Pelican Hill

Jonathan Allen
Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS
35 Min

"From Possibility to Practice: Reinventing the Enterprise from the inside." The framework focused on three powerful levers for transformation:

Elevate: Building adapatable structures and cultures that maximized the impact of technologies like cloud and generative AI while reducing organizational debt.
Energise: Adopting modern leadership approaches to upskill workforces and create continuous momentum for positive change.
Envision: Removing bureaucratic barriers to innovation, enabling transformation at global scale.

Dave Bottoms
SVP & General Manager Upwork Marketplace, Upwork
12 Min

As generative AI began distributing models in 2023, Upwork went on the offensive, seeking to transform their business to be AI-first. In this session Upwork will explore how they've adapted their business for the agentic era by becoming an AI-powered marketplace, and the preeminent destination to find and hire AI talent. They'll explore how they aligned their executive leadership team around their new North Star, bolstered internal capabilities through acquisitions of Headroom and Objective to accelerate AI-driven matching and collaboration, and developed Uma, a "Mindful AI" companion embedded across its platform. Upwork still showcase the impact of these AI efforts on their business, and detail their vision of how AI and human ingenuity together can unlock new opportunities for business, freelancers, and the future of work.

Nishit Sahay
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Marvell Technology
12 Min

Marvell Technologies constantly challenges itself to move fast. Of its 7,000-person organization, 85% are engineers. Operating with a lean general and administrative team, Marvell depends on technology to help teams get more done with less. In this session you'll hear how Marvell is using technology to move fast and respond to volatility, focusing on three major inflection points: enabling data-driven decision making, becoming AI-enabled and driving adoption of those technologies across their business. Marvell will highlight the mechanisms they've used to overcome organizational challenges and boost engagement with transformation efforts, and share distinct perspectives on the change in the mindset and focus that leaders need to embrace in this new era of generative AI.