Join us for breakfast and networking. Doors open at 8:00am.

• Devin Cook – Associate Director, MIT IDE

• Elizabeth J. Altman – Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Peter C. Evans – Managing Partner, Platform Strategy Institute (Summit Co-chair)
• Geoffrey Parker – Professor, Dartmouth College & Visiting Scholar, MIT IDE (Summit Co-chair)
• Marshall Van Alstyne – Professor, Boston University & Visiting Scholar, MIT IDE (Summit Co-chair)

• Dr. Alex Ng – Vice President, Tencent Healthcare

Enjoy a 30-minute break.

• Svenja Falk – Managing Director, Accenture Research (Moderator)
• Peggy Gulick – Director, Digital Transformation Operations, Kohler Co.
• Peter Weckesser – Chief Digital Officer, Schneider Electric
• Helmut Ludwig – Board Member, Hitachi
• Supheakmungkol “Mungkol” Sarin – Head of Data and AI Ecosystems, World Economic Forum (WEF)

“New Digital Divide”

The purpose of this panel is to discuss several trends: the increasing importance of data and technology in business strategy and operations, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and a rise in digital decoupling. How can business create and capture value in the next phase of globalization, in which externalities – which a company cannot directly influence – play a much bigger role? In addition to external fragmentation, to what extent does digital fragmentation within a firm affect its ability to create and capture new value? It is imperative to address internal silos this, given the yet untapped opportunities to create new value in the digital economy. What is the role of government, what kind of digital policy supports growth?

*Please note this session has been canceled*

• Bruce D. Broussard – President and Chief Executive Officer, Humana
• Geoffrey Parker – Professor, Dartmouth College & Visiting Scholar, MIT IDE (Summit Co-chair)

• Hari Abburi – Co-Founder, MyLearningNFT and Managing Partner, The Preparation Company

This talk will introduce a path breaking innovation of dynamic NFTs in the field of learning and education.

Enjoy a 50-minute lunch and networking break.

• Anant Agarwal – Founder, edX and Professor, MIT Chief Open Education Officer, 2U
• Tapaswee Chandele – Global Vice President of Talent & Development, The Coca-Cola Company
• Chris Dellarocas – Associate Provost for Digital Learning & Innovation, Boston University
• Patrick Petitti – Founder & CEO, CatalantTechnologies

Panel chair: Marshall Van Alstyne

“Corporate Talent Development”

Platform are increasingly powering enterprise talent strategies. Companies increasingly rely on platforms to identify and recruit talent. Platforms are also used in other important ways. Platforms are increasingly being tapped to support training and development from entry level all the way to highly curated executive leadership development training. Platforms are also used as a benefits strategy in an increasingly challenging talent market. Platform approaches are also being deployed internally to support the realities of more networked global companies. This session features business leaders at the cutting edge of recognizing and harnessing the power of platforms to power enterprise talent strategy.

• Lauren Lubetsky – Engagement Manager Growth Strategy, Monitor Deloitte
• Tim Rice – Co-founding CEO of Coin Metrics
• Skip Roncal – Global Lead, Salesforce & AWS Solutions, CME and Gaming Industries, Salesforce
• Adam Schouela – Head of Emerging Technologies, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology

“Web 3, Tokens and Metaverse Platforms”

Enjoy a 30-minute break.

“Future of the Retail Experience”

• Mert Damlapinar – Director, eRetail Strategic Insights & Tech Products, L’Oreal USA
• Tom McFadyen – CEO & Author, McFadyen Digital
• Jonathan Yaffe – Cofounder and CEO, AnyRoad
• Peter C. Evans – Managing Partner, Platform Strategy Institute (Summit Co-chair) – Moderator

• Joanna Rotenberg – President of Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments

• Dava Newman – Director, MIT Media Lab and Apollo Professor of Astronautics, MIT

• Peter C. Evans – Managing Partner, Platform Strategy Institute (Summit Co-chair)
• Geoffrey Parker – Professor, Dartmouth College & Visiting Scholar, MIT IDE (Summit Co-chair)
• Marshall Van Alstyne – Professor, Boston University & Visiting Scholar, MIT IDE (Summit Co-chair)

Enjoy food and beverages while networking with conference attendees and invited speakers!

Event Concludes

Hari Abburi is the Co-Founder, MyLearningNFT and Managing Partner, The Preparation Company. He consults with CEOs and Companies to change faster than the industry curve through the lens of agility. He defines agility as ‘being at the speed of the customer’. He is a global executive with 30 years of experience in the industry in building growth capabilities, M&As, Transformations and Start-Ups. He is a member of the Fast Co. Executive Board, Forbes HR Council. His talk will introduce a path breaking innovation of dynamic NFTs in the field of learning and education.

Anant Agarwal is the chief open education officer at 2U, Inc., guiding and furthering the company’s mission to increase access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere. Anant joined 2U through the edX acquisition, where he directed its evolution into one of the world’s leading online learning platforms as founder and CEO.

As the first educator to teach an edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, Anant drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. He remains a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT today. Previously, he served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Anant is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works. He has received multiple accolades over the years for his pursuit of great educational innovation. He won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture and MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recognized his work in advancing the MOOC movement. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the President of India and was named the Yidan Prize Laureate for Education Development in 2018.

A pioneer in computer architecture, Anant is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World-Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes’ list of top 15 education innovators in 2012.

Anant held a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, is an author of the textbook “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits,” and he hacks on WebSim, an online circuits laboratory, in his spare time. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor’s from IIT Madras.

Dr. Elizabeth J. Altman is an assistant professor of management at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and guest editor of the MIT Sloan Management Review Future of the Workforce project. Altman served as a visiting assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point in Fall 2018 and has served as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School. Altman teaches strategy, organizational theory, and human resources management in undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral programs. Her research focuses on strategy, innovation, platform businesses and ecosystems, leadership in the digital economy, organizational identity, and organizational change.

Altman spent 19 years in industry. She was a vice president at Motorola in executive and leadership roles in industrial design, product development engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and strategy. Awarded a U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Japanese government fellowship, Altman worked as an engineer for Sony in Japan. She lectures and consults worldwide for multi-national clients on strategy and platform businesses and has served on corporate and non-profit boards.

Altman’s work has been published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Marketing Letters, and other internationally recognized management journals and books. Her HBR article with Prof. Andrei Hagiu was selected for inclusion in an edition of the “HBR 10 Must Reads 2019” book and included in “HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation.” Altman co-authored the book, “The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work,” (Harvard Business Press).

Altman holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s of Science in Management both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University where she served on the Board of Trustees and is on the Cornell University Library Advisory Council. Altman is a life member of the Cornell University Council and an emeritus member of the Cornell College of Engineering Advisory Council and the President’s Council of Cornell Women. Altman was named one of Boston Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential Women in Boston,” and one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” top business and community leaders. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Bruce D. Broussard, President and CEO, joined Humana in 2011.
Under his leadership, Humana has created an integrated care delivery model centered on improving health outcomes, driving lower costs, enhancing quality, and providing a simple and personalized member experience. With its holistic, human care approach, Humana is dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves by making it easier for people to achieve their best health.

Bruce brings to Humana a wide range of executive leadership experience in publicly traded and private organizations within a variety of healthcare sectors, including oncology, pharmaceuticals, assisted living/senior housing, home care, physician practice management, surgical centers and dental networks.

Prior to joining Humana, Bruce was Chief Executive Officer of McKesson Specialty/US Oncology, Inc. US Oncology was purchased by McKesson in December 2010. At US Oncology, Bruce served in a number of senior executive roles, including Chief Financial Officer, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.

Bruce plays a leadership role in key business advocacy organizations such as the Business Roundtable, the Business Council, and the American Heart Association CEO Roundtable. He is a member of the Board of Directors of HP Inc., and is a member and chair of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Additionally, Bruce serves on the Board of the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit philanthropic partner of the National Park Service dedicated to restoring and preserving the National Mall.

Tapaswee Chandele is the Global Vice President of Talent & Development for The Coca-Cola Company, based in Atlanta.
In this role, she is responsible for the global strategy to deliver impactful Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning, Leadership Development, Organization Capability Development and Organization Effectiveness solutions to enable our growth strategy.

Chrysanthos (Chris) Dellarocas is Associate Provost for Digital Learning and Innovation and Richard C. Shipley Professor of Management in the Department of Information Systems in the Questrom School of Business. He leads the advancement of activities and strategies that enhance education at Boston University through the use of digital technologies. Central to these efforts are a series of critical collaborations across BU’s 17 schools and colleges that ensure the alignment of digital strategies and the introduction of new technologies that further the University’s progress as a 21st Century global research institution. In addition to overseeing BU’s Digital Learning Initiative (DLI), Chris works in concert with other members of senior academic leadership to provide guidance to the University’s Center for Teaching & Learning, to the Educational Technology team within the Office of Information Services & Technology (IS&T), and to the Office of Distance Education through a close partnership with the Metropolitan College.

Prior to his appointment in March 2016, Chris served as the Director of the DLI from its inception in 2013 as one of the core recommendations of the Council on Educational Technology and Learning Innovation (CETLI). There, Chris led BU’s involvement as part of the edX consortium, including the development of BU’s first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and facilitated campus-wide experiments in digital learning through the CETLI/DLI grants program.

An internationally known scholar in the fields of online reputation and social media, Chris has served as Chair of the Department of Information Systems in Questrom. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Prior to his appointment at Boston University in 2009, he taught at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Prior to his academic career, Chris was a management consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and McKinsey.

Peter C. Evans has over 20 years of experience leading teams in identifying, framing, assessing, and communicating high-priority marketplace trends and disruptions that support business planning and investment prioritization. He has held senior strategy, innovation and market intelligence roles at large global enterprises including General Electric, KPMG and IHS/CERA. Recognizing the strategic significance of platforms more than a decade ago, he led and published the first global survey of platform companies. He has served as co-chair of the MIT Platform Strategy Summit since 2016. Peter is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the board of the National Association for Business Economics. Peter received his BA from Hampshire College and his master’s degree and PhD degree from MIT.

Svenja Falk is the Managing Director at Accenture Research. She is responsible for the Global Health & Public Service division as well as for the cross-sectional topic of the future of work. She also leads the working group on digital business models under the umbrella of the Platform Industrie 4.0, is a fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin and honorary professor at the Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen.

Peggy Gulick recently took a role as Director, Digital Transformation Operations at Kohler Co.  Prior to that she was Directory, Strategy and Transformation at AGCO Corporation, where she had previously served as AGCO’s Director of Digital Transformation, Global Manufacturing. She has over 20 years of experience in the consumer products and manufacturing industry. Ms. Gulick joined AGCO as leader for AGCO’s Production Systems (Lean) and Information Technology teams. Prior to joining AGCO, Peggy served as Director of Global Business Process at Pure Fishing, Inc. a subsidiary of Newell Brands.

Ms. Gulick chartered the Women in Manufacturing Chapter and recently joined the WiM Board of Directors.  She joined the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Board of Directors in 2019 and served as President of Clarke University’s Alumni Board of Directors. She was selected as High Achiever in Internet of Things Manufacturing Leadership (MLC, 2016), one of the Top 20 Women in Manufacturing, (2019), a recipient of the Women in Manufacturing STEP Award (Manufacturing Institute, 2014), and most recently inducted into the Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame.

She is proudest of the teams and people she has worked with, citing recognition for their collaborative contribution with awards from Assembly Magazine, AME, Industry Week and Manufacturing Leadership Council for plant excellence.

Lauren Lubetsky is a New York-based technology and media strategist who founded and co-led Monitor Deloitte’s Strategic Futures practice, which helps clients grapple with uncertainty and leverage market sensing and scenario planning to develop future-proofed strategies. She primarily advises TMT (technology, media, and telecom) and consumer clients on their growth and digital strategies and helps them prepare for the future of Web3 and the metaverse. Laurenwas one of the primary authors of “A Whole New World”, which explores the growing investment in the metaverse and what it could mean for brands and consumers.  It is Deloitte’s leading point of view on the future of new digital spaces enabled by the shift to Web3. She has authored a series of marquee thought leadership on some of the most important issues facing the future of business and society and is published in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and featured in the Library of Congress.

Over the past 20+ years, Tom McFadyen has overseen hundreds of eCommerce and marketplace projects which cumulatively generate tens of billions of dollars of annual online revenue. After starting McFadyen Digital three decades ago, he grew it to several hundred employees operating globally across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital is currently a leading advisor and implementer of award-winning digital marketplaces. Tom is also a board member or committee leader in NRF, YPO & EO, and has authored two commerce-focused books, including Amazon Best Seller Marketplace Best Practices, available now.

Dr. Alex Ng, Vice President of Tencent Healthcare. Alex is currently leading Tencent’s healthcare business. Tencent has developed platform products such as the Weixin Mini Program “Tencent Healthcare”, electronic health insurance certificate and healthcare card; the medical content platform “Medipedia”; and clinical products such as AIMIS (AI enabled clinical decision support system for medical images).

Alex first started his career as a medical doctor where he was the chief resident at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. He then moved to the US to become a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company after completing the Master of Public Health at Harvard. After 9 years at McKinsey between US and China, where he co-led the Greater China Healthcare Practice, he joined the Gates Foundation as the deputy director of the China Country Office, responsible for the health and innovation portfolio.

He is currently an honorary associate professor at University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine, and was a member of WHO’s inaugural Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.

Geoffrey Parker is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College where he also serves as Director of the Master of Engineering Management Program.

In addition, he is a research fellow and visiting scholar at MIT’s Initiative for the Digital Economy. He received a B.S.E. from Princeton and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT. Parker has made significant contributions to the field of network economics and strategy as co-developer of the theory of “two-sided” markets. He is co-author of the award-winning book “Platform Revolution.” His current research includes studies of platform business strategy, Internet of Things data governance, and technical/economic systems to integrate distributed energy resources. Parker’s research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the states of Louisiana and New York and numerous corporations.  He serves or has served as associate editor at multiple journals and as a National Science Foundation panelist. Parker is a frequent keynote speaker and advises senior leaders on their organizations’ platform strategies. Before attending MIT, he held positions in engineering and finance at GE. Additional information can be found at ggparker.net and @g2parker.

Pat Petitti is the co-founder and CEO of Catalant, which he started in 2013 as a class project at Harvard Business School and has since grown into the premier provider of agile consulting services to the Fortune 500. Petitti is also co-author of a book titled, Reimagining Work: Strategies to Disrupt Talent, Lead Change, and Win with a Flexible Workforce, which lays out a vision and path for a new relationship between global companies and talent. In 2016, he received an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the New England region. Prior to co-founding Catalant, Petitti was a consultant at negotiation and conflict management consulting firm Vantage partners, and before that at Booz Allen Hamilton. Petitti received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Tim Rice is the co-founding CEO of Coin Metrics who joined the firm in 2018 when it was launched as a commercial endeavor.  Tim has over 30 years of experience in traditional capital markets data. He has held executive positions at Tradeweb, Moneyline Telerate, Thomson Reuters, and Markit (now IHS Markit), where he built large-scale, institutional-grade pricing and reference data businesses. Prior to founding Coin Metrics, Tim spent two years at ConsenSys, where he gained invaluable insights around bridging the gap between crypto and traditional financial services. Tim has a BS in Applied Economics from Cornell University.

After starting my career as an advertising photographer and computer graphic artist, I transitioned to a career in software sales and product marketing. At Siebel Systems I held several senior roles including product line manager for Siebel’s market-leading CPG product. After leaving Siebel, I founded Wimeme, an early social media mobile marketing company.

I joined Salesforce for the first time in 2008 to evangelize the power of low code application development in the cloud using Force.com. In 2020, I returned to Salesforce through the acquisition of Vlocity and led the go-to-market sales and solution strategy for gaming.

I’ve helped launch innovative solutions throughout my career including leading the design and development of the GreenXchange launch at the World Economic Forum. I’m the author of 3 U.S. patents and I hold a degree in Applied Arts and Science. I live in Northern, CA, with my wife and daughter, and am an avid motorcyclist, photographer, and New York Yankees fan.

Joanna Rotenberg is president of Personal Investing at Fidelity Investments, which serves the full needs of investors of all ages and asset classes, including private wealth management, retirement, advisory, brokerage, insurance, and digital advice. These award-winning businesses include $4.4 trillion in client assets and 32.4 million in client accounts (as of December 31, 2021).

Prior to her role at Fidelity, Joanna spent more than a decade at BMO Financial Group, a Toronto-based global financial services firm. Upon joining BMO in 2010, Joanna acted as BMO’s Head of Strategy and eventually as Chief Marketing Officer helping guide BMO’s strategic decisions globally. In 2016, Joanna became Group Head, BMO Wealth Management, providing retail and institutional clients wealth management, asset management, and insurance solutions across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Joanna is an advocate for diversity and inclusion, including acting as the executive sponsor of Fidelity’s Women’s Leadership Group and launching BMO for Women, an enterprise-wide program supporting women with sponsorship, tools and capital to succeed. She has been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network, and was selected as a Women in Capital Markets Champion of Change for her leadership in actively driving positive change for diversity and inclusion.

Prior to joining BMO, Joanna was a Partner with McKinsey & Company and a leader in McKinsey’s North American financial services practice. In this role, she served clients in wealth and asset management, banking, and insurance. She also led McKinsey’s North American retirement and consumer research initiatives. She is an alumni of the University of Toronto, earning her combined JD/MBA degree with distinction. She is also a member of the New York Bar.

She currently serves as Treasurer to the Board of Directors of Sinai Health System, a leading health network based in Toronto. She acted as the 2020 Chair of the Major Individual Gifts Cabinet for United Way of Greater Toronto, with record results. She is also a member of the Rotman Dean’s Advisory Board, a part of the University of Toronto.

Adam Schouela is Head of Emerging Technologies for the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology.  In this role, he illustrates the power and potential of these early stage technologies to help Fidelity make strategic decisions. Adam leads an international team of technologists who focus on rapidly building proofs of concept and working closely with business units to identify use cases for promising ideas.

Adam holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Business Administration, with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from Babson College – Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Supheakmungkol “Mungkol” Sarin is the Head of Data and AI Ecosystems at the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he focuses on democratizing Data and AI for All through a multi-stakeholder approach of public-private cooperation. Prior to joining the WEF, Mungkol spent almost a decade with Google in 3 departments: Emerging Markets, Research and Core Machine Learning. There, he led programs to broaden representation and access of under-represented communities in technologies via innovative and inclusive data collection, new machine learning models and community engagement.

Mungkol served as the Board President of the Internet Society San Francisco Bay Area Chapter from 2020-2021. He holds a Doctor of Science in Global Information and Telecommunication Studies from Waseda University.

Marshall Van Alstyne is the Questrom Professor of Information Economics Department Chair at the Boston University Questrom School of Business.

Professor Van Alstyne is one of the leading experts in network business models. He conducts research on information economics, covering such topics as communications markets, the economics of networks, intellectual property, social effects of technology, and productivity effects of information. As co-developer of the concept of “two-sided networks” he has been a major contributor to the theory of network effects, a set of ideas now taught worldwide. His co-authored article on the subject is a Harvard Business Review top 50 of all time.

Awards include two patents, National Science Foundation IOC, SGER, SBIR, iCorp and Career Awards, and eight best paper awards. Articles or commentary have appeared in Science, Nature, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Thinkers 50 has named him one of the top management thinkers globally.

Jonathan Yaffe, the cofounder and CEO of AnyRoad, believes in the power of leveraging data to scale transformative experiences. He founded AnyRoad, the first ERM platform (experience relationship management) after working for Red Bull, where his team strategically invested billions of dollars in experiential initiatives, without any direct insight into analytics or ROI. While living in Japan for ten years, Jonathan also co-founded the acclaimed boutique KAIS International School, the Mirai Institute, the first independent think tank in Japan, Midori.so, a network of creative incubators and co-working spaces, and three art galleries. He also serves on the board of Zero Gap, a nonprofit dedicated to closing the gender gap in business. Jonathan has traveled to 96 countries, lived in Brazil, Colombia, Switzerland, the United States, and Japan, and is a sushi addict.