27th & 28th of April 2023,
Sofitel Mexico City Reforma, Mexico City
The 2nd edition of CIO Edge Mexico, will bring together the largest and most respected group of CIOs, IT leaders and technology decision makers in Mexico City over 2 days, on the 27th & 28th of April 2023 at the stunning Sofitel Mexico City Reforma. More than 32 presentations, workshops and panel discussions will be led by the most innovative CIOs who are driving business and technology initiatives for the most successful global brands in Mexico. The event themes are: Enterprise Tech, AI & Automation at Scale, Innovation in the Enterprise & Data Management to drive Business success.
Alonso is the Walmart CIO for Mexico and is responsible for consolidating Wal-Mart’s IT Function, strengthening Wal-Mart’s Digital capabilities to enable a radical Digital Transformation across all business areas.
Mauricio is passionate about technology and teamwork, he has worked in this area since 1990, participating in the different levels involved; integrating emerging technologies, traditional technology, cybersecurity and cultural change. Among the varied recognitions he has received, the following stand out: CIO100 Mexico (years 2018, 2019, 2021); Iberoamerican Digital Leadership 2020 from CIONET, and HITEC 50 (years 2021, 2022).
He is the Chief Technology Officer and Enterprise Architect for Latin America at PepsiCo. He is a member of the company's Senior IT Board of Directors. He joined PepsiCo in 2016, bringing more than 20 years of leadership experience in technology projects.
Mexico Head of Citi Technology Infrastructure
Ahide Contreras is Head of Mexico Citi Technology Infrastructure with +19 years of remarkable
experience in emerging technologies, transformation leadership, innovation strategy, and organizational
change in large regional and country franchises. She is responsible for the delivery of all IT infrastructure
and related IT Operations used to enable business success and services across Citibanamex, ensuring
the strategy is fully aligned and positioned to deliver compelling value and champion progress by linking
targeted business outcomes with its future-state capabilities.
Head of IT Delivery Solutions
Apasionada de la tecnología desde hace más de 25 años, en búsqueda continua de oportunidades para transformar las herramientas tecnológicas en soluciones de valor hacia el negocio. Especialista en Transformación y Modernización Digital para habilitar el mundo Omnicanal. Orientada a una cultura de servicio y calidad. Mentora de equipos de Alto Desempeño.
Business Technology Leader
Robin joins us from the Janssen Pharmaceuticals company of Johnson & Johnson with its Supply Chain mission of pioneering solutions to supply hope and better health to patients around the world. He currently delivers results in Digital Strategy, Intelligent Automation and Finance.
Business Unit Leader LATAM
With more than 20 years of experience in the Information Technology market and extensive participation in IP network solution projects, Wi-Fi mobility ecosystem, and the Internet of Things (IoT), Marcos has led teams in technological innovation projects in verticals of retail, Education, Hospitality, Health, Logistics, Finance and Telecom among others. Since 2005 he has been actively working on projects with the Enterprise market and telecommunications operators in innovation, mobility, and User Experience (UX) solutions. In his current role, he has been working with IT executives from different markets on AI-powered network infrastructure solutions as a critical pillar to support digital transformation moves.
VP Central Region
William Allen is responsible for leading the continued growth and expansion of Rimini Street’s service offerings across the Central Region.
Mr. Allen is a veteran of the enterprise software industry leading a successful start-up as well as previously being an executive at Oracle, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards.
Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Allen was Vice President at Saba, responsible for the company’s enterprise sales teams.
Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from San Diego State University.
GTS Technology Head
Global Infrastructure Services Senior Leader
Business Technology & Automation Director
IT Director, with 25 years of experience working in the areas of Manufacturing and Marketing; within leading companies in the Pharmaceutical and Consumer industries. I have strong leadership in the execution of projects, through teamwork with different functional areas. Demonstrated experience in the areas of IT and Automation areas fulfilling the service levels requested by the company to world standards.
LATAM IT Director
IT Executive with more than 30 Head ID experience within several industries, results-oriented thru Innovation, Business valué added solutions, and successful CX drivers
Threat Intelligence Strategist
*Pending final confirmation
Arturo Torres is a Principal FortiGuard Security Strategist for FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet's Cyber Threat Intelligence and analysis laboratory. From his role for Latin America and the Caribbean, he has done research on the threat landscape for LATAM and produced regional quarterly threat reports that had nationwide reach and recognition, being cited on major security and information technology websites as well as traditional media. He has several cybersecurity certifications such as: CISSP, ITIL, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, ECSA, Ethical Hacker and Network Defender Professional, MITRE ATT&CK, etc. Arturo also is a leading Academic teacher and researcher. He designed and manages an Information Security Master's Degree Program at one of the most important universities in Mexico (Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon)
CIO & IT Director Latin America
25+ Years of experience in IT in global FMCG companies, performing IT leadership, strategic planning, project direction and people development.
CIO con más de 30 años de experiencia, CIO en Kiekert de Mexico desde 2004, miembro de consejo asesor de CIONET México desde 2017, diplomado executive advanced certificated CIO Program por la UDLAP 2022, Maestro en administración de tecnologías de la información por la UDLAP 2014, Premio Genios de la Transformación Digital 2021 por Forbes Mexico, Premio a los 100 mejores CIO’s 2011-2022 por CIO100-Ediworld, premio a las más innovadoras 2020-2021 por Netmedia, premio LATAM Digital 2021, premio Mejor CIO México 2020 por CIONET, Experto en: Transformación digital, I4.0, IoT, AI, VR & AR, Analíticos, big data, DRP & BCP, Cloud computing, Cyber seguridad, ERP, Dev Ops & Dev Sec Ops, O365, MS Power Apps.
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How you transform your business as technology, consumer, habits industry dynamic s change? Find out from those leading the charge.
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Organizations are more and more focused and dependent on new Innovative solutions to keep up with market trends. These Innovative solutions might be great for a team or process, but how would they hold in a Global context? Will it be scalable and transferable? How do you ensure successful Innovation within a Global company? I will give you 5 key points to manage successful innovation in a Global landscape, and increase your chance of success where there are differences in local priorities, cultures, processes, and regulations across different region
- Organizations that will survive and go on to thrive as tomorrow’s leaders will navigate these turbulent times successfully by adjusting their business and IT priorities, objectives, and investments NOW.
- Managing IT budget strategy, the smart way
- How can you save more than $30mm in TCO at the same time you strengthen your enterprise software security
- How to overcome the skill gaps in IT
The way the world does business has changed.
In the midst of a global pandemic, businesses have faced the challenge of transitioning to a work-from-anywhere operating model: Enabling remote access with legacy infrastructure will put pressure on any IT organization. While a traditional VPN may support a small percentage of remote users, it can't scale easily, cheaply, securely, or fast enough to support a shift to a fully remote workforce.
Join us for the roundtable where we will hear views from different CIOs on real initiatives and where we should take our organizations on security issues to achieve a hybrid and secure workforce.
Over the last years, all of us had questioned if we live to work or should we work to live, Yami’s unique perspective about how we should manage our resources in IT and in an organization as a whole provides great invites on how issues like the big resignation or quiet quitting are affecting people and companies and provides insights of improvements and changes we all can make easily to retain and develop talent.
Intelligent Automation (IA) has changed the game in Supply Chain. Como to learn practical IA examples on how J&J has applied it to continue supplying 330,000 different SKUs, 600 mfg. partners in 30 countries, 100,000 orders to more than 300,000 commercial customers reaching 1.2 billion patients and consumers every day
Transformación Digital en la línea de producción, digitalización del 100% de la documentación en la línea incluyendo instrucciones de trabajo y videos tutoría les, automatización de las llamados de alerta por estación de trabajo tomando de base el sistema ANDON, emisión de alertas de calidad, mantenimiento, materiales, etc. registro de entrada & salida, registro de capacitación, interfaz con ERP, analíticos y dashboard gerencial, incremento del 10% en productividad y eficiencia
The Information Technology area increases its participation in business decisions every moment, increasingly it is a fundamental part in the design, implementation and delivery of solutions to the business, this includes, improvements in use to end users in the use of tools seeking to be transparent in the experience. The IT representative must know how to communicate, motivate and enable the business, hence the importance of having leadership skills to make possible the start of solutions, have feedback, and be able to react by enabling and modifying technological solutions, supported by the business and the General Management, this will ensure success in obtaining benefits and return on investment made. None of these skills should be considered available, even having to be measured to know the level of the members of the IT team.
* Subject to final confirmation
As threats evolve and become more complex, cybersecurity strategies must be designed through the use of Threat Intelligence as a defensive measure to face the risks associated with the business environment, allowing the organization to adapt to new threats and cybercriminal groups. During this talk, topics such as the global threat landscape will be addressed, as well as some recent examples of cybercrime in Latin America
Thanks to Low-Code No-Code, your organization’s business users (typically called “Citizen developers”) are now able to deliver solutions and experiences with minimal involvement from the technology organization. As organizations accelerate their digital transformation journey, enabling and empowering their employees, or citizens, will be the critical component of a successful transformation culture. Come and learn best practices to conform, train and deploy a successful Citizen Development Team in your organization!
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