Accelerate is here to develop your digital leadership skills to shift the digital dial in your enterprise. Access the methods, experiences and learning to step up, and step out of the status quo.
Accelerate is a program of interactive events, workshops and a community collaboration, focused on equipping digital business leaders with the know-how to drive Digital Transformation (DX) within enterprises.
As we adjust to the changes now facing the world, a new form of adaptive leadership is needed. Recovering or reorganizing your business is the first step in building a resilient digital enterprise. Accelerate gives you access to the technologies, methods, frameworks and capabilities to deliver meaningful change, both personally and professionally.
The 2020 program has been designed to empower your Digital Business Transformation journey.
And thanks to our sponsors the 2020 socially-distanced edition is complimentary and open to the APAC region professionals.
The Accelerate Program is for senior professionals seeking to shift the digital dial in, and for, their business with unique perspectives tailored to different roles and stages of digital business transformation. The #DXProgram2020 has been designed to provide experiential learning opportunities for:
First-hand insights from some of the brightest leaders embracing digital transformation and demonstrating adaptive leadership.
Max has over 20 years experience helping organisation’s effect large complex business transformation and organisational change. As the AN/Z IBM Organisation Change Practice Leader, Max managed a team of 40+ consultants delivering engagements covering workforce and talent optimisation, organisation design, enterprise innovation, digital reinvention, culture change and customer experience optimisation. Max is now Adjunct Faculty at the UNSW Business School on a range of programs for executives and separately runs a change consultancy specialising in change and digital transformation.
Stephen is an experienced information/cyber-security professional, having spent 25+ years working as an information security leader and change agent. At IBM, he is responsible for the growth and marketshare expansion of IBM X-Force IRIS business across Asia Pacific, working with clients to be better prepared for, and to manage constant cyber threat to their business operations. Stephen joined IBM Security in 2016 , after having been the Chief Information Security Officer for the National eHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA). Stephen was (and remains) an advisor to many CIO's and Director’s General across both State and Commonwealth governments as well as the private sector.
David has extensive practical experience in IT and business strategy having started up his own successful IT services business - which won 12 national & international awards for sales, innovation and service before it was sold. In his career David has also managed large high-performance corporate sales & services teams for Hitachi, KPMG, and Microsoft. He provides consulting services to many Fortune 500 enterprises, universities and government organisations in Australia, Asia Pacific and globally.
Focused on adaptive leadership, Rosamund works with National Australia Bank, CSIRO, Boral, Sensis and APRA-AMCOS. A highly experienced executive coach who works with first-time CEOs as well as seasoned professionals from the Boston Consulting Group, Oroton, and Goldman Sachs JBWere. A passionate advocate for women in leadership, Rosamund conducts programs for academic women at UNSW. A graduate of The Art and Practice of Leadership Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
With 20 years working with radical innovation and lean start-up methods in both SMB and Enterprises in roles as Head of Innovation at Scandinavian Airlines, as Senior Innovation Director in LEGO’s Future Lab, and as a Partner in LEGO Ventures. Using design thinking and agile development, David has developed and led innovation units and projects from early incubation to full maturity. He has recently been instrumental in building and launching LEGO Ventures, the new strategic venture arm at the LEGO Brand Group.
A natural designer and creator in the people industry – today Jane is transforming how businesses and people achieve distinctiveness.
Jane is the founder of Frog Recruitment. As well as leading the company for 17 years, she is known as an industry expert across a multitude of areas including the latest methodologies, social/communications and employment branding. Having been in the industry for many years she talks about the thrill of interacting with thousands of employers and career seekers across New Zealand – and when you meet her, you can tell, this is genuine.
Fascinated by the exponential change we are in the midst of, Sam works at the forefront of digital transformation strategy and how it impacts communications, digital experiences and the evolution of value. A Silicon Valley Veteran - Start-Up’s, Digital Business, technology sales and marketing have been the staple of Sam’s career – one which spans North America, APAC and Northern Europe. As Founder and Managing Partner of Aamplify he continues to work closely with brands like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco and Kordia.
Dr Dadras is a transformation agent. For the past 15 years, he has helped major organisations in driving the digital transformations. He has spent more than a decade leading organisations and studying their responses to market opportunities and threats. He heads the Red Hat Open Innovation Lab and Architecture Practice in Australia and New Zealand. He is a lecturer at the University of Victoria, leading research on business agility, scaled Agile adoption and blockchain technology.
Josep helps organisations to create competitive advantage based on data. He believes that the combination of data, models, technology and experience is the ultimate combination to yield better services and create new products. His expertise covers data technologies, methodologies & strategies and their application to solving business problems, improving decision-making, providing insight, & validating hypothesises to create data products. A founder of Delfos Research, Advisor at L’Escola L’Horitzó and Subject Matter Expert at the Institute of Passion.
John is a Senior Security Architect for IBM NZ. He is an IBM Expert level certified architect and Open Group Master Architect. His qualifications include CISSP, ISSAP, Chartered Information Technology Professional and CISM. He holds a Master’s degree in Managing Information Systems from the University of Salford, UK and has over 30 years of experience in the various security and privacy fields including healthcare and privacy related environments. He migrated to New Zealand with his wife in 2000 and joined Logical Networks as a contractor. He is the president of the Auckland Chapter for ISC2 and is actively involved with members including those within many sectors.
Participating in the #DXProgram is easy, with on demand components, interactive distance learning and LIVE IDEAathon scheduled to be Asia-Pacific friendly.
The experts and leaders you’ll have access to have specifically helped to drive Digital Transformation for enterprises across the region and worldwide.
As this year's Learning Director and host, I'm interested to know what's challenging you on your digital transformation journey, so we can tailor better personal experiences for you.
I know professionally 2020 is shaping up to be the most challenging in my career, the effects of COVID-19 is set to echo dramatically for many years to come. I'd very much appreciate your thoughts on the state of Digital Transformation by taking the poll below or get in touch by email.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can join us on the #DXProgram2020.
Accelerate is a program of events, workshops and community collaboration focused on equipping business leaders with the know-how to drive Digital Transformation.
Since 2016, Accelerate has gone from strength to strength by embracing an ecosystem approach to the delivery of business value in times of rapid change.
We work as part of an digital ecosystem of partners who are passionate about creating shared value through collaboration, so together we can shift the digital dial within established enterprises.
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