Executive Summit 2024

Highlights from the 2023 event

The 2024 theme is ‘Real Smart’

Now that the hype around Generative AI has, according to Gartner, reached “the peak of inflated expectations”, it is time to stop focusing on the technology itself, and start looking for ‘Real Smart’ applications.

To find them, we need to start with building a thorough understanding of human intelligence and determine where artificial machine intelligence can be complementary. Our goal should not be to mimic or replace human intelligence, but rather augment it, envisioning a new form of combined, regenerative intelligence that will benefit all of humanity.

Speaker presentations and recordings

Overview

Why are we all so obsessed with creating an Artificial General Intelligence? Doesn’t our human brain suffice? Why are we trying to build an intelligence that supersedes human intelligence; that is smarter than all of human intelligence? Must have something to do with the realization that our brains have serious shortcomings, for which we would like to find a quick fix. Like a prosthetic for our brains, just like the reading glasses that become so indispensable at a certain age.

We realize that we are smart, but at the same time realize that there are boundaries to that smartness, that there are inherent weaknesses, that our senses can be easily fooled, that our intuition is not infallible, that our memories fade and that are comprehension of complex systems is limited. AI finds it’s value because it does not merely mimic human intelligence, but because it is different. It is good at things where humans are worse.

State of the art sessions

From POCs to Enterprise Adoption of Gen AI

As your organization navigates the evolving landscape of Generative AI, the journey from proof-of-concepts to full-scale enterprise adoption brings a unique set of challenges. In our State-of-the-Art session, join Joakim Wahlqvist, Sogeti Global CTO for AI, as he delves into the critical aspects that can make or break your AI initiatives, including Trust, Risk, and Security Management (TRiSM), Organizational Knowledge, Agency, and Scalability.

Joakim will share actionable insights and real-world examples on how to advance rapidly and effectively in the GenAI domain while maintaining control and trust at every step. Discover how our Trusted AI Framework and meticulously refined processes are designed to help your organization harness the power of GenAI with confidence.

By attending, you will learn how to:

1. Seamlessly scale AI solutions from small pilots to robust enterprise applications.
2. Foster business adoption by integrating AI seamlessly into your existing workflows.
3. Build and sustain trust in AI systems, ensuring transparency, security, and ethical alignment.

Whether you’re just starting with AI or lookingto scale existing projects, this talk will provide you with a holistic perspective on aligning IT and business strategies, ensuring that your AI initiatives not only succeed but thrive in today’s competitive environment. Embrace the future of AI with a comprehensive approach that empowers your organization to achieve new heights of innovation and efficiency.

Combining Human & Machine for more Sustainable AI Technology

In the near future, Smart Agriculture, Urban Planning or Renewable Energy will combine Human and Machine to operate efficient, sustainable technologies.
Our understanding of new interaction between human and machine, and latest technologies unlocking agentic, action-oriented AI are shifting the boundaries, redefining the shapes of our solutions, and innovating in the white space.

In this State-of-the-Art session, join Pierre-Olivier Patin, Sogeti Global CTO for Apps & Cloud Technologies and Paul Lasserre, AWS Head of GenAI partnerships to:

Learn about new interactions and collaborations between human and machine
Understand how AI technology can be leveraged to create multi-agents and intelligent workflow
Sequence, orchestrate and fuse these capabilities as an end-to-end approach to attain sustainable benefits

Let’s embrace the future of a more sustainable world, respectful of our resources and centered around human, empowered with the latest disruptive technologies.

Unlocking True Productivity in Software Creation and Quality Engineering with Gen AI

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, improving productivity in software development and quality engineering is crucial. Join Antoine Aymer, Sogeti Global CTO for Quality Engineering & Testing, as he presents a transformative State-of-the-Art session on leveraging Generative AI (Gen AI) to redefine productivity and quality in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Featuring an immersive demonstration of five distinct personas—Product Manager, UX Designer / Analyst, Developer, QA Engineer, and Cloud / DevOps Engineer—showcasing their enhanced day-to-day activities through a Gen AI platform.

– Product Manager: Streamlined requirement gathering and project planning.
– UX Designer/Analyst: Accelerated design prototyping and user research analysis.
– Developer: Improved code generation and integration.
– QA Engineer: Enhanced automated testing and bug detection.
– Cloud/DevOps Engineer: Efficient deployment, monitoring, and continuous integration.

Through these demonstrations, attendees will witness firsthand how Gen AI can augment, accelerate, and improve the fidelity of each persona’s tasks. The seamless handoffs between roles will illustrate a cohesive and efficient workflow, highlighting the productivity gains achievable with Gen AI.

The presentation aims to inspire the audience with the art-of-the-possible, grounded in measurable productivity improvements. By showcasing real-world applications and quantifiable benefits, Antoine will provide valuable insights into how organizations can harness Gen AI to unlock new levels of efficiency, innovation, and quality in their software development processes.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of software creation and quality engineering with Gen AI, and leave with actionable strategies to implement in your own teams and projects.

Speakers

Andreas Sjöström

Innovation Leader & VP at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange, San Francisco
Andreas Sjostrom, VP and Head of Capgemini’s flagship innovation hub. A visionary and recognized expert in technology innovation, he leads the Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco and blends Silicon Valley’s most brilliant minds with pragmatic solutions, boosting business performance for top-tier companies.
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Ben Narasin

Tenacity Venture Capital

Ben Narasin is the founder and general partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, as well as a prolific entrepreneur. His career spans 25 years as an entrepreneur and 10 years as an early-stage investor.
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James McQuivey

Leading in times of “Scarcity in Abundance”

James tracks and predicts behavior change, whether among consumers or employees. In his tenure at Forrester, he successfully forecast the rise of online shopping in 1998 and more recently predicted the arrival of Amazon’s Echo platform before it existed. His models succeed because he focuses on an understanding of core human needs and motivations, using that foundation to predict why, when, and how people will try new things.
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Mike Buob

Vice President at Sogeti

Mike is a visionary technology strategist and digital transformation expert with over 23 years of experience. He excels in leveraging his expertise in software development, Innovation, and both technology and experience strategy to create innovative solutions that empower clients to thrive in the digital era.
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Rena Maycock

Founder/CEO of Chirp (Cilter)

Rena is the founder/CEO of Chirp (Cilter), an award-winning technology startup developing child-protection software for smartphones that detects/blocks cyberbullying, grooming and suicide/self-harm in encrypted messaging apps and browsers. Rena won €2.8M grant to complete Chirp from the DTIF Fund and raised co-funding of €1.67m, one of the largest seed-raises of a sole female-founder. Formerly CEO of the iRadio Group of stations, Rena went on to start her own successful businesses and remains an active startup investor. She writes a column for business publication The Currency and was appointed by the Minister for Finance to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare.
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Sugu Thuraisamy

Co-founder, ShagowAskee Foundation and FireINtegra

Sugu Thuraisamy is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry and the International Masters in Practicing Management program. Over the past 25 years, he has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, and Europe, specializing in western coastal temperate, boreal, and eastern temperate forests. Throughout his career, Sugu has completed over 300 forest management projects, including a four-year tenure as General Manager for the Little Red River Cree Nation’s 1,000,000-hectare forest license.
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Tijana Nikolic

AI Lead, Sogeti NL

Tijana is the AI Lead in Sogeti NL, specializing in trusted and scalable AI implementation, MLOps, and synthetic data. Her vision is to bring innovative solutions to the market with a strong emphasis on privacy, quality, ethics, and sustainability, while enabling growth and curiosity of team members. One of those solutions is the Artificial Data Amplifier, the winner of the Sogeti Innovation of the year award for 2020. She is an active thought leader in ethical and sustainable development of AI solutions, with contributions to publications ‘State of AI applied to QE’, ‘Data-powered Innovation Review’ and many blog posts around the same topics.
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Anil Seth

The Intelligence we Have and the Intelligence we Need

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty-five years. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and fomer Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.
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Dr Grzegorz Ombach

Head of Disruptive R&T, Senior Vice President at Airbus

Dr. Grzegorz (Greg) Ombach is a highly accomplished and visionary senior executive passionate about driving innovation and change. Throughout his career, he has led the development and implementation of game-changing innovations that have disrupted industries and driven growth. With a truly global outlook, having worked at various companies e.g. Siemens VDO, Qualcomm, Airbus across Europe, the USA, and China, he specializes in creating innovative solutions that meet customers’ needs and transform industries.
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Leen Gorissen

Founder of Centre4NI

Nature has a history of 3.8 billion years of R&D; how can we learn from it? Dr. Leen Gorissen is specialized in Natural Intelligence and wrote a book with the same title. Her work offers new perspectives on how we can learn from the natural world to improve our own systems and processes. From mushrooms that create their own rain to arctic foxes that green the icy tundra.
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Ray Wang

Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc.
R “Ray” Wang is the CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and blogs at www.raywang.org. Ray is an expert on AI, Web3, and software. His ground-breaking best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray’s recent best selling book Everybody Wants to Rule The World was released in 2021. Wang is frequently quoted and interviewed by media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Fox Business, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and Bloomberg.
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Sander Duivestein

Senior Analyst

Sander Duivestein is a highly acclaimed and top-rated researcher and trend watcher, an influential author and keynote speaker. His main focus is the impact of new technologies on people, businesses, and society. He is specialized in internet culture and is fascinated by the way how technology is used to shape GenZ business models and how conspiracies can take over rational thought. Sander is co-author of management best seller ‘Real Fake: playing with reality in times of AI’ and is seen regularly on Dutch television responding on the latest trends. Recent reports Sander has been working are ‘The Intelligent Interface’, ‘The Great AI Experiment’ and ‘The Rise of the Experience Ecology’.
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Thijs Pepping

Tech-Philosopher

Thijs Pepping is a techno-philosopher @ Research Institute SogetiLabs. He focuses on the relationship among people, the planet, and technology. His special interest lies in the art of living and the experiences of nature, time, and reality. He co-authored the book Real Fake (2021) on generative AI and is now working on the follow up Real Smart.
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Tom Ziemke

Professor of Cognitive Systems at Linköping University, Sweden

Tom Ziemke is Professor of Cognitive Systems at Linköping University, Sweden, where he leads the Cognition & Interaction Lab. His main research interests are in embodied cognition and social interaction, with a recent focus on how people interact with AI and autonomous systems, such as social robots and automated vehicles. With a background in both computer science and cognitive science, he also has a strong interest in conceptions – and misconceptions – of the relation between cognition and computation. He has (co-) authored more than 200 publications in cognitive science, AI, neural networks, and human-robot interaction.
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