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World Class
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Oregon Convention Center
Portland, OR
Target Group
Factory Managers, Decision Makers and Leaders in
IT, Production, Supply Chain, R&D and Business
Development, Automation and Systems.
Key Topics
• Human-Machine-Data Interaction
•
Industrial Network Security
• Supply Chain Big Data
• Building Skills and Managing Change
Target Group
Managing Directors and Decision Makers in
IT, Marketing, CRM, Communications, Social and Mo-
bile, Business Development.
Key Topics
• Strategies for Digital Transformation
• Cloud and Mobility Security Challenges
• Customer Engagement in the Digital Age
• Digital Compliance and Governance
Target Group
Managing Directors and Decision Makers in
R&D, Innovation Management, Product Development
and Open Innovation.
Key Topics
• Customer-Led Innovation
• Business Model Innovation
• Employee Engagement
•
Innovation Platforms
World Class
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION 2016
Three Conference Streams with more than 50 Presentations and Interactive
Round-Table Discussions
Contributors
PACKAGES FOR SPONSORS
Combining the Best Practices of Live and
Online Events
From Conferences
The Best Agendas for Every Topic
Join an Agenda Filled with the Best Speakers in the World
Gather Top Decision Makers in Topic-oriented Round-Tables
From Trade Shows and Expos
Top Branding and Networking Opportunities
Evening Event in the Networking and Exhibition Area
All Exhibition Stands Located in the Middle of Networking
From Virtual Events
You will Reach Clients 24/7/365
All Speaking Presentations Available Online
Live Online Blogging, Networking and Matchmaking
From Online Networking
Detailed Profiles and Multiple Connection Opportunities
Profit from manetch’s Deep Integration with LinkedIn
Find the Right People Through Our Proprietary Matching
Essential Elements for Sponsors
2 Conference Passes (access to the exhibition and to all 4 conferences with a
total of more than 50 presentations)
50% Discount for additional tickets for clients and internal employees
Marketing Package (acknowledgment as contributor on the website, in the
conference documentation, the marketing activities and the post conference
summary)
Membership in the manetch event group for 12 months (arrange meetings
with participants of the event in the community before the event and meet
them onsite, access the participant list, videos and presentations and
information related to the event).
Meeting Point 2m x 3m
Meeting point with information
desk and 2 bar stools, power
supply
Booth 3m x 4m
Booth area with information
desk and 2 bar stools, 2 walls
and carpet, power supply,
stand cleaning service
+
or
OPTIONAL ELEMENTS
Speaking Slot
Present in one of the 4 conference streams; 45 minute time-slot. Share your best
practices and experience with experts and executives. Fascinate the participants!
Keynote
Keynote speaking slot to be held the first day as an opening or closing
presentation. Present your topic in front of all participants. Inspire the audience!
Topic-oriented Round-Table Discussions
Meet with same-level seniority delegates to discuss challenges and the
solutions you can offer. Present, moderate and encourage equal engagement
by participants over 45 minutes. Benefit from existing and future projects
and challenges of the individuals with the intention to stay in touch after the
discussion. Distribution of giveaways and/or a placement of a banner included.
Conference Moderator
Lead the audience through their conference experience. Address participants in
opening and closing statements; emerge as a true thought leader. Appointed
with the prestigious “Knowledge Partner” branding in all conference media, brand
your company in the conference room, place your banner and advertise at the
beginning of the presentation videos and in the breaks. Be present on- and offline!
Branded Lunch
One day’s entire lunch break is branded with your banner, logo and colors.
Present your company before lunch and enjoy the time to network directly,
intensively and personally.
Visitor Data
Access the delegate database pre- and post-event for marketing purposes and
network opportunities.
Distribution of Giveaways
Be remembered by the participants! We distribute giveaways to all participants.
Placement of Your Branded Charging Unit
Place your brand where people recharge. For sure an attractive and in-demand
tool, place your branding at the charging unit located in the center of the catering
and exhibition area.
Champagne/Sparkling Wine
Host the evening reception with champagne or sparkling wine for all participants
at the end of the first day. Advertise and present your company, place your
banners and decorate the reception area with your colors.
“Thank you again for the good event. We were definitely able to
make valuable connections.”
Carl Hoffmann, CEO, Talentry, Germany
“Thank you for hosting us at a great event!”
Julia Giesbrecht, Public Relations, AirWatch, United Kingdom
Who Will Be Attending, and Why Should
You?
Companies face the challenge to integrate and exploit the three megatrends
Digital Transformation, Crowd Innovation and Industrial Internet successfully.
In the World Class Digital Transformation think tank, decision makers and first
movers meet to exchange and report what strategies they are successful in their
business and what does not work.
Meet CxO’s, executives and professionals who are responsible for the successful
implementation of these projects and changes in their companies.
manetch Meeting Concierge Service
Organize Your One-to-One Meetings
Top managers depend on networking and collaboration with strategic partners.
manetch offers CXOs and leading solution partners an exclusive platform for
an information and know ledge exchange through case studies and round-table
discussions. How can you organize one-to-one meetings through the manetch
platform?
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manetch engages CXO’s of
large international companies.
The marketing campaigns are
supported by the manetch
online platform, the world’s
largest business matching
platform.
On the manetch platform
you can contact registered
delegates at any time and
arrange one-to-one meetings
at the conference. You have
access to the detailed profiles
of the delegates. You choose
the delegate you want to
meet.
At the event, you meet your
chosen networking partners. All
information is available to you
at anytime through the manetch
platform.
After the conference, all
delegates will stay in touch
on the manetch platform
where you can arrange
meetings as well as continue
discussing and sharing
ideas. The post-conference
summary goes out to
thousands in your target
group.
The delegates fill out the
registration questionnaire,
build their detailed priority
and investment profile and
are automatically registered at
the private event group on the
manetch platform. manetch
enriches the delegates’ LinkedIn
profiles with more than 3,000
data points.
Industrial Internet and the
Transformation of the Supply Chain
• Effects of integrating new technologies to user
behavior and supply chain
• New business models through big data
• Connectivity and analytics to achieve business
priorities
•
Improving product quality and driving resource
efficiency
Jorge Alvarez
Senior Director NA Supply Chain
USA
Collaborate to Innovate
• Understand the power of Open Innovation
• How to bring tech and cultural innovation to
your enterprise
• Developing a Fintech innovation community
where companies, startups, developers and
education institutions around the world will
work together
Laura Gaviria Halaby
Head of Open Innovation
USA
Digital Data Transformation
• How digital data transforms business and
improves sales performance
• How to connect data sources and organize the
infrastructure of data
•
Increasing profitability and stay ahead of the
competition
Yael Cornberg
Head of Digital Analysis, VF Digital Lab
USA
10:00
09:00 Introduction by the Chair & manetch
09:15 Keynote Presentation in the InterAct Hall
DAY 1
How Can Innovation Labs Improve
Innovation Development?
• How do we define innovation and innovation
labs?
• Social enterprise innovations that bridge the
service delivery gaps
• Open data and geo-mapping for improving aid
effectiveness and transparency
Adarsh Desai
Head of Innovation Labs
USA
Creative Processes Behind
@barbiestyle Instagram Channel
• How to develop content based on your target
audience and objective
• Considering curating user generated content
• How will Instagram be integrated with the other
networks in your social media strategy?
•
Incentivizing consumer engagement with your
brand in social media
Lisa Perez
Global Brand Marketing and Social Media Lead
USA
DAY 1
10:45
Smart Manufacturing: Why Machine
Connectivity Comes First at
Continental
• Best practices and lessons learned during
the implementation of Smart Manufacturing
initiatives
• The need for reliable machine communication
as a basic requirement for Smart Manufacturing
• Challenges of connecting legacy and disparate
devices
• Benefits of standardizing on a connectivity
platform
Michael Lewis
Lead Specialist IT Applications
USA
Motivating the Corporate Elephant
to Innovate
• Our challenge: Motivating 70,000 people to
innovate together
• Finding a common innovation vision, language
and action steps
• Global Innovation Center of VF Corporation:
Combining proprietary insights with consumer
needs and a deep understanding of technology
and new materials
Soon Yu
Global Vice President of Innovation
USA
DAY 1
Coffee break with networking
11:30
12:00
Building a Digital Culture When You
are Not Google
• What are the key challenges large organizations
with strong legacy culture face in their
digitalization efforts?
• What are the major aspects of a change plan
for closing the culture and skill gaps in order to
deliver the digital vision?
• What is the role of an internal change
management department in the digitalization
journey and why it is important?
Linda Cai
Director, Enterprise Change Management
USA
Leveraging the Internet of Things to
Enable Ownership on the Plant Floor
Speaker Slot Available
How Do You Support Change
through Building Cross-functional
Teams?
How Do You Effectively Generate
Actionable Customer Insights from
Your Digital Initiatives?
How Do You Add Value through Co-
creation with Start-ups?
How Do You Balance External and
Internal Innovation Sources and
Competences?
Which Digital Tools Are Needed for
Innovation?
How Do You Create a Bottom-up
Innovation Culture?
How Do You Deliver Outcomes
through Connected Ecosystems and
Platforms?
How Do You Plan, Develop and
Deploy an IoT solution?
How Do You Enhance Productivity
and Work Experience through
Augmentation?
DAY 1
12:45
Based on your profile, we personalize round-table discussions. You’ll benchmark against peers, gain insights, and vali-
date your strategies to move your company forward. Possible topics include:
How to Scale Innovation: Learning
from Pfizer’s Innovation Journey
• Pfizer’s pressures to innovate
• The Dare to Try innovation program
• The critical concepts driving the program
• Pfizer’s innovation process
• The role of technology in scaling innovation to
77,000 people
John Klick
Senior Manager - Worldwide Innovation
USA
The Promise of Analytics– The Art of
the Possible
• Leveraging data to produce insights that deliver
competitive advantages
• Sales planning and forecasting with data
analytics
• Ensuring credibility and governance of data
Richard Davis
Vice President and Global Lead, Office of Data
Acquisition and Governance
USA
DAY 1
Lunch with networking
13:30
15:00
IT Innovation Enabling the Toyota
Way
• How an IT organization can take a leadership
role in program creation
• How to bring together multiple business
functions and create IT based solutions to
support the manufacturing floor
• Toyota’s internal manufacturing Internet of
Everything (IoE) strategy
• Challenges Toyota faces in applying modern IT
based solutions in manufacturing
Trever White
Divisional Information Officer
USA
Manufacturing’s Data-driven and
Digital Evolution
Speaker Slot Available
Leveraging Internal and External
Crowds for Innovation Success
• Leveraging crowdsourcing for ideation
• Designing and running effective innovation
contests & competitions
• Utilizing prototypes to advance ideas
• The importance of customer insights for
innovation efforts
• Engaging employees throughout the innovation
process
Terry Benton
Senior Innovation Advisor
USA
Omni-Channel Customer Experience
with Fast Data
• Understanding that customers are embracing an
explosion of new technology
•
Identifying real customers through making
big data actionable in real time for online and
mobile
• Providing faster performance for web and
mobile
Bjorn Leigvold
Director CRM, Loyalty, Prepaid and Payments
Marketing
USA
DAY 1
15:45
Discussion Round: How to Deploy
IoT and Maintain Control of the
Devices
Speaker Slot Available
Best Practice from Luxottica: Omni-
Channel Strategy for Innovation
• Why internal and external channels are crucial
for successful innovations
• Cross-functionally work and leveraging internal
data to execute innovation
•
Integrating internal and external customer
points of view in your processes
Kristen Zavo
Director of Insight & Innovation, Marketing &
Strategy
USA
DAY 1
16:30
Coffee break with networking
17:00
Value Driven Impact Measurement:
Quantify and Communicate the True
Value of Your Service Strategy
• How can the real value of social media be
assessed?
• How does it impact the business goals and
bottom line?
• Generating a clear and transparent
methodology for assessing social efforts
Kevin Hack
Head of ‎Social Media and Consumer Insights
USA
How to Empower Customers and
Employees to help You Build Your
Brand and Drive Revenue?
How Can Companies Benefit from
Collaborating with Start-ups?
How Do You Get the Most Out of
Collaboration in Innovation Projects?
How Do You Overcome the Lack
of Understanding of C-level
Executives?
How Can IoT and Data Analytics
Transform Operational Processes?
How Do Analytics and Applications
Help to Interpret and Act on the
Data?
How Do You Optimize Your
Marketing Technology?
What are the Different Stages of B2B
Digital Transformation?
How Do You Solve Mobile Security
Challenges in the Payment Industry?
DAY 1
17:45
Based on your profile, we personalize round-table discussions. You’ll benchmark against peers, gain insights, and vali-
date your strategies to move your company forward. Possible topics include:
Keynote Presentation and Evening Reception in the InterAct Hall
18:30
Building Social Media Communities
in the Public Sector
• How to engage with citizens and employees in
social media communities
• How educational institutions benefit from and
collaborate in social media communities on
mobile devices
• Social media as internal collaboration platform
in the public sector
Bill Price
Digital Georgia Program
USA
How Does IoT Impact Customer
Experience?
Speaker Slot Available
DAY 2
09:30
Keynote Presentation in the InterAct Hall
10:15
Crowdsourcing Innovations at
Electrolux
• How 7000 participants generated more than
1500 ideas for future products and services
• Getting global organizations to collaborate on
the go
•
Innovation can be found everywhere in a
company
Nate Cho
Innovation and Connectivity Program Manager
USA
DAY 2
11:00
Nat Geo’s Masterful Use of Social
Media Publishing Tools
• Our goal: Connect with all of these people and
drive them to purchase or take action
• Make specific calls to action in all your social
media activities
• Engage Millenials on social with content and
events
Kate Coughlin
Senior Social Media Manager
USA
New Big Data Technology Trends
with Internet+
Speaker Slot Available
Integration of Social Media
Channels: Best Practice Innovation
@Anheuser-Busch
• How we break innovation into a front-end
process: Consumer discovery work, idea
formulation and idea qualification
•
Integration of start-ups and big tech giant
innovation to elevate AB’s digital DNA
• Optimizing social media platform usage and
measurement
•
Increasing engage rates trough social media
channels
Tina Wung
Director of Digital Strategy & Innovation
USA
Using Data to Provide Predictive
Forecasts
Speaker Slot Available
Using Crowdsourcing and
Incubation to Foster Business Model
Innovation
Speaker Slot Available
DAY 2
Coffee break with networking
11:45
12:15
Change Management Best Practice
at Coca Cola
• Employee engagement: Integrated system of
communications and focus on creating brand
relationships with their employees
•
Importance of change
• Customer experience focus an inherent part of
employees’ values
• Ensuring that change is successful: Some
considerations that will facilitate the change
management process
Beverly Zoeller
Senior Manager, People and Organizational Change
USA
How Do You Select Improved
Security Objectives?
How Can Industrial Internet and Big
Data Help You Save Money?
What Are the Requirements for IoT
Data Management?
How Do You Overcome the Barriers
to Marketing Automation?
How Do you Develop a Thorough
Understanding of What the User
Goals Are?
How Do You Connect All the Digital
Dots?
How Do You Manage Open
Innovation?
How Do You Choose the Right
Enterprise Content Creation
System?
How Do You Integrate Your
Customers in Your Innovation
Processes on Social Platforms?
DAY 2
13:00
Based on your profile, we personalize round-table discussions. You’ll benchmark against peers, gain insights, and vali-
date your strategies to move your company forward. Possible topics include:
Developing Disruptive Innovation in
the Incubation Unit: Governance and
Technology Scouting
Speaker Slot Available
The Applications of IoT and
Crowdsourcing Technology
Speaker Slot Available
Branding in the Era of
Disruption
Speaker Slot Available
DAY 2
Lunch with networking
13:45
15:15
Digital Innovation Journey: From
Marketing to Digitally Driven
Innovation
Speaker Slot Available
Social Media Intelligence:
Capabilities and Challenges
Speaker Slot Available
DAY 2
16:00
How Human-Machine Collaboration
Automates the Data Catalog
Speaker Slot Available
Building Data Science Teams:
Preparing Your Organization
Speaker Slot Available
Influence the Influencers through
Influencer Marketing
Speaker Slot Available
DAY 2
Building a Secure, Proprietary Cloud
Speaker Slot Available
Coffee break with networking
16:45
17:15
End of the Conference
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Branded Lunch
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