The November 15th CNBC Technology Executive Council 4th Annual Member Summit is our flagship event, bringing together members, special guest speakers, and CNBC journalists and contributors, to engage in high-level conversations on digital transformation, technology and society, and cybersecurity. Confirmed special guest speakers include Principal Deputy National Cyber Director Kemba Walden, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the CEOs of Nutanix, UiPath and Unity Software.
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Robert Enslin is the Co-CEO of UiPath, a leading provider of enterprise automation software. Enslin joined UiPath in April 2022 to work alongside UiPath Founder and Co-CEO Daniel Dines with the goal to extend UiPath’s market leadership to meet the growing demand for automation.
Prior to joining UiPath, Enslin he served as President of Cloud Sales for Google Cloud. In that role, he led global field operations, tripling the size of the sales organization and driving Google Cloud’s growth at scale. Enslin also spent 27 years at SAP in various leadership roles across sales and operations. In his final role with SAP, Enslin served as President, Cloud Business Group and Executive Board Member, where he led the development and delivery of SAP’s portfolio of cloud apps and services.
Oren J. Falkowitz was the founder and CEO of Area 1 Security, prior to its acquisition by Cloudflare. Previously, he held various positions at the National Security Agency (NSA) and United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), focused on Computer Network Operations & Big Data. Oren holds numerous patents and is an avid fan of Bowtie Thursdays.
Simon Fischweicher is the Head of Corporations and Supply Chains for CDP North America. He leads CDP North America’s work to support companies on their journey towards environmental leadership by measuring and understanding their environmental impact in their operations and value chain. This includes overseeing corporate disclosure, accelerating and expanding impact through CDP’s Reporter Services and Supply Chain memberships, and driving action through corporate commitments to science-based targets and 100% renewable energy. Prior to his current role, Simon had managed CDP North America’s Corporate Engagement team since 2016 where he increased disclosure to CDP’s Climate Change, Forests and Water Security questionnaires, including over 75% of the S&P 500. Simon joined CDP in 2015 where he worked on CDP’s Global Initiatives team driving corporate climate commitments ahead of the Paris Agreement. Simon holds a MBA in Sustainability from Bard College.
Brian Hindo is a New York-based Partner at Innosight, a boutique strategy consulting firm
founded by Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, where for 11+ years he
has helped companies create strategies for growth amid uncertainty. Brian co-leads Innosight’s Consumer, Media, and Technology practice.
Brian has helped many leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies in those industries make
sense of ambiguous situations, align on growth and resource allocation plans, design new
business models, and build capabilities to innovate more systematically. He has written about
strategy and innovation in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.
Before joining Innosight, Brian spent several years as a writer and editor at BusinessWeek
magazine, where he covered corporate strategy and innovation.
Brian is also a Board Director at the National Center for Learning Disabilities, a non-profit
advocacy organization for the 1 in 5 children and adults nationwide with learning and
attention issues.
Brian received an MBA from Columbia Business School, and an MS from Columbia’s Graduate
School of Journalism, where he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow. He is also a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in English and Linguistics.
*Agenda subject to change
11:30am
11:45am
THE PATH TO NET ZERO: TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVES’ ROLE IN ACHIEVING CORPORATE CLIMATE GOALS
Sponsored by IBM
Reaching net-zero emissions will require real commitment across all industries. Innovation in cleaner and more efficient technologies and systems will be key to accelerating the energy transition and improving environmental sustainability. What role must technology executives play as a company defines its climate targets, and measures its success? How can technology executives measure and understand the environmental impact of their operations?
Simon Fischweicher, CDP Head of Corporations and Supply Chains, North America
Patricia Pina, Clarity AI Head of Product Research and Innovation
Moderator: Frank Holland, CNBC General Assignment Reporter
INNOVATING THROUGH A CRISIS: THE CASE FOR CONTINUING TO INVEST IN TECHNOLOGY IN TOUGHER ECONOMIC TIMES
Sponsored by Nasdaq
Volatile markets may be spooking investors, but history has shown that leaders who continue to innovate through crises emerge stronger than their peers. Resource scarcity forces firms to refocus their efforts, and plant seeds where they can have the greatest impact. In this conversation, members will share their best ideas for keeping their companies on offense in uncertain and challenging times.
Brian Hindo, Innosight Managing Director
Moderator: Kristina Partsinevelos, CNBC Reporter
1:00pm
Tyler Mathisen, CNBC “Power Lunch” Co-Anchor & Vice President, Events Strategy
Jon Fortt, CNBC “TechCheck” Co-Anchor
1:05pm
As Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin played a major role in pushing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through congress, and in the Trump Administration’s tumultuous trade negotiations with China, with technology being a central theme of those discussions. Now in the private sector, Mnuchin’s newly-formed Liberty Strategic Capital is focused on investing $2.5 billion in startups focused on cybersecurity and fintech. The former Secretary joins us to kick off our summit with a wide-ranging discussion of geopolitical technology and finance issues.
Steven Mnuchin, Liberty Strategic Capital Founder & Managing Partner and 77th US Secretary of Treasury
Interviewer: Melissa Lee, CNBC Host, “Fast Money” & “Options Action”
1:37 pm
81% of TEC members said Cloud Computing was “critically important” to their company’s tech strategy in our first half survey. Despite this, there is evidence that cloud growth is slowing, with enterprises under pressure to control spending and cut costs. Rajiv Ramaswami brings the TEC his view of where cloud is headed, and how Nutanix’s hybrid multi-cloud platform can help tech executives sort out the essential investments from wasteful spending in the evolving market.
Rajiv Ramaswami, Nutanix President and CEO
Interviewer: Jon Fortt, CNBC “TechCheck” Co-Anchor
2:09pm
A messy, start-stop transition back to the office has employees starved for better solutions to deliver on the promise of true “hybrid” work that puts everyone on equal footing no matter where they are. Meta’s VP of Reality Labs and Partnerships Ash Jhaveri joins us to demonstrate Meta’s newest, professional-oriented VR device: the Meta Quest Pro, and to talk about what might be possible in a full-formed metaverse, and what’s possible today for enterprises seeking opportunities to be early adopters.
Ash Jhaveri, Vice President, Reality Labs Partnerships at Meta
Interviewer: Steve Kovach, CNBC Technology Correspondent
2:45pm
3:15pm
BUILDING DIVERSE TEAMS: CREATIVE HIRING PRACTICES FOR MORE EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS
Sponsored by Salesforce
For a business to stay relevant to customers and competitive in the talent market, a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment are key. Between the shift to remote work, market volatility, and the great resignation, the tech labor market has seen a huge shake up over the past year. How can companies seize the opportunity to build diverse tech teams?
Arun Sundararajan, NYU Stern Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship & Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics
Linda Shaffer, Checkr Chief People and Operations Officer
REMOTE WORK CONNECTIVITY AND SECURITY: THE POST-CRISIS CHAPTER
Sponsored by Comcast Business
The shift to remote and hybrid workforces is presenting new challenges in cybersecurity. As we’ve seen over the past two years, remote work at scale significantly increases the risk of data breaches and other cyberattacks. And the very best technology can only go so far: cybersecurity teams are battling a behavioral problem, as much as a technology one. Now that large-scale remote work is here to stay, how can firms tap into the psychology of the remote worker to maintain engagement, increase vigilance, and decrease the risk of cyberattacks?
Oren Falkowitz, Area 1 Security Director, former NSA Analyst
Moderator: Eamon Javers, CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent
4:00pm
4:09pm
After the biggest bank merger of the decade, newly formed Truist Bank faced a massive challenge: how to integrate two heritage banks (BB&T and SunTrust) using two different platforms, while tackling an unprecedented volume of fraudulent activity. Truist Bank turned to UiPath’s Automation Cloud platform to build a digital workforce, automating more than 150 processes and saving the newly merged bank millions of dollars. UiPath CEO Rob Enslin and Truist Head of Intelligent Automation Jarel Hawkins illustrate how they put the technology to work.
Robert Enslin, UiPath Co-CEO
Jarel Hawkins, Truist Bank Head of Enterprise Intelligent Automation
Moderator: Frank Holland, CNBC General Assignment Reporter
4:35pm
The Biden Administration has made strengthening U.S. cyber defenses a top priority in its first two years. Among its accomplishments: new legislation, including the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, executive orders to firm up the federal government’s cybersecurity and the establishment of a new Office of the National Cyber Director. Kemba Walden left a job in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit to come back to public service as part of that new office. She is now focused on giving private sector companies more clarity on when to report cyber breaches to the government, who to report those breaches to, and making sure that government agencies share information with each other and act on it.
Kemba Walden, Principal Deputy National Cyber Director
Interviewer: Eamon Javers, CNBC Senior Washington Correspondent
5:10pm
6:00pm
8:30pm
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Jared Isaacman is the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, the leader in integrated payment processing solutions. He is an accomplished pilot rated to fly commercial and military aircraft and is commanding Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to space, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2021. Named Inspiration4 in recognition of the four-person crew’s mission to inspire support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and send a humanitarian message of possibility, the journey represents a new era for human spaceflight and exploration. Information on the mission and how to participate can be found on the mission website at inspiration4.com. Shift4 provides technology solutions for more than 200,000 businesses and has over a dozen offices across the U.S. and Europe and more than 7,000 partners, securely processing over $200 billion in annual payments volume. Isaacman startedthecompanyin1999 from the basement of his family’s house when he was 16 years old and has built it into an industry-leading payments technology company with over1,500employees. Over the past few years, Isaacman has orchestrated several billion dollars’ worth of strategic transactions, including the acquisition of 3dcart in late 2020 and its relaunch as Shift4Shop, resulting in the dramatic growth of the organization. In 2020, Shift4 Payments became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker symbol FOUR. In 2011, Isaacman co-founded Draken International, which provides tactical aviation services for all branches of the U.S.Military, Department of Defense and global allied militaries. With a fleet of 150 tactical fighter aircraft, Draken owns and operates the world’s largest commercial fleet of ex-military aircraft to support military training objectives around the globe. Isaacman sold the company in 2019 to The Blackstone Group and remained CEO until early 2020.Isaacman holds several world records, including a Speed-Around-The-World flight to raise money and awareness for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. He has flown in over 100 airshows as part of the Black Diamond Jet Team, dedicating every performance to charitable causes. He and his companies are dedicated to supporting a range of charities. As part of Inspiration4’s public outreach, Isaacman made a personal $100 million commitment to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in order to raise upward of $200 million to support the non-profit.
Kevin Mandia is CEO of Mandiant, Inc.
Leon Edward Panetta served as the 23rd Secretary of Defense from July 2011 to February 2013.
Before joining the Department of Defense, Mr. Panetta served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from February 2009 to June 2011. Mr. Panetta led the agency and managed human intelligence and open source collection programs on behalf of the intelligence community.
Secretary Panetta has dedicated much of his life to public service. Before joining CIA, he spent 10 years co-directing with his wife, Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay. The Institute is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit center that seeks to instill in young men and women the virtues and values of public service. In March 2006, he was chosen as a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee established at the urging of Congress to conduct an independent assessment of the war in Iraq.
From July 1994 to January 1997, Mr. Panetta served as Chief of Staff to President William Clinton. Prior to that, he was Director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position that built on his years of work on the House Budget Committee. Mr. Panetta represented California’s 16th (now 17th) Congressional District from 1977 to 1993, rising to House Budget Committee chairman during his final four years in Congress.
Early in his career, Mr. Panetta served as a legislative assistant to Senator Thomas H. Kuchel of California; special assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights; and executive assistant to Mayor John Lindsay of New York. He also spent five years in private law practice.
He served as an Army intelligence officer from 1964 to 1966 and received the Army Commendation Medal.
Secretary Panetta holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a law degree, both from Santa Clara University. He was born on June 28, 1938 in Monterey, where his Italian immigrant parents operated a restaurant. Later, they purchased a farm in Carmel Valley, a place Secretary and Mrs. Panetta continue to call home. The Panettas have three grown sons and six grandchildren.
Simone Petrella is Founder and CEO of CyberVista, a cybersecurity training company that focuses on developing and providing a metrics driven approach that actually develops a qualified workforce.
Simone has spent over fifteen years in the cybersecurity industry. Prior to founding CyberVista, Simone was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton where she helped build the firm's cybersecurity practice in the commercial sector focusing on the creation of cyber fusion centers and the integration of cyber threat intelligence, security operations, and cyber defense operations into effective cyber security operations. For a decade she led the firm's all source cyber threat intelligence business in the national security and Defense sectors, where she built out a threat capability and team with in depth subject matter expertise in all aspects of cyber threat intelligence, including intelligence support to both defensive and offensive operations. Her areas of specialty included predictive cyber intelligence based on an understanding of the threat adversary and developing service offerings to integrate intelligence into exercises to provide realistic cyber scenarios. Simone received her J.D. with honors from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law and graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Government and a M.A. in International Law and Policy. She is a member of Women in International Security and is admitted to the New York Bar. A native of New Jersey, she has resided in Washington D.C. since 2000.