Reopening, Risks, & Resilience
Host
Meg Tirrell, CNBC’s Senior Health and Science Reporter and Sharon Epperson, CNBC Senior Personal Finance Correspondent
Speakers
Amy Edmondson, PhD, Harvard Business School Novartis Professor of Leadership & Management
Dr. Tom Frieden Resolve to Save Lives President and CEO & Former Director of the CDC
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy Director
Reopening, Risks, & Resilience
The "need to knows" to best support your workforces in the next phase of the pandemic.
Key Points
- Workforce leadership is more important than ever. Keeping workforces safe and supported while also focusing on results is a challenge top of mind for many leaders.
- Frieden advises employers to remember, "You're not an island. You're a part of the community where you're placed. The single most important thing you can do to protect your employees is to make sure your community is doing a good job at Covid control."
- "You need to look at the immediacy of right now, but you also need to look at the longshot," said Osterholm. "We now need to understand what we are going to do."
- Transparency is about being clear and honest, but it's important to make sure employees are still hopeful.
- Edmondson says the best way to communicate leadership's views is to do so frequently, communicate that you are providing a safe channel for feedback, and listen always.
Innovating Through a Disruptive Era
Host
Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor, CNBC’s “TechCheck"
Speakers
Jim McKelvey, Square Co-founder
Jason Kelly, Ginkgo Bioworks Founder
Tomer Weingarten, SentinelOne CEO
Bijal Shah, Guild Education CTO and Chief Payments Officer
Innovating Through a Disruptive Era
Jim McKelvey, Square co-founder and author of The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time, in conversation with CNBC “Squawk Alley” Co-Anchor Jon Fortt about encouraging innovation.
Key Points
- Innovation stacks occur when facing unique problems. The solution to one problem leads to another, sometimes several problems. This chain can reoccur until you end up with a collection of both independent and interlocking inventions, or you fail.
- Innovation stacks result in unique innovations and can be applied to new industries.
Race, Equitable Recovery and Resilience: How recent events should change the way we think about the future of work and how we move forward
Host
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Co-Anchor of “Squawk Box"
Speakers
Valerie Jarrett, Former Senior Advisor to the Obama Foundation
Race, Equitable Recovery and Resilience: How recent events should change the way we think about the future of work and how we move forward
CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin moderates a private WEC member roundtable with featured guest, Valerie Jarrett, Senior Distinguished Fellow at University of Chicago Law School, senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and ATTN.
Key Points
- According to Jarrett, "The systemic racism that we've seen manifested in behavior through law enforcement to businesses is something that we all have the change on our own if what we expect is a government and business with rules of their own in place to protect all of our citizens, and that's beginning now."
- Changes happen when we begin by looking within our own companies and asking if it is in order.
- CEOs can do more than lip service by asking themselves, "What am I doing in my environment to be inclusive and to truly be welcoming? Am I going beyond what has historically been done?"
- "Until we are ready to actually lead with our values, it's going to be difficult to make progress," Jarrett said.
Security & Privacy in a Covid-19 World
Host
Jon Fortt, Co-Anchor, CNBC’s “Tech Check"
Speakers
Sue Gordon, CNBC Contributor and Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Security & Privacy in a Covid-19 World
From medical data to corporate security, our information has never been more vulnerable. Insights, actionable ideas, and a discussion of concrete challenges in a private forum.
Key Points
- The government and private sector have worked closely together for many years.
- Because we've gone from the government introducing the technologies that transform the security landscape to private sectors introducing that new tech, the responsibility of thinking about how our actions affect the security landscape tend to fall on those sectors.
- The public-private relationship, at its best, works in both directions.
Trial by Fire — Tackling Covid-19
Host
Jon Fortt Co-Anchor, CNBC’s “TechCheck"
Speakers
A. Charles Thomas, General Motors Chief Data Officer & TEC Founding Member
Gabrielle Wolfson, Quest Diagnostics SVP & Chief Information Officer & TEC Founding Member
Trial by Fire — Tackling Covid-19
A discussion on how digital transformation is allowing companies to spring into action in the fight against Covid-19, and what it means for future production and tech deployment.
Key Points
- Data is an asset that needs to be protected. Using data helps us make better decisions when faced with a crisis such as Covid-19.
- Digital transformation will not only impact how we survive now but also how we thrive in the future.
- Never let a crisis go to waste. If you don't come out of this doing business differently, you've missed the space to transform.
- Now is the time to double down on your digital and service capability.
#WhatsWorking: Return to the Workplace
Host
Jen Geller, CNBC Senior Councils Editor
Speakers
Fran Katsoudas, Cisco Executive Vice President and Chief People, Policy & Purpose Office
#WhatsWorking: Return to the Workplace
Managing a complex Covid-19 response while pivoting to return to workplace planning.
Key Points
- A private, off-the-record, members-only conversation about leadership and management in the midst of the pandemic.
Doubling Down on Digital Transformation
Host
Deirdre Bosa, CNBC Technology Reporter
Speakers
Bill McDermott, ServiceNow President and CEO
Doubling Down on Digital Transformation
A conversation about how technology executives can best ensure business continuity, productivity, and customer success during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key Points
- We are living in a "business model innovation moment of our lifetimes," according to McDermott.
- The way we host events and consume products will forever be changed.
- Digital transformation will not only impact how we survive now but also how we thrive in the future.