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Alistair Croll (Host) (he/him)

Founder, Solve for Interesting

Alistair is the co-founder and chair of Fwd50. He helps to accelerate startups, and works with some of the world’s biggest companies on business model innovation. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Coradiant; the Year One Labs accelerator; and a variety of other startups. A sought-after speaker, Alistair has also launched and chaired some of the world’s leading conferences on emerging technology, including Startupfest, Strata, Cloud Connect, and Pandemon.io.

Alistair is the author of four books on technology and entrepreneurship, including the best-selling Lean Analytics, which has been translated into eight languages and is in its tenth printing in China. A graduate of Dalhousie University, he is a visiting executive at Harvard Business School, where he teaches data science and critical thinking.

Sessions

Workshop

Moving to digital government

November 1, 20171:00 PM – 9:00 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
If code is law, then government is a computer. As a result, there are few industries more likely to be fundamentally disrupted by the digital revolution than government. In this all-day workshop, FWD50 founder and Harvard Lecturer Alistair Croll and New Zealand’s Government Service Integration Lead Pia Waugh lead a packed lineup of experts considering every facet of digital transformation. See More.
Keynote

Dies at the end

November 2, 20171:00 PM – 1:10 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
The change agent always dies. So how do we make change happen? See More.
Keynote

First mover: Lessons from the CIO of the first US agency to move to the cloud

November 2, 20171:50 PM – 2:10 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
Salesforce's Casey Coleman in conversation with Alisitair Croll. See More.
Keynote

Government, Data Science, and open source

November 2, 20172:30 PM – 2:50 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
Dr. Friederike Schüür, Cloudera & Fast Forward Labs and John Weigelt, Microsoft Canada, in conversation with Alistair Croll. See More.
Keynote

Securely Modernize and Mobilize Government IT

November 2, 20173:05 PM – 3:25 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
VMWare's Peter Near, in conversation with Alistair Croll, explores the impact of digital on how work and workers are changing within government. See More.
Keynote

Opening remarks

November 3, 20171:00 PM – 1:05 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
FWD50 chair Alistair Croll opens the third day of the conference with a look at what's to come. See More.
Keynote

Forward 364—Putting what we've learned into action

November 3, 20177:45 PM – 8:00 PM GMT+0
Main Stage
FWD50 founders Alistair Croll and Phil Telio reflect on the inaugural FWD50, and look at what the coming year holds for digital government, before issuing some marching orders. (Alistair to talk about dinosaurs going extinct) See More.