Third CTO of the United States, Megan Smith, to Discuss “How
Technology and Innovative Approaches Can Transform Your Organization”
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 3, 2019--
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and
digital experience technologies, today announced the speaker lineup for
ProgressNEXT 2019, the premier event for modern application development,
May 6-9, 2019 at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. With more
than 150 sessions on topics including high productivity application
development, mobility, AI, web experience, and much more, ProgressNEXT
will provide attendees with the insights, technology and networking
opportunities to create the applications and digital experiences of
tomorrow, today. To register go to www.progress.com/next.
Mainstage Keynote Speaker
The event will feature a series of inspiring keynote sessions. Megan
Smith, Third Chief Technology Officer of the United States (2014–2017)
and CEO of shift7, will present on her time within the US government and
how she and her team used technology to fundamentally alter the
composition of the federal government. Smith will detail how they teamed
up with colleagues to adopt new approaches to using data, innovation,
and rapid iteration in order to create a more open, collaborative, and
responsive government—and explain how other companies can do the same.
As the third U.S. chief technology officer, Smith helped the President
harness the power of technology, data, and innovation to advance the
future of the United States and the world. She recruited top tech talent
to serve across government and to collaborate on the most pressing
issues of the day, from data science and open source, to inclusive
economic growth and criminal justice reform. She focused on broad
capacity building by co-creating all-hands-on-deck initiatives,
including the public-private program TechHire, the Computer Science for
All initiative, and the Image of STEM campaign.
Prior to her role as U.S. CTO, Smith served as vice president of new
business development at Google, managing early-stage partnerships across
the company’s global engineering and product teams. She led acquisitions
of Google Earth, Maps, and Picasa, steered the shift of Google.org to
include more direct engineering impact. As CEO of PlanetOut, Smith was a
leader of the online LGBT community in the early days of the Internet.
She drove engagement and revenue by partnering closely with top Internet
companies, including AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Netscape, RealNetworks, and
others.
Today, Smith is CEO of shift7, which focuses on tech-forward networked
innovation for impact and economic inclusion. She is also an advisor to
the MIT Media Lab, Vital Voices, and the Malala Fund, which she
co-founded.
Customer Keynotes
Innovative Progress customers will also take the stage for a series of
keynote sessions designed to share their stories and keys to their
success. Speakers include:
- Ravi Chander, Group Architect, 407 ETR: Chander will discuss
how Canada’s Highway 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) scaled its mobile
app to support 2+ million active customers using the Progress® Kinvey®
platform.
- Claudio Ferreira, Director, Digital Corporate Marketing, Teknion:
Ferreria will discuss how Teknion, a global designer and manufacturer
of modern office systems and furnishings, leveraged Progress®
Sitefinity® to take control of its digital brand and create a modern,
sophisticated website that represented the company’s progressive,
trend-setting attitude.
- Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer, Jefferson Health Systems: Gomes
will discuss how inventive internal applications and dashboards
allowed Jefferson Health, one of the top hospitals in Pennsylvania, to
take a lean, agile approach to organizational management; a donor app
that helped the organization raise nearly $1.5 million in the last
month alone; and his role in digital innovation, which spans his work
in education and includes digital learning.
- Anna Lehtoranta, Account Growth Executive, CGI: Lehtoranta will
discuss how CGI, one of the largest independent IT and business
services firms in the world, used Progress® OpenEdge® and Progress®
Kendo UI® tools to modernize its ERP application.
- Jehiel Oliver, Founder & CEO, Hello Tractor: Oliver will
reveal the transformative impact Hello Tractor’s mobile app, built on
the Progress Kinvey platform, has had on food production and food
security, by enabling sub-Saharan African tractor owners and farmers
to plant 40 times faster.
Breakout Sessions
ProgressNEXT will also offer a wide range of breakout sessions that will
go in depth on topics from modern app dev to app modernization,
mobility, web experience, and more. Sessions will be presented by
Progress and organizations including: Acorn IT, americaneagle.com,
Athracian, Bayshore Solutions, B&L Information Systems, Cludo,
Consultingwerk, ConnectPlaza, Flywheel Strategic, Hawksearch, Harvard
University, ISCorp, Loymark, Mark Information, Nimble Consulting Group,
Paul Guggenheim & Associates, Inc., pavliks.com, Riverside Software,
Roving Curmudgeon, Silli Solutions, Smooth Fusion, Solliance Corp.,
Subway, truematter, Vermont Systems, White Star Software, and more.
“The lineup of speakers we’ve secured for this year’s event is an
amazing combination of the best and brightest in our industry,” said
Loren Jarrett, CMO, Progress. “Sessions will provide must-have content
for all of our audiences – developers, executive level, digital leaders,
app dev and IT leaders, and marketers. Attendees will walk away with
valuable insights, information and best practices that they will be able
to take home and start using immediately.”
For more information on ProgressNEXT or to register, go to www.progress.com/next.
Additional Resources
About Progress
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying
strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to
deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the
effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily
building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or
touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive
capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a
serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content
management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700
independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two
million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn
about Progress at www.progress.com
or +1-800-477-6473.
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