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Outsell Signature Event

By invitation only, the annual Outsell Signature Event, co-produced with JEGI CLARITY, focuses on the industry’s most pressing issues and hottest trends. This must-attend event for senior leaders in the data and information economy is jam-packed with actionable case studies and outlooks necessary to plan for the coming year. It’s the don’t-miss event of the year, where deals get done and new connections are made.

Outsell Leadership Community membership includes an invitation to this exclusive event.

The Outsell Signature Event, co-produced with JEGI CLARITY, will be at the Four Seasons Hampshire on October 3-4, 2023.

Outsell Signature Event 2023 Program

Theme – The Journey to Intelligent Work 

Tuesday, 3 October

Travel with us on the way to intelligent work in our increasingly AI-driven age. How are our customer’s changing? How will we evolve to meet the needs of a connected world. How do we instill trust and integrity in our solutions while caring for intellectual property and maintaining the health of our organizations and industry? Who will win and why? How?   Prepare yourself and your organization during the next day and a half. 

1:00 – 1:10pm

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Anthea C. Stratigos

Co-founder & CEO

Outsell, Inc.

The Outlook

Our journey begins with the outlook –  the map and compass pointing the way to the future and the critical external factors driving the context in which we operate. We’ll take a look at the future of AI, geopolitics, the economy, and what’s happening in M&A  – all interrelated and cascading – ultimately impacting the businesses we run.

1:15 – 1:45pm

Opening Keynote: AI & The Industry Outlook  

Outsell’s industry outlook combined with our unique lens on the essentials about AI and where it’s taking us and where we are taking it. Our opening keynote will examine case studies, options and tradeoffs for how-to deployment, evaluating opportunities and risks for making money and protecting IP, and what regulatory affairs and legal and other risks are coming down the pike. We’ll examine industry growth in this context and set the stage for the rest of our journey.

Philipp Mueller

Chief Analyst & Product Officer 

Outsell, Inc.

1:50 – 2:20pm

Geopolitical Outlook    

We are operating in a connected world where cultures clash and geopolitical interests and values  differ greatly. What is the latest state of global affairs and what defining issues will set the stage for how and where we operate? 

Sir Nigel Sheinwald 

Chair, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)

2:25 – 2:55pm

Economic Outlook    

Our industry’s performance is driven by and impacted by  economic performance; GDP drives enterprise budgets which drives industry performance and our core engine for growth. It also affects the climate for M&A a crucial driver of growth. Explore the speedbumps and pathways to growth.

Chris Giles

Economics Commentator

The Financial Times Ltd

2:55 – 3:25pm

Networking Break

3:30 – 3:55pm

M&A Outlook  

How is M&A projected to perform given the economic outlook and a climate of high interest rates, stubborn inflation, and pressure on cash and profits? How important is growth? What other attributes matter in an AI-driven era of unique data, algorithms, and software-enabled solutions? What’s selling and hot? What’s not? Whether buyer or seller, what’s happening to deal-making matters on the journey to intelligent work.

Wilma Jordan

Founder & CEO, North America

JEGI CLARITY

4:00 – 4:45pm

View from the Top

The View from the Top, will come from two esteemed leaders each on their own journey.

Spun out from Verisk and now owned by Private Equity, Wood Mackenzie is an industry leader in their sector on a path to significant organic and inorganic growth as they enable intelligent systems. 

Springer Nature, operating in the innovation and science space faces ongoing changes and opportunity in science and innovation  – a sector going through vast change in open science, changing mandates, and new demands from end users who are creating the way discovery gets done.

These two CEOs in two very important categories of our industry wrap the day and tie it together by sharing their perspectives on what matters and why, where they are taking their organization and the challenges and opportunities that are driving their decisions. 

Frank Vrancken Peeters  

CEO 

Springer Nature Group

Mark Brinin 

CEO 

Wood Mackenzie  

4:50  6:00pm

Networking Break

6:00 – 7:00pm

Opening Cocktail & Networking Reception

7:00 – 9:00pm

Opening Dinner

Wednesday, 4 October

9:00 – 10:00am

Morning Keynote: Professional Work and the Role of Trust in the AI Era

Trust Workshop

How do we manage our businesses and brands and the professions we support with the trust and integrity our customers, employees, and stakeholders have come to expect and insist we sustain? How are expectations changing? What is the role of trust in the AI area and how do we ensure it remains? 

Dr. Stephanie Gustaffson 

Co-Director, Centre for the Future of Work 

University of Bath 

10:00 – 10:10am

Stretch Break

AI Readiness: Case Studies

The rest of our day is focused on a series of case studies that will take us from enabling talent, to creating AI-enabled companies, on to exploring actual use cases and the decisions that went into launching them.

 

10:10 – 10:35am

Panel – Developing AI-Ready Executives 

Everything we do starts and stops with having the right people in the right roles. Key roles are emerging around the attributes and skills of the executives that will advance our businesses and become next generation CEOs and C-suite leaders. CPTO? CADO?  This panel will share perspectives on what’s essential and why.

Jay Hussey

President, Global Search

SRI Executive

Susie Buckridge

Group Product, Data & Analytics Director

TalkTalk

David Krajicek

CEO

Jato Dynamics Ltd

Vipul Nakum

Advisor

Anthesis Group

10:40 – 11:05am

Panel – Building a Data & AI-Ready Company through M&A

How and why are companies buying and selling to enable deeper data-enabled solutions and prepare themselves for more barriers to entry in an AI era? These leaders discuss their business in preparation for AI at work.

Andy Jacobson

Consulting Partner & Co-Chair, Outsell Leadership Community

Outsell, Inc.

Rob Sanchez

CEO

Anteriad LLC

Josh Resnik

President & Chief Operating Officer

FiscalNote, Inc.

David Magliano

Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer

Informa Tech

 

11:05 – 11:30am

Networking Break

With the talent and company fundamentals ready – we’re focusing on three case studies of generative AI. We turn next to case studies applying generative AI. What was the idea and where did it come from? How did it move from experimentation to production? How long did it take? What solutions were used? What were the opportunities and challenges and what takeaways and benefits resulted? Where to next?

 

11:35 – 11:55am

Sprint – Putting AI to Work: Using Gen AI to enhance Products while Streamlining Operational Workflows

Despite its buzzy press as the latest flash in the pan, generative AI will truly revolutionize the delivery of information services. ChatGPT and other large language model technologies not only provide near-magical capabilities, but also package machine learning in ways accessible to enterprises of all stripes. This case study shows how GenAI has been used by a real-time consumer insights platform to enhance value in products as well as streamline key internal workflows.

Joseph Galarneau 

Chief Product Officer

Civic Science, Inc.

11:55 – 12:15pm

Sprint – Putting AI to Work: From Clinical Diagnosis to Carer Assistant

AI powers decision support from clinical diagnosis to social care assistance. We look at how data and systems can improve confidence and accuracy in decision-making in healthcare environments. We will illustrate the transformative effect of bringing data and intelligent systems together to produce decision support solutions.

Peter Ashby

Publishing Director and Co- founder, Openclinical CIC
 
Co-founder of SeraCares Ltd

 

Phil D. Hall

CTO and Director 

SeraCares Ltd

12:15 – 12:35pm

Sprint – Putting AI to Work: Improving Top of Funnel Performance

Predictive AI is redefining the future of business. In this thought provoking session, we will dive into AI’s potential to elevate top-of-funnel marketing performance. We will share real world use cases to demonstrate how human-assisted predictive AI applied to marketing can be a game-changing approach for your business — enabling organizations to better leverage intent data, fine-tune lead generation, improve customer acquisition cost, and supercharge revenue growth.

Jennifer Ives

Co-founder & CEO

Watering Hole AI, Inc.

12:40 – 12:50pm

Sprint – Joint Q&A

12:50 – 1:55pm

Networking Lunch & Table Topics

Join one of our morning speakers and fellow attendees tackling similar issues or simply join an open table to network and mingle. 

  • AI Readiness – Talent
  • AI Readiness – M&A
  • Putting AI to Work – Generative AI to Improve Offerings
  • Putting AI to Work – From Clinical Diagnosis to Carer Assistant
  • Putting AI to Work – Improving Top of Funnel Performance

Implementing AI 

You have the outlook, have trust embedded in your culture and team, have the right team, and company assets. You’ve explored the case studies and where you can put the technology to best use in your organization to what customer or operating benefit.   The journey continues as you put the solutions to work. What options and tradeoffs are there in selecting your technology providers? What commercial opportunities and risks are there to make money and protect IP?   What licensing models and considerations are critical? We’ll explore the last miles on the intelligent journey  – getting ‘it done.’ And then we will close with a provocative lense on whether we have what it takes.

2:00 – 2:25pm

Picking the Right Implementation Partner

Philipp Mueller

Chief Analyst & Product Officer 

Outsell, Inc.

Jack Abuhoff

CEO

Innodata Inc.

Adi Chikara

Chief Technology Officer

Tricon Infotech

Graham Charlesworth 

Managing Director

Pure Insights

2:30 – 3:20pm

Member Problem Solving

  1. How to Prioritize GenAI Initiatives
  2. How to Manage Costs, Manage Change, & Measure Impact
  3. How to Protect Data, IP, and the Organization

3:20 – 3:50pm

Closing Keynote: Do We Have What It Takes?

Our closing keynote, will bring together the threads of our journey. In a world where the stakes are undeniably high, where ethical dilemmas loom, where the accuracy of decisions is paramount, and where we face profound human considerations, we must ask ourselves: Do we have what it takes to get this right?

To help us navigate these pressing questions, we have enlisted a distinguished speaker who will pull all the elements together with her remarks that explore what it will take to succeed in this fast-changing landscape

Juliette Powell

Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur

3:50 – 4:00pm

Closing Remarks 

Anthea C. Stratigos

Co-founder & CEO

Outsell, Inc.

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Included in Membership

Outsell or JEGI CLARITY Client Investment

$1950.00

Non-Client Investment

$2495.00

Outsell Signature Event 2023 Venue

Four Seasons Hampshire 

A historic estate in the English countryside.

Set in a restored 18th-century manor in the English countryside, just 40 minutes away from London, Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire offers a humble, comfortable and welcoming home away from home. With 500 acres of bucolic landscape, our hotel grounds allow you to enjoy an unrivalled sense of escape with unlimited access to nature, wildlife and unique outdoor experiences. 
 
Dogmersfield Park, Chalky Lane, Dogmersfield, Hampshire RG27 8TD, England
 

 

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