MIT CISR AsiaPac Int'l Exec. Forum 2025

8:00 AM

Check-in and Welcome Coffee/Tea

8:30 AM

Welcome and Introduction
Kristine Dery

9:00 AM

Leverage Your Enterprise Platforms to Create Value
Stephanie Woerner
In this presentation, Stephanie will describe five organizational designs for capturing value from platforms, and will show the designs top-performing companies use. She will also share case studies of successful platforms and the lessons learned to drive value.

Become a Real-Time Business for Top Performance
Peter Weill
Real-time business (RTB) companies use trusted real-time data to enable people and systems to make real-time decisions—and these companies perform better.​ In this presentation, Peter will share four capabilities that combine to propel RTB companies’ performance.

Executive Interview: Gerard Florian, Group Executive, Technology, ANZ
with Peter Weill

8:30 AM

Welcome Coffee/Tea

9:00 AM

Organizational Perspectives on Firefighting
Roberto Fernandez
In the current fast-paced modern business environment, it is very common for executives and professionals to be pulled into situations of overload where commitments exceed organizational capacity. In many cases, this reality kicks off dynamics of organizational firefighting, where resources are diverted from on-going projects to deal with the most pressing problems. But starving on-going projects of needed resources often has the consequence of creating critical problems in those projects. Although unintended, the cascading effects of firefighting responses erode the organization’s capacity to prioritize and plan, driving out its ability to reliably execute. In this session, we will delve into the organizational roots of firefighting cycles. The framework we develop will be important for suggesting approaches to avoid the destructive consequences of these dynamics.

Cyber Security: The role of the CISO and every leader in 2025
Daminda Kumara and Peter Weill
Daminda and Peter will discuss the emerging cyber threats and defenses in the fast changing world of AI—particularly generative and agentic AI plus quantum computing. They will discuss how Daminda thinks about his responsibility as CISO and the responsibility of all executives—indeed all employees in the organization. Peter and Daminda will then lead a conversation with session participants about best practices for cyber and will finish with a tabletop exercise.  

Opportunities with MIT Executive Education
Meg Regan