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August 7

No. 9 Park, Boston

6:00–9:00 Networking Reception and Dinner

August 8

Program: State Room, 60 State Street, Boston

7:30am Networking Breakfast

8:30am Welcome

8:45am The Growth Imperative. Creative destruction is alive and well, putting pressure on legacy business models and traditional playbooks. For successful incumbents, that
means the question of pursuing new growth is no longer optional: it’s necessary to sustaining performance and often a prerequisite to survival. Patrick Viguerie, Managing Partner of Innosight, synthesizes new research and best practices for how companies can build and be rewarded for transformative new growth platforms. Defining your company’s growth ambition is a critical first step. Equally important is the discipline of managing the growth journey. We’ll explore the levers leaders can pull to accelerate core and new growth, how “curve bending” moves can bring outsized rewards, and why developing a granular view into opportunities can power and sustain growth transformation efforts over time.

9:30am Creating Innovation at Scale at Corning: Fireside Chat with Corning CEO Wendell Weeks. Corning, the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, has an
extraordinary—and highly unique—history of reinventing itself through innovation over the course of its 168-year history. From lightbulbs to Pyrex cookware to the Gorilla Glass that’s on more than 6 billion mobile devices, the company’s robust investments in R&D and collaborative culture enables it to repeatedly create breakthrough technologies and grow new markets. Wendell Weeks, CEO of Corning since 2005, will share how innovation actually works at Corning, what enables it, what he’s learned over the years about what works and what doesn’t work, and the role of the CEO in driving innovation through the culture. Moderator: Dave Duncan, Senior Partner, Innosight

10:15am Networking Break

10:45am Snow Melts from the Edges: Catching the Beginning of an Inflection Point. Strategic inflection points change the fundamental assumptions upon which many businesses are built. Rita McGrath, professor at the Columbia Business School and author of the forthcoming book “Seeing Around Corners” says that although they seem to come from nowhere, the early warning signs were almost always present for some time, just not where most senior leaders are looking for them. This session outlines eight practices that leaders can use to help create awareness of what is going on at the “edges” of an organization and better prepare to pick up weak signals. Marie Wieck, General Manager, Blockchain, IBM, will join to discuss how leaders can understand technology inflection points and their implications for strategy.

12:00pm Networking Lunch

1:00pm How to Turn Vision Into Breakthrough Growth. The future is coming at us faster than it ever has before. How can leadership teams learn to “skate to where the puck
is going”—while at the same time, doing all that they can to ensure that it goes to the best possible place? Mark Johnson, Cofounder and Senior Partner of Innosight, will explore why visioning is an under-developed but critical leadership capability in an era of accelerating disruption. Leadership teams can overcome obstacles to visioning and cultivate a “future-back” approach to strategy that sets up companies to pursue new disruptive innovation and new and different growth initiatives. Steve Nordlund, Vice President and General Manager of Boeing NeXt, and Logan Jones, Vice President of Boeing HorizonX, will join to discuss how these two new units—whose mandates include development of autonomous air vehicles and identifying future disruptions—were borne out of the aerospace giants’ long-term strategy. They’ll share lessons learned about leading new growth units, strategy execution, and governance.

2:00pm Lessons from the Vanguard of Digital Transformers. With digital transformation spending expected to reach $2 trillion in 2022, legacy companies are feeling under increasing pressure to make the most of their digital investments and ensure they are on the right path to the future. How can they take today’s digital efforts to the next level— and at the same time assess the impact of emerging technologies like blockchain and AI? While no two digital transformations are exactly the same, there are generalizable lessons from companies at the vanguard. In this panel, we’ll hear from three leading executives—Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens USA; Joseph Bellissimo, General Manager of Cognitive Process Transformation, Global Business Services, IBM; and Neil de Crescenzo, CEO of Change Healthcare— who will share organizational and strategic insights from their respective digital journeys. Moderator: Patrick Viguerie, Managing Partner, Innosight

2:45pm Networking Break

3:00pm Driving Growth through #JobsToBeDone: Fireside Chat with Jack Dorsey,
Founder and CEO of Twitter and Square. In just a few years, Twitter and Square—game-changing, disruptive platforms in media and financial services—have together
created more than $60 billion in value and changed the way we live today. Dorsey, the Founder and CEO of both fast-growing companies, says that one of the keys to making such an impact has been keeping a laser focus on their core consumers’ jobs to be done. We will chat with Dorsey about how Twitter and Square have used the Jobs to Be Done concept to shape strategy, align a leadership team, and make decisions throughout the organizations. Moderator: Brian Hindo, Partner, Innosight

4:00pm Concluding Remarks