Europe. Scott works for Amazon Web Services as the Global Lead for the Professional Services arm of Amazon leading an internal corporate university effort called CloudU. The program is responsible for the technical, consulting, and leadership development skills of the global professional services workforce. Prior to this role, Scott led the AWS Academy, which provides cloud computing curricula and faculty professional development to higher education institutions, preparing students for industry-recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs.
Dr. Anant Agarwal is the Founder and CEO of edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Prof. Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. As a CEO of a global nonprofit, Dr. Anant is helping to transform traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. edX is reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences including the groundbreaking MicroMasters programs. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the President of India and was named the Yidan Prize for Education Development Laureate in 2018.Dr. Stacey Boyle, Ph.D., is the VP of Solution Consulting at EdCast. Dr. Stacey has over 25 years in the L&D field as a strategic consultant. Her professional journey includes a decade of working as a learning strategist for clients of the top three eLearning vendors. Dr. Boyle has designed and delivered measurable change initiatives with Fortune 500 companies (e.g., McDonald's, Verizon, BMW, Allergan pharmaceuticals), federal agencies (e.g., Defense Acquisition University, NASA), non-profits (e.g., Greater Twin Cities United Way and CareerEdge), and school districts. Stacey shares some of her best practices in her book "Be More Strategic in Business: How to Win through Stronger Leadership and Smarter Decisions," co-authored with Diana Thomas, former McDonald's CLO.Meg Bear is the SVP of Engineering and Operations for SAP SuccessFactors, responsible for setting the product vision, leading product management, and driving engineering and operations success. Prior to SAP, Meg held strategic executive roles as SVP, Product, and Engineering, at Juvo, SVP of Cloud Services at Imperva, GVP Social Cloud, and VP HCM Development at Oracle, as well as HCM leadership positions at PeopleSoft and Saba. With more than 25 years of experience building and scaling technology platforms, Meg brings a wealth of software development lifecycle, market, and innovation expertise. She is a patent holder, change agent, startup advisor, keynote speaker, and a TEDx host. Meg is passionate about applying technology to solve business problems, building, and growing teams, and defining market-winning product strategies that are customer-centric and innovative. Meg holds a bachelor's of science in economics and entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona.
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- 05/07/2021 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakers
In a career spanning more than 35 years, Surya (“Sury”) Kant has made a significant contribution to the growth of the global software industry and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
As Chairman for North America, Sury oversees TCS’ largest market in driving business growth and strengthening customer relationships and helping them in their Business 4.0 digital transformations. Sury is an advocate of STEM education, leading TCS’ comprehensive efforts across North America to provide under-served communities and the next generation of talent with the foundational computer science skills for 21st century careers. He has also spearheaded numerous employee initiatives that have since been adopted as company best practices and recognized through industry awards in the areas of HR (leadership development and diversity) and CSR (education and health). He is affiliated with several academic institutions and a frequent speaker at industry conferences, most notably playing a leading role in the U.S. supporting computer science education and careers.
Sury’s longstanding career at TCS includes establishing the presence of the Indian software industry in Japan in 1987, leading UK operations in the ‘90s while recording substantial growth and visibility for the organization, serving as the Head of Operations in North India until 2005. Most recently Sury was President of North America, UK, and Europe, focused on the continued growth of the company’s global revenues, key customer relationships and technology offerings across TCS’ largest markets.
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Track Chairs
Gary is a Chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University. Singularity University (SU) is a benefit corporation headquartered at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. SU provides educational programs, innovative partnerships and a startup accelerator to help individuals, businesses, institutions, investors, NGOs, and governments understand cutting-edge technologies and how to utilize these technologies to positively impact billions of people. He is also the Co-Founder of eParschute.
Previously, Gary was Partner at Charrette, the CEO of XigiSolutions, Co-Founder at Microcast Communication, Contributing Editor at CIO Insight, CEO of Evolve Software, the Editorial Director at Ziff-Davis Publishing, and Director/Training at TeleVideo Systems Inc.
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