Join us for Week #6 of the Symposium

In This Issue:

Enhancing Digital Savvy Communications (Episode #9)
Re-imagining Leadership in the Next Normal...Are CIOs prepared? (Episode #10)
Virtual Booths
Join Our Community and Promo Codes
Thank you to our Sponsors

Enhancing Digital Savvy Communications

(Episode #9)

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT

As recently reported by MIT CISR, companies with ‘digitally savvy’ leadership – both at the board level, and across the top management team – outperform peer groups against net margin, revenue growth and business valuation measures. Despite this, most companies lack sufficient digitally-savvy leadership, making strategy, planning and executing digital transformation programs difficult (if not impossible). This panel will discuss best practices to help bridge these communication gaps and some practical, proven solutions for helping enterprises progress with technology modernization agendas.

Mike Grandinetti,

Mentor, Instructor and Program Development Fellow,

UC Berkeley Sutardja Center of Technology & Entrepreneurship

Virginia Gambale,

Managing Partner,

Azimuth Partners

Stephen J. Gold

CTO & Chief Process Improvement Officer,

Hudson's Bay Company

Cathy Horst-Forsyth

Founder and Managing Partner,

Strongbow Consulting Group

Re-imagining Leadership in the Next Normal…

Are CIOs prepared?

(Episode #10)

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EST

Before the pandemic, only 12% of executives strongly agree their organization’s leaders have the right mindset to embrace the changes needed to thrive in the digital economy, and a sobering 9% strongly agree that their organization has leaders with the skills to thrive in the digital economy. Ready or not, the pandemic forced enterprises to quickly adapt. This panel will discuss practical and specific recommendations to help CIOs settle into the next normal by increasing transparency, and demonstrating authenticity.

George Westerman

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

Vipin Gupta

Chief Information Officer,

Toyota Financial Services (TFS)

Anupam Khare

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer,

Oshkosh Corporation

FULL AGENDA

Virtual Booths

International Partners Booth: On Tuesday, May 11 from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Dr. Peter Holowka of the CIO Association of Canada will hold a roundtable discussion, "Covid The Catalyst: What New Adjustments/Improvements Are Likely to Remain in Your Organization?"

On Wednesday, May 19 from 3:00 p.m., Carly Chase of Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship will hold a roundtable discussion, "How to Apply Startup Tactics and Best Practices in Large Organizations".

MIT Sloan Executive Education Booth: Every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., they will hold an Open House for you to learn more about their non-degree programs, Executive Certificates and custom designed programs.

MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association Booth: On Thursday, May 13, join the Career Series discussion, "How to be Successful in Your New Remote Job".

Sponsor Booths: Check out white papers, research reports and much more.

Promo Codes

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Loyalty Discount: If you registered for the Symposium in 2019 or the Digital Learning Series in 2020, you get an additional 50% off. Please use promo code: "2019-2020_attendee" to reduce your ticket price to $347.50.

MIT Discount: If you are an MIT staff member or alumni you qualify for an additional 50% off reducing your ticket price to $347.50.. Please use your MIT email.

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MIT Alumni use promo code: "MIT_alum".
MIT Full-time Students use promo code: "MIT_student" for a $59 ticket.