Info-Tech LIVE

Special Keynote

Scott Galloway

Professor of Marketing, NYU's Stern School of Business

Post Corona: Unpacking how industries including media, retail, tech, healthcare, and education are being impacted by COVID-19 and what will remain after the dust has settled.

Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. In 2012, he was named one of the world's best business professors by Poets & Quants. Scott has founded nine companies, including Prophet, Red Envelope, L2, and Section4. He is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, and Post Corona. Scott has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Panera Bread, and Ledger. Across his Prof G and Pivot podcasts, Webby Award-winning No Mercy/No Malice newsletter, and his YouTube channel, Scott reaches millions. Pivot has won multiple Best Business Podcast awards.

Special Keynote

Jeanette Manfra

Global Director, Security and Compliance, Google

Modernizing Security as a part of Digital Transformation

Jeanette Manfra has impressive leadership experience. As the cyber leader at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Manfra oversaw a wide-ranging portfolio of programs to protect the country's digital infrastructure, including strengthening election systems, locking down U.S. supply chains, fighting foreign disinformation, securing agency networks and improving the coordination of federal cyber strategy.

Jeanette served as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C) for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) before the agency became CISA in 2018. Prior to this position, Ms. Manfra served as Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Director for Strategy, Policy, and Plans for NPPD. Ms. Manfra also served as Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Director for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity on the National Security Council staff at the White House.

Special Keynote

Beth Clark

Chief Information Officer, Harvard Business School

Never Let A Good Crisis Go to Waste: Keeping Digital Transformation Going When Everyone Wants “Return to Normal”

Beth Clark is the Chief Information Officer at Harvard Business School, where she oversees information technology (IT) professionals committed to helping advance the teaching, learning, research, and administrative mission of HBS, and plays a critical role in establishing and driving forward HBS IT strategy with an emphasis on strengthening IT security and compliance efforts.

Special Keynote

Chad Wright

Chief Information Officer, Boston Dynamics

How Robots Won the Digital Transformation Dance

Chad is the Chief Information Officer at Boston Dynamics, a Boston area robotics company that specializes in mobility, perception and navigation. A finalist for Boston CIO's CIO of the Year in 2022, Chad's career in Information Technology has spanned more than 29 years, including roles in a variety of industries, such as marketing, software, healthcare, retail and robotics. He’s worked at some of Boston’s most innovative companies, including Avid, Endeca Technologies, athenahealth and Amazon Robotics.

Special Keynote

Carrie Nedrow

Vice President Information Technology, Headspace

Meditating through a Merger

Carrie Nedrow leads the Headspace Health Information Technology organization in support of the Headspace mindfulness and Ginger mental wellness offerings. Providing a full suite of IT offerings from endpoint management to identity lifecycle and service support as well as optimizing the corporate application roadmaps and digital asset management, the IT department touches every employee, contractor, and partnership across the globe.

Special Keynote

Mark Anderson

Chief Executive Officer, Strategic News Service & Info-Tech Research Fellow

Making major AI discoveries through Explainable AI

Mark Anderson is an Info-Tech Research Fellow and the publisher of the SNS Global Report, read by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Paul and Irwin Jacobs, Bill Janeway, and technology executives and investors worldwide. He is also the founder and chair of the Future in Review ("FiRe") Conference, named "the best technology conference in the world" by the Economist.

Mark is a frequent guest on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," as well as the BBC World News and Bloomberg TV; and he regularly appears in the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other media.

Special Keynote

Rob Meikle

Executive Consultant

2023 Technology Trends

Rob Meikle is an Executive Consultant, Keynote Speaker and Board Advisor to several emerging technology organizations. Rob is the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for City of Toronto and the City of Brampton where he created high performance teams to deliver innovative and transformational solutions. His leadership experience spans the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He is actively involved in his local community to foster sustainable inter-generational social impact. Rob is an international award winning CIO who was twice featured on the cover of the Canadian CIO Magazine.