IESE Connect 2021

Welcome words

Key Note Speaker: Elena Betés Novoa

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Join to hear supply chain experts share insights on leveraging the supply chain to deliver on strategy, preparing for crises, keeping up with regulatory changes and the pros and cons of diversification.

What are the strategies that leading FMCG companies are pursuing to maximize revenues during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Speakers:
Jorge Vilariño-Director of Strategic Planning at PepsiCo Vinicius Salum-Head of Commercial Finance & Strategy at AB InBev
Pedro Quina-Head of Strategic Revenue Management at Mars

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Kirsten Sanchez, CFO of Henkel, has broad experience in Europe and Latin America. She will be talking about Sustainability, SDGs and their relationship with financial roles.

Gain insights on strategic planning, implementation, and risk mitigation to drive innovation and business success

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Mid event remarks

A quick peak into the latest innovations that are bringing the sphere of tech to the world of food and how they are interacting with consumers.
Speakers: Alexandre Campos, Michiel van Deursen, and Mariana Ramirez de Arellano
Moderator: Alix Chausson

What should the digital service offering be for Nike.com when competing against marketplaces and brands?
Carlos Bermejo and Andrea Gutierrez will announce the winner of the case competition. The winner team will present their proposal and there will be some time for questions to them as well.

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As more MBAs move into the tech industry, here’s an insight into the PM roles from the area experts themselves
Speakers: Andrew Moll, Luis Cardoso, Laura Flores Furriol
Moderator: Llewellyn Thomas

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Understanding how data and innovation can help businesses drive decisions and improve societies
Speakers: Borja Santos, Carlos Pons, Prathap Maniyur
Moderator: Kauê Oliveira

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Cryptocurrencies are way more than Bitcoin…having surpasses an all time high of USD 50k recently. The full potential of cryptocurrencies is yet to be unleashed, so far, many organizations are using them for solving specific issues.

Speakers: Mariana Gospodinova, Neha Mehta, Lawrence Tilli
Moderator: Miguel Antón

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Organizing for Ethical AI: As progress is made in technical and ethical understanding of AI, the challenge is increasingly managerial. How should companies organize their development and deployment of AI to ensure it is ethical? How should responsibility be allocated in the organization? What do current and future managers need to know?

Speakers:
Sebastian Wieczorek (Vice President for AI Technology at SAP and member of SAP AI Ethics Steering Committee),
Gloria Macias-Lizaso (Enterprise Commercial Lead at Microsoft and former partner at McKinsey & leader of McKinsey Machine Learning Hub)

Moderator:
Sampsa Samila (Associate Professor at IESE Business School)

Get deeper insights on how robotization at fulfillment centers has revolutionized the supply chain at Amazon!

Speaker: Thomas Kappen (Senior Manager for Robotics Tech, Deploy & Strategy at Amazon)

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Understanding how technology is helping to solve latinos' financial pain points such as financial inclusion. Latin America has more than 50% of under banked population, in some countries more than 70%, many companies are tackling this with need-specific use cases, also incumbents are working in this field, lets find out more!

Speakers: Nicolás Jaramillo, Thiago Dias, Juan Pablo Ortega
Moderator: Mireia Giné

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5 Truths for 2021: Human Truths about consumers that affect how brands need to tailor their marketing in 2021
Speaker: Spyros Plessas (Agency Development Manager at Google)

Conclusions of the conference