Willis Towers Watson brings together 200 women managers to discuss digital disruption

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Backed by the success of previous editions, Willis Towers Watson is leading the Women Steering Meeting one more year, a benchmark event in the women's leadership sector.

Under the title of Women Managers in the Digital Age, this 9th edition has had the clear focus of highlighting through debate the growing importance of information technology and communication in medical care as well such as the digitalization of our society and our economy, both of which seem to expose us to threats in an environment whose risks are not fully known.

As a novelty, this year there have been two days with different themes and two hundred participants - all leaders in companies from different sectors such as food, banking, insurance, communications, or industrial work.

“We are in an uncertain environment where changes are occurring exponentially. An increasingly competitive environment, in which only organizations willing to adapt to change and putting the employee at the center, are in a position to face the future in a competitive manner,” said Ana Matarranz, General Director of Willis Towers Watson and promoter of Women Managers. The topics addressed in the conference have revolved around the new digital patient, cybersecurity, and business hacking, according to the day chosen to attend.

The first day, with the help of Juan Luis Moreno, Partner and Director of Innovation of The Valley, those present were able to enjoy the talk of this technology expert, who has offered a session on how technology is transforming the health sector: 

“We migrate towards a medicine based on 4 Ps: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory. This is only possible thanks to the inclusion of new technologies such as sensors (internet of things), artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented and immersive reality, etc ... throughout the patient's journey in an increasingly digital world. Sensors and cameras that are ingested to achieve less invasive tests, pet robots based on artificial intelligence for therapies with Alzheimer's patients, mirrors that by means of facial recognition make us diagnoses of respiratory rate or morphological changes are just some examples of what seems a distant future but that we can already find it in the market.”

On the second day it was Adolfo Hernández, Head of Advanced Cyber ​​Defense of Banco Sabadell and co-founder of THIBER, the cybersecurity think tank, who projected his conversation about Cybersecurity: 

“If a system is connected, it is hackable; there is no 100% secure system. Most attacks have a social engineering component: they attack and enter through emotions. They take advantage of the confidence to do evil.”

The assessment of all attendees, both on the first day and on the second, has been unanimous according to Matarranz:

“Women have to embrace the future and the present, preparing through continuous training. Never stop learning. In addition, it is necessary to increase in our daily functions all the opportunities offered by the technological potential.”

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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