PMI Houston Galleria: "Digital Transformation and Automation" (In-Person)

Pre-Dinner Presentation:  "Technology Operational Management "

Avishek Roy Chowdhury is a seasoned professional with a strong technical backdrop and is now into project management. For over a decade and a half, he has led a trend that drives innovation and value impacting modern technology and success factors. His hobby is to create a creative composition with light and subject (i.e. photography). Currently, he is serving as the Director of Technology and Strategy with PMI Houston.

Topic Synopsis:

Behind majority of successful product release or business operations, lies the robust iron clad Technology operations. Like any other field, this recipe has evolved from time to time but the core objective remains the same – Resiliency, Optimization, and Innovation. 

On addition to keeping just the lights on, today’s Technology Operation Management focuses on value creation on a global scale through innovative services and process design, project management as well as on value capture through effective supply chain management.

Learning Objectives:

1. What exactly happens behind the scenes in Technology Operations Management Mission Control Room
2. How Business drives Technology Programs
3. How Innovation is the backbone to stay relevant  

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Dinner Presentation: "Digital Transformation and Automation"

Aurelien Mangano has worked in several industries and departments. He was the head of the Automation Studio in an Oil and Gas company, leading the business process automation, Robotic Process Automation, and Chatbot across all of the organization's functions and departments. He was able to save $4.9 million and generated $3.4 billion in less than three years, impacting more than 7,000 sales and commercial workflows, by ensuring tenders (RFP) on-time and consistent delivery. He also improved operations productivity by at least 20% across critical functions (HR, Finance, Supply Chain, and Service Delivery…) by integrating and orchestrating enterprise business systems.

He is now working as a customer success manager to ensure the most valuable delivery for his clients in a utility company and in 2022, started his Career Growth Coaching to help enable individuals to reach their full potential.

He is supported in this presentation by Manish Kumar who was a leader in the automation studio and continues his journey in Automation as Business Process Manager.

Manish Kumar has worked across multiple domains like banking, supply chain, HRM, oil, gas, etc. He is working as a Business Process Manager with Schlumberger and delivering digital projects via the Microsoft Power platform along with the AI domain.

Prior to this role, Manish led a team of 20 RPA COE developers and provided training and Automation Anywhere support to 50+ technical developers across different Schlumberger business units worldwide through training, workshops, process improvement, and standardization. His team has delivered 100+ bots in 3 years span, which saved 950,000+ person-hours. He has received many awards inside and outside the organization and joined various automation conferences as a panelist.

Topic Synopsis:

Digital transformation and Automation are often feared by employees. In this presentation, we will introduce you to some automation technologies that could save your team and company a lot of resources by delegating the less productive and mundane tasks to automation and re-focusing your employees on more meaningful tasks.

We will introduce you to Business & Dynamic Process Automation; Citizen Automation development tools, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Chatbot, and explain to you what they are and when to use which ones.

Taking a strategic approach to automation, RPA is another weapon in the fight against manual administrative work and clerical waste. But, if you’re serious about transforming the nature of work in your organization through automation, you need to be looking to augment RPA with other technologies – taking a broader, more strategic approach to automation that’s often called Digital Process Automation (DPA). DPA strategies seek to utilize a range of automation technologies in a deliberate way – individually as well as in combination – in order to address the broadest range of work automation opportunities to the greatest extent possible. DPA strategies don’t focus only on the end-to-end automation of individual tasks, but focus on providing the appropriate level of automation and guided support for a range of types of work.

Learning Objectives:

1. How automation eases the burden on IT teams
2. What automation is, and how it can help meet business goals
3. The importance of a unified automation strategy

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Meeting Agenda:

5:00 pm to 5:30 pm    Networking
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm    Pre-dinner Speaker Presentation
6:30 pm to 7:00 pm    Networking, Dinner Opens, Chapter Announcements, PM Toastmasters Club Announcement
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm    Dinner Speaker Presentation

Location:

GalloWorks
2425 West Loop South, 5th Floor
Houston, TX 77027