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      This year’s theme is Accelerate Value. Deliver Intelligently. It is a rallying call for IT leaders to ignite transformation: Dive into tracks that illuminate data-driven intelligence, strategic AI and resilient solutions. Shape tomorrow — empower your teams and technology to thrive.

      A: Evolving Leadership

      This track is dedicated to supporting I&O leaders as they communicate with their leaders, design, transform and manage their functions, ensuring they have the right talent and skills in place to meet both current and future organizational needs.

      B: Navigating Innovations and Disruptions

      This track examines how I&O leaders can empower their teams to drive organizational success by embracing innovation and disruption.

      C: Transforming Cloud Platforms

      This track guides cloud leaders in developing and executing transformative strategies that harness the full potential of cloud platforms, ensuring they become powerful enablers of organizational goals and sustained competitive advantage.
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      Wednesday, December 10, 2025

      12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PST

      Executive Story: From Platforms to Agents: How Walmart Powers Enterprise Transformation
      Sravana Kumar Karnati, EVP Walmart Global Tech Platforms, Walmart
      Discover how Walmart is transforming enterprise operations through agentic and generative AI. This session shares adoption strategies, lessons learned, and real-world use cases driving measurable business impact. This session will provide you with actionable takeaways to successfully adopt intelligent systems, accelerate innovation at scale, and guide your organization into the next era of enterprise transformation. ... Show More Show Less

      12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PST

      Executive Story: Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Driving ITSM Adoption by Building for Agility
      West Richter, Jr., Director, Moog
      Traditional IT organizations have put significant effort into building best-practice IT service management processes. Even after gathering requirements, stakeholder reviews, workflow documentation, and lengthy process documents, we find that adoption is minimal. Why can't our organization just adopt these "best practices" and reap the benefits? During this session, we will explore how building ITSM processes in an agile world requires a different approach. As organizations drive toward a DevOps culture, operating with agility, reacting to changing global economics, and responding to increasing regulatory requirements, IT teams must find ways to build minimally viable processes that stick. ... Show More Show Less

      12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PST

      Executive Story: Optimizing Your Cloud Spend in Less Than 90 Days!
      Scott Vuong, Head of Spend Efficiency and Cost Ops, Best Buy
      Andy Diaz-Michaus, Associate Director, Spend Efficiency Management, Best Buy
      As is the case with most retailers, Best Buy operates on extremely narrow margins and needs to be efficient with every SG&A dollar available. Faced with rapidly growing cloud consumption costs, Best Buy found an urgent need to bend this cost curve back, and while doing so instilled a FinOps mindset across the enterprise. This presentation is to showcase the work that was completed to plan and optimize their workloads in AWS, all while educating stakeholders about their consumption costs. ... Show More Show Less

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