Guest 1: Eric Siegel

Title : Founder, Predictive Analytics World, Author, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

Guest 2: Jack Levis

Title : Senior Director of Process Management, UPS

Predictive Analytics has been used for some time in exploiting patterns among data, and Big Data has now removed the limits on what can be analyzed. But there’s a difference between prediction and persuasion. If Predictive Analytics can’t lead to something actionable on a business level, what good are they? So how can we define what makes Predictive Analytics effective, persuasive to business leaders and capable of helping business achieve a positive ROI?

Guest : John Baldoni

Title : Executive Coach, Leadership Educator/Author

In an always-on world, the demands heaped on today’s leaders make it seem like their time is unlimited. But a leader’s time is finite, and too often leaders get frustrated by constantly needing to put out fires, get backlogged on email, rally the troops or devote their attention to external stakeholders. Most executives stuck in one rut or the other fail to balance their time and priorities, and long term strategic goals and projects fall by the wayside. How does the satisfied executive spend their time, and how can leaders disrupt the organizational roots that lead to a lack of respect for time and structure?

Guest 1: Randy Gaboriault

Title: CIO,Christiana Care Health System

Guest 2: Tom Corrigan

Title: SVP Finance and CFO, Christiana Care Health System

There will come a day when the CIO and the CFO can work together as true partners and allies. It will be when CFOs will see IT as more than just a cost center and the CIO will be able to prove IT’s value in a way the CFO can understand. Someday they will both speak the same language. For now there is work to be done and in some places a rivalry to overcome. Are CIOs and CFOs doing all they can to enable the success of the other? How can they align their risk priorities, simplify processes and reduce costs so that everyone is happy?

Guest 1: John Higginson

Title: CTO, Wheels Inc.

Guest 2: Josh Bersin

Title: Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte

Guest 3: Steve Safier

Title: Chief Transformation and Human Resources Officer, Panasonic North America

With a younger generation rising in the workplace, technology replacing more and more roles and new technology and data centric strategies demanding new skills that are short in supply, 2014 could be the year of the employee. Recruitment and retention will require new strategies and investments in this new normal. So how will HR be redefined? How will organizations begin taking career development seriously? How will we rewrite the traditional rules of acquisition and retention to win the war for talent?

Guest 1: Jim Davis

Title : Vice Provost IT & Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA

Guest 2: Jim Wetzel

Title : Technical Director, Platform Center of Excellence, General Mills

The potential of the Internet of Things in the Manufacturing industry suggests that as machines and processes begin to govern themselves, every step of a product’s journey will be interconnected. No longer is manufacturing confined to the traditional production process of raw materials to the finished good. Every step from the research and development, production, route to market, consumption and disposal of a product can and will produce data and insight in real time. Can this allow manufacturing to become an industry of innovation and profit? How are organizations envisioning making the most of this possibility, and in what all ways do they have planned?

Guest : Alan Berson

Title: Learning Director at Wharton Executive Education and founder of Leadership Conversation LLC

There's nothing like the speed, strategic alignment and employee engagement and vision that strong start-ups have. Each has a certain magic that simply vanishes in a large, multi-department environment. Many leaders know the feeling of struggling to bring that magic back, but how can they without the same intimate, one-on-one conversations and close knit environment a startup allows? Just how can leadership eliminate the sterile, remote and distributed communication of the enterprise and find that lost spark?

Guest 1: Frank Buytendijk

Title: Author, Research VP, Gartner

Guest 2: Kord Davis

Title: Author, Co-Founder, Design+Strategy Forum

Big Data may be a dying buzzword, but the act of collecting and analyzing data to create new value and insights is here to stay. As data analysis practices get more sophisticated and companies are collecting even more data about their customers, business leaders and decision makers calling the shots on how a company uses that data must start to weigh the moral and ethical implications associated with all that is collected and acted upon. Now is the time to define words, risks and standards for which practices are serving the consumer and which are plain creepy. So how can leaders re-evaluate their company transparency and values as it pertains to Big Data? What universal principles can we set in stone to make data collection a morally sound endeavor?

Guest : Tricia S. Blair

Title: SVP, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Enterprise IT Services, Lincoln Financial Group

The hiring of Chief Digital Officers has doubled every year since 2005. The CDO role is here to stay, and it is their job to put the customer first by being focused on strategy and execution, by never being afraid of failure and being able to recruit and retain talent that will get their enterprise and C-suite thinking digitally. If the new CDO wants to show business how they can get to the next level of growth and innovation through digital channels, how can he or she immediately come into the role and make an impact? What should be their primary responsibilities and goals in the first year on the job?

Guest : Carolyn Parnell

Title: CIO and Commissioner of IT Services, State of Minnesota

An organization is like a puzzle, with each person a piece that fits snugly to make up the whole. It doesn’t work the other way around, and you can’t fit a round peg into a square hole. In order to achieve the greatest value and success from a team, an organization should help individuals identify what they’re really meant to do and how best they can excel in that area. The best leaders know how to apply those unique attributes to the universal goals that will help a company thrive. So what’s the road map to help an individual lead their own path and find within an organization’s puzzle just where they belong?

Guest : Frank Wander

Title: Author, Former CIO and Founder of People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute)

A successful leader needs to offer direction and vision that goes beyond what is said and what is needed among the team. A leader must know a team's wants and needs before they do. He or she must know when to prod, when to coax and when to do nothing at all. A leader needs that Sixth Sense to help their team succeed. So just how do you tap into and hone that sense?