CIONEXT is a unique opportunity to learn from the most successful Digital Leaders in the world.
In this edition, the winners of the European Digital Leader of the Year 2021 award will discuss their priorities, challenges and opportunities in 2022.
During this event we will also announce the winner of the Most Inspirational European Digital Leader of the Year 2021 vote.
The discussion panels will feature Winners of the European Digital Leader of the Year 2021 Award. Find out more about them!
Born in 1969, Marco Moretti began his career after graduating in 1993 in Andersen Consulting (now Accenture): 13 years of experiences in the energy industry, both in process reengineering and system integration, managing different projects in the top national & international energy operators and in the different energy value chains:
In 2007 he changed from consulting and he joined, as IT Head, Energie Investimenti (a dual fuel sales JV between Gaz De France and CAMFIN SpA) managing the integration and startup of Italcogim Energie, now third Italian gas operator with 5b m3 of gas sold, more than 1,000 B2B customers and more than 1,000,000 B2C customers achieved with a rhythm of 2,000 customer per day.
In 2010 he was promoted as CIO in GDF SUEZ Energia Italia & South Europe (today ENGIE), that consolidated the GDF SUEZ Italian activities of the group in electricity (6 GW installed capacity, 20 TWh produced in 7 power stations, gas and wind) in dual fuel sales and infrastructures (14,000 km of gas distribution network over 470 city areas recently sold, gas storage and GNL projects.
In 2015 he became Group CIO of A2A, the multiutility organisation that in 2013 accounted a turnover of 5,6 b€, quoted in Italian trade, second operator in Italy in electricity with more than 10 GW installed and with 2,5 million of waste managed of which over 50% is used to produce electricity, one of the key players in public heating with 2.382 GWht sold to customers and in natural gas with over 2 billion cubic meters distributed.
In 2016 he founded A2A Smart City, the NewCo that designs and realizes digital sustainable cities and smart cities (www.a2a smart city.it) based on new emerging innovative technologies, that today has >140 human resources, reached 10M€ of EBITDA and recently started the roadmap to reach the Benefits-Corporation certification (SDG sustainability trademark). Today as A2A Group CIO he is also accounted to drive the Digital Innovation Transformation Roadmap.
As one of KfW’s executive Board Members, Melanie Kehr is responsible for Information Technology, Transaction Management as well as Central Services. In this role she is setting the digital agenda not only focusing on new technologies, but also driving cultural change towards an agile promotional bank. This agile transformation finds its origin within IT change projects, spreading into all areas of KfW as a next step.
Before joining KfW Bankengruppe, Melanie had been Chief Information Officer (CIO) of BayernLB since 2014. Earlier, Melanie spent over 15 years with Accenture within the financial markets industry, the last years as partner.
Melanie holds a Master’s degree of Science in Economics, Purdue University, and an MBA, University of Bielefeld.
Marina F. Bellini has been in Consumer Goods Companies and Consulting for over 25 years in Digital, Technology & GBS roles. She is currently a Management Board member and Chief Information and Digital Officer for BAT.
After years in PWC Consulting, where she worked in Management Trainee to Senior Consultant roles in Finance and IT engagements in Brazil and overall Latin America for clients. She also worked for Anheuser-Busch InBev in regional and global roles based out of the Americas (USA, Mexico and Brazil) and Europe (Belgium) in the IT and GBS organisation, ultimately being global CIO and GBS lead. Marina then spent several years in PepsiCo Latin America, based out of New York, as their CIO. She was also CIO for global PepsiCo CMO, Brands & Categories function.
Marina has always focused on Digital, Technology and GBS enablement of company growth, bottom line efficiencies and talent development, in established organisations and in large M&A processes, leading complex business transformations. Now leading the digital transformation in BAT, she is a key force for the company on its delivery of A Better Tomorrow.
A Brazilian and Italian citizen, Marina is a proud mom of 2 daughters, Catarina & Victoria, sharing the life adventure with her husband Emilio, enjoying travelling, spending time with family and friends, running & listening to music (at the same time) and savouring the Italian cuisine.
Watch our interview with Marina on CIONET.TV
Nik Puri is Senior Vice President, Information Technology FedEx Express International. Based in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, Nik is responsible for strategy and management of mission critical IT systems and resources within 200+ countries outside of USA.
Prior to his current role, Nik was regional CIO for Europe and the MEISA Region, setting strategic direction for IT architecture, priorities and culture. He also served as the lead for Global Integration of TNT, a $6.9B global express parcel delivery entity based in Amsterdam.
Nik has a Master’s Degree in International Business from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (India).
Watch our interview with Nik on CIONET.TV
A pioneer of today’s Internet in the seventies (at MIT) Roger Camrass has been helping organisations across the Globe harness the power of new technologies and methods for over five decades.
As a thought leader, business executive and part time academic, Roger has introduced a succession of innovations including digital networking in the seventies, outsourcing and call centres in the eighties, business reengineering and third generation mobile networks in the nineties, e-commerce in 2000 and more recently cloud and 5G.
Nils researches competitive digital innovation and how organizations are redesigning themselves to realize greater impact from a diverse portfolio of innovation efforts. In 2010, he co-founded with CIONET the annual European CIO of the Year Awards to raise awareness of especially-accomplished digital leaders.
Based in Madrid, Nils is responsible for both fostering relations with organizations from Europe and Latin America and conducting research on how firms maximize business value and minimize risks from digital.
MIT CISR research has found that top performing firms are distinguished by their test and learn approach to digital innovation, rather than by how much they spend on it. The challenge is to ensure that innovation initiatives yield organizational learning, not just a huge portfolio of experiments or expensive failures. This session draws on Dr. Fonstad’s latest research findings to describe how companies are designing themselves to test and learn and generate significantly more value from digital.
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