For October’s East Coast CIO Forum, Truision will feature Stephen Brobst, Truision Partner and Managing Partner at Sampo Technologies & Systems, to discuss “Never Let an Extreme Crisis Go to Waste” on Thursday, October 7th at 12:00pm EST.
Agenda:
Never Let an Extreme Crisis Go to Waste
The most significant impediment to revolutionary progress is inertia. Not technology, but humans and organizations. In this talk we examine the opportunities that present themselves as a crisis emerges and subsides. We discuss how to leverage such opportunities and harness the need to change in the aftermath of a crisis into evolution toward “new normal” capabilities that have long-term, positive impact on individuals and organizations. We will discuss how organization that use data for “quick learning” leveraging AI/ML technologies will succeed with agility in comparison to organizations that are overly fragile in their hyper-optimized operating processes. Mini-case studies will be used to illustrate best practices and pitfalls with real-world organizational experiences during and after a crisis.
- Learn about critical success factors for surviving in the aftermath of an extreme crisis situation.
- Learn about how to reset business practices for improved performance in a post-crisis world.
- Learn about how to use data along with AI/ML technologies to drive effective execution during a crisis.
Stephen Brobst’s Bio
Stephen Brobst is a managing partner at Sampo Technologies & Systems. His expertise is in the identification and development of opportunities for the strategic use of data and technology in competitive business environments. Over the past thirty years Stephen has been involved in numerous engagements in which he has been called upon to apply his combined expertise in business strategy and machine learning with high-end data to develop frameworks to leverage information for strategic advantage. Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen is a TDWI Fellow and has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996. During Barack Obama’s first term he was also appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) where he worked on development of the Big Data strategy for the US government. In 2014 he was ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs. Stephen is a veteran TEDx speaker and is a Black Rock Ranger at Burning Man.
