IN-PERSON

New York CIO Executive Summit

June 20, 2023 | Pier Sixty

June 20, 2023
Pier Sixty

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with New York's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Leading through Volatility to Enable the Organization to Succeed

Increasing Competitive Advantage to Attract and Retain Critical Talent

Boosting Efficiencies by Scaling Data and Analytics Access Across the Enterprise

New York CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Shannon Britton

Shiseido Americas Corporation
CIO

Kenneth Corriveau

Omnicom Media Group
SVP, CIO Worldwide

Dean Del Vecchio

Guardian Life Insurance
Executive VP, Chief of Operations & Chief Information Officer

Warren Kudman

Turner Construction
SVP & Chief Information Officer

Robert McCowan

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Earl Newsome

Cummins
Chief Information Officer

Anna Ransley

Godiva Chocolatier
Global CIO

Atefeh Riazi

Hearst
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Janet Sherlock

Ralph Lauren Corp
CIO

Michael Smith

Estee Lauder
Chief Information Officer

Cindy Taibi

New York Times
Senior VP & Chief Information Officer

Andre Bromes

Salvation Army
CIO

Eswar Veluri

Equinox
EVP & CTO

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your New York CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda


11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

The Strategic Partnership Between CIOs & CTOs

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Jamie Nelson

SVP & CIO

Hospital For Special Surgery

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Bashir Agboola

Chief Technology Officer

Hospital For Special Surgery

A successful partnership between the CIO and CTO are necessary for gaining visibility and helping the enterprise accelerate performance. Aligning digital business initiatives and establishing actionable recruitment and retention efforts rely on an equal partnership.

Join Jamie Nelson, CIO and Bashir Agboola, CTO at Hospital for Special Surgery to discuss:

  • Relying on a CIO and CTOs unique skill sets
  • Aligning a business wide talent retention and recruitment strategy
  • Accelerating digital business initiatives

11:00am - 11:45am  Breakout Session

The Road to an Optimal Zero Trust Strategy

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Anudeep Parhar

Chief Operating Officer | Digital

Entrust

 Disappearing perimeter, expanding attack surface, inevitable breaches, and the acceleration of digital transformation pose an increasingly complex challenge for organizations of all sizes. The Zero Trust framework provides a blueprint to secure data and networks in today’s multi-cloud environment, but the path to get there remains fragmented and challenging.

Join this session with CIO peers to discuss:

  • Establishing trusted identities across users, devices, apps and workloads
  • Securing data in-transit, at-rest and in-use across public and private cloud environments
  • Building a roadmap to protect against threats in a post quantum (PQ) future

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Unleashing Innovation — Embracing the Product-Centric Paradigm

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Lynda Pak

SVP, Technology Leader for Global Brands & Corporate Functions

The Estee Lauder Companies

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Leo Rajapakse

Global Head of Platform Infrastructure & Advanced Technology

Bimbo Bakeries USA

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Stephanie Moore

Senior Vice President Marketing

Softtek

In an era of rapid digital transformation, software engineering organizations are pivoting toward a product-centric software delivery model to unlock innovation and foster agility. This roundtable delves into the complexities of adopting the product-centric paradigm, examining its impact on company culture and processes, and offering valuable insights to guide organizations on their transformative journey.

Join your peers to discuss:

  • Exploring the potential of product-centricity to drive innovation and digital growth
  • Identifying essential success factors and securing the necessary sponsorship for a seamless product-centric transition
  • Sharing best practices to empower organizations embarking on their product-centric journey

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

Achieving Growth and Profitability Through Optimization in Complex Times

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Shannon Britton

CIO

Shiseido Americas Corporation

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Sam Bouhali

Senior Vice President, IT and Business Process Reengineering

Canon Solutions America

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Michael Perica

Chief Financial Officer

Rimini Street

Faced with growing economic uncertainty and budget concerns, CIOs are under more pressure than ever to keep costs under control while still supporting the company’s growth opportunities. With the right application strategies in place, they can make ROI-based decisions more confidently during these complex times.

Join this boardroom session to discuss:

  • Maximize the value of applications while remaining agile
  • Optimize through service unification
  • Improve efficiencies through architectures to support company growth

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn Mckee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com

11:00am - 11:45am  Executive Boardroom

New Frontiers of Automation

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Alexandra Thurel

Associate Vice President Product Management IPP Software & Solution- Automation

HCL Software

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Brian Carlson

CIO

Sodexo

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Steven Wolk

Chief Technology Officer

P.C. Richard & Son

Future-facing enterprises are proactively embracing automation into mainstream use cases and operations are becoming “led by humans, assisted by AI.” New users are demanding business-as-a-service models that challenge IT to deliver services that need orchestration, scalability, compliance. How do CIOs overcome the challenges of scalable digital transformation and take advantage of a new generation of automation?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • Applying automation and AI for defined outcomes in IT and for the business
  • Supporting new demands of orchestration driven by cloud transformation and business-as-a-service models
  • Harnessing AI at the center of operations to scale digital transformation

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn Mckee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com

11:45am - 12:30pm  Lunch Service

12:30pm - 1:05pm  Keynote

Technology and the Art of Transformation

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Gary Burnette

Chief Data Officer and VP, People and Workforce Systems

Kyndryl

Change is difficult for any organization and achieving change at scale requires planning, patience, and perseverance. So, when Kyndryl was presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to drive change post-spin, how did they tackle this huge opportunity to radically modernize and simplify to run more efficiently at a much lower cost while providing increased value to the business?

Join Kyndryl’s CDO, Gary Burnette, as he shares:

  • How to overcome challenges to provide agile, capable, and cost-effective set of services for their business
  • How transformation is underpinned by a well-governed data approach that enables end-to-end process execution and delivers valuable business insight
  • What the value is of a tight linkage to the business teams and alignment on outcomes

1:05pm - 1:30pm  Break

7:45am - 8:30am  Registration & Breakfast

8:30am - 9:15am  Keynote

Leading Locally, Influencing Globally

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Jennifer Hohman

Founder

Fight For Us

 CIOs are some of the most intelligent and influential people on the planet. Their understanding of business, economics and technology provides enormous opportunities to help influence their communities and industries. Jennifer Hohman does just that, using her intrinsic knowledge of value creation and problem solving to make a global impact on human rights and environmental citizenship.

Join this session, as Jennifer illustrates how CIOs can influence change by:

  • Applying common IT methodologies to solve global issues

  • Leveraging your knowledge and leadership to create solutions for the greater good

  • Shaping the way leaders overcome challenges using traditional IT approaches

9:15am - 9:40am  Networking Break

9:40am - 10:25am  Breakout Session

How to Craft Your Secure AI Copilot Strategy

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Bhavin Shah

CEO & Founder

Moveworks

If you have used technologies like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney, then you have experienced the magic of copilots. But you might also be wondering how this type of experience could be applied across all your enterprise apps and data. Join Bhavin Shah, CEO and Co-founder of Moveworks, as he shares a useful framework explaining how to do just that, for every use case and investment level.

Join this session to:

  • Learn the latest, cutting-edge techniques required for each kind of copilot
  • Explore the value of each copilot through fine-tuning, augmentation, and grounding
  • Gain insight into how you can implement generative AI across your company

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Avoiding Software Paralysis Through Strategic Change Management

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Stewart Hill

Regional Field CTO

WalkMe

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Frank Iannella

CIO USA, VP Digital & Technology

Heineken

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Patricia Bousfield

Chief Information Officer

Hikma Pharmaceuticals

Organizations are balancing more technology than ever before. As digital transformation projects continue to rise, employees are experiencing fatigue in using changing software tools and adapting to new technologies. How can CIOs avoid spending more to achieve goals, mitigate organizational risk, and keep their competitive advantage?

Join this boardroom to explore:

  • Implementing digital adoption platforms to prevent software paralysis
  • Increasing time-to-value and productivity
  • Avoiding employee fatigue due to ever-changing software operating models

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Strategic AI Opportunities for IT Operations and Development

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Elizabeth Reyes

Deputy Executive Director

New York City Employees’ Retirement System

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Daniel Jadczak

CIO, Americas

Louis Vuitton

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Don Choe

Chief Technology Officer

Annaly

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Kathryn Guarini

Chief Information Officer

IBM

Every business wants to get the most out of its resources. Apart from making more profit, companies constantly strive towards reducing overall costs. Surviving in today’s competitive world requires businesses make strategic decisions that lead to better efficiencies. AIOps seeks to do just that – ensure the delivery of highly performant digital applications and services. 

Join this session to discuss:

  • Gathering and harnessing the data available to provide full stack and enterprise observability 
  • Automating cloud resource allocation and management to optimize cost  
  • Using AI in IT operations and management solutions

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

9:40am - 10:25am  Executive Boardroom

Applications Integration for Business Acceleration

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Carmine Lizza

Chief Information Officer and Global Head of Technology

Lazard Group

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Eric Craig

VP & CTO

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Integrating applications allows companies to use their existing technologies, in combination, to their fullest potential, to provide seamless experiences to internal and external users. As CIOs take stock of their sprawling applications portfolio, how can they cut through the complexity to create integrated experiences underpinned by a modern IT foundation that connects data and technologies?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Leveraging low-code/no-code capabilities to free up valuable resources
  • Gaining insight into technical debt and maximize the value of applications
  • Creating architectures that evolve with ever-changing business requirements and accelerate transformation

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

10:25am - 11:00am  Networking Break

10:30am - 10:55am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Accelerating Decision Making with Better Data Connection

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Robert McCowan

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Connecting data within functional groups and across the enterprise will accelerate innovation and business outcomes and enable a richer set of actionable insights. Bob McCowan, CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and his team have been able to help scientists and their business partners connect data in many different ways enabling faster and more insightful decisions.

Join this session to explore:

  • Finding the value in the basics
  • Creating consistencies in process delivery
  • Increasing speed and quality of decision making

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Breakout Session

Securing your Digital Workspace with AI-Powered Intelligence

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Chris Plescia

Chief Technology Evangelist

Aware, Inc.

Harness the power of AI to secure your digital workplace and deliver actionable intelligence that unlocks innovation and top-line growth for your business. Learn what a multinational retail corporation, global fast-food chain, global airline and international shipping company are learning by using AI to revolutionize their culture, reduce risk, ensure compliance, and make data-driven decisions.

In this session learn to:

  • Understand and quantify the growing data sprawl and security problems facing your organization’s digital conversations

  • How to implement AI-driven solutions to mitigate potential risks, ensure compliance, and safeguard sensitive data

  • How to drive productivity, increase efficiencies and optimizing resource allocation with AI-Powered Insight

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

Crisis Planning - Flipping the Asymmetry with Attackers

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Connie Mui-Reilly

EVP & Chief Information Officer

Douglas Elliman

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Niraj Patel

CIO

Greystone

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Oren Wortman

VP Cyber Security Services, NA

Sygnia

Preparing for a cyber crisis is imperative and can determine whether it becomes a major catastrophe or a manageable incident. Whether you have experience navigating a crisis or are preparing for the inevitable attack to come, come together with your peers to leverage the wisdom in the room to tackle complex challenges and get ahead of the attackers.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Evaluating common options, dilemmas, and pitfalls in crisis planning
  • Understanding the impact of technical and stakeholder management decisions on the business
  • Identifying key gaps and vulnerabilities often overlooked by security teams

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs). To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

1:30pm - 2:15pm  Executive Boardroom

The CIO's Playbook - Execute Strategy Confidently

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Joseph Gimigliano

CTO

The Mount Sinai Hospital

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Jeff Marshall

CIO, North America

Havas

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Ian Stendera

VP of Product

Ardoq

Today's rapidly evolving enterprise requires CIOs to balance agility and conformance performance. Competing priorities can appear to hinder digital transformation. CIOs can execute transformation by providing greater transparency of resources to successfully execute on strategy to seize opportunity before competition. 

 Join this session to discuss:

  • Introducing adaptability amongst ongoing market uncertainty
  • Prioritizing risk-adjusted execution flexibility
  • Synchronization of IT and business stakeholder with real-time collaboration

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Hadyn Mckee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com

2:15pm - 2:50pm  Networking Break

2:20pm - 2:45pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Cry for Help Met with Overnight Growth

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Rama Donepudi

Chief Information Officer (CIO), Global Nutrition

Reckitt Benckiser

A CIO would never imagine needing to redesign their entire supply chain overnight, but that’s exactly what Rama Donepudi CIO at Reckitt streamlined when the infant formula shortage hit in 2022. Swift and efficient action by Reckitt has led to deploying a reimagined and redesigned supply chain strategy that now produces 40% more product than before, keeping the shelves stocked to meet demand.

Join Rama Donepdudi as he discusses:

  • Leading under pressure to produce and deploy fast outcomes

  • Implementing stress and performance tests

  • Creating a resiliency framework to ensure excellence and reduce risk

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Breakout Session

Striving for Human Excellence Regardless of Work Location

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Gary Sorrentino

Global CIO

Zoom Video Communications

Now that the pandemic is behind us, how do we make people better moving forward? Regardless of whether they are working remotely, in office or hybrid, we need to continue to create a culture of collaboration and innovation.

Join this boardroom for a conversation on:

  • How to upskill our employees to be the best that they can be - striving for human excellence
  • How you utilize UCaaS and CCaaS to support the enterprise
  • Predictions for the future of work

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Accelerating Speed to Value on IT Investments

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Cherif Amirat

CIO

IEEE

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Amit Basu

Vice President, CIO & CISO

International Seaways

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Mik Kersten

Chief Technology Officer

Planview

CIOs are expected to use technology to help create innovative solutions and drive business value. Given the current macroeconomic environment, expensive tech talent and ongoing supply shortages, CIOs must demonstrate their IT investments are not only meeting the needs of the business but also increasing revenue and reducing cost.

Join this session to discuss: 

  • Improving time-to-value and predictability

  • Consistently meeting customer and market commitments while avoiding constraints and delivery delays

  • Building more accurate plans leveraging leading indicators and better capacity assumptions

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

2:50pm - 3:35pm  Executive Boardroom

Solving for the Next Era of Innovation and Efficiency with Data and AI

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Bridget Snell

Acting Chief Information Officer

Save The Children

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Ankur Kashyap

SVP & Global Head of Google Cloud Ecosystem, HCLTech

HCL Technologies

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Jim Anderson

Vice President, NA Partner Ecosystem & Channels

Google

Recent developments in data and AI technologies have the potential to reinvent how CIOs drive a culture of innovation. The current interest around generative AI and its emerging solutions have many IT leaders asking, what would be the first step and how can we maximize the benefit for our organizations?

Join this boardroom session and discuss:

  • Driving a culture of innovation to increase efficiency and achieve ESG imperatives
  • Operationalizing data and AI at scale to drive business impact
  • Balancing data and AI governance with existing IT and security regulations

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to CIOs).To reserve your seat, please contact: Haydn McKee at haydn.mckee@evanta.com 

3:35pm - 4:00pm  Break

4:00pm - 4:35pm  Keynote

A Home Run with AI

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Neil Boland

SVP, Technology & CISO

Major League Baseball

Every CIO wants to hit it out of the park. Join Neil Boland, SVP Technology & CISO, MLB as he shares how the league leverages AI and ML to foster a culture of advanced technology.

In this session Neil Boland discusses,

  • Visualizing how AI can uncover and enhance key themes and improve real-time decision making with a live product
  • Raising the game though dynamic automation
  • Getting everyone to the plate by making advanced technology more accessible

4:40pm - 7:00pm  Governing Body Private Dinner

Leaving a Legacy – Using Your Technology Knowledge for Good

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Andrea Markstrom

Chief Information Officer

Schulte Roth & Zabel

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Shea Rhodes

Director & Co-Founder - Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Villanova University

Join the New York CIO Governing Body as we celebrate the completion of the 2023 Executive Summit by hearing from industry-leading peers on ways to get involved and give back to your local community. Connect and hear from guest speakers with dinner, drinks, networking and an opportunity to give back and create positive change.

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