Main Conference Day Two -Thursday, June 12, 2025


8:00 am - 9:00 am CST Networking Breakfast

Kick off your event experience by joining your peers for a delicious breakfast and lively conversation.

9:00 am - 9:15 am CST Chairperson's Day Two Remarks

9:15 am - 9:45 am CST Panel Discussion: Orchestration of Capabilities โ€“ Building a Complimenting Tech Stack to Create One Fluid Ecosystem

Tom Kelshaw - Executive Director, Automation, WPP
Asheesh Biyala - Vice President, Intelligent Automation, Acrisure
Sathishkumar Palanisamy - Expert Enterprise Architect, DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES

Complimenting technology and the orchestration of different capabilities can coordinate tasks, manage workflow and optimize operations.  Join leaders to unpack how their companies are building a successful stack and the intricacies of how the technologies are working together in a cost effective and strategic way. 

  • Discuss best practices on how to assess your current partners capabilities against your investment budgets to streamline services and/or add new partners to fill your organizations needs  
  • Explore process conformance to better understand how work is being done to improve automations and performance or identify gaps in the process 
  • Hear specific examples of how leaders are combining technologies for desired results 


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Tom Kelshaw

Executive Director, Automation
WPP

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Asheesh Biyala

Vice President, Intelligent Automation
Acrisure

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Sathishkumar Palanisamy

Expert Enterprise Architect
DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES

9:45 am - 10:15 am CST Keynote: The Ethics of Intelligent Automation: Balancing Efficiency with Trust

Nicole M. Alexander - Author, Advisor and Professor Marketing and Technology, NYU

As organizations embrace intelligent automation to enhance efficiency and scalability, the ethical considerations of AI-driven decision-making are more critical than ever. This session will explore the fine balance between automation and human oversight, focusing on how businesses can implement AI-driven solutions responsibly while maintaining consumer trust.


Attendees will gain actionable insights on:


  • Designing automation strategies that prioritize transparency and fairness.
  • Addressing bias and accountability in AI-powered decision-making.
  • Implementing governance frameworks for responsible automation.
  • Building consumer and stakeholder trust in AI-driven processes.

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Nicole M. Alexander

Author, Advisor and Professor Marketing and Technology
NYU

10:20 am - 10:55 am CST Demo Drive & Networking Break

FOUNDATIONS TRACK

10:55 am - 11:25 am Building a Playbook for New Vendor Tool Assessment to Find the Perfect Partner

How do you look at a vendor when they claim to offer certain capabilities/all do similar things? Avoid wasting time learning the hard way โ€“ join this interactive session to cut through fluff and learn the best strategy to get the information you need. 

  • Assess what to look for to find the right fit for your organizationโ€™s mission/goals 
  • Discuss examples of key questions to ask a vendor to uncover their true capabilities 
  • Hear lessons learned on how others have dealt with the vendor partner process 

FOUNDATIONS TRACK

11:25 am - 11:30 am TRANSITIONAL BREAK

FOUNDATIONS TRACK

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Building the Foundation to Enable Maturity โ€“ Standardize Where Possible, Flex Where Necessary
Claire Grosjean - Senior Director, Business Process Management, Technology Credit Union

You need strong intelligent automation to build more advanced transformations like AI. How do you create a solid framework to set your future strategy up for success?  

  • Streamline workflows and reduce variations 
  • Establish uniform processes for smoother integration 
  • Implement the right intelligent automation tools  
  • Aim to decrease workload and increase quality  
  • Steps to level up your maturity  
  • Explore examples of standardizing automation across business not just a function 


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Claire Grosjean

Senior Director, Business Process Management
Technology Credit Union

FOUNDATIONS TRACK

12:00 pm - 12:05 pm TRANSITIONAL BREAK

FOUNDATIONS TRACK

12:05 pm - 12:35 pm Opportunity Assessment for Beginners AI - Steps to Uncover Untapped Areas for AI Application
Arjun Srinivasan - Director, Data Science, Wesco

Ready to dip your toe into the AI universe? A clear strategy identifies the specific business processes that can benefit most from AI, ensuring that investments are directed toward initiatives that drive the highest value. 

  • Align AI opportunities with maximized ROI  
  • Plan to establish robust data management practices and privacy guidelines 
  • Unpack best practices to identify areas where AI can be applied with low risk  
  • Hear early adopted AI implementation opportunities that have proven significant results and lessons learned along the way 
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Arjun Srinivasan

Director, Data Science
Wesco

CHANGE LEADERS TRACK

10:55 am - 11:25 am Competitive Upskilling and Reskilling Techniques to Keep Your Talent Pool Happy and Growing

As technology advances, so do the skills of your workforce to keep up with your businessโ€™s growth strategy. This is easier said than done, join leaders to discuss what they are doing to build skills and attract talent to support them in their future endeavors. 

  • How do you keep up with the competitive landscape? What has the RTO impact been on your talent? 
  • What types of training are you implementing and what has been successful?  
  • How can you utilize your vendors input/expertise? 

CHANGE LEADERS TRACK

11:25 am - 11:30 am TRANSITIONAL BREAK

CHANGE LEADERS TRACK

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Fireside Chat: Building an AI Literate Organization โ€“ Changing the Mindset to Create Digital Advocates
Yannick Mbandi - Vice President of Transformation, Lโ€™Oreal

With the fear around AI still apparent amongst the workforce, prioritizing an automation first mindset within the organization will be key to keeping your automation timelines on track. Aside from tech training, there is so much more that can be done to navigate the fear and change the mindset.  

  • Consider how the tone at the top setsโ€™ precedent across the organization 
  • Create a commitment to exploration and a safe zone to enable leaders who want to innovate the space to 
  • Communicate the benefits of innovation and direct impact/benefit it has on human work  
  • Offer rewards and recognition to those willing to learn and make impact  
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Yannick Mbandi

Vice President of Transformation
Lโ€™Oreal

CHANGE LEADERS TRACK

12:00 pm - 12:05 pm TRANSITIONAL BREAK

CHANGE LEADERS TRACK

12:05 pm - 12:35 pm Harnessing Advanced AI for Intelligent Automation and Transformation
Satya Prakash Mohapatra - Cloud Data Platforms Operation (CDPO), Discover Financial Services

Explore how Discover transformed its customer service by integrating cutting-edge AI technologies, enhancing agent capabilities, and delivering instant solutions. Learn how AI-driven tools like Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and NLP models were implemented to eliminate biases and ensure secure, compliant interactions.

+Empowering agents with real-time, intelligent resources for optimal customer support.

+ Ensuring the protection and compliance of AI models in a customer-centric environment.

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Satya Prakash Mohapatra

Cloud Data Platforms Operation (CDPO)
Discover Financial Services

TRANSFORMERS TRACK

10:55 am - 11:25 am Transform the Landscape โ€“ What Do Agents mean for Automation?
Doug Shannon - Global Intelligent Automation and GenAI leader, PSI CRO

71% of executives say AI agents will drive higher level of automation in their workflows, but when will this come into full effect? Agentic AI is the most recent version of AI that, if applied, could enable agents to plan, make decisions and adapt autonomously changing how we interact with technology and do business as a whole. However, it is not an easy application โ€“ governance concerns and fear of the pace of accelerating disruption will pose hurdles for widespread use. Dive into a landscape read of the Intelligent Automation Market today and where it is headed: 

  • Assess the role of agents in intelligent automation and its impact on the automatous enterprise 
  • Top challenges leaders are facing to remain agile  
  • Impact of tech advancement on the workforce and strategies to redesign and assign within workforce management 
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Doug Shannon

Global Intelligent Automation and GenAI leader
PSI CRO

TRANSFORMERS TRACK

11:25 am - 11:30 am TRANSITIONAL BREAK

TRANSFORMERS TRACK

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Scaling Enterprise Automation-- Strategies for Sustainable Growth and Maximum Impact
Srikanth Haridoss - Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions โ€“ Hyperautomation, Paramount

Expanding automation across an enterprise isnโ€™t just about increasing the number of implementationsโ€”itโ€™s about ensuring scalability, efficiency, and sustained impact. As organizations strive to move beyond pilot projects and isolated use cases, the challenge becomes standardizing processes, minimizing risks, and optimizing resources for greater automation success. Explore practical strategies to: 

  • Navigate Common Rollout Challenges: Overcoming deployment roadblocks, standardization issues, and integration complexities 
  • Optimize Implementation Strategies: Selecting the right processes, technologies, and frameworks for automation expansion 
  • Increase Adoption and Success Rates: Identifying key success factors that lead to repeatable and scalable automation initiatives 
  • Measure and Improve Automation Impact: Using data-driven insights to track effectiveness, iterate, and continuously enhance performance. 
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Srikanth Haridoss

Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions โ€“ Hyperautomation
Paramount

TRANSFORMERS TRACK

12:00 pm - 12:05 pm TRANSITIONAL BREAK

TRANSFORMERS TRACK

12:05 pm - 12:35 pm Project Analysis: A Business Transformation Framework with Proven Impact for Enhanced Performance
Arnaud Rager - Former Vice President, Business Planning and Transformation, Bio-Rad Laboratories

After joining Bio-Rad and being tasked to create a Business Transformation Office, Arnaud Rager designed and deployed a Transformation Framework that was applied to end-to-end processes such as Sales and Operations Planning, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay... and drastically improved the company performance on all fronts. Join this session to learn about the central elements of this Business Transformation Framework: 

  • Project Management: Alignment between sponsor, stakeholders and core team members is a critical step to set the project for success. If done right, and with the right project leadership, core team talents and Project Management framework in place, project execution becomes the easy part. 
  • Process Excellence: Traditionally rooted in Lean and Six-Sigma methodologies, adding the latest digital technologies such as Process Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, revealed with speed and accuracy processes we did not think we had, allowing us to transform them for accelerated revenue growth and cost optimization 
  • Change Management: Simple yet powerful: Make it Real, Make it Work, Make it Last 
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Arnaud Rager

Former Vice President, Business Planning and Transformation
Bio-Rad Laboratories

12:35 pm - 1:35 pm CST Networking Luncheon

Join your automation peers for lively conversations over lunch.

1:35 pm - 2:20 pm CST KEYNOTE: Practical Steps to Revamp your Operating Model to be AI Ready

Sridevi Potu - Chief Enterprise Architect, USAA

Transforming your operating model is an opportunity to revamp your structure to account for the future. What does it mean to be AI ready or capable? Hear what leaders in various industries are doing to lead the charge to become AI Ready. Join this session to prepare and dive into:

 

ยท       The importance of leadership buy-in long term and how to get it

ยท       Oversight and raw execution capabilities for governance

ยท       Innovation ability, design criteria and the need for process/system consolidation

ยท       Talent requirements

ยท       Future proofing to adjust to the accelerating pace of change 

Sridevi Potu, Chief Architect Officer, USAA

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Sridevi Potu

Chief Enterprise Architect
USAA

2:20 pm - 2:50 pm CST Case Study: Solving a Big Business Problem Through Practical Parts โ€“ Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

Tom Kelshaw - Executive Director, Automation, WPP

With AI hesitancy alive and well, many enterprise leaders are leaning into practical, low risk automations, rather than implementing an entirely new AI based platform that wonโ€™t actually solve your problem. How do you break apart a significant use case into a feasible series of projects that can deliver value and meet your goals with low risk? Discover a real-life use case that has led to meaningful process enhancements yet was still considered low hanging fruit. Hear how WPP sought to solve an impactful HR problem with a set of automations that were chosen for purpose and ultimately created better results for the business. 

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Tom Kelshaw

Executive Director, Automation
WPP

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm CST Networking Break


3:20 pm - 4:00 pm CST AI-Driven Self-Healing Automation: The End of Maintenance Nightmares

Srikanth Srinivis - Automation Engineer, Caesars Entertainment

AI-driven self-healing automation is a revolutionary approach to maintaining and optimizing automated systems, aiming to eliminate the need for constant manual intervention when things go wrong. This concept leverages artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and adaptive algorithms to allow automation systems to "self-heal" by detecting and fixing issues without human involvement. This approach dramatically reduces downtime, improves system resilience, and minimizes the maintenance overhead traditionally associated with automated environments.


  • + Understanding how AI picks up failure reasons and updates scripts
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Srikanth Srinivis

Automation Engineer
Caesars Entertainment

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm CST The Future of AI in Enterprise Automation

Pravin Kumar - Intelligent Automation Leader, FIRST Horizon Bank

The landscape of enterprise automation is being radically reshaped by AI. What was once a tool for efficiency is now driving the next wave of digital transformationโ€”transforming operations, enhancing decision-making, and creating entirely new ways for businesses to deliver value and stay competitive.

  • Leveraging AI to automate complex processes, enabling organizations to scale faster while maintaining agility.
  • Redefining how businesses approach risk management and strategic decision-making by using AI to deliver predictive insights and smarter outcomes.


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Pravin Kumar

Intelligent Automation Leader
FIRST Horizon Bank

4:30 pm - 4:30 pm CST Conference Concludes

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