Speaker Lily Wong

Lily Wong, is currently Head of Digital Transformation & AI and responsible for shaping and driving the company’s digital and AI strategy on a global scale integrating business and technology, creating synergies across various countries and corporate functions, eliminating duplicates, and fostering a unified approach to digital initiatives.

Lily Wong previously held a leadership position as Bayer Head of Strategy & Partnerships, overseeing the global IT strategy of Bayer and develop Bayer’s Digital partnerships with academic institutions, startups and digital natives to fuel innovation while managing strategic partnership alliances and commercial deals in close collaboration with divisions and functions.

Lily Wong has more than 15 years of experience in strategy and execution for F500 companies in R&D, marketing, sales and supply chain. She has proven leadership experience by connecting well with customers to understand complex problems, build trust quickly and implement simple solutions.

At the same time, she has a natural ability to bring together cross-functional teams at all levels to drive impact. She is passionate about coaching and mentoring individuals and teams. Lily Wong has experience serving on community tech boards and advising start-ups that are disrupting the market.

Lily Wong speaking Topics

Digital transformation
- How can partnerships be developed to drive digital transformation and increase value creation?

Why is corporate innovation & open innovation so difficult?

Emerging technology
- Unlocking the potential of AI and Gen AI for companies
- Generative AI - how to start the Gen AI journey in your organization

Variety, Diversity, Equality & Inclusion
- Overcoming bias
- The power of tenacity, courage and resilience
- The minority perspective
- You are not too young
- Women in technology
- Women in Leadership

Lily Wong has spent much of her career advising global B2B and B2C companies on their digital transformation journey.

This includes helping companies launch new products, services and experiences for consumers. Creating and prioritizing digital opportunities, developing strategic operating models and orchestrating execution to ensure business and technology investments are translated into measurable results.

At Bayer, Lily Wong led the digital transformation for Bayer Consumer Health R&D and Regulatory, Medical, Safety, Compliance with the goal of digitizing innovation, maximizing the value of data and technology for scientific discovery, and developing breakthrough consumer-centric offerings and business models to achieve growth and compliance goals and drive self-care for everyday health.

Currently, Lily Wong is Head of Digital Transformation and AI at Holcim, overseeing the global IT strategy of Holcim and develop Holcim’s Digital partnerships with academic institutions, startups and digital natives to fuel innovation while managing strategic partnership alliances and commercial deals in close collaboration with divisions and functions.

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