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Digital Leader Fireside ChatThe 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

September 2020

George Llado, Senior Vice President & CIO, Alexion
Topic: The Future of Work
September 8, 2020, 12pm – 1pm
Attendees: 67

Linda Descano, Executive Vice President, Red Havas
Topic: Digital Employee Engagement Through and Post COVID-19
September 30, 2020, 12pm – 1pm
Attendees: 76

October 2020

Dinesh Desai, Executive Chairman & Founder, Emtec, Inc.
Topic: Repositioning IT services for a digital future
October 19, 2020, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 61

November 2020

Christopher Kearns, Senior Vice President, NBCUniversal
Topic: Is digital transformation in the end all about the customer experience?
November 6, 2020, 1pm-2pm
Attendees: 67

Larry Dignan, Global Editor in Chief, ZDNet
Topic: Careers in the context of remote work
November 18, 2020, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 51

December 2020

Mark Spykerman, CIO, AmerisourceBergen
Topic: The Purpose of Work
December 7, 2020, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 61

January 2021

Cindy Leavitt, CIO & Vice President of Information Technology Services, Temple University
Topic: Accelerating Agile/DevOps transformation in a CoVID world
January 27, 2021, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 57

February 2021

Stacy Greiner, Chief Marketing Officer, Dun & Bradstreet
Topic: Organizing for and Digitizing the Next Generation Customer Journey
February 10, 2021, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 50

Ron Kim, Chief Technology Officer, Merck
Topic: What are the Pros and Cons of Careers in Consulting vs. Corporate?
February 24, 2021, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 78

March 2021

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, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 41

Steve DeLuca, VP, Workplace IT Experience, Comcast
Topic: Connecting in the hybrid workplace 
March 17, 2021, 12pm-12:45pm
Attendees: 47

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, 12pm-1pm
Attendees: 45

Moderators

  • Munir Mandviwalla
  • Laurel Miller

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