Fail Faster

Darren Thayre is the Head of Digital Transformation and Digital Ventures JAPAC for Google in Singapore. Darren shares his incredible journey working in Dubai during its initial boom and through a more challenging period after the global financial crisis. You'll get an inside look at innovation happening in the East. You'll hear Darren's beliefs on why the so-called "Super Apps" have gained prominence there and the exciting opportunities ahead across the globe.

Uzair Rashid is the Director of Innovation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Uzair shares how the pandemic has accelerated a number of trends in the healthtech world and how this could result in lasting positive change. He shares tips on how company's in regulated industries like healthcare and insurance can approach Human Centered Design and innovation. We also discuss how tech could help the mental health crisis and some of the challenges associated with it.

Robert Elliott is the Senior Director of Product Strategy and Engagement at Globant and has previously worked in product at Turner and Home Depot. He talks about his early wins at Turner and how he's thinking deeply about how to help large organizations be more strategic when it comes to product and UX.

Evan Nardone is the Chief Technology Officer at St. Moritz Security Services, a leading security firm in the US. Evan shares how this legacy company has fully embraced technology and what the future has in store for them and the industry. For them technology is a means to provide an exquisite customer experience.

Calynn Lawrence is not just the CEO of her own creative communications agency that she built from scratch, but also a pageant queen with a deep sense of grassroots community work. She shares how the lessons from her upbringing have fed how she operates her business today as a 21st-century entrepreneur.

Ashu Bhatia is a global FinTech leader in Digital Transformation (Data & Analytics and Journey-to-Cloud) doing work in CX and EX. He is a published author of tech IT Strategy book, Value Creation. He shares a wide set of views on how companies can best prepare for a digital future including how to go from a project to product mindset and why the future of digital transformation is all around your employees.

Tech renaissance man, Neil Milliken shares his journey from history and art, through music, to become is the Head of Accessibility and Digital Inclusion at Atos - a company that among other things lands space probes on comets! Neil shares his hard-won lessons from his remarkably diverse career and how living with dyslexia and ADHD have driven his passion and capacity for innovation.