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Cognitive Business Automation 2019: Beyond the hype
The second edition of the Cognitive Business Automation in Frankfurt was unanimously characterized as a successful conference. The 130+ attendees put the success down to great networking, inspirational presentation content and the interactive sessions throughout the 3 day event. With case studies covering implementing RPA, the challenges of RPA, how to run successful RPA piloting programms, transforming your RPA journey and much more, the event generated some great insights and discussions. Be part of the cross-industry forum and learn more about robotic process automation in business, operations, technology & strategy.

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Cognitive Business Automation 2019 key topics

IA Project Management & Organization

Roadmapping & Piloting RPA

What are practical timelines to accomplish your RPA objectives and how to identify and prioritize the processes that are ripe for IA to ensure maximum program success?

Continuous evaluation of your IA & RPA program

What are realistic IA project management timelines & KPIs to meet and performance measurements to ensure your IA opportunities and benefits meet their maximum potential and what are software tools and workflow dashboards to ensure your IA programs stay on track towards success?

Realistic IA payback & ROI expectations

How to scale up an IA program and achieve payback sooner vs. later and how to budget financial investments?

Cost-Budget Management

Where to start and what are the costs of process automation?

RPA & IA Governance

How to control and steer RPA programs with effective RPA governance strategies to achieve maximum benefit from your virtual workforce

Small vs. Scale

What are the benefits of starting small and how doing so it will lower risks?

Mid-sized companies

How to calculate and generate value without scale?

Sizing up the vendor landscape

Which IA software tools would be the best fit for your functional needs, project/s scope, and budgets?

People & Culture

Workplace Management

How successful is cognitive automation in the workplace?

Change management initiatives

How to set up partnerships that encourage successful communication between departments, staff, and stakeholders?

Talent Management in RPA and intelligent automation

How to recruit top IA talents considering the fierce market demand and high salaries being offered by the competition

Process Excellence & Cognitive Business Automation

Next Level Accounting

What are hybrid models for intelligent automation and which backend processes should be automate

Process Mapping

How to avoid automating tasks instead of processes?

Enhanced Process Mining

How to optimize automation tracking & analysis, automatic process visualization, root cause analysis and KPIs?

Automating less standardized and smaller volume processes

How they determined which “low volume, less standardized” – or both” processes were cleared for IA, including their business case that won their stakeholders’ approval?

Process Mining and Process Automation

How to utilize process mining as a first step to process automation optimization?

RPA CoE

What are the benefits of creating an RPA Center of Excellence and which guidelines for assessment, design, development and deployment of robots are needed?

Determining your CoE Model

What are CoE model types and the pros & cons of each?

Tools & Technologies

Advanced Automation

What are RPA techniques like semantic text recognition or Cognitive like NLP to deal with unstructured data?

The RPA and AI Roadmap

How does my Data Readiness affect my journey?

Data Governance

How to streamline your Data preparation flow?

Data management strategies for RPA

How to curate and standardize data as a precursor for RPA and gather data along your process definition?

Model and data lifecycle at scale

Measuring performance for time-series models and NLP systems and use cases for RPA?

Managing Bots Workloads & Schedules

How to determine which processes your bots should handle and how to manage cost scenarios of bots?

Infrastructure Design

How do you ensure your systems are compatible with the technologies your business partners would like to bring into your organization, and how can you set up your organization’s IT infrastructure so to maximize the technologies running through them?

IA Data Security

What are technological safeguards specifically designed to protect an organizations’ data infrastructure?

Cognitive Business Automation in numbers

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Keynotes 2019

Enterprise Cognitive Technologies and Cognitive Automation
Milap Patel
Director AI Strategy and Transformation | Ericsson
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The Automation Journey @ Bosch – from Proof of Concept and Centre of Excellence to Prototypes and AI
Irfan Ali
Process Automation Head | Bosch Service Solutions
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The ‘RPA to Cognitive’ Journey at the shared services units of Pfizer Global – Do’s and Don’ts, Successes and Lessons Learnt
Anil Bhavnani
Director BPO Operations and Transformation | Global Financial Solutions | Shared Services | Pfizer
Anil Bhavnani

Highlights 2019

All speakers 2019
Meeting a lot of professionals in networking and enjoyed a large number of sessions. The event was a very good experience.
Cecilia Uebel Blomgren
Head of AI and Cognitive Implementation | Ericsson
The event helped us to put our solutions in perspective and allowed to design next steps.
Kristaps Mastins
Business Analyst | Circle UK
A good combination of direct applicability, future-orientated innovation, and potential partnerships.
Coen Elfelrink
Digital and Robotic Process Automation Specialist | Generali Employee Benefits
Very positive. Great and professional organization throughout whole process.
Barbara Zuzana Bodnar
Deutsche Telekom
Good formats and discussions
Jonas Schindler
Deutsche Bahn

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Industry Split

Pharmaceuticals
23%
Pharmaceuticals: 23%
Chemicals
13%
Chemicals: 13%
Technology & Engineering
13%
Technology & Engineering: 13%
Automotive
12%
Automotive: 12%
Telecommunications
12%
Telecommunications: 12%
Banking
5%
Banking: 5%
Energy
5%
Energy: 5%
Others
17%
Others: 17%

The Community

Manager / Senior Manager
36%
Manager / Senior Manager: 36%
Head of / Director
28%
Head of / Director: 28%
CXOs
10%
CXOs: 10%
VP
6%
VP: 6%
Other
21%
Other: 21%

Geographical Split

Germany
59%
Germany: 59%
BeNeLux
10%
BeNeLux: 10%
Nordics
9%
Nordics: 9%
Switzerland
5%
Switzerland: 5%
Russia
4%
Russia: 4%
Asia
4%
Asia: 4%
Others
9%
Others: 9%

 

What is the unique networking experience at Cognitive Business Automation?

 

We know that networking, ideation, knowledge sharing and getting this “little detail I didn‘t know so far“ is one of the most important reasons to participate at our events. To guarantee the best networking experience, various sessions has been created, tailored to your needs and curated from the industry – we call it Multi-Touchpoint Concept!

Keynote

Keynote

Top speakers, trendsetters, evangelists and experts in the field share their personal experience.

World-Cafe

World Café Session

Be part of several thematic conversation rounds with changing topics and team constellations.

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Matchfinder! Powered by AI

we.CONECT’s unique Event App & Matchfinder – Use our unique matching platform to make new connections, arrange meetings and find tailored solutions to your needs.

Search – Find – Match – Connect

Say-hello

Say Hello?

Get the show on the road. Discover who is joining the conference and why. To warm you up for the conference we invite you to get to know your conference peers. Have your business cards ready.

Case-Studies

Case Study

Selected brand new case studies from the industry offering insights into strategic approaches, project planning and operative realization. Learn from the most successful practices and use these real business results for benchmarking with the competition.

Icebreaker

Icebreaker

Round tables on the evening before the first conference day. The Icebreaker is a first informal networking.

Challenge-your-Peers

Challenge your Peers

Parallel round table discussions offer the delegates the possibility to talk about their own challenges

Matchfinder

Meet! CBA 2019

Discover who else is participating at Cognitive Business Automation. Our unique Polaroid Picture Wall will help you identify who you want to meet at the conference.

Breakfast-Club

Breakfast Club

Start the conference with coffee and… NETWORKING! Join the we.CONECT Breakfast Club – an exclusive area in your hotel – and get into a conversation with other delegates already while having your first coffee.

Dinner

Networking Dinner

Wind down, enjoy great food and drink in a relaxed atmosphere to absorb all the new stimulations from the day.

Startup-Lounge

AUTOMATION.SCALE start-up lounge

we.CONECT gives you the opportunity to showcase your work and ideas and provides an excellent opportunity for start-up level companies to showcase their best technologies, software and concepts.

Tweetback-Cards

Tweetback & Comments

The unique interactive live feedback system! Note down your thoughts on comment cards which will be pinned on walls in the networking area for further discussion.

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