CDX Events

This day-long conference held in partnership with KPMG at their Boston Seaport office and conference facility will focus on how tech and digital tools can help improve health and wellness for consumers in a post-pandemic world. Digital technologies and platforms were already transforming healthcare prior to the pandemic, but over the last two years the […]

The CDX Accelerate Climate + Sustainability conference will explore how leading enterprises, institutions, investors, governments, NGOs and start-ups are leveraging technology, open innovation best practices and emerging platforms to disrupt the status quo, help fight climate change and achieve short-and-long-term sustainability goals. No issue is more critical and urgent than climate change and technology and […]

What a long strange year it’s been. But it may stay strange–even scary–for a while. What did we learn in 2020?

America’s current travails are obvious. It’s been an awful year. But if we step back, is the country actually still making progress?

While most Americans take connectivity for granted, too many people globally still can’t connect to the internet.

We recently gathered with Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema and author Zachary Karabell for a Halloween discussion on the fears of Americans.

Techonomy recently partnered with Nestlé Waters to host a session on “Sustainability in a Pandemic-Ridden World.”

We concluded the several-hour virtual event with a conversation between Ritesh Patel, chief digital officer for health at advertising giant Ogilvy and Gunjan Bhow, global chief digital officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance – a Fortune 50 company with over 10,000 retail outlets globally.

Our third session featured Raj Kapoor, Lyft’s global chief strategy officer and head of its autonomous driving unit. Raj started by telling us a scary story about contracting COVID early on, and how he channeled his frustrations, especially with testing, into recruiting healthtech partners and launching a global digital registry and volunteer platform called WorldWithoutCovid.org.

Our second session was hosted by Mark Silva of KITE, a software and services platform that brings together established businesses with entrepreneurs for mutual benefit. The discussion included top innovation executives from Clorox, Alliance Bernstein, and Comcast NBCUniversal.

The inaugural CDX Virtual Summit in late April brought together leading innovation executives and digital transformation leaders from companies including Clorox, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Lyft, BCG Digital Ventures, Comcast NBCUniversal, Alliance Bernstein, Ogilvy, and KITE.