Engage with experts across industries who are aligning strategy, innovation, and workforce design to advance responsible AI and technology adoption at enterprise scale.
Speakers leading this transformation include senior leaders, researchers, and practitioners exploring the structural realities of enterprise AI, including data readiness, interoperability, human-centered system design, and the organizational roles and skills required for large-scale implementation.
Arrive prepared for a disciplined exchange of perspectives and depart with sharper strategic insight into how leading organizations are governing, resourcing, and scaling AI transformation.
Speakers
Nicolas Duran is a global consumer products executive with more than 20 years of experience leading brand revitalization, enterprise transformation, and large‑scale operational turnarounds across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He currently serves as President of Newell Brands’ Outdoor & Recreation division, where he is responsible for the management of a portfolio of outdoor brands like Coleman, Marmot and a few others.
Before Newell, Nicolas was President & CEO of Dorel Juvenile Group, where he steered the company through major industry disruption while improving working capital, restructuring global operations, and accelerating digital and e‑commerce capabilities. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Reebok International and Adidas Group.
Nicolas is an early adopter of AI. He completed MIT Sloan’s AI & Business Strategy program and now integrates AI‑powered tools across his organization to enhance decision‑making, speed‑to‑market and product innovation. Nicolas is a Bentley alumnus (undergraduate class of 98) and holds a graduate business degree from Boston University (class of 2001).
Jess Von Bank, with over two decades in Talent and HR Technology, brings deep expertise in workforce transformation and digital change. At Mercer, she advises global organizations on integrating emerging technologies while strengthening leadership, culture, and workforce strategy.
Lorenzo Fedele, VP of US Human Resources for Campari Group, turns business priorities into coordinated action – combining big-picture thinking in planning with integrity, pace, and care in execution. Lorenzo has shaped business transformations across Europe, APAC, and North America, working with leadership teams to solve business problems by guiding organizations forward with clarity, momentum, and integrity.
As Vice President of Human Resources, he is a strategic transformation leader who aligns talent, culture, and operating models with enterprise growth. He redesigned the HR operating model to create a unified Employee Experience & Operations center and elevate HRBPs into true strategic partners, strengthening accountability and service delivery. He helped launch a market- and customer-driven Commercial organization, unified Consumer and Trade Marketing under one cohesive model, and delivered multi-million-dollar productivity gains while improving engagement and simplifying operations. He also reset the DEI agenda, embedding culture, inclusion, and belonging at the system level.
Jonathan McBride, is Global Managing Partner for Heidrick & Struggles, advising boards and CEOs on leadership, culture, and how organizations must evolve in a rapidly changing world. His career spans senior roles at BlackRock and The White House, where he led the Presidential Personnel Office and helped shape leadership at the highest levels of Government.
Paul Baier, is the CEO, co-founder, and principal analyst at GAI Insights. He is a seasoned software entrepreneur with two decades of experience and multiple exits. Related to AI, he was VP of Product at First Fuel Software, an enterprise AI company for 5 years. Mr. Baier co-authored 3 articles about enterprise GenAI that were featured in Harvard Business Review. He was appointed an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and is a Forbes contributor. Watch his TEDxBoston Talk about advice for CEO and Executives. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA from Kenyon College.
Steven Ehrlich, is a tech enthusiast and lifelong advocate for making talent acquisition smarter, faster, and more human. Recognized as one of the Top 25 Online Influencers in Recruiting, Steven has worked on Radancy client accounts in the education, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, retail, and manufacturing sectors. For over two decades, Steven has helped global organizations rethink how they attract, engage, and hire talent through the right mix of technology, data, and creativity.
At Radancy, Steven works with some of the world’s most recognized brands to simplify complex hiring challenges. From unifying disconnected systems to using AI for real insights and measurable ROI, Steven connects great people with great companies more efficiently and effectively.
Steven's work combines innovation with simplicity leaving room for curiosity and a little fun, with a focus on AI, talent acquisition, employer branding, and how to make hiring work better for everyone.
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