At Americas Confluence ’18, there was always so much going on. We spent 3 amazing days as we chalked our paths to navigate the next.
Day 1: Wednesday, September 19
14:00 - 18:00
17:00 - 18:00
18:30 - 18:40
Speaker:
Ravi Kumar S, President, Infosys
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
18:40 - 19:30
Speaker:
Magic Johnson, NBA Legend
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
19:30 - 22:00
Venue: Grand Lawns
Day 2: Thursday, September 20
6:30 - 8:30
Venue: Pacific Lawns
8:30 - 9:00
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
9:00 - 9:15
Speaker:
Jeff Kavanaugh, VP, Infosys Consulting
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
9:15 - 9:45
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
9:45 - 10:00
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
10:00 - 10:45
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
10:45 - 11:15
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
11:15 - 11:30
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
11:30 - 12:10
Moderator:
Speakers:
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
12:10 - 12:25
Speaker:
Narsimha M, EVP, Infosys
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
12:25 - 13:15
Venue: Pacific Lawns
15:20 - 15:45
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
16:00 - 18:30
19:15 - 22:00
Day 3: Friday, September 21
7:00 - 8:30
Venue: Pacific Lawns
8:30 - 8:45
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
8:45 - 9:15
Moderator:
Panelists:
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
9:15 - 9:30
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Speaker:
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, Infosys
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
10:30 - 10:40
Speaker:
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
10:40 - 12:00
Venue: Pacific Ballroom
12:00 - 13:00
Venue: Pacific Lawns
Americas Confluence ’18 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 to help you navigate your next.
2018 SpeakersWhile there were riveting discussions & debates through the day, delegates had a chance to unwind and network as they perfected their golf swings and navigated the Californian seas.
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41 MilesFrom Long Beach Airport (Lgb)
60 MilesFrom Los Angeles International Airport (Lax)
68 MilesFrom San Diego International Airport (Lindbergh Field – San)
You can register for the event by clicking the Register button on the right.
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
Registrations will open at 2pm on Wednesday, Sept 19th
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 $230 plus taxes for attendees of this event for Sept 19th and Sept 20th and other room nights at a discounted rate of $330 plus taxes. This is for a limited number of rooms and is available on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Monarch Beach Resort. 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.
To make a booking at the Monarch Beach Resort, 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 $230 plus taxes for attendees of this event for Sept 19th and Sept 20th and other room nights at a discounted rate of $330 plus taxes. This is for a limited number of rooms and is available on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Monarch Beach Resort.
Yes, attendees can stay at any hotel of their choice. However, with the conference being hosted at the Monarch Beach Resort, 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
Should you have any queries regarding Infosys Confluence 2018, we'll be happy to help. Please email us at infosysconfluence@infosys.com
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 1
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:
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 2
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. Learn what these businesses have to show for it.
Panelists:
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 3
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 an agile data-first culture to support the change?
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Moderator:
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 2
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. Let’s ask them how.
Panelists:
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 3
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:
Diane Pappas
Strategic Planning and Digital Innovation, Los Angeles Unified School District
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 1
The Future of Connectivity
With new connectivity technologies unlocking opportunities along the value chain to link the physical and the digital, companies are creating detailed plans to harness this potential. Here are some ideas that changed the game.
Panelists:
Moderator:
Michelle Hallett
Mckinsey
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 3
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.
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 1
Cyber Crooks are Innovating. Are You?
Every digital point of customer contact is a potential point of entry for a hacker, and any breach could cost a company dearly in lost intellectual property, damaged consumer reputation, and tarnished brands. What are the best in the business doing about it?
Panelists:
Mike Catlin
CISO, Capital Group
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 2
Taking a Cloud Native Approach
They found the intelligence to spot and seize opportunities fast, create personalized 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:
Andre Hoffner
Senior Director, Conagra Brands
Moderator:
Venue: Monarch Ballroom 3
Reskilling at Scale
Traditional methods of training don't always work to prepare people for a future where they work with machines. And in-person methods don’t deliver the scale that’s required for these times. Finally, traditional methods don’t enable businesses to personalize their training to account for a person’s current and target capabilities, nor do they deliver that training on-demand and as needed. So how do the winners do it all?
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