Breakout Sessions
The Mid-Market Convention is designed to have experts leading discussions of the other experts in the room. It is not a typical “speakers address an audience” environment. In fact, there are no presentations and lectures. Everything is interactive.
Panels and workshops are configured differently to deliver ideas and tools with short and long-term application and impact.
Panels allow 1/3 of the time for panelists to present their ideas, 1/3 of the time for open discussion and debate across the room, and 1/3 of the time to create a shared vision to present to the world with specific actionable ideas to report.
Workshops are facilitated sessions in which CEOs and experts in the room help each other strengthen knowledge and skills. Knowledge and ideas are shared with the community via notes, slides, and takeaways.
Artificial Intelligence: Leveraging AI will be paramount to future success
How can you leverage AI to gain a sustainable competitive advantage?
This session will explore how to:
- Identify potential business applications to transform your organization.
- Create opportunities to collaborate with like-minded CEOs and experts.
- Augment business performance by integrating key AI management insights.
- Provide our members with special resources to utilize AI
CEOC Angel Investor Network: Find innovation; mentor entrepreneurs
Connecting you to investment opportunities in early-stage ventures.
This session will explore how to:
- Create opportunities for our members who want to find investment.
- opportunities in early-stage ventures.
- Provide our members with special resources to find innovative entrepreneurs.
- Collaborate with like-minded investors.
CEOC Board Connection Network: Find a board seat
Connections are the key to finding a board seat; What is your target and position statement?
This session will address:
- Understanding the different types of boards (public, private, advisory).
- What matters to you in getting on a board.
- What matters to those looking for board members.
- Your personal positioning statement connecting what matters to you and what matters to them.
Discussion Leader:
CEOC Leadership Boot Camp: CEOs helping CEOs scale
The discussion will include:
- Choosing or clarifying your organization’s core focus: design, production, delivery/distribution, or service.
- How that choice impacts your organization’s values, strategy, organization, and operations.
- How that choice impacts what’s most needed from you as CEO: enabling, enforcing, enrolling, or acting as the customer experience officer.
Discussion Leader:
CEOC Merger and Acquisition Network: Find & integrate M&A opportunities
How to source, evaluate, fund, and integrate acquisitions
The session will explore:
- Major challenges to M&A success
- Identifying and assessing opportunities
- Access to Capital
- Onboarding the acquisitions
- Preventing culture clashes
- Ensuring alignment
- Resources for success
Data ROI and your knowledge GAP
How can you leverage data to gain a sustainable competitive advantage?
This session will explore:
- A path to maximize your ROI of your data investment.
- An evaluation of the maturity of your data environment.
- Areas where the company can better use its data to fuel growth and profitability.
- Insight into the extent to which your organization is using data to drive strategy and guidance to use it more effectively.
- Actioning data – how to make the data work for you
Digital Transformation: Unlock the full value of your technology
How can the Mid-Market work together to close the digital divide?
This session will explore:
- A Mid-Market Digital Transformation roadmap
- Do your employees have the tools they need to do their work
- Cyber Security
- The hidden ROI of technology
- Resources for success
Enlightened Self Interest: The ROI of doing good while doing well
How to use social impact to create shareholder wealth.
This session will explore:
- Integration of social impact into corporate strategy
- Sustainability as an asset and selling feature
- How to reduce your carbon footprint with an ROI
- Developing a culture with diversity of thought
- Supporting the community to enhance growth
Healthcare: Provide better healthcare; reduce your costs.
By combining the resources of the Mid-Market, we can develop mid-market initiatives and strategies that can improve healthcare for you, your family and your employees while reducing your healthcare costs.
This session will explore:
- Association plans: Is it time and is it doable?
- The CEOC Mid-Market bundling program to create a more cost-effective health insurance program
- Creative alternatives and options
- Cancer Connection: Enhance ability to understand the situation, find and access the right doctors, receive state of the art treatments, deal with the potential results which will lead to lower health costs.
Quantifying the Qualitative: New frontiers in customer valuation and HR assessment
How can companies gain a competitive advantage by refocusing on the customer?
Topics to be addressed include:
- Contrasting (and improving) measurement practices for customer lifetime value and human resources management
- Case studies of companies that have successfully implemented these approaches
- Incentive-compatible peer assessment
- Insights into combining predictive analytics in customer value and HR management to achieve long-term strategic goals
Discussion Leader:
Young Professional Connection: Talk about Gen Z with Gen Z
What do they want, what do they need, and what motivates them.
This session will explore:
- Pros and cons of remote working
- How to develop and retain high potential young professionals
- How are comp and benefits interpreted by Gen Z
- Identifying best practices to hire Gen Z