Why Attend
RPA & Cognitive Congress Dallas is assembling leading service delivery and automation professionals for frank and pragmatic discussion about RPA, the benefits and opportunities of this technology, and the real-world challenges they’re facing in implementation. Use cases from early adopters will demonstrate how machine learning technology and digitization solutions, such as OCR and NLP, can take out the human touchpoints of a process and supercharge RPA. This discussion will be framed within analysis of the organizational transformation that is necessary to fully maximize the ROI from process automation and future technological innovations.
Key Topics to be Discussed Include:
- Quantifying and unlocking the potential of RPA: Building the business case, constructing a call-to-action proof-of-concept, selecting a process to pilot, the pros and cons of re-engineering before automating, vetting vendors and implementation partners, determining whether to start in F&A or HR, deciding whether to use an attended or unattended approach.
- Implementing RPA: Change management & communication, aligning realistic leadership expectations, qualifying success, establishing a governance model, managing bot security and IT infrastructure.
- Scaling RPA: Hub and spoke vs. ‘as a platform’, monitoring the performance of bots, managing global deployments, balancing speed and sustainability.
- ‘Supercharging’ RPA: Determining which processes are best suited to cognitive functionality and AI, and intelligently enhancing your RPA with that functionality.
- Digital Transformation: Reconfiguring your organization to take full advantage of digital innovation.
Who Will Be There
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartHeads of Global Business Services30%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartHeads of Operational Excellence, Process Excellence, Process Automation, RPA30%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartHeads of Digital Transformation, Business Transformation30%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartHeads of IT, Technology10%
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Heads of Global Business Services30%
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Heads of Operational Excellence, Process Excellence, Process Automation, RPA30%
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Heads of Digital Transformation, Business Transformation30%
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Heads of IT, Technology10%
The Speakers
Allyssa Williamson
Allyssa Williamson is the Innovative Automation program manager for Vistra Energy located in Dallas, Texas. Allyssa is a graduate of Texas A&M University and responsible for identifying and setting the strategic plan to implement new technological opportunities within the next wave of tools aimed at transforming and optimizing business processes. As the lead for launching robotic process automation across the enterprise, she established the Innovative Automation program and Center of Excellence in May 2017. During her tenure at Vistra Energy, Allyssa has experience in lean process optimization, revenue operations, and acquisition sales, with most of her focus rooted in continuous operational improvement practices. She has been awarded the Customer Quality Master award for achieving the highest level of lean skilling at Vistra Energy.
Ed Hansen
Edward J. Hansen brings more than 20 years of experience representing clients in technology transactions that involve significant business change. From the early stages of deals, Ed works closely with clients and their advisers on whole deal advice, often before a request for proposal is sent, and continues his support throughout the engagement’s life cycle.
Pamela Wolfe
Pamela Wolfe is the Chief of the Enterprise Services Division of NASA’s Shared Services Center (NSSC) located in Bay St Louis, MS. Pamela is a graduate of the University of Southern MS and is responsible for managing the Agency IT help desk, the customer contact center, the National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage (NCCIPS) which is a Federal data center facility, and robotics process automation. Pamela also services as the Innovation Champion for the NSSC.
During her tenure at the NSSC, Pamela established the Agency Information Technology Business Office to manage $400M in Agency IT contracts. As a charter member of NASA’s Shared Services Center, Pamela established processes and procedures for monitoring performance and reporting of metrics associated with service level agreements for the 60+ services provided across Financial Management, Human Resources, Procurement, and IT. Prior to joining NASA in 2006, Pamela held various Business and Financial management positions with Lockheed Martin and Sverdrup Technologies.
Pamela has been honored as the recipient of the NASA Superior Accomplishment Award, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for her analytical support to the NSSC.
Brad Nelson
Brad is a VP at JPMorgan Chase and Author of “The Holistic Aspect of Continuous Improvement”.
Throughout his career, Brad has been a Problem Solver and Change Agent helping companies solve strategic & operational challenges. A proven leader with a Fortune 500 Pedigree, he has effectively led operational teams as well as facilitated cross-functional teams to develop & execute large scale business transformation initiatives. As a Business Executive with a Technology Savvy background, Brad is a change agent for Improved Operational Efficiency, Driving Top Line Revenue, Reduced Costs & Enhanced the Customer Experience.
Ramon Richards
Sheldon Foster
Cecilia Edwards
Cecilia R. Edwards is on a mission to help people realize their potential to change the world and to equip them to do so. She is currently a Partner at Everest Group, a global management consulting and consulting and research firm that enables its clients to drive value in their businesses through the use of next-generation IT, business processes, and alternative delivery models.
With her 20+ year strategy background shaped initially by nearly 7 years at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Cecilia works with her clients to develop business-centric IT strategies and drive IT-enabled business transformations.
Cecilia started her professional career as an officer in the United States Air Force. Captain Edwards was the launch manager on the Titan Satellite Launch program supporting the successful launch of 5 satellites during her tenure. When she says it’s not rocket science, she knows.
Paul Eisenmann
Paul Eisenmann has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing technology solutions that enable organizations to meet their business goals. He has worked extensively in the Manufacturing and Insurance industries and is currently a Director of Business Systems at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Paul is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and certified agile Scrumaster and Product Owner.
Jon Beller
Jon is responsible for the vision, strategy and deployment of Operational Excellence functions throughout First United Bank, and supporting and developing culture of the organization through integrated frameworks of Human Centered Design, Digital, Lean Six Sigma & BPM, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Automation, Project Management and effective R&R programs. He drives the Customer Experience evolution to deliver compelling and competitive customer interactions.
Specialties:
• Process & Digital Transformation Focus
• Business Process Automation (RA/RPA)
• Lean Six Sigma certified (Lean, Workout, DMAIC)
• Human Centered Design
• Develops High Performing Teams
Sushil Nanda
Sushil Nanda is VP for Process Excellence and Automation through Robotics and Lean (PEARL) program at State Street. Driving several diversified global enterprise-wide RPA initiatives from ideation to business case formation until delivering RPA solution for benefit realization.
John Anastasopoulos
Mark Belford
Mark is a graduate of Troy University of Alabama with degrees in Computer Science and Business. He has over 30 years’ experience in IT and Operations, including 12 with Blues Plans. Mark’s current areas of responsibility are Operations, which includes Account Setup and Benefits Administration, Finance, Informatics (OpenConnect team), ITS BlueCard, and Commercial Claims. Through innovative uses of technology, Mark finds and implements processes to improve operating efficiencies and lower costs.
Sameer Bhandari
Seasoned Business Leader with proven talents in building high performing service offerings in Healthcare and Financial Services, coupled with the proven ability to drive transformational change in the organization to deliver material outcomes.
Experience in global program management for Healthcare and Financial Services Clients, relationship management, performance support and business process re-engineering. Specialize in defining and implementing operational strategies, project management office, next generation operational management capabilities, digital solutioning, and technology based operating solutions.
At UiPath as VP & Head of Key Account Management (Americas), Sameer leads a team of professionals tasked with ensuring implementation success as strategic Clients as well as developing long term strategies for success built on RPA and automation frameworks
Michael Cupps
Krishnan Subramanian
Headline Partner
Automation Anywhere
Website: www.automationanywhere.com
Automation Anywhere is the global leader in delivering the most advanced, enterprise-grade, cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform capable of automating any business process. The platform enables enterprises throughout the world to create digital workforces that manage and scale business processes faster, with near-zero error rates, while dramatically reducing operational costs. We believe that people who have more time to create, think, and discover build great companies. It’s why we’ve dedicated more than a decade to providing the world’s best RPA technology to leading financial services, BPO, healthcare, technology, and insurance companies—to name a few—across more than 90 countries.
Associate Partner
UiPath
Website: www.uipath.com
UiPath is a leading provider of Robotic Process Automation technology enabling global enterprises to design, deploy and manage a full-fledged robotic workforce that mimics employees in administering rules-based tasks and frees them from the daily routine of rote work. The UiPath RPA computing platform is dedicated to automate business processes. It provides process modelling, change management, deployment management, access control, remote execution and scheduling, execution monitoring, auditing and analytics in full compliance with enterprise security and governance best practices.
For more information, please visit: http://www.uipath.com.
Event Partner
Softomotive
Website: www.softomotive.com
Softomotive is a world - class Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology provider, trusted by more than 7,000 companies worldwide. Operating in the software automation market since 2005, Softomotive offers the most reliable and scalable automation solutions, bridging the gap between best-of-breed technology and continuous innovation to deliver true business transformation. The company provides a powerful automation platform that enables organizations to develop, manage and track their own digital workforce.
Option3.io
Website: http://option3.io
Option3 is a niche automation and data analytics product company. We are a trusted partner for large global organizations to automate complex tasks that require deep cognitive capabilities and that do not typically fall under traditional rule based automation. Powered by cognitive bots, JiffyRPA the flagship RPA product of Option3 provides everything you need to implement a continuous automation framework. The self-learning bots learn from user actions and make cognitive decisions for day to day processes.
Running up to 50 self-learning robots per machine, deploying machine learning algorithms to auto-rectify data input errors and making human like decisions, JiffyRPA allows highly complicated processes to be automated.
We at Option3 believe that RPA should not be treated as a tactical solution. Given the dynamic changes that business processes undergo, RPA solutions need the agility to adapt to the business process without having to spend a lot of effort on bot maintenance. Our focus continues to be in creating a larger benefit that will improve quality of service to our customers, better utilization of workforce and add value to their existing business processes.
Blackline
Website: www.blackline.com
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Open Connect
Website: www.openconnect.com
Drawing from its enterprise connectivity heritage from the 1980s, OpenConnect continues to out-innovate the competition in the key arenas of enterprise-class robotic process automation, advanced workforce analytics, and industry-leading mainframe connectivity. OpenConnect’s server-based platforms outperform traditional, desktop-dependent RPA solutions, while also providing features that are possible only with OpenConnect’s experience with development, connectivity, and enterprise-level implementation. OpenConnect clients save millions of dollars a year and transact tens of millions of complex transactions, realizing productivity gains and greater accomplishments with fewer resources. Learn more about OpenConnect and its products at openconnect.com.
Media Partner
CIOReview
Website: https://www.cioreview.com
CIOReview is a technology magazine that talks about the enterprise solutions that can redefine the business goals of enterprises tomorrow. It is the leading source that shares innovative enterprise solutions developed by established solutions providers, upcoming hot enterprises and is a neutral source for technology decision makers. Published from Fremont, California, CIOReview is an excellent platform for the enterprise to showcase their innovative solutions.
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Venue
Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center, 7121 Bishop Road, Plano, TX 75024 USA
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