Keynote Speakers
Leadership, Teamwork and Courage
On January 8, 2011, Captain Mark Kelly would face the toughest challenge of his life when an assassination attempt was made on his wife, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. His dedication to family and Giffords’ road to recovery would captivate the nation. For Mark Kelly, focus equals success-even in the face of adversity. Personifying the best of the American spirit, Kelly is a homegrown hero who was a combat pilot in Iraq, an astronaut on four space shuttle missions, and commander of the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. He has combined teamwork, leadership, communication, and family in an unwavering commitment to succeed. Kelly shows audiences how to accomplish their mission while maintaining the love and devotion to family that is the foundation of true success.
IT at Oracle: The Art of IT Transformation to Enable Business Growth
Information Technology organizations today are constantly being challenged to deliver more and more complex solutions to an increasingly technology-savvy user community, yet these organizations still face mounting business pressure for lower costs and improved operational efficiencies year over year. In this session you will hear how Oracle, on its journey to become one of the leading enterprises in the world, has been able to achieve this balance between technology, cost and efficiency through its ongoing innovation and commitment to simplify, standardize, centralize and automate their core business process. Mark will also share how the Oracle IT transformation has helped to enable the successful execution of Oracle’s business strategy, as well as the lessons learned over the last 10 years and how these are critical to creating business advantage for the next 10 years of the journey.
Smarter Analytics: Business Transformation in the Era of Big Data and Analytics
Recent studies confirm that leaders who use analytics have 33% more revenue growth and 12 times more profit growth than laggards — and that gap is widening. These outperforming organizations make analytics personal and pervasive, infusing intelligence into every decision and every business process to ensure they can anticipate and shape business outcomes faster than the competition. In the era of Big Data, there are limitless opportunities to harness existing and emerging information channels such as social media (Twitter, Facebook), sensors, video and audio and more into insight previously thought unimaginable or attainable. Additionally, IBM Watson Solutions are transforming expectations for how computers can help us live and work more productively. These new solutions leverage natural language, hypothesis generation, and evidence-based learning to fundamentally change the way businesses look at quickly solving problems.
