Lab #3

Accelerated Innovation & the Impact on Restaurants of the Future

Speaker:  David Gosman, Global Hospitality Segment Manager, HP

By exploring social shifts and technological forces shaping the future, technologists can make bold predictions on the megatrends that will have a transformative impact. David Gosman, Global Hospitality Segment Manager, HP, will give attendees a view into the sociological, demographic and technological mega-trends expected to shape hospitality businesses by 2030. Gosman will help executives identify ways technology must evolve to meet future needs. He will challenge them to strategize how to stay ahead of all this change, to innovate, adapt, reinvent and engineer experiences for a future that promises to look very different from today. 

Lab #4

Speaker:  Ryan Nowlin, CIO, Fiesta Restaurant Group

Building a Roadmap for a Successful BI Strategy  

Ryan Nowlin will share details and takeaways learned from Fiesta Restaurant Group’s journey to create an enterprise-wide business intelligence program. Nowlin will explain the nuances in what he sees as a business problem – not a technology problem – and how to solve across all areas of the organization. Attendees will gain insight into how to involve an entire organization in a productive way. In an interactive segment, executives will turn a lens to their own companies and learn how to create a plan to focus on where time and money are really needed in order to develop effective BI policy and tactics.