After signing in at the Registration Desk, kick off your event experience by joining your peers for a delicious breakfast and lively conversation.

Building a sustainable and efficient automation ecosystem requires a strategic approach to curating the right technology stack. ScottMadden’s workshop will explore how to assess your current tech investments, identify gaps in workflows, and select tools that not only address immediate business priorities but also anticipate future needs. With the bottom line in mind, this session will emphasize maximizing existing investments while exploring new automation opportunities to increase productivity and drive seamless integration across systems. Attendees will learn how to build a tailored automation toolkit that ensures scalability and delivers measurable results. Through real-life examples and actionable strategies, you will walk away with insights to design a robust automation ecosystem that supports long-term organizational growth.

Key Takeaways:

• Assess your current technology stack and existing investments to understand capabilities and opportunities for optimization.
• Identify workflow gaps and explore strategies to bridge them through automation or partnerships.
• Select the right automation tools for the right projects to enhance business performance.
• Measure results against strategic goals to ensure your automation initiatives deliver sustained value.
• Learn continuous improvement techniques to evolve your automation ecosystem and adapt to changing business needs

Sponsored by: Scott Madden Management Consultants

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Reboot by enjoying some light snacks and beverages while meeting up with your automation peers.

Almost half of workers struggle to find the data they need to effectively do their jobs, as a result wasting time and adding to the information burden organizations face. To effectively build and scale models, you need to have available, clean data –and everyone knows your insights are only as good as your data. It is time to treat data as a true enterprise resource and take control of it. 

Together, we will dive into the importance of good and clean data and best practices for strong data management execution to ensure it remains available, of quality and secure. Workshop leaders will demonstrate how you can: 

• Define data ownership  
• Establish data quality standards  
• Implement security protocols to safeguard information  
• Create and iterate your data-driven strategy to best inform automation decisions  
• Empower automation teams to build effective solutions  
• Incorporate ethically responsible approaches to data 

Bring your top data challenges to the table and engage in discussions to solve real life scenarios that will offer actionable takeaways you can put into practice in your own organization. 

Miguel Guillen

AVP Data Strategy and Governance
Xome

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Join your automation peers for lively conversations over lunch.

In today’s fast-changing business landscape, AI and Automation are no longer optional—they are essential for competitiveness and growth. However, many CEOs and business leaders struggle with where to start, how to implement these technologies effectively, and how to ensure their top talent stays engaged.

This interactive workshop, based on the principles of Noble Automation, provides a clear roadmap for business leaders to successfully integrate AI and Intelligent Automation while fostering a culture of motivation and excellence. When the shine of the new technology ball fades and the hard work of achieving success for the business and the team begins. 

Key Takeaways

Participants will gain:

✅ A proven framework for selecting the right automation and AI projects to maximize impact.

✅ Strategies to engage and retain top talent through change, including the “Hero’s Journey” framework.

✅ Critical insights on avoiding costly mistakes that waste time, money, and careers.

✅ Practical tools to measure success and keep AI and automation projects on track.

Why Attend?

This session is designed for forward-thinking executives who want to harness AI and automation while strengthening their teams. Through real-world examples, best practices, and hands-on exercises, participants will leave equipped to make high-impact decisions that drive both profitability and employee success.

Chris Hodges is an author, entrepreneur, and speaker on the topics of successfully implementing Intelligent Automation and AI and helping professionals thrive by "Doing and Having What Matters Most”. He brings 40 years of experience from the Annapolis, the US Navy, General Electric, Accenture and Deloitte."

Better prepare your organization for what is to come!  

Together, we will explore the essential elements that must be integrated or revamped into your strategy to be AI Ready including: 

• Operating Structure 
• Talent/labor strategy 
• Business process model strategy 
• Change management 
• Technology strategy  
• Governance 
• Risk 
• Labor and Capacity  
• Data Analytics and Reporting 

Chris Hodges

Author
Author, entrepreneur, and speaker

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Enjoy some light snacks and beverages while meeting up with your automation peers.

Organizations are finding great success using AI-powered process and task mining to get a 360 view of their operations. End-to-end visibility into workflows, tasks and processes offer the unique ability to uncover bottlenecks and inefficiencies and act on real-time data to pivot accordingly. 

The faster you can diagnose slowdowns or gaps in work processes, the quicker you can find solutions- ultimately leading to stronger performance and better business outcomes. 

Together, we will assess the best strategies to leverage process & task mining to provide your organization with valuable insights to improve operations: 

• Outline benefits of capabilities and digital footprints 
• Identify hidden opportunities for cost savings, customer experience improvement and process compliance 
• Address challenges that may be faced along the way 
• Use cases of successful implementations and how to measure impact of improvements made 
• Hear how AI is leading to process intelligence 

Learn how this X-Ray-like capability can provide invaluable clarity into your operations and tips and tricks to get the most out of your implementation.