EWF2017

Wafaa Mamilli, VP and CISO for Eli Lilly and Company​, will help the Executive Women's Forum kick off its national conference as our first keynote speaker. Born in Morocco, fluent in Arabic, French and English, educational degrees in Morocco, France, England and the US, Ms. Mamilli is truly a global citizen. With this year's conference theme revolving around how we thrive in volatile and uncertain times, Ms. Mamilli brings us unique and compelling insight into managing rapid change and leadership. In her tenure at Eli Lilly, she spearheaded innovation and modernization for next generation drug development - a very high stakes endeavor in the fiercely competitive pharmaceutical market. If that were not enough, her career shifted to cybersecurity where she now brings her global knowledge and experience to address a different kind of innovation. Learn about Wafaa Mamilli's career path and lessons learned around the globe.

 

I believe we’d all agree, the pace of change we are experiencing is unlike anything we've seen before. Technology is rapidly evolving at record speeds and new business models are popping up challenging mature companies impacting both our professional and personal lives. Our pace of change will never again be as slow as it is today...the question is are you ready to thrive?
 
Learn firsthand, from a fortune 100 technology executive how to positively lead - seeing the opportunities in change. Discover ways of thinking that can help you settle into this “new normal pace of operation,” and arm yourself with ideal mindsets to effectively adapt to business demands so you and your teams are set to thrive and best positioned to achieve success.

As threats in cyberspace increase in scale and sophistication, establishing norms for responsible state behavior in this domain has become more critical to the wellbeing of nations, companies and individuals.  This talk will review the progress that has been made at the international level to reach agreement on some of these "rules of the road," discuss the most recent setback with the breakdown of the 2017 UN Group of Governmental Experts on ICTs and offer some thoughts on the role of not just the governments in negotiating these norms but the role of the private sector as well.

Siobhan MacDermott, Global Cyber Public Policy Executive for Bank of America will keynote at the 15th annual Executive Women's Forum conference. She is an expert in public/private partnerships such as FS-ISAC and FSARC, whose goal is to identify, analyze and assess global systemic risks to the entire financial services sector. She is an expert in critical areas such as real-time threat sharing, risk analysis and contingency planning. Ms. MacDermott will give conference attendees unique insights into handling intense change and uncertainty while collaborating with a very diverse set of government institutions, publicly held companies, policy makers, legislators and regulatory bodies both domestically and globally.