Agenda | Day 1

Preliminary Agenda – please note this schedule is subject to change.

TIME

DAY 1 | Tuesday 11th April 2023

LOCATION

08:30 – 9:00

REGISTRATION

Grand Cru Foyer

Collect your name badge, meet fellow delegates and catch up with Roboyans before the keynote speeches begin.

09:00 – 09:15

WELCOME

Grand Cru Ballroom

Nicolas Hess

CEO | Roboyo

Nicolas Hess is CEO and Co-Founder of Roboyo. After studying in Passau, Dublin and Barcelona, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in International Management, Nicolas worked for several years at consulting firm Deloitte before co-founding Roboyo in 2015.

Now with locations in 24 cities, across 14 countries and 4 continents, Nicolas has enabled Roboyo’s exponential growth into the world’s largest hyperautomation professional services company with a client list including many of the Fortune 500 and 22 of Germany’s DAX 40 companies.

09:15 – 10:00

KEYNOTE: The Next Generation of Business Performance : Enabling companies to perform at levels they never thought possible

Grand Cru Ballroom

Alexander Rinke

Co-CEO & Co-Founder | Celonis

Alex Rinke is co-founder & co-CEO of Celonis, the undisputed leader in process mining and execution management technology. Born out of a university project in Munich, Alex and his co-founders turned the theoretical concept of process mining into a working product, and landed their first client within weeks. Alex and his team successfully grew the company for five years without external funding, scaling rapidly across the globe before raising money. Five years and several rounds later, Celonis has now earned decacorn status, and recently completed the first ever $1bn Series D Round.

Today, Alex steers the global vision and executive team for Celonis, and is an active ambassador for sustainability and equal access to education. Alex firmly believes that by unlocking the world’s processes, we can create a better future for businesses and the planet.

Jeff DeSandre

Chief Information Officer | AmerCareRoyal

Jeff DeSandre joined AmerCareRoyal as Chief Integration Officer in 2019. Prior to this, he served in various leadership positions at both First Quality Enterprises and CSS Industries. Jeff holds a B.A. degree from The College of New Jersey, maintains a PMP Certification from the Project Management Institute, and is ITIL Foundation certified by ITIL/IT Service Management.

10:00 – 10:45

KEYNOTE : From Idea to Implementation: A Journey of Scaling Intelligent Automation From the Ground Up

Grand Cru Ballroom

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James Furlong

VP of Supply Chain | Puma

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James Furlong, Vice President, Supply Chain Management & Projects is a seasoned leader with extensive experience leading end to end operations, planning, supply chain, logistics, and sales along with a proven track record of success developing and executing effective growth strategies.

With a love for sport and competition, James believes in the relentless pursuit of progress and has spent 14 years at PUMA supporting the brands mission, mantra, and values by championing award winning innovation initiatives. Most recently, James spearheaded the automation efforts of PUMA North America from executive sponsorship and technology evaluations to strategies for automation optimization. 

10:45 – 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

Grand Cru Foyer/Terrace

11:00 – 11:45

KEYNOTE PANEL : Customer voice: Industry Trends shaping the future of the Human+Digital workplace

Grand Cru Ballroom

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Shail Khiyara

Founder & CEO | VOCAL Council

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Carlos Cardona

VP Service Operations | Virgin Pulse

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Patty Boland

VP Intelligent Process Automation | Citizens Bank

11:45 – 12:30

KEYNOTE TBD

Grand Cru Ballroom

Joanna Calibara

Head of Group Functions IT Quality | Continental AG

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Joanna Calibara is currently leading the implementation of emerging technologies such as Low Code platforms and AI for natural language processing in her organization. Her goal is to bring innovative improvements to business processes that enable and contribute to the production of high-quality end products at Continental.

Patrick Langenohl

Technology Lead Quality IT | Continental AG

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Patrick Langenohl has many years of experience in software and application development (mainly Business Intelligence) on one side, but also managing project and understanding business processes on the other side, his highest motivation is to build bridges between the pure technical IT world and the connected business areas considering state of the art digital solutions.

12:30 – 13:30

LUNCH

Grand Cru Foyer/Terrace

13:30 – 14:15

PANEL DISCUSSION : The value-driven approach to automation

Grand Cru Ballroom

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Michele Buschman

Chief Information Officer
at American Pacific Mortgage

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Lee Kaiser

Global Head of Operations & System Architecture at Erricsson

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Nadeem Saeed

Head of AI &
Automation at Verizon

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Derk Weinheimer

Chief Executive Officer
Americas at Roboyo

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14:15 – 15:00

PANEL DISCUSSION : Creating Automation Champions across the organization with Evangelization & change management

Grand Cru Ballroom

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Sidney Prescott

Fmr Global Head of Intelligent Automation at Spotify

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Tom Kelly

Digital Automation Center Leader at Altria

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Todd Allen

Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at WSSC Water

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Maxim Ioffe

Global Intelligent Automation Leader at WESCO Distribution

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Xuan Liao

Chief Marketing Officer
Americas at Roboyo

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15:00 – 15:45

PANEL DISCUSSION : How to fund, scale and optimize automation with cross functional partnerships across the enterprise

Grand Cru Ballroom

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Blake Treu

Director of Automation COE at PetSmart

Shoba Mallik will speak at Roboyo's All Eyes on Automation 2023

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Strategic RPA Director at Emory University

Dan Shugars

Director of Enterprise Architecture at Corning Credit Union

Brent Roberts

Senior Lean Consulting Manager at Roboyo

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15:45 – 16:30

PANEL DISCUSSION : Blueprinting a scalable automation operating model and CoE governance

Grand Cru Ballroom

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Jonathan Hardy

Head of Intelligent Automation at Truist Bank

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Jose Perez

Enterprise Automation Director at City National Bank of Florida

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Monterio Woodson

AVP Intelligent Automation at COX Enterprises

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Aaron Factor

Senior Hyperautomation Manager at Roboyo

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16:30 – 18:00

HYPERAUTOMATION FAIR

Epicurean Theatre

18:00 – 21:00

EVENING DRINKS RECEPTION

Terrace

EVENT PARTNERS

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DIAMOND PARTNER

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RUBY PARTNER

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GOLD PARTNER

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GOLD PARTNER

SILVER PARTNER

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SILVER PARTNER

SILVER PARTNER

JOLT

IS NOW A PART OF ROBOYO

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In a continued effort to ensure we offer our customers the very best in knowledge and skills, Roboyo has acquired Jolt Advantage Group.

OKAY

AKOA

IS NOW PART OF ROBOYO

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In a continued effort to ensure we offer our customers the very best in knowledge and skills, Roboyo has acquired AKOA.

OKAY

LEAN CONSULTING

IS NOW PART OF ROBOYO

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In a continued effort to ensure we offer our customers the very best in knowledge and skills, Roboyo has acquired Lean Consulting.

OKAY

PROCENSOL

IS NOW PART OF ROBOYO

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In a continued effort to ensure we offer our customers the very best in knowledge and skills, Roboyo has acquired Procensol.

LET'S GO