CIO Panel Discussion: Building a Culture of Innovation

The mantra in today’s IT organizations is indisputable: build more apps faster. But it’s not easy. IT leaders are recognizing that their teams are shackled by legacy applications, the backlog has become unmanageable, and it’s difficult to remain agile with a growing portfolio of applications.

Key topics we will address with the panel are:

• Application development priorities in the digital age
• The evolution of IT automation
• Where the disruptors are in your organization
• How to control and exploit low-code for maximum benefit

Arturo Martinez Torres - Grupo Quimmco

Laura Alejandra Juarez Tinajero - Iconn

José de Jesús López Iriarte - AstraZeneca

Pedro Del Castillo - Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

Tania Sánchez Olaiz - Grupo Elektra

Creating Value Through Innovation In The Corporate World

Innovation processes remain as complex puzzles for companies, which often fail to control and standardize them due to their fundamentally human essence. Is there a method through which we can genuinely accelerate innovation without compromising the quality of results? Where does the line blur between human involvement and artificial intelligence in this domain? This conference aims to communicate the perspective of a select few who possess a deep understanding of how innovation can effectively operate within large corporations and organizations.

Arturo Martinez Torres - Grupo Quimmco

Digital Disruption The Motivator For Transformative Innovation

Pedro Del Castillo - Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

Innovation: Do's & Dont's

This session will talk about the Do's and Dont's while innovating

Angelica Estrada Leon - The Coca Cola Company

Networking Break & Meet The Experts

The Age of AI: Transforming Technology, Society, and Business

A review of the main impacts we can expect in the next 12 to 36 months as a result of the new AI breakthrough

Carles Abarca de Haro - Tec de Monterrey

CIO Panel Debate: Structuring for Success — Crafting Your Future Hybrid IT Culture

The world has changed; so has your workforce. CIOs are competing against organisations across the world for talent and must drive the business forward while evolving internal structures and processes to achieve efficiency. In this hyper-competitive, human-centered environment, CIOs are asking, “Where do we go from here?”

Join this panel debate with your peers and discuss:

• Assessing technologies to be adopted, and phased out, to remain competitive
• Ensuring your human-centric, flexible work strategy is future proof
• Reskilling, upskilling and re-imagining your approach to talent in the face of changing technologies and the hybrid working world

Guillermo Lozano - L'Oréal

Yami Hagg - Mondelēz International

Heriberto Landetta - GM Financial

Ignacio Pérez López - Mizuho Bank México

Robin Mata - Johnson & Johnson

The Power Of Ecosystems

How ecosystems create value for consumers and all their participants in a highly competitive and changing business environment

Javier Solano Vázquez - Sodexo

Networking Lunch 2:10 pm

Mastering the Conversational Era with AI: How Integration of a Singular Intelligent Conversational Platform Transforms Your Company's Growth

Business Messaging and AI-Driven Conversations strategies are reshaping how companies connect with their customers. We will share how by integrating “one” platform, a new paradigm can be established in both internal and external business interactions. From operational efficiency to innovative acceleration of growth, we will explore diverse use cases that drive sales, strategically position products, and provide effective 24-hour customer service. All of this demonstrating the commitment  to offer a "secure" space for conversations between brands and people.

Diana González - Blip LATAM

What If We Speak The Same Language?

Having the business and the technology areas speaking the same language demands attention, comprehension, and willingness to agree on common results.

Let’s face it; neither IT is concerned for understanding the business jargon and processes nor our business folks are interested or prepared to understand what goes around our proposed solutions to them.

Before pandemics we started to witness shy interactions between both entities; now on the 2020s decade and with digital transformation booming everywhere there’s a real need to look for a single language.

Let’s put numbers and figures on the table and offer hints on how to approach and become a value-added organization to our business folks.

Heriberto Landetta - GM Financial

Unleashing Innovation: Harnessing the Power of Citizen Development for Digital Transformation

Participants can expect a comprehensive and insightful talk on the potential of citizen development in driving digital transformation and innovation. I will be discussing the need for citizen development and sharing best practices and success stories from Johnson & Johnson. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of citizen development and practical strategies they can implement in their own organizations.

Robin Mata - Johnson & Johnson

The Disruptive CIO (From Traditional to Transformational)

Identify the different path that must be followed at the CIO level to be able to bring improvements to the organization from inside and outside the organization, but from a strategic point of view and not necessarily only technical and operational, have a vision of the entire forest and not only the IT tree, how to have a positive impact by leading corporate strategies holistically and working alongside the executive team, creating a culture of innovation and simple and easy services focused on customer expectations with a future vision of continuous improvement

José C. Arriaga Murcia - Tokio Marine México

Leveraging AI Large Language Models in Media

Nowadays, with the exponential growth of emerging technologies, the media industry is shifting from traditional technologies to innovative ones, such as: RPA, Low code, AI, AR, 5G, Machine Learning, just to provide some examples. One of the key sectors within the media industry is “News” and with the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, most news media companies are looking towards this emerging technology to leverage content creation, curation, and transcription with the use of AI’s Large Language Models (LLM’s) with the intent to create more content with less time and resources, and automate tedious tasks in the newsroom

Enrique Calderon Gaona - Multimedios

Innovating With "Clientology": Designing Value Propositions Through Customer Knowledge & Technological Trends

We will explore how technological innovation and a deep understanding of the customer come together to create exceptional value propositions. We will understand the fundamental importance of connecting with the client's needs through approaches such as "Design Thinking". We will understand the importance of designing unique and meaningful value propositions based on these perceptions, combining them with current technological trends, from Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Reality, and how they are integrated into impactful solutions.

Julio César Gutiérrez Gómez - Thermo Fisher Scientific

CIO Edge Mexico Closing Panel Debate- The New CIO Mandate in an Increasingly Volatile Business Environment

Future CIOs must go beyond their usual focus on operational efficiency – they need to help businesses cope with macro challenges like geopolitical instabilities, new supply and energy disruptions, and significant economic uncertainties. They must also be critical execution leaders as lines of business and operational teams struggle with micro-challenges like changing client expectations and significant price instabilities in raw materials and labor.

Martin Krueger - BMW de Mexico

Eduardo Guevara - Element Fleet Management

Cesar Pulido - Baker Hughes