Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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About This Track
TiEcon 2022 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) track is a must-attend for those looking to expand their Artificial Intelligence knowledge and connect with like-minded leaders at the cutting edge of this fascinating field that has become an increasingly integral part of our daily lives. The Speakers will be bringing a broad range of perspectives to address critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) trends, challenges, and successes across horizontal platforms and vertical industry segments.
Engage in the diverse track through keynote sessions, panels, and fireside chats, for significant insights and added value to you and your business.
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Track Agenda
- 05/05/2022 | 9:00 am – 9:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakers
Induprakas (Indu) Keri is SVP Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Chief Product Security Officer (CPSO). At over $1B+ in annual revenue, NCI is the industry-leading Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) offering that brings scale-out and elastic web-scale architecture to the enterprise. In addition, in his CPSO role, Indu leads Nutanix’s company-wide product security efforts. As a long time C-level executive,
Indu has served as Chief Operating Officer at Limelight Networks, CTO at SunGard and CISO at Intuit. Currently, he is also a visiting scholar at MIT where he works on FinTech and Space. Indu started off his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he implemented his dissertation work into the high-end parallelizing compiler delivered by SGI. His other work experience includes stints at McKinsey & Company, BEA Systems and Oracle. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell.
Debo (Debojyoti Dutta) is a VP of Engineering at Nutanix leading AI driven ops products, open source and AI incubations. Before Nutanix, he has been a Visiting Scholar@Stanford, Founding Member@MLCommons, Distinguished Engineer@Cisco and a Postdoc in Computational Biology@USC. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from USC and his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur (India).
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- 05/05/2022 | 9:15 am – 9:45 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakersHarveer Singh serves as the Chief Data Architect and Global Head of Engineering at Western Union since July 2020, where he manages the Data Platforms, Data Marketplace, Martech & Adtech Platforms, Digital Banking Integrations (WU+), Loyalty Platform and several Consumer Financial Ecosystem platforms<br><br>Harveer is a technology executive with experiences spanning several industries such as financial services (including banking, payments, insurance, capital markets, and asset management), retail, and professional services. Previously, he has been working in EY’s Financial Services where he currently co-leads EY’s Next Generation architecture & solutions for Financial Services. Prior to EY, Harveer held various consulting roles at Deloitte, IBM, and Accenture.<br><br>Harveer has extensive experience in Digital Transformation, Technology Management, Data architecture, Governance and Platform development. His past track record has proven success through his design and implementation of tech strategies, business cases, multiyear roadmaps, platforms and solutions. Haveer was was inducted in Forbes Technology Council in Jan 2022.<br><br>Harveer also enjoys philanthropy work and is currently involved with Western Union Foundation, Mark Cuban Foundation, She Jobs Initiative and others.
Milind serves as Chief Technology Officer at Early Warning, the fintech company owned by seven of the country's leading banks. In this role he oversees the teams responsible for the technology and engineering of solutions that empower financial institutions of all sizes to make confident decisions, enable fast payments, and mitigate fraud. With more than 20 years of experience in technology leadership roles, he specializes in reimagining and fortifying core platforms and processes while building strategic innovative capabilities to fuel growth.
Prior to joining Early Warning in 2020, Milind served as EVP & Chief Information Officer for Innovation & Strategic Services at Wells Fargo Bank. There he was responsible for technology strategy to position the bank for the future, relying on engineering excellence in capabilities such as data, advanced analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, automation, distributed ledger platforms, and quantum computing research.
He has an extensive background in highly regulated financial industries and managing large scale portfolios of critical transaction processing platforms, applications, data, and infrastructure services. In previous roles, Milind was responsible for Citigroup’s global data, advanced analytics and regulatory services technology, and payments technology at JPMorgan Chase.
Milind has a Bachelor of Technology Degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and an MBA in Computer Information Systems and Finance from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He has co-authored a book on Java2 Network Security published by Prentice Hall.
Anu Shultes is an entrepreneur and Forbes 50 over 50 honoree for her commitment to and progress towards Financial inclusion. She is a 30 year veteran of the Financial Services industry with senior leadership roles at Providian, National City, AccountNow, Blackhawk Network and more. She is the CEO of Ahead Financials and LendUp. Anu is passionate about building products that get people ahead financially. Her significant experience in building efficient operational processes and teams to support them has led her to become one of the few female CEOs in Fintech.Ed Macko is the Global Vice President and General Manager for Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) industry. In his role(s), Ed works with clients worldwide to leverage information technology to solve critical business problems. Ed provides strategic technical and business leadership to drive digital transformation across the HCLS clients (commercial and academic hospitals, health plans, pharmaceutical, biotech, and government) including working with strategic business partners. Some of Mr. Macko’s activities include technical and digital business strategy, architecture, business development, presales client engagement, product development, and industry standards. This includes leveraging capabilities like Cognitive Computing, AI / Machine Learning, Automation, Security and Blockchain across solutions for Enterprise Health Analytics, Population Health, Real World Evidence, Consumer Engagement, Fraud, Supply Chain, Clinical Trials Optimization and Translational Medicine. These solutions and capabilities spanning various data domains across the continuum of care (clinical, financial, administrative, genomics, consumer, social determinants, etc.). My expertise includes strategy, architecture, development, deployment and support across hybrid , multi cloud environments in a highly regulated environments (e.g. HIPAA, HITRUST, GxP, GDPR, FISMA). Ed received a bachelor’s degree with honors including a double major in information systems and business administration with a minor in Computer Science from Appalachian State University. He has worked for IBM for the past 25+years in product / solution development, business development, and client engagement roles including last 15 years as the HCLS CTO. Ed previously worked as a Software Engineer for NASA and commercial airline industry.Amit AgharaChief Technology Officer
Fintech, LLCAmit Aghara is the Chief Technology Officer at Fintech, LLC - the leading payment and data solutions provider for the alcohol industry. Amit is responsible for the development, maintenance, and security of the Fintech platform. Fintech processes over $43B in alcohol invoice payments annually servicing nearly 200,000 alcohol retailers, distributors, and suppliers which includes 70% of all major retail brands nationwide. It provides its clients automation for invoice payment, order processing, AP management, data insights, and market intelligence. Fintech is leading the transformation of the alcohol and beverage supply chain industry using its strategic positioning and innovative data collection process. Amit started his career at IBM building software products in an emerging technology group working on payments gateway, integration middleware, and mobile platforms. After IBM, Amit built two successful technology startups, Kore.ai and Kony. In the more recent position as Chief Technology Officer with Kore.ai, Amit effectively led the creation and implementation of a market-leading virtual assistant platform that contributed to significant company growth. Additionally, Amit has been granted five patents by USPTO and has been featured for his expertise in several technology publications.James currently is SVP of Technology and Engineering for Chime. Chime is a leading financial technology company founded on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, easy and free. Chime is the market leader in the U.S. challenger banking segment. Before Chime, James founded and ran an independent strategic technology advisory consulting firm. He formerly was PayPal’s Global CTO and SVP of Payment Services. At eBay, James was VP of Technology and led the architecture and systems teams, re-writing the entire eBay.com platform. James lead a number of strategic technology initiatives, including delivering open platforms, creating infrastructure services, systems software, 3rd party developer ecosystems, enterprise analytics and overall site operations running the world’s largest marketplace at scale. With more than 30 years of technology experience that spans banking, commerce, payments, the military, academic world, business consulting, enterprise platforms and infrastructure, James Barrese has broad experience in digital transformations, financial systems, high performance processing systems, security, infrastructure and developing innovative product solutions for consumers and businesses. James earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University. He is based in Silicon Valley. He also served in the U.S. Army and currently serves as an independent director for Visteon, the leading automotive technology company delivering the next generation of digital cockpits and electronic control systems for the world's top automobile manufacturers.
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- 05/05/2022 | 9:45 am – 10:00 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakersDaniel H. (Don) Callahan is an executive partner at Bridge Growth Partners and serves as executive chairman of TIME, where he is leading a comprehensive digital transformation of this iconic media brand. Acknowledged internationally as a leader in both the financial services and technology industries, Mr. Callahan was most recently the chief administrative officer and global head of operations and technology at Citigroup. He retired from Citigroup in December 2018 and now serves on the boards of Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd., WEX, Inc., Kore AI, Capco, and Accedian, a Bridge Growth Partners-backed company. At Citigroup, Mr. Callahan managed a complex set of businesses and services spanning more than 100 countries, a multi-billion dollar operating budget and critical systems infrastructure including the bank&rsquo;s cyber security initiatives. He most recently led a top- to-bottom transformation of operations and technology, helping move the global bank from a collection of independent and dispersed entities into a lean, fully integrated enterprise.Greg Lavender is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and General Manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group (SATG) at Intel Corporation. As CTO, he is responsible for driving Intel’s future technical innovation and research programs. He is also responsible for defining a singular artificial intelligence software stack to support Intel’s range of business and hardware offerings. Lavender joined Intel in June 2021 from VMware, where he served as senior vice president and CTO. He has more than 35 years of experience in software and hardware product engineering and advanced research and development. Before VMware, Lavender was managing director and CTO for Cloud Architecture and Technology Engineering at Citigroup, where he led the global transformation of Citi IT to adopt modern mobile technology, cloud IaaS and PaaS, big data and advanced analytics, high performance computing, and agile software development models. Lavender holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakersHrish is a Co-founder and CEO at SuperWorld. Previously, he co-founded Rogue Initiative Studios, a Hollywood film, TV, gaming, and immersive entertainment studio. He was also the founding Managing Partner of Eastlabs, an early-stage VC fund based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Previously, Hrish was a Senior Business Developer and Global Evangelist at Toptal (backed by Andreessen Horowitz, the Rockefellers & the co-founders of Facebook and Zynga), a venture capital investor at Spencer Trask Ventures, and an investment banker at both UBS Investment Bank and HSBC Securities, where he specialized in public finance, corporate finance, and M&A. He also was an Associate in the Global Business Development Group at management consulting firm Hewitt Associates. Hrish was born in India and grew up in the United States. He also has spent many years living around the world in Europe, Asia, and South America. He has a close connection to the people and cultures in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Spain, France, Vietnam, China, Colombia, Bali, and Thailand. Hrish holds a BA in Political Science from Rice University and both an MBA and MPH from University of Illinois at Chicago. In his free time, he enjoys working out, fashion photography, and traveling the world.Ganesh is an accomplished business executive, entrepreneur and investor, with deep expertise in data and artificial intelligence (AI) related businesses. He is passionate about using technology to solve the biggest challenges for humankind and is a believer in the power of AI to augment human potential. He is an advocate for ethical use of data and AI, and using technology as a global equalizer to create opportunities for all. He is currently the Founder of Autonomize AIm an AI Solutions company and Stories in AI, an edu-tainment venture, and consults for several Fortune 500 organizations on Data & AI strategy. He is an investor and advisor for several companies including Credo AI, OpsLab, Advanced Scanners, SuperWorld, Piggy Capital, Stonks and Laureti Motor Corporation. He previously co-founded and scaled Molecula Corp, a data management company, and led growth and commercial scaling at CognitiveScale, Inc, an Enterprise AI company. Prior to that he spent a 15 year career spanning Dell Technologies and Intel Corp. A frequent keynote speaker, he is published at Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company and other publications and was honored by the Enterprise Management 360 as one of the top 10 tech experts revolutionizing AI. Ganesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calicut, India, and an MBA from McCombs School at the University of Texas Austin.Sandy Carter is Senior Vice President at Unstoppable Domains. In this role, she is responsible for driving partnerships for blockchain based identity platforms for Web3. Previously, Sandy was Vice President at AWS. In this role, she was responsible for driving next-generation partnering in cloud, machine learning and blockchain. Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and adjunct professor at CMU Silicon Valley. She is founder of Women of Web3. She is a Top 100 Chief Tech Leader, Federal 100, Fortune Most Powerful Women, CNN Top 100 In Technology, Verdicts Top 10 AI & Cloud Computing Influencer.Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com, the search engine that puts you in control — Your sources. Your time. Your privacy. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford, where he was recognized for his groundbreaking research in deep learning and NLP. He was awarded the Distinguished Application Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011, the 2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship in 2012 and a 2013 "Magic Grant" from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and the 2014 GigaOM Structure Award. He also served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford. Outside of work, Richard enjoys paramotor adventures, traveling, and photography.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:30 am – 10:45 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakersBeerud Sheth is the Co-founder and CEO of Gupshup, a Conversational AI unicorn headquartered in San Franciso. He is a successful two-time entrepreneur, investor and futurist. An IIT-B and MIT alumnus, he started his career working on Wall Street.
Beerud was the founder of Elance (now Upwork), a listed company on Nasdaq focused on the gig economy. Sheth, who comes with a track record of thinking far ahead, witnessed scepticism when he started Elance (now Upwork), a freelancer marketplace, in the early 90s. Elance was the quintessential poster boy of the gig economy (even before the phrase ‘gig economy’ became popular), leveraging the internet to create a global services market, powered by skilled freelancers. Beerud played a critical role at Elance as its founder, CEO and top executive till 2007 and later as a board member until the merger in 2014. The company was listed on NASDAQ in 2018.
Started in 2004 as a social network, Beerud has transformed Gupshup into a global leader in conversational engagement, with a strong AI-powered enterprise messaging platform. Gupshup’s brand philosophy stems from Beerud’s vision of a future where it's as easy for a customer to chat with a business as it is with a friend. Primarily focused on mobile-first markets, Gupshup is helping businesses unlock the power of conversational messaging, The tech platform powers over 6 billion messages per month. Across verticals, thousands of large and small businesses use Gupshup to build conversational experiences across marketing, sales and support. He now believes a few years from now, we’ll wonder how anyone did business without conversational messaging.
A profitable entity for the last few years, the company posted a revenue upwards of USD 100 mn in FY21. Gupshup already has a significant presence across India, Middle East and Africa, South East Asia, USA and Latin America. 80 of India’s 100+ unicorns have scaled their business better and faster with Gupshup. The company has raised upwards of $340 million at a $1.4 billion valuation from an industry-leading group of investors.Sriram Thiagarajan has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Ancestry, since November 2020 and is responsible for ensuring Ancestry’s customers have the best product experience powered by its software products, advanced technologies and cloud platform. Sriram leads the overall vision, strategy and execution for all aspects of Ancestry’s product engineering and technology development including architecture, data science and product analytics, platform engineering, cloud operations, cyber security, corporate infrastructure and business systems. Sriram joined Ancestry in 2017 as Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, and in December 2019 added the position of SVP Platforms. Sriram is a seasoned, growth minded technology executive with 20+ years of experience in scaling businesses and delivering growth by leveraging advanced technologies and software solutions at Fortune 500, Venture and Private Equity backed companies. Prior to Ancestry, Sriram served as SVP & Chief Information Officer at Infoblox, where he was responsible for Information Technology and Cybersecurity. Before Infoblox, Sriram was the Global Head of IT & Corporate Engineering at Twitter, where he helped architect and scale corporate infrastructure, enterprise applications and integrations to revenue and billing platforms, to help prepare the company for its IPO. Prior to Twitter, Sriram served as VP of Payments Infrastructure & Corporate Systems at Yahoo, and its premium services monetization platform and enterprise systems organizations. Earlier in his career, Sriram held leadership roles at Verisign and Ernst & Young. Sriram holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, FL. and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Anna University, India.Sriram Subramanian is a Research Director within IDC AI and Automation Software Research group covering AI/ ML Lifecycle Management Software. His coverage on AI// ML Lifecycle management includes the tools, technologies, and end-user needs for building, training, tuning, running, and scaling the end-to-end life cycle for AI/ML solutions from experimentation to production. He advises vendors on product strategy, market positioning, and messaging; and buyers on implementing end to end scalable ML pipelines and AI-enabled digital transformation best practices to meet their business needs. Prior to joining IDC, Sriram was the founder and principal analyst at CloudDon, an independent market research and advisory services firm. He is a certified Yoga instructor passionate about teaching Yoga/ Healthier lifestyle to kids. He spends his free time playing cricket or outdoors with his kids.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:45 am – 11:15 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakersNavrina Singh is the Founder of Credo AI, a Responsible AI Governance SaaS empowering enterprises to build fair compliant and auditable Artificial Intelligence at scale. A technology leader with over 18+ years experience in Enterprise SaaS, AI and Mobile. Navrina has held multiple product and business leadership roles at Microsoft and Qualcomm. Navrina is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which advises the President and the National AI Initiative Office.Navrina is an executive board member of the Mozilla foundation guiding their trustworthy AI charter. Navrina is also a young global leader with the World economic forum & was on their future council for AI guiding policies & regulations in responsible AI. Navrina holds an MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from the University of Southern California and a BS in Electronics & Telecommunications from Pune College of Engineering, India.Scott Zoldi is Chief Analytics Officer at FICO, driving innovation in artificial intelligence with a focus on standards for Explainable AI, Ethical AI and Responsible AI. While at FICO, Scott has been responsible for authoring over 110 analytic patents with 71 patents granted and 46 in process. Scott serves on the Boards of Directors of Tech San Diego and Cyber Center of Excellence. Scott received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Duke University.As a Principal Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce, Kathy develops research-informed best practice to educate Salesforce employees, customers, and the industry on the development of responsible AI. She collaborates and partners with external AI and ethics experts to continuously evolve Salesforce policies, practices, and products. She is also a member of Singapore’s Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data. Prior to Salesforce, she worked at Google, eBay, and Oracle in User Experience Research. She received her MS in Engineering Psychology and BS in Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methodologies.Kay Firth ButterfieldHead of AI / ML
World Economic ForumKay Firth-Butterfield is Head of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum and is one of the foremost experts in the world on the governance of AI. She is a Barrister, former Judge and Professor, technologist and entrepreneur who has an abiding interest in how humanity can equitably benefit from new technologies, especially AI. Kay is an Associate Barrister (Doughty Street Chambers), Master of the Inner Temple, London and serves on the Lord Chief Justice’s Advisory Panel on AI and Law. She co-founded AI Global and was the world’s first Chief AI Ethics officer in 2014 and created the AIEthics twitter hashtag. Kay is Vice-Chair of The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems and was part of the group which met at Asilomar to create the Asilomar AI Ethical Principles. She is on the Polaris Council for the Government Accountability Office (USA), the Advisory Board for UNESCO International Research Centre on AI and AI4All. Kay has advanced degrees in Law and International Relations and regularly speaks to international audiences addressing many aspects of the beneficial and challenging technical, economic and social changes arising from the use of AI. She has been consistently recognized as a leading woman in AI since 2018 and was featured in the New York Times as one of 10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership.
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- 05/05/2022 | 11:15 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakersA pioneer in Emotion AI, Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., is Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and formerly, Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva, an MIT spin-off and category defining AI company. Rana realized a successful exit for Affectiva in June 2021 when the company was acquired by Smart Eye, where she will team with Martin Krantz, Smart Eye’s CEO to scale the company to a global AI powerhouse. Rana is the bestselling author of the newly released book Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. A passionate advocate for humanizing technology, ethics in AI and diversity, Rana has been recognized on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list and as one of Forbes' Top 50 Women in Tech. Rana is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Young Presidents' Organization member. She is also an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School and co-hosted a PBS NOVA series on AI. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a Post Doctorate from MIT.
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TiEcon 2022 Tracks
TiEcon 2023 Tracks
- AI & Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
- Capital Markets
Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
- Cloud & SaaS
Cloud & SaaS
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
- Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
- Global Connect
Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
- Healthcare
Healthcare
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
- Media & Entertainment
Media & Entertainment
Convergence of Art and Technology
- Security & Fraud
Security & Fraud
Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
- Social Impact
- Supply Chain
Supply Chain
Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
- Sustainability
- TiE Youth
- Web3, Crypto & NFTs
Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Bringing together the trends and the practical applications of Web3
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
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Cloud & SaaS
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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Healthcare
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Media & Entertainment
Convergence of Art and Technology
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Security & Fraud
Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
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Social Impact
Dare to Change the World for Good
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Supply Chain
Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
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Sustainability
Sustainability
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TiE Youth
Fostering youth entrepreneurs
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Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Bringing together the trends and the practical applications of Web3