Executive Roundtable - Reassessing Digital Transformation: The need for culture and process change

Stephanie is the lead contributor to HBR's “Reassessing Digital Transformation - The Culture and Process Imperative.” In the last decade, her work has focused on the intersection of business and technology. Stephanie's writing has been recognized by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) and she has been recognized with the American Business Media’s Jesse H. Neal Award; the Trade, Association, and Business Publications International’s TABBIE award; and the National Magazine Award. Stephanie’s writing has been featured in numerous publications including BusinessWeek.com, CIO magazine, CMO.com, SmartMoney, Inc.com, NYTimes.com and PCWorld.com.

Ken provides architectural leadership and drives initiatives for ACI’s Product Development organization in the domain areas of Payments Intelligence, Fraud Prevention, Security, and SaaS/Cloud. Driving the evolution of ACI’s payment intelligence and fraud platform, Ken is leading architects and engineers on innovative projects in the areas of microservices, big data, complex event processing, stream analytics, cloud computing, containerization, and data security. He has a diverse background in Enterprise Software technologies with a focus on the Payments Industry, Healthcare Industry, and Customer Relationship Management. Ken has three patents pending in the areas of complex event processing, machine learning, and payment initiation.

A 20-year tech industry veteran, Margaret is the vice president of Portfolio Product Marketing at Red Hat, the world’s leading open source software company. She is a frequent author and speaker on digital disruption, emerging technologies, open source, and women leadership. A proven entrepreneur and intrapreneur, Margaret has led successful initiatives and teams at several startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and HP. Margaret is an active mentor for men and women in technology and was recently named Business Role Model of the Year for Women in IT, and Mentor and Coach of the Year in the Stevie Business Awards.

As chief architect at Red Hat, Matt is responsible for helping Red Hat® customers achieve their key business transformation initiatives through open source architectures and technologies. He regularly advises Fortune 100 enterprises across a wide range of industries, on topics such as digital transformation, IT modernization, and the changing landscape of security and risk. Matt joined Red Hat in 2013, bringing two decades of IT experience ranging from development and system administration to management, strategy, and architecture.

Kris is an accomplished 2x digital leadership executive with a track record of successfully launching emerging technology in global marketplaces. She translates technology into business strategy and increased concept to cash opportunities within new and existing product lines. Kris has developed and managed products with revenues of over $2BN and led the product technology departments at three enterprise companies. An advocate of lean enterprise and product development, as Practice Lead for the Open Innovation Labs, you can find Kris working with customers at the Open Innovation Labs accelerating their journey towards digital leadership.