2024 Agenda
Day 1: Monday, September 30, 2024
Time
Activity
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Arrivals and Event Check-In
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Private Golf Clinic with The Pebble Beach Golf Academy/Spanish Bay
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Hospitality Meet & Greet, Sponsor Demos before the kick off the event
4:00 – 4:15 p.m.
Welcome to SPARK
Jim Bailey, Capgemini, CEO Americas SBU
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
Opening Keynote: Planetary Engineering: AI’s global infrastructure
Kate Crawford, Professor | Author of Atlas of AI | Leading scholar of AI and society
5:00 – 5:20 p.m.
Conversation with the ‘Pied Piper of Transformation’; the digiGOAT ‘Sanjib Sahoo’
Ted Levine, Business Unit Managing Director for Consumer Products, Retail, Services, Hospitality and Public Sector, Capgemini
Sanjib Sahoo, Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer @ Ingram Micro
5:20 – 5:40 p.m.
Diamond Sponsor: Google Cloud: Taking transformative AI experiences into production with confidence
Erwan Menard, Director Product Management, Cloud AI, Google
5:40 – 6:10 p.m.
Panel Discussion: REAL WORLD AI
Ray Wang, Constellation Research Principal Analyst and Founder
Sukai F. Crook, Vice President, IT Strategy & Transformation at Honeywell
John Civiletto, VP Technology, Cox Communications
Simon Grice, Senior Director of Innovation at ServiceNow
6:10 – 10:00 p.m.
Capgemini SPARK Welcome Reception & Dinner
Day 2: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Time
Activity
7:00 – 8:00 a.m.
Sponsor Network Breakfast
8:00 – 8:50 a.m.
Day 2 Keynote: The Future of Technology and it’s Comprises
Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED
8:50 – 9:30 a.m.
Conversation with the ‘Godfather of AI’
Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED
Geoff Hinton, Cognitive Psychologist and Computer Scientist and “The Godfather of AI”
9:30 – 9:50 a.m.
Fireside chat with The Hartford: Driving business value through agility and imagination
A. Morris “Mo” Tooker, Head of Commercial Lines, The Hartford
Anirban Bose, CEO Financial Services Strategic Business Unit, Member of Group Executive Board
9:50 – 10:10 a.m.
Diamond Sponsor: Microsoft
Alysa Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer, Commercial Cloud & AI, Microsoft
10:10 – 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 – 11:05 a.m.
Fireside Chat with UNICEF: Empowering Futures: The Impact of Green Skills and Jobs
Cyril Garcia, Head of Global Sustainability Services and Corporate Responsibility and Member of the Group Executive Board, Capgemini
Nadi Albino, Deputy Director for UNICEF’s Generation Unlimited
11:05 – 11:40 a.m.
Keynote: Realizing Unfulfilled Potential of AI
Jeremy Utley, Innovation Thought Leader at Stanford University
11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Diamond Sponsor: AWS: Think big. Start Small. Scale Fast. Here’s How.
Tom Soderstrom, Director, AWS Enterprise Strategy
12:10 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Optional Networking Recreational Activities:
- Golf on Pebble Beach Golf Links
- Pickleball at Spanish Bay Tennis Pavilion
- Carmel Valley Wine Tasting
- E-Bike Tour
- Golf Academy and The Hay (9 Hole course)
- Range Rover
- Kayaking
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Tech Tastings: Immersive Experiences with a Twist
Jiani Zhang, Chief Software Officer, Capgemini Engineering
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Reception
7:30 – 10:00 p.m.
Gala Dinner & Awards
Day 3: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time
Activity
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:05 a.m.
Day 3 Keynote: White-box Intelligence
Ramin Hasani, Cofounder and CEO, Liquid AI
9:05 – 9:35 a.m.
Panel Discussion: AI for Earth: Pioneering Sustainable Future
Folake Fabunmi, Managing Executive at IBM
Sol Salinas, Executive Vice President, Americas Sustainability Lead – North America, Capgemini
Archana Vemulapalli, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales, AMD
Natalie Han, Chief Product Officer for Generative AI at SAP
9:35 – 9:45 a.m.
Closing by Aiman Ezzat
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Partner/Client Networking
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch & Departures