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José Pires serves as the Global Excellence & Innovation (E&I) Leader for Andeavor Corporation, where he oversees the global identification, prioritization and execution of mission critical business improvements and innovations that add value to the company, business partners and external clients in multiple markets.

Prior to his current role, Pires held Excellence and Innovation leadership positions in large, global companies in the electronics (Sony), semiconductor (Cymer-ASML), food (Nestlé) and infrastructure (Black & Veatch) industries. Throughout his career, Pires developed and refined E&I as an award winning program for innovation, leadership development, strategy execution and value creation globally.

Pires is an advisory board leader and keynote speaker for several global conferences on innovation, operational excellence, leadership development, strategy execution, business transformation, customer engagement and growth acceleration.

He holds a Bachelor in Engineering Physics from the University of Kansas and a Master in Business Administration focused in Investment Banking and Entrepreneurship from the University of San Diego.

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Bettina has been a visionary thinker and doer in the field of innovation for close to 30 years. Whether running leadership seminars and workshops or speaking at conferences, whether coaching, mentoring or teaching MBAs and executives, Bettina brings her contagious positive energy to bear to inspire, and open minds. She enables both individuals and teams to think differently about being creative, about applying that creativity to their business, and enables highly diverse teams to work joyfully with each other - both these things are more important than ever in this ever volatile world. Her credibility arises from an approach that combines her deep insights with latest insights from scientific and social science research, and her passion for and knowledge of her work make her fun and engaging to work with.

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Engineering Leader with more than 18 years in world class company having extensive experience in designing, developing and testing enterprise software products. Expertise in domains like Analytics & Business Intelligence, IoT and Machine Learning.

Responsible & accountable for driving global missions with Product Development, Processes and People. Managed end-to-end life cycles of onPrem and cloud enterprise software product components – from whiteboard designs to maintenance releases.

Experienced in building ground-up world-class teams, as well as in driving transformations of inherited teams. Building the team with Innovation as DNA and transformed employee engagement and trust score. Extensive experience in working with geographically distributed teams. Managing a development team of Managers, Architects, Product owners and Program managers.

Excellent balance of Technical skills, Managerial skills and Entrepreneurial skills.
Thrives in a 'start-up like' work environment.  

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She has been an IT leader for 30 years focused on utilizing technology to drive business value and competitive market differentiation

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Enterprise/Solutions Architect • Project Manager • Full stack developer • Business Analyst • Tech Entrepreneur • Angel Investor (active).

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Donald Kuk is an innovative, multiple industry award winning Global Transformation, Cognitive Automation and Operational Excellence Senior Executive with 20 plus years of delivering record setting top line growth, customer and employee satisfaction, and margin improvement leading rapid Enterprise Transformation and Intelligent Automation for the world’s most highly regarded manufacturing, retail and centralbanking, insurance, technology, health care and health sciences industry leaders.

Widely published successes include advanced metrics, analysis, strategy, mission, vision, opportunity identification, milestones, budget and roadmap development, multi-tiered communication, transformation and improvement program management, training, change and performance management, and results verification.

Named the “Enterprise Whisperer” by Fortune Magazine, Donald is a frequent invited Conference Chairperson, Keynote Speaker, Session Chairman and Tutorial Presenter at CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, Operational Excellence and Enterprise Strategy events worldwide.

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A former Research Director at leading IT industry analysis firm Gartner, Mark has an extensive background in enterprise architecture, business process management and change management, having held executive positions with a number of technology companies.

Mark has authored or co-authored four books on business and process management, including “Thrive! How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer” and “In Search of BPM Excellence” and  “People Centric Process Management.  Widely respected for his knowledge and views on business change, he is the creator of “Next Practice” and has variously been described as a ”BPM Guru”, a “Thought Leader” and a “Master of Mindset”. 

Mark is passionate about the people aspects of change, he has spent much of the last ten years travelling the world, learning, teaching and researching the cultural aspects of change and how executives perceive business and process improvement In this capacity he has literally taught hundreds of people and been fortunate to interview and interact with many CEO’s .

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I am a well-seasoned and highly accomplished professional with a sizeable tenure. I have spent my experience accumulating knowledge and achieving set goals through delivering my best at every step of the way to provide optimal results. I firmly believe in establishing and maintaining the key partnerships and relationships that prove productive and allow for better performance.

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Scott Whitmire is a senior enterprise architect with over 40 years of system architecture and development experience, including a number of major applications. He has designed and built large applications for several industries, including healthcare, research, aerospace, manufacturing, professional practice management, financial services, wholesale, retail, and telecommunications.

Mr. Whitmire serves on the Boards of Directors for the Association of Business Process Management Professionals International (ABPMP International) and Iasa Global, the association for IT architects. He is an industry thought leader on the practice of business architecture with expertise in troubleshooting and measurement, and has developed both full courses and multiple parts of multiple bodies of knowledge.

Mr. Whitmire is a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Iasa Fellow, and holds the CITA-P and CITA-D certifications. He has mentored many architects and engineers. He has published one book (so far), "Object Oriented Design Measurement," as well as numerous papers, articles, and presentations. He is a frequent speaker at business and IT architecture events. He has written extensively on business and IT architecture at https://scottwhitmire.wordpress.com.

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Responsible for Enterprise Architecture across Mars Wrigley and Corporate Functions business segments. Working alongside the segment CIOs to deliver Architecture Strategy, Transformation roadmaps and Architecture Services.

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“Rajprasath is an Innovation and enterprise architect-Digital Supply Chain, Senior Data scientist and an IoT expert associated with SAP Labs dealing with premium engagement customers. His primary focus is to make our SME and Premium enterprises intelligent with help of innovation technologies such as Machine learning, Internet of things, Business process Intelligence, Conversational AI and Robotic Process Automation. 

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With strategy, product marketing, product management and communication consulting services, I help B2B SaaS startups and more mature providers as well as global companies in their Go-To-Market Strategy acceleration.

With 30+ years in the ICT industry in positions including board level with B2B software players, I offer product strategy, strategic marketing, and analysts relations services in such domains as digital transformation, customer experience, innovation management, business and IT architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio Management and governance, risk & compliance.

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As Chief Digital Officer, I love bringing new ideas and capabilities to my organization and I am a believer in the power of technology to drive growth, business efficiency and engage customers.

Specialties: Executive Manager, Leadership, Digital Transformation, Strategic Consulting, Management Consulting, Downstream Oil & Gas solutions