Agenda

Sunday, March 13, 2011

• Arrivals & Registration

• Depart for Golf Outing at the Ritz-Carlton, Grande Lakes Golf Course

• Cognizanti eCommunity Reception

• Welcome Reception & Dinner

Monday, March 14, 2011

• Breakfast

• Malcolm Frank
  
• Senior Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, Cognizant
• Welcome to Cognizant Community 2011

• Francisco D’Souza
  
• President & Chief Executive Officer, Cognizant
• Opening Remarks

• Don Tapscott
• Rethinking Business Processes for an Age of Networked Intelligence
  • The industrial economy is running out of gas, giving way to a new age where knowledge contained in the brains of everyone can be interconnected. With new Web-enabled technologies, individuals inside and outside traditional organizational structures can collaborate like never before, a development that is changing the deep structures and architecture of corporations and requiring businesses to rethink how they innovate, create goods and services, and engage with the world. From his new book, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, Don asks and answers the big questions on every businessperson's mind: How can our institutions change for a new century, new media, new generation and a new economy? How will knowledge work and business process change as a result of more streamlined Web-enabled collaboration? How can companies find the leadership for this rethinking of their modus operandi?

• Pranav Mistry
  
• Experiencing SixthSense
  • Open your mind and let in Pranav Mistry. He’ll take you on a wondrous journey to a world where people use hand gestures to interact with and control digital information for a variety of fun and business activities. His SixthSense prototype uses a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera to make intangible digital information -- tangible. Hardware components are coupled in a pendant-like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information on surfaces and physical objects, converting them into interfaces. The camera recognizes and tracks user hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces.

• Coffee Break

• Peer Perspectives
• Hosted by Mark Livingston, Senior Vice President, Cognizant Business Consulting
• The Future of Work, 2011
  • Three companies from different industry segments and sensibilities discuss their near- and long-term vision, progress to date, business and technology challenges, benefits, and next steps of game-changing Future of Work initiatives.

• David Hempleman-Adams
• Adventure Life
  • As the first man in history to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles, as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents, David Hempleman-Adams knows what performance excellence is all about. David details these incredible feats to inspire business leaders to vanquish their fears and summon the bravery and vision necessary to take their organizations to ever-higher vistas of performance. Digging into his adventure handbook, David reveals the importance of cooperation and collaboration for succeeding in today’s hypercompetitive and unforgiving global economy.

• Lunch

• Breakout Session 1
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• Industry Track Options
  • Banking & Financial Services: U.S. Financial Services in an Evolving Global Market
  • Communications: Delivering Superior Customer Experience by Applying Future of Work Principles
  • Consumer Goods & Retail: Remaking the Shopping Experience: Creating Tomorrow's Intelligent Store, Today
  • Healthcare: Building The Future of Healthcare: Achieving Success in the Post-Reform World
  • Information, Media & Entertainment: The Future of Content: Seizing the Digital Supply Chain Today for a More Fruitful Tomorrow
  • Insurance: The Future-Enabled Insurance Enterprise: Realizing the Next-Generation Approach to Productivity & Competitive Advantage
  • Life Sciences: How Pharma can Embrace the Future of Work, Today
  • Manufacturing, Logistics & Utilities Mobility: A Foundation for the Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future
  • Technology: The Business Implications of a SaaS Software Model
  • Travel & Hospitality: Creating Tomorrow's Travel Experience: Delivering Relevant & Personalized Information & Services to the Right Traveler at the Right Place & Time
• Business Track Options
  • Business Process Outsourcing: Virtualization, New Technologies and Smarter Business Processes

• Coffee Break

• Breakout Session 2
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• Business Track Options
  • Business Process Outsourcing: Smart Robots & Hands: Evolving Business Process Services Reconstruct The Enterprise
  • Cognizant Business Consulting: The Future of Your Organization Starts with You! … How to Develop a Strategic Roadmap that Energizes Growth & Competitiveness
• Cloud Track Options
  • Customer Solutions Practice: Delivering a Superior Customer Relationship: Head in the Clouds … Or, Heading to the Cloud?
  • IT Infrastructure Services: Is Your Data Center Ready for the Future? Addressing Private Cloud Challenges within a Dynamic IT Environment
  • Testing: Testing as a Service: Tomorrow's Answer to Today's Quality & Flexibility Challenge
• Mobile Track Options
  • Communications: Harnessing the Power of Mobility & Putting it to Work in the Enterprise
  • Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence: Mobile BI for the Modern Workforce
  • SAP Solutions: Extending SAP's Reach, Use & Effectiveness through Mobility
• Other Options
  • Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions: How Unified Manufacturing IT Enables Operational Excellence
  • Enterprise Analytics: Generative Analytics: A New Standard for the Future of Work
  • Oracle Solutions Practice: The Future of Work and its Impact on Your Oracle Environment
  • SAP Solutions: SAP HANA: The Future of BI & Data Warehouses

• Cocktail Reception & Dinner

• After-Dinner Cocktails & Networking

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

• Breakfast

• General Session Resumes

• Charlie Feld
• Cultivating IT Leadership in a Brave New World
  • IT has been playing defense for too long. To meet the business challenges presented by the Future of Work, IT must play offense. Not only does IT need to sharpen, update and acquire new skills, but it must embrace new disciplines that go far beyond its traditional mandate as the keeper of the code. Author, consultant and veteran CIO Charlie Feld will discuss a framework from his recent book "Blind Spot" that defines and describes the leadership principles and process mechanisms required for driving IT-enabled business transformation. Organizations that embrace Charlie's framework, perfected during his three decades as CIO at major U.S. companies, can dramatically improve their business agility, reduce risk, and increase the odds of business success.

• Douglas Merrill
  
• The Innovator's Opportunity: Building the Business of the Future
  • You're at a successful company. You make a great product, and people are buying it. Congratulations. But do you know where your next successful product comes from? Most companies don't. Some companies are counting on their current product growing indefinitely. In fact, the whole notion of focusing on your "core" and ignoring "context" assumes that your core will grow indefinitely. However, most companies face the Innovator's Dilemma: How do we build a new product in an already successful company? Innovation and product development in these companies requires structural change, new kinds of employees, incentive shifts, and management fortitude. But, if a company gets it right, it can capture the Innovator's Opportunity: Building a new product in the safety of a stable company. Building on research from RAND, consulting to the world's largest companies in the US and internationally, his experience at Google, and lessons from his own start-ups, Merrill describes proven methods for creating the Innovator's Opportunity.

• Coffee Break

• Cognizant Executives in the Hot Seat
  Moderated by Malcolm Frank, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Strategy
  Cognizant.

• Robert Brown & Ben Pring
  
• Outsourcing's Wild Ride: Where Will It Take You?
  • The outsourcing market is undergoing accelerated change as new offerings, pricing models and vendors take the stage. This presentation examines the likely future direction of outsourcing so that you are prepared for and can effectively manage the change.

• Malcolm Frank
  Building the Social Workplace

• Lunch

• Networking Activities

• Cocktail Reception & Thank-You Dinner

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

• Shuttles to Orlando International Airport begin

• Breakfast

*Schedule subject to change