Stand out above the competition and guide your organization into the future.

The mission behind Disruption by design (Dbyd) is to respond to digital disruption by taking purposeful action. Our exclusive full-day conference left business leaders inspired by keynotes and industry experts exploring the topics and themes of Disruption by design.

These powerful presentations by diverse visionaries from the evolving worlds of innovation, analytics & AI, and digital, along with peers from multiple industries, will help top executives think differently and increase resilience in this era of exponential change.

Check out last year's event, 2018 Highlights.

Watch a snapshot of what happened here:


What was in it for executives?

Powerful presentations by diverse visionaries from the evolving fields of innovation, analytics & AI, and digital, along with real-life use cases.

200-plus attendees

70% attendees are Director-level and up

Hear from inspirational keynote speakers who are already harnessing the power of innovation, analytics & AI, and Digital.

Discussions with Canada’s top business leaders in structured breakout sessions to explore how decision-makers came to think different, do different, and be different.

10 DotTalks

Four world-renowned keynote speakers

Learn how to capitalize on new capabilities to accelerate your company’s agenda.

Enrich your business strategy through interactive workshops, designed to advance your organization’s digital journey.

10 ecosystem partners



Meet our keynote speakers

The Future of the Internet

Read more

Known as the “father of the World Wide Web,” Sir Tim Berners-Lee set out to prepare business leaders for the future of the internet. He discussed ideas for building an open internet and the platforms that will help decentralize the web, providing users the ability to take control of their data. He detailed the strategies and steps companies can take to adapt to disruption.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

More about our speaker

In 1989, Tim was working as a software engineer at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland, when he developed a global hypertext project that eventually became known as the World Wide Web. He is also the founder of the WWW Foundation, director of the WWW Consortium (W3C), a teacher at Boston’s MIT and the University of Southampton in England, and author of the book Weaving the Web, among other publications.

The AI Advantage

Read more

Cognitive technologies (aka artificial intelligence) offer the possibility of new and potentially disruptive opportunities to many businesses. A growing number of companies are already achieving significant benefits from using them, and are building ongoing capabilities to further develop and implement these technologies. In Tom Davenport’s presentation, he explained the constellation of cognitive technologies and describeed the most prominent enterprise use cases for each. He contrasts moon-shot projects with the low-hanging-fruit uses of AI that are much more likely to be successful. He discussed the strategies and steps companies can take to incorporate cognitive capabilities into their businesses.

Thomas Davenport

More about our speaker

Tom is a renowned author of 18 bestselling books, a distinguished professor, and a co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, and a fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He most recently penned The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work, and regularly teaches analytics and big data for executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University. You can read more about him at http://www.tomdavenport.com/


TVOs innovation journey

Read more

The media sector is undergoing unprecedented change. Internet sites and mobile apps are diverting eyes (and advertising dollars) from traditional media outlets. Social media and web services are replacing newspapers and television as the primary source of news and current affairs. And similar trends are evident in how our children learn, as curious students look to Google, and “ask Alexa” for what their parents once found in books and “ask the teacher”. Lisa de Wilde discussed TVO’s innovation journey, and explained how she leveraged disruption in the media and learning sectors to transform TVO from a nice-to-have TV station into a must-have ‘multi-platform digital media organization’.

Lisa de Wilde, C.M.

More about our speaker

Lisa de Wilde is a leader of innovation and transformative change. An advocate of leveraging digital technology to create moments of learning for people of all ages, as Chief Executive Officer since 2005 Lisa has steered TVO’s transformation into Ontario’s digital learning organization.




Attendees were inspired by DotTalks

During DotTalks, industry leading speakers aimed to inspire, challenge, and be as thought-provoking as possible as they shared their own organization’s “disruption by design” journey. The objective focused on helping business leaders understand how to respond to digital disruption by sharing examples in action.




Think different

Automation - Wellington Holbrook, Chief Transformation Officer, ATB Financial (CLOSED)

Transform interactions and engagement models between internal and external stakeholders (customers, clients, employees, alliances, regulators) through digital services and channels to strengthen relationships.

Cybersecurity - Joe LoBianco, VP, Information Security, CIBC (CLOSED)

Becoming digital requires the adoption and integration of numerous exponential technologies. Putting this into practice requires organizations to implement cutting-edge security measures to protect their customer and their data.

Data intelligence - Monica Holboke, CEO, Cryptonumerics (CLOSED)

Organizations that rely on trust with customers and partners are challenged to provide access, better information, and transparency. This creates a need to compete with data and insights for enhanced experiences and efficiencies, and to offer new products and services.

New technology - Neil Bunn, Manager, Customer Engineering, Google Cloud (CLOSED)

Leveraging intelligent devices (IoT) and interactive technologies such as voice and gesture recognition systems to not only collect real time relevant data but drastically change the human interface.

Connectivity - Bill Briggs, US and Global CTO, Deloitte (CLOSED)

As the pace of change quickens, technology now leads business strategy. Deloitte’s 10th annual Tech Trends report reflects on a decade of disruptive change and the emerging trends likely to impact businesses in the next 18-24 months. Learn how companies work to sense new possibilities, define their ambitions for tomorrow, and journey “beyond the digital frontier.”

Do different

Organization and talent - Hillary Hartley, Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Minister for Digital Government, Ontario Public Service (CLOSED)

Learn what operational structures, compositions, and mindset changes are required to adapt and create opportunities in the digital era. Examples include changes to the organizational structure, effectiveness of people and change management required to adapt to operations and extending the organization to take of the global markets.

Experiences and engagement - Humza Teherany, Chief Technology Officer and Digital Officer, MLSE (CLOSED)

Transforming the relationship with a consumer/shopper, customer, supplier and or other members of the business ecosystem.

Ecosystems and new business models - Jay Goldman, CEO, Sensei Labs (CLOSED)

New business models can help you better adapt to emerging trends and newly formed economies. From new asset-less businesses, supply chain transformations, and relationships with new partners, learn how you might evolve your business model in times of disruption.

Ambitions and aspirations - Jean Marc Landry, Vice President, Innovation & Renewal, Atlantic Lottery Corporation (CLOSED)

Identify and act on significant market opportunities by either creating or responding to a market disruption. Examples include moving into adjacent market spaces and taking advantage of new or other exponential technologies.

Enterprise operation - Humera Malik, CEO and Founder, Canvass Analytics (CLOSED)

discover how to leverage operational data in driving strategic insights using analytics and AI.

Want to learn more?

 
➤