Chris Bartlow
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Senior Director, Information Technology
Liberty Mutual Insurance
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Race to the Top:
Three Ways to Win with People
Chris Bartlow• 11+ years with Liberty Mutual
• Technical Development Program
• Now focused in Engineering, Cloud,
DevOps, Security, Document Solutions
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Mary MeekerPartner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Venture capitalist, reputation as the Nostradamus of technology
@kpcb
We are in an era where we are reimagining
nearly everything . . . powered by new
devices, plus connectivity, plus new user
interfaces, plus beauty.
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Our company’s
secret weapon
Technology@ Liberty Mutual
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73rd
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RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATIONWin with your people
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CHANGINGEverything we do in technology is …
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Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O’Reilly
Authors of Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Approach problems differently …
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• 1 hypothesis
• 12 team members
• 4+ days in 1 room
• 20+ applications prepped for cloud migration
• Form a hypothesis and gain support
• Plan just enough to get started
• Ongoing, real-time collaboration
Cloud Readiness HACKATHON
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TEAMINGWin with your people
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Rod CollinsDirector of Innovation, Optimity Advisors.
a leading expert on management innovation
@collinsrod
The wonderful thing about effective
organizations is that we do not have to
be individually perfect to succeed.
We just have to be perfect together.
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Go farther together
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HACKATHONS
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AGILEHOTHOUSES
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DATAJAMS
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CONTINUOUS LEARNINGWin with your people
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RISK-TAKING & EXPERIMENTATION TEAMING
+ =
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
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THE CHANCE OF FAILUREIS ALMOST ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE GUARANTEE OF
NOT KNOWINGAARON LEVIE
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Chris Bartlow
linkedin.com/in/chrisbartlow
Senior Director, Information Technology
Liberty Mutual Insurance
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Thank you!