Agenda
Day1: Tuesday, October 23
9:00 - 13:00
Registration & Check-in
13:00 - 13:10
Welcome Address
Speaker:
13:10 - 13:45
Inaugural Celebrity Keynote: Navigate your next
Speaker:
Bear Grylls is known worldwide as one of the most-recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure. He was the star in seven seasons of the Discovery Channel’s Emmy Award-nominated “Man vs. Wild” TV series, which became one of the most-watched shows on the planet, reaching an estimated 1.2 billion viewers.
13:45 - 14:15
Infosys CEO Keynote: Navigate Your Next
Session focuses on articulating the Navigate your next philosophy and detailing examples of how Infosys is living this vision as well as enabling top clients to do so too.
Speaker:
14:15 - 14:30
Spotlight: Infosys Digital Navigation Framework
14:30 - 15:30
Networking Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:50
Guest Speaker: Purpose Drives Profit
The ingredient for 21st century business success
15:50 - 16:20
Plenary Session: CEO Keynote Panel
Navigating the Digital Disruption
Moderator:
16:30 - 18:30
19:30 - 23:00
Gala Dinner at Villa Miani
Day2: Wednesday, October 24
6:30 - 8:00
Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30
Guest Keynote: Talent Makes Capital Dance - How to Navigate in the New World
8:30 - 9:00
Partner Keynote: Our Journey with Infosys
9:00 - 9:15
Spotlight: Always-on Learning with Wingspan
9:15 - 9:45
Workforce Transformation: Building Next Generation Talent
Workforce Transformation: Panel session to showcase Infosys contribution to building the next generation of talent & localisation effort
Speakers:
9:45 - 10:00
Spotlight: Scaling Experience Design
10:00 - 11:15
Networking Coffee Break
12:45 - 13:45
Networking Lunch
13:45 - 14:00
Spotlight: Intelligent Automation Services
14:00 - 14:30
How to Navigate the Digital Ecosystem: Infosys & Partners
Panelists:
Moderator:
14:30 - 14:45
Spotlight: Distributed Agile and DevOps
Speaker:
K V Suryaprakash, SVP, Service Offering Head, CRL, Infosys
14:45 - 15:30
Closing Keynote
External Celebrity Keynote
Venue: Main Ballroom
15:30 - 15:40
Valedictory & Departure
Speakers
Infosys Confluence hosted some of the most compelling visionaries, industry thought leaders, and innovators of our times. They brought to play ideas, thoughts, insights, and concepts that helped enable businesses move beyond the contours of the ordinary and help you navigate your next towards exciting possibilities.
2018 Speakers
Networking Activities
While there were riveting discussions & debates through the day, delegates had a chance to unwind and explore Rome on the back of a Vespa, a Fiat 500 or the open top bus.
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Venue
With a commanding view of Rome, the Rome Cavalieri, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, will exceed your expectations time and again. Michelin-star dining, a luxury Spa, 15 acres of private-park, and state-of-the-art meeting and event facilities make it a one-of-a-kind luxury city resort when experiencing the Eternal City. Get more information at www.romecavalieri.com
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FAQs
Registration for EMEA Confluence 2018 will open shortly.
Should you have any queries regarding Confluence 2018, we'll be happy to help. Please email the Confluence team at InfosysConfluence@infosys.com
Yes, you will receive a confirmation email once you successfully complete your registration
- From Fiumicino Airport, approx. 30 mins
- From Ciampino Airport, approx. 40 mins
Registrations will open at 9am on Tuesday, Oct 23rd
The dress code for the conference is business casuals. For the gala dinner, it is recommended that you wear smart casuals
Attendees will have to bear the cost of their accommodation. However, Infosys has negotiated a special discounted rate of Euro 190 + taxes for attendees of this event for the night of Oct 23rd and other room nights at a discounted rate of Euro 290 + taxes. This is for a limited number of rooms and is available on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Rome Cavalieri. We will provide you with breakfast, lunch, evening meals, and tea / coffee during breaks on conferencing days. All personal incidentals such as laundry, mini bar, and phone calls from the room, will be charged to the attendee directly by the hotel during check-out.
The conference is an exclusive invitation-only event. There is no attendance fee for the delegates.
The conference language is English. All sessions and communications will be in English.
- While adding the guest/ spouse in the registration form, you can opt in for the Spousal program under the header “ Guest Activity”
- On the day of check in the details of the activity will be shared
- In case you haven’t enrolled your spouse, please write a mail to us at infosysconfluence@infosys.com with the necessary details
No, the business sessions are exclusively for invited delegates. There is a dedicated program planned for the spouses.
To make a booking at the Rome Cavalieri, please use the 'Book Hotel Now' link that will display upon completion of your conference registration. Please note, Infosys has negotiated a special discounted rate of Euro 190 + taxes for attendees of this event for the night of Oct 23rd and other room nights at a discounted rate of Euro 290 + taxes. This is for a limited number of rooms and is available on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Rome Cavalieri.
Yes, attendees can stay at any hotel of their choice. However, with the conference being hosted at the Rome Cavalieri, the opportunities to network are numerous. It would be judicious for you to book your accommodation at the same hotel
You may choose to extend your stay at the hotel by making a personal booking. The discounted rates will be applicable for 3 days before and 3 days after the conference for Confluence attendees through the Passkey link (based on availability). If availability at the group hotel through Passkey no longer exists please email InfosysConfluence@infosys.com with the subject line 'Confluence pre/post booking request' for assistance.
The hotel standard check-in time is 15:00 and the check-out time is 12:00
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Should you have any queries regarding Infosys Confluence 2018, we'll be happy to help. Please email us at infosysconfluence@infosys.com
Breakout 1 - Agile Digital at Scale
Digitizing Customer Journeys: Stories from the Front
A highlight on what some leaders are doing to build new customer experiences – working their way through complete reinvention of customer journeys and supporting processes.
Panelists:
Giordano Sassaroli
Head of Digital Services, ELITE – London Stock Exchange Group
Breakout 2 - AI Powered Core
Where is Automation Taking your Enterprise?
Automation technologies are taking over tasks from human workers and creating new value for businesses by doing tasks – dirty, dull and dangerous - that human workers could never do. And look what these businesses have to show for it.
Panelists:
Breakout 3 - Always on Learning
Innovation Bottom Up
This digital culture demands more speed and experimentation from us all. And yet, building a digital culture does not mean destroying the skills and values that have sustained the company. Rather, it is about renewing that heritage with new ways of thinking and working. How does that really work? Let's ask the leaders who've done it.
Panelists:
Moderator:
Breakout 1 - Agile Digital at Scale
Building the Data-first Culture for Transformation
As organizations embark on massive changes, getting better data is key to eliminating the unknowns of digital transformation. But, what does it take to develop a data-first culture to support the change?
Panelists:
Breakout 2 - AI Powered Core
Letting AI Expand your Powers of Prediction
Enterprises, for some time now, have been leveraging AI to handle traditional prediction problems such as inventory management and customer churn. Now, they are starting to use these prediction to solve problems that we haven’t historically thought of as prediction problems (like predicting hurdles on the road for autonomous vehicles or demand for highly perishable packaged food). Let’s ask them how.
Panelists:
Moderator:
Breakout 3 - Always on Learning
Design Thinking - Why Fast Beats Perfect
Gaining sufficient change velocity requires dramatically speeding up work metabolism. Waiting for enough analysis or the perfect product only gives legacy processes more opportunities to kick in and take over. The minimum viable product (MVP) approach allows for accelerated market entry of innovations while preventing expensive and protracted product development. Ask these design thinkers for whom this is business as usual.
Panelists:
Moderator:
Breakout 1 - Agile Digital at Scale
BPM Redux – Reshaping with Digital
Digital transformation with deep domain, process and latest technology can create robust and innovative solutions to provide the ultimate customer experience.
How can the next generation BPM get amplified in this new era of digital revolution? Let’s hear it straight from the very best in the business.
Panelists:
Karel Lagemaat
Director, Operations, Allianz Netherlands Group
Breakout 2 - AI Powered Core
Taking a Cloud-native Approach
They found the intelligence to spot and seize opportunities fast, create differentiated experiences on demand, deliver it across channels and do it all with dramatically improved economics. They transformed with the cloud. Find out just how.
Panelists:
Moderator:
Breakout 3 - Always on Learning
You Can’t Do This Alone
There was clear recognition today that few of us can do it alone. Partnerships have become commonplace: Toyota collaborates with Amazon’s Alexa. Amazon’s Alexa partners with electric vehicle company Byton, Panasonic and consumer electronics manufacturer Anker. More of these ecosystems are being created, and more leaders are gaining from innovation and idea partnerships. Ask the panelists how it has worked for them.
Panelists:
Salesforce is the world’s #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Our cloud-based applications for sales, service, marketing, and more are enabling more than 150,000 companies to blaze new trails to success with the world’s #1 CRM platform.
Treat all your customers like they’re your only customer with Salesforce CRM. Understand their needs, solve their problems, and identify opportunities to help by managing their information and interactions with your company on a single platform that’s always accessible from anywhere.
For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.
Google Cloud’s portfolio of products, services and tools enable customers to modernize their operations for today’s digital world. Google Cloud touches every layer of the business and includes: Google Cloud Platform with offerings that span storage, infrastructure, networking, data, analytics and app development; machine learning tools and APIs; G Suite’s collaboration and productivity tools; enterprise Maps APIs; and also Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks for the enterprise.
Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP helps simplify technology for companies of all sizes so they can consume our software the way they want – and without disruption. With an extensive global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders around the world, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is accelerating innovation in an age of digital disruption. Our strategy is to be the industry's leading provider of Hybrid IT, built on the secure, next-generation, software defined infrastructure that will run customers' data centers today, bridge to multi-cloud environments tomorrow, and power the emerging intelligent edge that will run campus, branch, and Industrial Internet of Things (loT) applications for decades to come, all delivered through a world-class services capability.
At HPE, we believe digital transformation is all about accelerating innovation, and we see digital transformation creating remarkable new value for enterprises of all sizes. Our customers are applying digital technologies to their business in fundamental ways to enhance and streamline customer experiences, to create and deliver products and services in new ways, and to improve core operations by driving efficiencies, lowering risk and accelerating the speed of their business. Learn how HPE can digitally transform your business, visit www.hpe.com.
Today’s IBM: Built for smarter businesses For over a century, IBM has reinvented itself again and again to help its clients move from one era to the next. Today, we are witnessing another such transition, at the dawn of smarter business. All companies need an enterprise-strength cloud platform. They need AI capable of understanding all their data. They need services grounded in their professions and industries. And they need a technology infrastructure infused with intelligence, protected with advanced security and future-proofed against the flow of new breakthroughs and risks. That is, they need today’s IBM.
The Oracle Cloud offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.
MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. MongoDB is a distributed database at its core, so high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographic distribution are built in and easy to use. MongoDB is free and open-source, published under the GNU Affero General Public License
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB has more than 6,600 customers in more than 100 countries.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions. In collaboration with customers, partners, and communities, Red Hat creates reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, mobile, management, storage, and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. Red Hat’s innovative technologies and services help organizations harness existing resources and address new technological challenges--like containers, DevOps, and the Internet of Things--to build a better digital enterprise.
CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business—from apparel to energy—is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, at CA we create software that fuels transformation for companies in the application economy. With CA software at the center of their IT strategy, organizations can leverage the technology that changes the way we live—from the data center to the mobile device. Our software and solutions help our customers thrive in the new application economy by delivering the means to deploy monitor and secure their applications and infrastructure.
Automation Anywhere is the leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), the platform on which more organizations build world-class Intelligent Digital Workforces. Automation Anywhere’s enterprise-grade platform uses software bots that work side by side with people to do much of the repetitive work in many industries. It combines sophisticated RPA, cognitive and embedded analytic technologies. Over 1,000 organizations use this AI-enabled solution to manage and scale business processes faster, with near-zero error rates, while dramatically reducing operational costs. Automation Anywhere provides automation technology to leading financial services, insurance, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, telecom and logistics companies globally. For additional information, visit www.automationanywhere.com.
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its 3DEXPERIENCE platform leverages the Company’s world-leading 3D software applications to transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported, enabling businesses to craft delightful customer experiences.
With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, our customers create “social enterprises” that involve their customers in the innovation process. With its online architecture, the 3DEXPERIENCE environment helps businesses to test and evaluate — anywhere in the development lifecycle of a product or service — the eventual experience they will deliver to their customers. In short, 3DEXPERIENCE powers the next-generation capabilities that drive today’s Experience Economy.
7 technology leaders now focusing on the same thing. Your transformation
Dell Technologies is so committed to driving customer success we’ve combined the power of seven leaders to do it: Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream, and VMware. Individually and together, we enable true digital transformation and deliver game-changing advantages.
Dell Technologies is committed to your success. Our collective capabilities help you redefine how to do business so you can discover new opportunities. Now see how our products, solutions, and services help power your transformation. For more please visit www.dell.com
“SUSE provides and supports enterprise-grade Linux and open source solutions with exceptional service, value and flexibility. With partners and communities, we innovate, adapt and deliver secure Linux, cloud infrastructure and storage software to create solutions for mixed enterprise IT environments. We help customers harness the benefits and power of an open enterprise that can empower their possibilities. SUSE and Infosys enjoy a very close partnership. Significantly, Infosys has chosen SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications – the leading platform for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA among customers globally – as its preferred platform for SAP HANA Transformation Programs”
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei’s 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.
For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com or follow us on:
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data to innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business and society. We combine technology, intellectual property and industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help enterprises improve their customers’ experiences, develop new revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Only Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining deep information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and domain expertise. We work with organizations everywhere to drive data to meaningful outcomes. Visit us at www.HitachiVantara.com.
Pega systems is the leader in software for customer engagement and operational excellence. Pega’s adaptive, cloud-architected software empowers people to rapidly deploy and easily change applications to meet strategic business needs. Over our 35-year history, Pega has delivered award-winning capabilities in CRM and digital process automation (DPA), powered by artificial intelligence and robotic automation, to help the world’s leading brands achieve breakthrough business results.
