Dr. Carlos Henrique Cabral Duarte National Bank of Social and Economic Development IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker Abstract The maturation of disruptive digital technologies (such as robotics, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence), in conjunction with their ubiquitous introduction in many different domains, has given rise to digital transformation in businesses, governments, and society. A business-oriented high-level overview of digital transformation will provide specific examples of digital transformation projects and other activities. This lecture will present digital transformation viewpoints, approaches, challenges, and opportunities to include definitions and online resources. These digital transformation notions are analyzed from strategic planning and public policy forecast perspectives and will also be illustrated using a database of business cases. These cases and notions of digital transformation will allow us to also analyze the mutual influence that digital transformation and software /requirements engineering have on each other. This presentation is by one of the IEEE’s best digital transformation experts and trainers. We are expecting a large and diverse turn out, please join us in learning from Dr. Duarte’s years of experience and education. This is going to be a great event! See you there. Biography Dr. Duarte is a senior member of technical staff at the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). He is now on a temporary work assignment at the Brazilian Institute of Statistics and Geography (IBGE). Dr. Duarte earned his BMath degree with a minor in Informatics from the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He earned an MSc degree in Informatics from the Department of Informatics at the pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computing at the Imperial College, London. His research focuses on Software Engineering (SE), Distributed Systems (DS), Public Policies for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry Development (Pol-ICT). In SE and DS, he studies and develops processes (from requirement elicitation and design to implementation) and application areas (programming languages, database systems, etc). Concerning Pol-ICT, he has studied, developed, and applied technology transfer, financing, and digital transformation. Dr. Duarte is currently a strategies advisor to the IBGE. At BNDES, he served as the financing analyst of accredited machines, equipment, components, and Systems (2012 – 2020). Previously he was the operations manager, in charge of funding more than 50 technology companies, two now listed in the Bovespa Stock Market. He was the BNDES representative in the National Information Technology Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (CATI/MCTI, 2003-12) and deputy board member of the Society for the Promotion of Brazilian Software Excellence (Softex, 2003-12). He has written, reviewed, and edited many papers for scientific journals and conferences.   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++