Honorable Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution; and a professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of RiceHadleyGates LLC.

Dr. Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States (2005-2009) and as National Security Advisor (2001-2005). She served as Stanford University’s Provost (1993-1999). From 1989 through March 1991, Dr. Rice served on the President’s National Security Council staff. Previously, she served as Director; Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs; and Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

Dr. Rice earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver; a master’s from the University of Notre Dame; and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded ten honorary doctorates.

Tom Siebel

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Siebel is the founder and chief executive officer of C3.ai, a computer software company that provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications for rapidly developing and operating enterprise-scale big data, predictive analytics, AI, and IoT solutions.

Mr. Siebel was the founder and chief executive officer of Siebel Systems, one of the world’s leading software companies. Founded in 1993, Siebel Systems pioneered the CRM software market, becoming the global leader with more than 8,000 employees in 32 countries, over 4,500 corporate customers, and annual revenue in excess of $2 billion in less than seven years. Siebel Systems merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006.

Mr. Siebel is the chairman of the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation. Established in 1996, the Foundation funds projects to support energy solutions, educational and research programs, public health, and the homeless and underprivileged. In 2015 the Foundation launched the Siebel Energy Institute, a global consortium for innovative and collaborative energy research for the public domain. The Siebel Energy Institute fosters research collaboration among premier universities and spurs the greatest minds in engineering and computer science to address the most pressing energy challenges of our time.

Mr. Siebel serves on the College of Engineering boards at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley. He is a director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Siebel is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in History, an M.B.A., and a Master of Science in Computer Science. He is the author of four books, including most recently Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction (RosettaBooks, 2019).

Honors and Awards

• Entrepreneur of the Year, EY, 2018
• Wall Street Journal CEO Council, 2018
• Goldman Sachs Most Intriguing Entrepreneur, 2018
• Glassdoor Top CEO, 2018
• Ph.D. (Hon), Politecnico di Torino, 2018
• Entrepreneur of the Year, EY, 2017
• Best Places to Work, 100% CEO approval rating, Glassdoor, 2017
• Most Admired CEO Lifetime Achievement Award, San Francisco Business Times, 2016
• 50 Years, 50 Innovators, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
• The World’s Top 25 Eco-Innovators, Fortune Magazine, May 2014
• The Chancellor’s Citation, University of California, Berkeley, February 2014
• Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member, April 2013
• Alumni Achievement Award, University of Illinois, March 2013
• #3 of the World’s Top 25 Philanthropists – Barron’s, November 2010
• Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship – The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution, 2010
• Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
• #5 of the World’s Top 25 Philanthropists – Barron’s, 2009
• Top 50 Philanthropists – BusinessWeek 2007, 2008
• Lincoln Academy Laureate – The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, 2008
• Ph.D. (Hon) Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
• White House Commendation, Most Influential Drug Program – Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2006
• Leadership Award – Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2006
• Lewis & Clark Pioneers in Industry Award – University of Montana, 2006
• One of the 50 Best Companies to Work for in Silicon Valley – San Jose Magazine, 2004
• Thomas M. Siebel, Master Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst & Young, 2003
• Entrepreneurial Company of the Year – Harvard Business School, 2003
• Hall of Fame – CRM Magazine, 2003
• David Packard Award – Business Executives for National Security, 2002
• CEO of the Year – Industry Week, 2002
• Top 25 Executives, Readers’ Choice – Computer Reseller News, 2002
• Top 25 Managers in Global Business – BusinessWeek, 1999 to 2002
• Top 25 Executives – Computer Reseller News, 2001
• University of Illinois Presidential Award and Medallion, 2001
• Second Fastest Growing Company in America – Fortune, 2000
• Top 10 CEOs of 2000 – Investor’s Business Daily, 2000
• Hall of Fame: in Recognition of Contributions to the Business and Technology of Customer Service – Call Center Magazine, 2000
• The World’s Most Influential Software Company – BusinessWeek, 2000
• Third Fastest Growing Company in America – Fortune, 2000
• The Most Influential Company in IT – Intelligent Enterprise, 2000
• Fastest Growing Technology Company – Deloitte & Touche, 1999
• Fastest Growing Company in America – Fortune, 1999

Publications

• Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction, RosettaBooks, July 2019
• “Digital Transformation: The Post-Industrial Utility,” Aspenia Magazine, June 2018
• “Why Digital Transformation Is Now on the CEO’s Shoulders,” McKinsey Quarterly 2018 Number 1
• “Thought Leaders Speak Out: Key Trends Driving Change in the Electric Power Industry,” The Edison Foundation Institute for Electric Innovation (IEI), 2015
• Advanced Smart Grid, introduction, Artech House, 2015
• “The Internet of Energy,” Electric Perspectives magazine, 2015
• Written Testimony to the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 2015
• “Big Data and the Smart Grid: Is Hadoop the Answer?”, Stanford Energy Journal, 2014
• Taking Care of eBusiness, Doubleday, 2001
• Cyber Rules, Doubleday, 1999
• Virtual Selling, Free Press, 1996

Lorenzo Simonelli

Chairman and CEO, Baker Hughes

Lorenzo Simonelli is Chairman and CEO of Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR), an energy technology company that combines innovation, expertise, and scale to provide solutions for customers worldwide.

Mr. Simonelli was named Chairman in October 2017 and has been President and CEO since the Company’s creation in July 2017, where he oversaw the merger of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes Inc.

Previously, Mr. Simonelli served as President and CEO of GE Oil & Gas and President and CEO of GE Transportation. He also served as CFO Americas for GE Consumer & Industrial, as well as General Manager, Product Management for GE Appliances, Lighting, Electrical Distribution and Motors. Mr. Simonelli joined GE’s Financial Management Program in 1994.

He is a Business & Economics Graduate from Cardiff University.

Ed Abbo

President and Chief Technology Officer, C3.ai

Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, where he leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success.

Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.

Mr. Abbo earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.

Judson Althoff

EVP, Worldwide Commercial Business, Microsoft

Judson Althoff is executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business (WCB), which drives commercial business strategy for enterprise, public sector, small and mid-market, services, developer and partner communities.

Althoff joined the company in March 2013 as president of Microsoft North America. In this role, he was responsible for commercial and public sector customers and partners, the retail and operator channel, and consumer business across the U.S. and Canada. Under his leadership, Microsoft North America achieved double-digit revenue growth in a $30 billion business and triple-digit cloud growth.

Earlier in his career, Althoff spent several years in senior sales roles at Oracle and EMC. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), serves on IIT’s Computer Science Advisory Board and is a co-chair of Free the Children’s Seattle WE Day.

Johan Krebbers

VP IT Innovation & GM Emerging Digital Technologies, Shell

Johan Krebbers is Shell’s VP IT Innovation and GM Emerging Digital Technologies, based in Amsterdam. He is responsible for defining and driving the future IT strategy for Shell and identifying new digital technologies. In addition, Mr. Krebbers maintains active connections with external parties, particularly with startups. Previously, Mr. Krebbers was the VP of Architecture for Shell, where he created and developed the global architecture practice across the company. In his multi-decade career at Shell, Mr. Krebbers has held many different IT roles across multiple locations.

Daniel Jeavons

General Manager of Data Science, Shell

Dan Jeavons has led the multi-award winning Shell Data Science Centre of Excellence since its inception in 2013, growing the team to around 160 individuals. In 2018, he was recognized in the UK’s top 50 data leaders, and his team received the Hackett Award for Data Analytics that year.

He has been a significant contributor to Shell’s digital strategy, which has delivered over $1 billion in cost reductions, production increases, and additional customer margins. His team’s work has been recently publicized in mainstream journals like Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.

He began his career as a consultant in Accenture’s upstream practice before joining Shell in 2008. Subsequently, he worked in the CIO Office, and then in architecture before joining the technology division in 2013.

Brice Rosenzweig

Managing Director, Head of Data and Innovation, Bank of America

Brice Rosenzweig is the Global co-Head of the Data and Innovation Group at Bank of America. Prior to that, he was the Global Co-Head of The Quantitative Strategies group. Mr. Rosenzweig joined Bank of America in London in 2011. Before joining the Bank, he worked at Goldman Sachs for 14 years in fixed income and equity quantitative strategies across New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Mr. Rosenzweig holds a degree in applied statistics from École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique and a MSc in Applied Mathematics in Economics from Universite Paris IX Dauphine.

Scott Parent

Scott Parent is Vice President of Engineering & Technology for Baker Hughes. He is responsible for the enterprise engineering community, strategic marketing, additive manufacturing as well as oversees four innovation centers in the US, India, and Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Parent most recently was Chief Operating Officer of GE’s Distributed Power business where he led engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing. Previously, he was Vice President of Technology, Operations at BP, and before joining BP was Vice President of Engineering & Technology for Drilling and Evaluation at Baker Hughes.

Mr. Parent has deep expertise in robotics, analytics, and machine learning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine, and a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Nikhil Krishnan, PhD

Group Vice President, Products, C3.ai

At C3, Nikhil is responsible for all Product Management and AI/ Machine Learning. Prior to C3.ai, Dr. Krishnan was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in McKinsey’s Advanced Industrials and Energy Practices. Dr. Krishnan was formerly an Assistant Professor at Columbia University. He also worked as an engineer at Applied Materials Inc. Dr. Krishnan earned a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering.

Zico Kolter, PhD

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Zico Kolter is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to his full-time role at CMU, he also serves as Chief Scientist of AI Research for the Bosch Center for AI (BCAI). Previously, he was Chief Data Scientist at C3.ai.

At CMU, his group’s research focuses on machine learning, optimization, and control. Much of the work aims at making deep learning algorithms safer, more robust, and more explainable. The group also focuses on several application domains, with a particular focus on smart energy and sustainability.

Commander Thomas Sampson

Chief Information Officer, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, US Navy

Commander Thomas Sampson is the Chief Information Officer responsible for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office’s current and future information systems. CDR Sampson’s 20+ years of leadership and execution experience, 13 years in large scale project and program management, and multiple positions in digital development provide the program office a new view on how to manage processes and move to data-driven decision making.

CDR Sampson earned a Bachelor of Political Science from SUNY Buffalo, a Masters of IT Management, and Master of Business Administration from The American University. He was enlisted as a Naval Aircrewman then designated Naval Aviator.

He has flown in support of Patrol Squadron One and Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light Four Four embarked in USS OSCAR AUSTIN. Shore tours include multiple staffs and theater commands.

Dulce Borjas

VP & CIO, ENGIE North America

Dulce Borjas was named CIO of ENGIE North America in 2013, where she leads IT and digital initiatives for the ENGIE North America business unit. She is also responsible for the ENGIE Smart Institutions product that ENGIE and C3.ai are building collaboratively on the C3 AI Suite.

Ms. Borjas has deep experience in energy and IT, having spent nearly her whole career driving digital transformation in the energy industry. Prior to joining ENGIE in 2003, she began her career designing and implementing solutions for a regulated power utility. From customer care systems to computer telephony, her focus on achieving efficiencies through technical solutions provided considerable savings for the business.

Ms. Borjas holds a BS degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Florida International University.

Jennifer Austin

Development & Implementation Leader, Enterprise Operations Digitization and Advanced Analytics Group, 3M

Jennifer Austin is the Development & Implementation Leader for 3M’s Enterprise Operations Digitization and Advanced Analytics (D&AA) group. She is responsible for setting and executing the processes by which the organization delivers on its goal of creating a Digital Twin to drive business decisions and value creation.

Ms. Austin has been at 3M for more than 23 years. Before joining 3M D&AA, Ms. Austin held leadership roles in 3M Connect, 3M Integration Management Office, and 3M Health Information Systems, as well as a variety of roles in the 3M Commercial Graphics Division.

Ms. Austin holds a BS in environmental engineering and a BS in biology from Michigan Technological University, and an MS in Public Health from the University of Minnesota.

9:45 am – Grand Ballroom

C3.ai 2020 Product Roadmap

Ed Abbo, President & CTO, C3.ai

C3.ai’s 2020 product roadmap includes new tools and features to further simplify enterprise AI application development and operation. Chief Technology Officer Ed Abbo will review key innovations to the C3 AI Suite that accelerate productivity for both developers and citizen data scientists. Mr. Abbo will highlight new capabilities around edge and multi-cloud computing, as well as enhancements and extensions to C3.ai’s portfolio of pre-built AI applications to address new use cases. He will also showcase a new marketplace where customers can publish and subscribe to AI applications developed by C3.ai and by C3.ai customers.

10:30 am – Grand Ballroom

AI for Oil and Gas

Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman & CEO, Baker Hughes

The oil and gas industry faces dual pressures: meeting the world’s growing energy demand while still finding new ways to lower carbon emissions. As an energy technology company, Baker Hughes is focused on making energy cleaner, safer, and more efficient for people and the planet. Lorenzo Simonelli will describe how Baker Hughes is leveraging C3.ai to further drive productivity and efficiency of the business. He will also detail the BakerHughesC3.ai joint venture, a new model enabling energy companies to scale AI beyond proofs of concept and deliver impact, from reducing downtime to managing energy consumption in a low-carbon energy future.

11:00 am – Grand Ballroom

Partnering for Digital Transformation

Judson Althoff, EVP, Worldwide Commercial business, Microsoft

Amid shifting customer expectations and growing competitive pressures, enterprises are increasingly looking to digital approaches for strategic advantage and value creation. Judson Althoff, EVP of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business, will share how Microsoft and C3.ai are helping enterprises harness technology to accelerate growth and achieve competitive success.

11:30 am – Grand Ballroom

Shell.ai Program

Johan Krebbers, VP IT Innovation & GM Emerging Digital Technologies, Shell

Dan Jeavons, GM Data Science, Shell

Shell is an international energy company and is deploying enterprise AI as part of its digital transformation. Shell has well over 200 AI projects in progress across its upstream, midstream, and downstream operations globally – driving both economic and environmental benefits. Johan Krebbers and Daniel Jeavons will discuss Shell’s strategy for implementing AI at industrial scale, leveraging the C3 AI Suite as its core platform for building, testing, and deploying commercial grade AI applications across a wide range of use cases – including, for example, predictive maintenance at Europe’s largest oil refinery. They will share insights into Shell’s proven approach for identifying innovative use cases, rapidly developing and scaling AI applications, organizing AI teams and resources for success, and managing the change that comes with the deployment of AI at scale.

1:15 pm – Grand Ballroom

Bank of America Innovation and Transformation

Brice Rosenweig, Managing Director, Head of Data and Innovation, Bank of America

Bank of America, one of the world’s largest financial services organizations, is working to capture the economic potential of enterprise data solutions across its business—anticipating customer behavior, capitalizing on unfolding market trends, improving operational productivity, and optimizing profitability. Mr. Rosenzweig will lay out Bank of America’s vision for digital transformation of Financial Services and describe how the bank is prioritizing the use of a unified data architecture and a portfolio of AI-based use cases. He will describe Bank of America’s AI application roadmap – supported by the C3 AI Suite. He will also describe how Bank of America, through its Center of Excellence approach, is leading the industry in building skills internally and enabling users across the Bank’s lines of businesses to identify, develop, and deploy novel AI solutions to improve economic value.

1:45 pm – Grand Ballroom

Digital Transformation at Baker Hughes

Scott Parent, VP of Enterprise Engineering & Technology, Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes is the world’s leading developer of energy-sector technologies that are digitally transforming the oil and gas industry. Scott Parent will take us inside the Baker Hughes partnership with C3.ai, to describe how the BHC3 AI Suite is powering digital transformation at Baker Hughes itself, for customer products and internal operations such as inventory optimization and energy management. Scott will discuss how Baker Hughes is addressing the organizational and cultural changes required to implement AI at enterprise scale, including the critical role of its Center of Excellence.

2:15 pm – Grand Ballroom

Digital Transformation Ecosystem

Panel of C3.ai and Digital Ecosystem Partners

Digital transformation is a significant undertaking that cuts across all areas of the organization. It requires the convergence of AI expertise, sophisticated infrastructure technology, industry domain expertise, implementation expertise, and effective change management. How can organizations acquire this expertise in an efficient model? What does it take to make collaboration with partners work? In a moderated discussion, including questions from the audience, this panel of leaders will answer these questions and more, as they share insights on building an ecosystem focused on helping customers accelerate their digital transformation efforts.

2:40 pm – Grand Ballroom

C3.ai Digital Transformation Institue

Tom Siebel, C3.ai
S. Shankar Sastry, University California, Berkeley
Judson Althoff, Microsoft
Rayadurgam Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jointly headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (DTI) is an innovative program with the objective to establish the Science of Digital Transformation of Societal Systems. Through partnership with leading universities and strategic engagement with key industry partners, the C3.ai DTI will catalyze advances in mathematical, statistical, and computing research including machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things. This panel of DTI representatives will discuss how the Institute will engage universities and corporate partners in a collaboration to drive breakthroughs in digital transformation research.

3:30 pm – Sunset Court

Industry Breakout Sessions

Financial Services - Pacific Heights

Join industry peers and C3.ai’s banking team for a discussion of the latest AI trends in financial services, with a focus on high-impact use cases and customer deployment experiences. The C3.ai team will review recent enhancements to the C3 AI Suite and new C3.ai banking applications that address high-value use cases and will accelerate customer deployments. The session will include a panel discussion of broader banking trends, including regulatory guidance for AI applications and model review, public versus private cloud deployment, and the economic impact of AI for large banks. Banking applications that will be discussed include C3.ai Anti-Money Laundering, C3.ai Securities Lending Optimization, C3.ai Cash Management, C3.ai Smart Lending, and C3.ai Customer Churn Management.

Manufacturing - Twin Peaks North

The safe, cost-effective, and sustainable operation of manufacturing facilities is a constantly moving target. The major concerns facing manufacturers today are ensuring enough inventory is available to meet orders, reducing manufacturing cost, and preventing unscheduled downtime of manufacturing production lines or processes. Join this session to see how C3.ai Applications help address manufacturers’ critical challenges: maintaining optimal inventory levels in the face of demand or supply uncertainty with C3.ai Inventory Optimization, maintaining quality and reducing waste with C3.ai Yield Optimization, and reducing manufacturing process and equipment downtime with recently launched C3.ai Reliability and C3.ai Digital Twin. Live product feedback and suggestions will be solicited during this session to inform C3.ai’s roadmap.

Oil and Gas - Twin Peaks South

The oil and gas industry is at an inflection point and faces a game-changing energy transition event. Join this session, jointly hosted by BakerHughesC3.ai and Microsoft Azure, to gain insights into the role AI and IoT can play in addressing industry challenges, and why many companies have failed to extract value from their digital transformation initiatives. The discussion will describe the value of combining the industry technology expertise of Baker Hughes, C3.ai’s proven AI platform and applications, and Microsoft Azure’s industry-leading IT infrastructure for a complete solution that can accelerate transformation at scale. The session will review BHC3 applications available today, enterprise AI capabilities enabled with the BHC3 AI Suite, examples of successful implementations, and the product roadmap. A panel discussion will dive into challenges in the adoption of AI and digital transformation best practices.

Telecommunications - Sea Cliff

Join C3.ai experts for a discussion of how communication service providers can leverage AI to digitally transform their operations and address growing business pressures, from shifting consumer preferences and new competition from digital channels to aging infrastructure and increased regulatory scrutiny. See how the C3 AI Suite enables companies to integrate petabyte-scale data from multiple sources, including BSS and OSS, sensor and mobile networks, and external providers. Learn how applications built with the C3 AI Suite apply machine learning and predictive analytics to provide advanced capabilities ranging from AI customer service, next-generation CRM, and fraud detection, to retail inventory optimization, predictive maintenance, and sensor health.

Utilities - Marina

Join this session to engage with utility industry peers and C3.ai utilities experts in a discussion about deploying advanced AI capabilities to address key challenges and seize new opportunities. C3.ai experts will share an update on AI in the utility industry, and representatives from C3.ai utility customers will share work they are doing with C3.ai, including software demonstrations. Featured demonstrations will include Customer Segmentation and Targeting with C3.ai Ex Machina Models (Eversource); C3.ai Predictive Maintenance (Duke Energy); C3.ai AMI Operations and C3.ai Ex Machina Models (Con Edison); and C3.ai Energy Management (NYPA).

Aerospace & Defense - Presidio

Join Federal peers and C3.ai experts in this session focused on deploying the C3 AI Suite and C3.ai Applications to drive increased mission capability for Federal defense and civilian agencies. In a format combining workshop, presentation, and panel discussion, Federal customers will share their experiences in implementing the C3 AI Suite and C3 Applications to address mission capability needs and readiness goals. Attendees can participate through Q&A, networking, and engaging with C3.ai experts and colleagues from other Federal agencies. With a focus on best practices for implementing AI/Machine Learning applications to address mission operations and readiness needs, discussion topics will include scoping use cases, gathering executive support, allocating resources for a winning solution, and defining success to align on milestone objectives.

8:30 am – Grand Ballroom

AI and Geopolitics

Hon. Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice, the former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, will join Tom Siebel for a wide-ranging conversation on the most important geopolitical, macroeconomic, and market forces that will shape the new decade – and the technologies that will define it. How will the competition between the U.S. and China for AI supremacy play out? How will AI transform society, government, and the global world order? Dr. Rice and Mr. Siebel will cover these subjects and many others, and take questions from the C3 Transform 2020 audience.

9:15 am – Grand Ballroom

Building a High Performance Data Science Organization

Nikhil Krishnan, PhD, GVP of Products, C3.ai

Zico Kolter, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Data science is central to digital transformation, yet many enterprises face significant challenges in incorporating data science - and data scientists - into their transformation efforts. Zico Kolter and Nikhil Krishnan will explain how AI/ ML techniques work, the key data science challenges they’ve observed in working with some of the world’s largest organizations, and how to overcome those challenges. From recruiting, developing, and scaling AI teams, to selecting high-priority AI use cases and embedding AI applications into business processes at scale, this discussion will provide practical, actionable advice about how to build a high-performance data science organization.

10:15 am – Grand Ballroom

AI/ML for the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO)

Commander Thomas Sampson, Chief Information Officer, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office

The F-35 Lightning II is the world’s most advanced, next-generation stealth strike fighter. CDR Sampson will describe how the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) – the Defense Department’s agency responsible for developing and acquiring the F-35 – is leveraging the C3 AI Suite to increase mission readiness through AI and machine learning (ML). He will discuss the impact of AI and ML on the F-35’s capabilities, operations, deployment, and sustainment. CDR Sampson will share best practices and lessons learned from the JPO’s digital transformation initiative.

10:45 am – Grand Ballroom

AI-Powered Zero Carbon Transition

Dulce Borjas, VP & CIO, ENGIE North America

ENGIE, a leading global integrated energy provider, is executing its Zero Carbon Transition strategy driving toward a world of decarbonized energy. A core element of its strategy is to deliver AI-powered energy management solutions enabling its customers to dramatically reduce their consumption, lower their costs, and shrink their carbon footprint. Dulce Borjas will describe real-world examples of how ENGIE is using the C3.ai platform to build and deliver AI-powered solutions that help governments, institutions, and corporations such as Microsoft optimize their energy use and transition to a decarbonized future.

11:15 am – Grand Ballroom

AI Supply Chain Optimization at 3M

Jennifer Austin, Development & Implementation Leader, Enterprise Operations Digitization and Advanced Analytics Group, 3M

In January 2018, 3M in collaboration with C3.ai formed a Center of Excellence (CoE) to digitally transform the company’s Enterprise Operations in Manufacturing and Supply Chain. Jennifer Austin, Development & Implementation Leader, will describe how the CoE has evolved over the last two years, as well as the team’s recent achievements in the areas of data architecture, data scientist productivity, and application end-user adoption. She will also share the team’s experience working with C3.ai to evaluate C3.ai Applications for potential deployment across 3M’s global supply chain.

1:00 — 3:00 pm – Sunset Court

C3.ai Product Roadmap

C3.ai Application Innovations

Digital transformation mandates that companies change the way they do business with AI – and production AI applications are the vehicles for that change. Join Adrian Rami, VP of Applications Product Management, for an overview and demonstrations of recent innovations in C3.ai Applications that are potentially relevant to your roadmap, including object and image recognition for improved identification of key operational issues; next-generation AI interpretability and prescriptive actions; diagram parsing for engineering documents; and new reporting features. Software demonstrations will include C3.ai Object Identification, C3.ai Digital Twin, and C3.ai Reliability.

C3.ai Center of Excellence - Best Practices for Governing a Digital Transformation

Join Rick Shaw, Group Vice President of Global Services, C3.ai, for a discussion of best practices to drive digital transformation across the enterprise by establishing a governance structure, organization model, and proven methodology. Topics will include CoE roles, responsibilities, and skill sets, as well as critical success factors including business sponsorship, process discipline, use case prioritization, and resourcing. The session will feature a panel Q&A with the joint C3.ai & 3M CoE leadership team including Jennifer Austin, 3M Development & Implementation Leader, Philip O’Sullivan, 3M Release Manager, Annie Milos, 3M Project Manager, and Alex Amato, C3.ai CoE Leader for 3M.

C3.ai Data Science

Enterprise data science teams require tools that support the end-to-end data science lifecycle – from model prototyping to production. Join Nikhil Krishnan, Group Vice President of Products, and Jake Whitcomb, Director of Platform Products, to preview C3.ai’s latest tools for data science teams in C3.ai ML Studio. In this session we will demonstrate new features including C3.ai’s AutoML capabilities, Deep Learning pipelines, and our Model Deployment Framework. We will also investigate best practices from recent projects and discuss the product roadmap for the C3.ai ML Studio.

C3.ai Developer Experience

Join Riley Siebel, Director of Developer Experience, and his team for an interactive panel discussion to both solicit customer feedback and answer questions. Subject matter experts from C3.ai Developer Tools, Documentation, Training, and User Experience will be on hand to answer questions and solicit feedback. The session will include an update on recommendations received at last year’s C3 Transform conference, plus an opportunity for attendees to sign up for early previews of the new Developer Portal.

C3.ai Enterprise Data Services

Join Boaz Stossel, Senior Product Manager, and team to learn how to empower your organization to ramp up data utilization with C3.ai Data Studio and C3.ai Catalog. C3.ai Catalog significantly reduces the time application developers, data scientists, and business analysts spend to discover and locate relevant data in the organization, and encourages their collaboration. C3.ai Data Studio enables them to set up and test automatic data ingestion pipelines from data sources into a uniform data model built on the C3 AI Suite, and to ensure quality measures for the ingested data.

C3.ai Center of Excellence - Application Development and Methodology

Join Alex Amato, Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, to gain an overview of the C3.ai Application Development Methodology™ – an accumulation of C3.ai’s collective experience over the last 10 years in delivering enterprise AI applications. You will learn about C3.ai’s best practices for defining and qualifying use cases, as well as specifying, building, testing, and deploying AI applications. The discussion will focus on the critical success factors that enable reliable and repeatable delivery of high-value applications.

C3.ai AI Suite Perfomance at Scale

Performance at scale is a cornerstone of the C3 AI Suite. It permeates the design, development, and testing of all functionality, and underpins every feature we introduce, from near real-time prediction of millions of assets to how we manage data and integration across hundreds of data sources. Join Scott Kurinskas, Vice President of Platform Products, and his team for a discussion and demonstration of recent innovations in the C3 AI Suite, including high-frequency data integration, virtual data integration, resource management, and AI development and deployment at scale.

C3.ai Ex Machina

Join C3.ai Product Managers Matt Connor and Carl Fuda for an overview of C3.ai Ex Machina. C3.ai Ex Machina allows business analysts, data analysts, and data scientists to rapidly develop advanced analytics on their entire big data set using a drag-and-drop interface with over 100 code-free and code-friendly tools. This session will show how customers use C3.ai Ex Machina today, featuring a demonstration by Andrew Wong and Brian Curran from C3.ai customer Con Edison. The session will also preview the upcoming C3.ai Ex Machina Feature Roadmap, and allow attendees to sign up for the C3.ai Ex Machina Explorer beta release waitlist.

C3.ai Integrated Development Studio

Join Nikolai Oudalov, Senior Product Manager, and his team for an overview and demonstration of the C3.ai Integrated Development Studio, the low-code/no-code user interface for the C3 AI Suite. The C3.ai IDS provides a set of tools designed to enhance the end-to-end development cycle, enabling users to build, test, deploy, and operate full-fledged C3 AI Applications. Development tools include UI Manager, for UI development; ML Studio, for ML modelling; Data Management, for data integration; and Expression Designer, for analyzing and developing timeseries data. Operation tools include Release Management and Deployment Pipeline that respectively address the integrated CI and CD processes within the C3 AI Suite.