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Digital Leader Fireside Chats

The Digital Leader Fireside chats featured one prominent executive in a 45-minute informal Q&A discussion about an important topic.

Typically offered online around lunch time on Zoom, the chats offered industry participants and students with a brief yet in-depth perspective on the opportunities and challenges of digital leadership. Participants posed questions during the discussion. Each session was moderated.

Fireside Chats

George Llado

Senior Vice President & CIO, Alexion
Topic: The Future of Work
September 8, 2020
Attendees: 67

LinkedIn
Linda Descano

Executive Vice President, Red Havas
Topic: Digital Employee Engagement Through and Post COVID-19
September 30, 2020
Attendees: 76

LinkedIn
Dinesh Desai

Executive Chairman & Founder, Emtec, Inc.
Topic: Repositioning IT services for a digital future
October 19, 2020
Attendees: 61

LinkedIn Page
Christopher Kearns

Senior Vice President, NBCUniversal
Topic: Is digital transformation in the end all about the customer experience?
November 6, 2020
Attendees: 67

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Larry Dignan

Global Editor in Chief, ZDNet
Topic: Careers in the context of remote work
November 18, 2020
Attendees: 51

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Mark Spykerman

CIO, AmerisourceBergen
Topic: The Purpose of Work
December 7, 2020
Attendees: 61

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Cindy Leavitt

CIO & Vice President of Information Technology Services, Temple University
Topic: Accelerating Agile/DevOps transformation in a CoVID world
January 27, 2021
Attendees: 57

LinkedIn Page
Stacy Greiner

Chief Marketing Officer, Dun & Bradstreet
Topic: Organizing for and Digitizing the Next Generation Customer Journey
February 10, 2021
Attendees: 50

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Ron Kim

Chief Technology Officer, Merck
Topic: What are the Pros and Cons of Careers in Consulting vs. Corporate?
February 24, 2021
Attendees: 78

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Vince Ford

SVP, Digital Strategy & Innovation, Executive Director of the Performance Innovation Lab, and the Field-McFadden Chair in Digital Studies, Curtis Institute of Music
Topic: The Art of Digital Transformation
March 3, 2021
Attendees: 41

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Steve DeLuca

VP, Workplace IT Experience, Comcast
Topic: Connecting in the hybrid workplace
March 17, 2021
Attendees: 47

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Luke Olenoski

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Main Line Health
Topic: Did the Pandemic Change Health Systems Technology? What is Temporary and What Will Last?
March 24, 2021
Attendees: 45

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Moderators

Munir Mandviwalla, Laurel Miller

For more information about the IBIT Digital Leader Fireside Chats, please contact IBIT: ibit@temple.edu

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