The business of disruption
The average lifespan of a large company has plummeted. Once, big firms stayed atop the Fortune 500 for over 60 years; today, they average 15. If companies were people, this would be an unprecedented epidemic.
The reason for this sudden collapse is simple: Everything is digital. After decades installing software, automating workflows, and deploying machines, digital is the new normal.
Many big firms were caught flat-footed by this change. Their leaders were taught to seek economies of scale, and to make the operation predictable and repeatable. They created processes, job descriptions, and organizational charts. But these strengths are now vulnerabilities. Sustainable Competitive Advantage is a fiction—and the only long-term strategy is adaptability.
Survive and thrive
The only way to survive this change is to embrace the chaos. To recognize that technology is no longer a cost of doing business—it is the business. To understand that the only lasting advantage is the ability to adapt.
That’s what Pandemonio is about. It’s a two-day event on how technology is disrupting business. It brings together senior executives from Latin America and beyond, as well as thought leaders in innovation and frontier technologies like robotics, automation, machine learning, data science, cloud computing, and the Industrial Internet.
Sense, Decide, Act
While technical disruption is changing every facet of business, we’re focusing on three massive shifts that every CEO and innovator needs to understand.
Sense
Wearables, IOT, Industrial Internet
Sensors everywhere give organizations perfect, real-time visibility into all aspects of their operations—with new advantages, but also new obligations for reporting and liability.
Decide
Cloud, Data & Machine Learning
New IT makes businesses agile, replacing capital outlay with on-demand infrastructure. Companies scale dynamically, unearth hidden patterns, and test new ideas faster.
Act
Robotics & Automation
The first machine age replaced muscles with steam and gas. But this new age is different: We’re replacing brains and entire workforces with algorithms and robots.
Who’s behind this?
Pandemonio is brought to you by a team of business and technology veterans.
Alistair Croll
(@acroll) advises Global 2000 companies on business model innovation. A sought-after speaker and startup advisor, he has helped launch five leading business technology events. Alistair has written four books, including the best-selling Lean Analytics (translated into eight languages) and the founder of several startups including Coradiant and the Year One Labs accelerator.
Bryan Bogensberger
(@bbogens) has founded firms such as Quiver Media, Inktank Storage, Reasonably Smart, and Marketing Island. He has twenty years’ experience growing game-changing technology companies, and is an expert in cloud computing, social media, and marketing logistics.
Our Advisory Council
A special thanks to an amazing group of intelligent, passionate and dedicate Advisors we were lucky enough to have part of the Pandemonio team.
Wendy Cue
Head of Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean at United Nations
Irvin Halman
Administrator General Autoridad Nacional para la Innovación Gubernamental
Victor Sanchez
Director Nacional de Innovación at Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
Eli Faskha
President Soluciones Seguras
Diego Saenz
Managing Director at Accenture Digital
Glen Champion
Vice President at Bern Hotels & Resorts
Min Chen
CEO at REDOXIGEN
David Peguero
Teacher at UABC
Diversity and code of conduct
We want Pandemonio to be a safe, productive, respectful place for all attendees. We’ve set up a Code of Conduct by which we expect all participants to abide.