Next in Tech: 2022 Forecast
NA & EMEA:
Dec 15
10 - 11AM EST
4 - 5PM CET
NA & EMEA:
Jan 11
10 - 11AM EST
4 - 5PM CET
Virtual
Don’t let 2022 take you by surprise
As tech evolves rapidly, your workforce needs to adapt to new changes. Dive deeper into inclusive hiring and change management topics, and learn to build a future-ready workforce.
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Speakers
Don Schuerman
CTO & VP of Product Strategy Pegasystems
Tom Libretto
SVP & Chief Marketing OfficerPegasystems
Ginny Clarke
CEOGinny Clarke LLC
Jeanette Barlow
VP of Product MarketingPegasystems
Clay Richardson
CEO & Chief ExceleratorDigital FastForward
Matt Nolan
Senior Director, Product Marketing & Decision SciencesPegasystems
Tara DeZao
Product Marketing Director, AdTech & MarTechPegasystems
Jeff Nicholson
Global Head, CRM StrategyPegasystems
Brent Leary
Co-founder & PartnerCRM Essentials
CTO & VP of Product Strategy
Pegasystems
Don Schuerman is CTO and Vice President of Product Strategy at Pegasystems, responsible for Pega’s industry-leading platform and CRM applications. He has 20 years of experience delivering enterprise software solutions for Fortune 500 organizations, with a focus on digital transformation, mobility, analytics, business process management, cloud and CRM.
Don has led enterprise software implementations and provided technology and architecture consulting to senior business and technology executives from Fortune 500 organizations, including American Express, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and BP. Don holds a BS in Physics and Philosophy from Boston College.
SVP & Chief Marketing Officer
Pegasystems
Tom is responsible for all global marketing and communications activities and functions, including brand, advertising, corporate communications, digital marketing, social media, events, field marketing, and demand generation.
Tom has more than 20 years’ experience leading global marketing, sales, digital, and product management organizations and is passionate about delivering hyper-personalized experiences that fuel customer engagement and accelerate company growth. Prior to joining Pega, Tom held marketing leadership positions within large global organizations such as JP Morgan Chase, IBM, and Nokia.
In 2020, Tom was recognized by Comparably as one of the 50 Most Influential Marketing Leaders Changing the Industry. Tom is an active inclusion and diversity ally and serves as the executive sponsor for several Employee Resource center Groups at Pega.
Tom is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, where he earned his undergraduate degree in economics and accounting.
CEO
Ginny Clarke LLC
She is currently the Founder and CEO of Ginny Clarke, LLC, her own talent and leadership consulting business. She is also an active keynote speaker, and HearstLab Entrepreneur in Residence where she is sharing her talent and leadership expertise with founders of women-owned businesses, and supporting HearstLab executives with their investment pipeline. She started her own podcast, Fifth Dimensional Leadership, in 2020; it is a forum for leaders, thinkers and future-makers dedicated to creating the conscious workplace of tomorrow.
Ginny Clarke was most recently Director, Executive Recruiting at Google from August 2016 until November 2020. In this role, she led the Diversity, Non-tech Recruiting, and the Leadership Internal Mobility teams. Her team of North American recruiters found and hired senior leaders (Directors +) for finance, sales, marketing and other G&A functions across Google.
VP of Product Marketing
Pegasystems
Jeanette joined Pegasystems earlier in 2021 and is the VP of Product Marketing for Intelligent Automation. In this role, Jeanette and her team drive the product positioning and high impact go-to-market strategies for Pega’s market-leading low-code process automation platform. Prior to joining Pegasystems, Jeanette was the VP of product management and strategy for IBM Sterling, the market’s leading portfolio for omnichannel order management and B2B integration. Jeanette is passionate about the application of technology innovation to build new business models and solve challenging issues for clients.
CEO & Chief Excelerator
Digital FastForward
Clay Richardson is Chief Excelerator and Co-founder at Digital FastForward. He has spent most of his career helping leaders build and execute strategies around new disruptive technologies. Formerly with Forrester Research, a leading market research firm, Clay oversaw research and client advisory projects focused on digital innovation, intelligent automation, design thinking, and low-code development. Clay is an innovation leadership coach and frequent keynote speaker at innovation leadership events and conferences.
Senior Director, Product Marketing & Decision Sciences
Pegasystems
Matthew Nolan is the head of Product Marketing for the Decision Sciences division at Pegasystems, driving Pega’s portfolio of marketing technology, decision management, and customer engagement solutions. Before joining Pega, Matt was General Manager of the National Data Cooperative at Target Analytics, and served as Product Director for Analytics & Data Services at Blackbaud, Inc. A life-long marketing practitioner and analyst, he is a regular keynote speaker, an active supporter of the American Red Cross, a green-blooded Boston Celtics fan, and has held membership in the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) since 2004.
Product Marketing Director, AdTech & MarTech
Pegasystems
Tara DeZao, Director of Product Marketing, at Pegasystems has cultivated a successful career in the marketing departments of both startups and Fortune 500 enterprise technology companies like Oracle and EMC. As a subject matter expert in the field of advertising and marketing, she’s an experienced thought leader across written, audio and live mediums.
Global Head, CRM Strategy
Pegasystems
Jeff Nicholson is the Vice President and Head of Product Strategy for CRM as part of the Office of the CTO for Pegasystems, where he leads the company’s CRM market vision and strategy. A recognized customer engagement thought leader, Jeff works closely with industry analysts and has been a frequent presenter at CRM industry events on subjects including consumer engagement strategy, customer analytics, digital marketing and customer journey best practice. His viewpoints and opinions have been featured in publications and outlets including AdAge, Chief Marketer, CMO.com, CustomerThink, Direct Marketing News, The Economist and MediaPost. A guest lecturer at Boston College's MBA program on digital marketing strategy, he possesses deep expertise in customer journey best practice, consumer engagement, predictive analytics, business process management and CRM technology.
Co-founder & Partner
CRM Essentials
Brent Leary is a CRM industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award winning blogger. He is co-founder and Managing Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta based CRM/CX advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. He is the chair of CRM Evolution, CRM Magazine’s annual industry event. Leary writes regularly for CRM Magazine and ZDNet, and is a founding member of Newseek's Expert Forum. He hosts the weekly One on One conversation series for Small Business Trends, the A Few Good Minutes livestream series, co-hosts The CRM Playaz show, and is a regular on the Gillmor Gang show on TechCrunch.