Investing in the future workforce
Innovations in technology present exciting opportunities to increase productivity, efficiency, and innovation, especially when coupled with the brains, EQ, and interpersonal skills of a highly skilled workforce. CNBC’s @Work is an exclusive three-part event series that will examine the impact of new technology on three different disciplines—human resources, IT and finance.
CNBC’s Capital@Work Summit will bring together financial leaders who play a critical role in shaping the workplace of the future to discuss new technology, funding innovation and growing the bottom line.
Who should attend: CFOs and senior financial executives who have a major role to play in quantifying the company priorities of the future.
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Keith Block is co-Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He leads growth strategy, execution and operations. Block served as the company’s Vice Chairman, President and as a Director since joining the company in June 2013, and additionally served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer since February 2016. As President and COO of Salesforce, Block oversaw the company’s rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar global sales and services business, alliances and channels, industry strategy, corporate development, corporate affairs, marketing and business operations.
Block has managed world-class sales, consulting and engineering teams for nearly 30 years, with a focus on customer transformation. Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s executive vice president of North America Sales and Consulting, leading a multi-billion dollar sales and services business unit that achieved record revenue and margin during his tenure. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant.
Block currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Information Technology Community as a Governor, the Board of Trustees for Carnegie-Mellon University, the Advisory Board at Carnegie-Mellon University Heinz Graduate School and the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum.
In February 2018, Block and his wife Suzanne helped establish the Block Center for Technology and Society at Carnegie-Mellon, which will create meaningful plans of action to ensure emerging technologies can be harnessed for social good, are more inclusive and improve quality of life. He is also actively involved with the Boston Partners in Education, a nonprofit focused on enhancing the academic achievement and personal growth of Boston’s public school students.
Block holds a Master’s of Science degree in Management and Policy Analysis and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Information Systems from Carnegie-Mellon University.
As Chief Executive Officer of Darktrace, Nicole Eagan has established the company as the global leader of AI cyber defense. Her extensive career spans 25 years working for Oracle and early to late-stage growth companies. Named 'AI Leader of the Year' in 2017, Nicole has introduced disruptive machine learning to enterprises of all sizes. Today, Darktrace has a valuation of $1.65 billion and counts Insight, KKR, Summit Partners, and Samsung among its investors. Darktrace’s innovative approach to cyber security has won more than 100 awards and the company has been named one of WSJ's Tech Companies to Watch, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and the CNBC Disruptor 50.
Bask Iyer is the CIO at VMware. He joined VMware in March 2015 and now leads its global information and technology organization, a group that manages critical technology systems supporting the company’s worldwide business operations. In August 2018, Iyer added the responsibility of general manager, Edge/IoT for Dell Technologies. From December 2016 to August 2018, he also held the role of chief information officer for Dell.
A respected industry veteran, Iyer brings more than 25 years of experience in executing and driving change in traditional Fortune 100 manufacturing companies and Silicon Valley-based high technology firms. Prior to joining VMware, Iyer served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for the company’s technology and business operations, which included critical services around business transformation, global business services, IT and real estate, and workplace services. Before joining Juniper Networks, he served as chief information officer at Honeywell, and chief information officer at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham for consumer healthcare research and development, where he was also the company’s e-commerce leader. Iyer holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Annamalai University in India and a master’s degree in computer science from Florida Institute of Technology.
Ann Johnson oversees the go-to-market strategies of cybersecurity solutions for Microsoft. As part of this charter, she leads and drives the evolution and implementation of short and long-term security solutions roadmap with alignment across the marketing, engineering and product teams.
A core tenet of Johnson's cyber philosophy is enabling an ecosystem for collaboration, intelligence-sharing, and comprehensive response to best deliver on customer needs. To this end, she has recruited, built and shaped one of the company's highest performing teams with expertise focused on digital transformation and built-in cloud security capabilities to protect information and expedite detection and response. Under her leadership, her team has raised the security posture of Microsoft customers and partners by guiding them on their Secure Digital Transformation Journey.
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Salesforce is a juggernaut of growth. Co-CEO Keith Block, the man credited with much of the tech giant’s success will provide a glimpse inside their strategy and investments and reveal how the company is shaping the future of how we work.
Keith Block, Co-CEO, Salesforce
Interviewer: Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor, “Squawk Alley,” CNBC
Workplace design is about more than beautiful spaces or employee amenities. It’s a long-term investment in your people and their productivity. How can cutting-edge architecture and technology maximize output … and boost the bottom line?
Hao Ko, Managing Director, Principal, Gensler
Shiva Rajaraman, Chief Product Officer, WeWork
Interviewer: Julia Boorstin, Senior Correspondent, CNBC
What’s the business case for a company to keep operations in the United States? Do businesses have any social responsibility to create a wide range of good domestic jobs at various skill levels? Hear from one founder who’s fully invested in the U.S.A.
Bayard Winthrop, Founder & CEO, American Giant
Interviewer: Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor, “Squawk Alley,” CNBC
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3:10pm
Employees demand more freedom than ever in their digital lives, using multiple devices and connected applications to enhance their productivity. This creates ever more “attack surfaces” for hackers to exploit. How can CFOs mitigate these risks, protecting their organization’s information and intellectual property, while allowing enough access to cultivate a flexible, efficient workforce?
Nicole Eagan, CEO, Darktrace
Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, Microsoft
Interviewer: Ari Levy, Senior Technology Reporter CNBC
The dystopian view is that intelligent machines will displace human workers. The more probable outcome is a future where machines and people complement each other. How is a business’ capital best deployed to reap the maximum benefit from the evolving relationship between humans and automation?
Andrew Kortina, Co-founder and CEO, Fin
Bastian Lehmann, Founder & CEO, Postmates
Interviewer: Julia Boorstin, Senior Correspondent, CNBC
Businesses need to evolve at a rapid pace to stay competitive. A key to staying nimble is to focus on core competencies while outsourcing many engineering and data functions. Hear how one company is aggressively leveraging external services, handling occasional turbulence in a move to the public cloud, streamlining costs and evolving its workforce for the future.
Scott Wagner, CEO, GoDaddy
Interviewer: Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor, “Squawk Alley,” CNBC
Bask Iyer and Cynthia Stoddard have each led dramatic digital transformations. We’ll talk about how they define a successful technology strategy, balance immediate needs with future goals and partner with CFOs to drive best outcomes.
Bask Iyer, CIO, Dell and VMware
Cynthia Stoddard, CIO, Adobe
Interviewer: Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor, “Squawk Alley,” CNBC
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