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SPEAKERS
Dr. Rebecca Homkes is a high-growth strategy specialist with the London Business School’s Dept of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, an Educator at Duke Corporate Education, and a previous Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance. With her boutique consultancy, she advises CEOs and executive teams of top global companies and fast-growing enterprises on developing and executing growth strategies through extreme uncertainty.
Homkes is the director of the global Active Learning Programme for the Young President’s Organization; a partner with GrowthX, a Silicon Valley investment ecosystem and innovation consultancy; and is the faculty lead of two large Fintech scaling and accelerators. A global keynote speaker, she is a member of several advisory boards, directed the joint McKinsey & Co and LSE Centre for Economic Performance Global Management Project since 2007 and has written for publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Businessweek, Fortune, and Forbes.
A Marshall Scholar, she received her PhD and MSc from the LSE in International Economy. Prior to LSE, Homkes received two degrees at Indiana University: BS (Honors) in business administration alongside a BA (Honors) in Political Science where she was a Wells Scholar and graduated as the schools’ top graduate in 2005 and its sole Herman Wells Scholar. She previously served as a Fellow at the White House’s President’s Council of Economic Advisors and has worked in strategy consulting with Bain & Co.
Dr. Rebecca Homkes
London Business School, Duke Corporate Education + London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance
Peter is responsible for leading NTT Limited Enterprise Architecture, Advisory & Innovation, and Cloud teams. The charter of these teams are to help NTT clients to realize Digitalization. Peter and his team focus on leveraging our substantial assets and Intellectual Property and patents to package solutions that underpin our clients’ digitalization agendas, from solutions for IoT, cloud, SASE, 5G, DevSecOps and digitalized experiences. His priority is to partner with our clients C-Suite to develop the digital change strategies with the executives in our clients and help embed the solutions and services that ensure we’re delivering quantifiable business benefits. Peter is well-known to many C-Suite executives within the boardrooms of enterprises throughout the USA.
Peter has more than 25 years of industry experience in assisting business with Digitalization, applications modernization, data platforms, general management, agile development, strategy, hybrid cloud platforms, and network engineering. Prior to joining NTT Ltd., Peter was the SVP & Chief Digital Officer at Atos and spent 19 years at Dell Technologies. The tenets of Peter’s professional ethos include clients being the center of innovation, agile thinking being the catalyst for transformation and a values-based culture that is focused on relentless execution and having fun.
Peter Cutts
SVP, Enterprise Architecture, Advisory and Innovation Officer
NTT
Joe Maissel is a recognized expert in the fields of Observability, IT Operations, and Enterprise Architecture. He is the founder and current leader of NTT’s Observability and IT Ops practice, and former Chair of the New York Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA). With a wide-ranging career in many facets of business and technical architecture, systems engineering, and technology education, Joe feels equally at home in business or technology conversations.
Joe Maissel
Vice President – Observability and IT Ops | Americas
NTT
11:00AM - 12:00PM EST
AGENDA
Welcome + Introductions
Host
Dr. Rebecca Homkes, High-Growth Strategy Specialist, Educator + Previous Fellow, London Business School, Duke Corporate Education + London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance
Is it time for your organization to appoint a Chief Observability Officer (COBO)?
Presenter
Peter Cutts, SVP, Enterprise Architecture, Advisory and Innovation Officer, NTT
Presenter
Joe Maissel, Vice President – Observability and IT Ops | Americas, NTT
Business performance is dependent on avoiding prolonged IT slowdowns and outages. However, with the explosion in complexity of IT environments, organizations are challenged to maintain services levels required for their businesses to meet customer expectations. Has the time come to centralize ownership of keeping digital systems running smoothly? And is this a function that belongs in IT under the CIO, Business Operations under the COO, or across both?
Closing Remarks
Host
Dr. Rebecca Homkes, High-Growth Strategy Specialist, Educator + Previous Fellow, London Business School, Duke Corporate Education + London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance
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