Panel Discussion
Monday, June 23
05:40 PM - 06:25 PM
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Scaling intelligent process automation (IPA) is essential for organizations striving to enhance operational efficiency and drive innovation. With the rise of Generative AI (GenAI), businesses have new opportunities to accelerate automation—but also face internal challenges such as cultural resistance, skill gaps, and the need to balance automation with human roles. This panel will explore how organizations can navigate these obstacles while integrating GenAI into their automation strategies. Experts will discuss how to structure a Center of Excellence (CoE) effectively, whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach, and how Business Process Management (BPM) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can work together. Additionally, panelists will examine key considerations for technology selection, strategies for fostering continuous innovation without disrupting existing processes, and the ethical, regulatory, and security implications of scaling automation. In this session, we will discuss these and other related questions:
Cristina Duta, Director of Intelligent Automation on a global level at Aecom, is an innovative leader with an extensive experience in technology, consulting, intelligent automation and thought leadership. She holds an MSc and a PhD in Computer Science and capitalizes on more than 12 years of experience in Software Development and Intelligent Automation, delivering significant Digital Transformation programs across Life Science, Banking and Manufacturing companies. Cristina is an IA professional focused on extending, enriching and empowering organizations in having a digital mindset for the future of work. She is an Executive Member of the Intelligent Automation Congress and a member within VOCAL Council and regularly shares her knowledge at global and industry-led events.
Stefan Hassmann is the Service Owner and Head of the central Process Automation Platform at Continental. With 17 years of professional experience in IT service management and automation, he has held key roles at Hewlett-Packard, Materna, and Continental, driving innovative solutions and operational excellence.
Marco started his career as a Management consultant with Bain & Company and first came across the field of IT as a Founder and CIO of an Internet startup back in 2000. He joined Deutsche Telekom in 2002 and had several stations in the IT Project & Systems Integration business of Deutsche Telekom and T-Systems. Since 2018 Marco is Vice President Automation & DevOps Excellence at Deutsche Telekom Service GmbH. Marco's team provides IT solutions for the service & customer care organization of Telekom Deutschland. The focus is to drive automation & digitization projects to make things easier for it`s customers and employees in Germany by delivering agile & smart IT solutions. For example, they run one of Europe`s largest Process Automation platforms and do agile design & development for customer care applications.
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I love this job because this job has such a tremendous impact. With our process automation solution and now with the integration of GenAI, we improve the life of our customers and our operational colleagues every day – and this way we make a huge measurable impact for the company and our way to become a digital role model.
Franziska Krüger holds a Senior Manager position at d-fine. With a background in mathematics, Franziska has been supporting banks on capital market projects for almost a decade now – focusing on capital market products and processes as well as process automation and digitalization.