John Del Santo

John Del Santo Technology Leader, Bringing Innovation & Digital Transformation to Clients in the West Region San Francisco Bay Area Connect Connect with John Del Santo More actions Accenture Santa Clara University Santa Clara University See contact info See contact info See connections (500+) 500+ connections As a Senior Managing Director at Accenture, and Regional Head for Accenture US West, I lead the company’s business in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. The West is home to major hubs for innovation, including the San Francisco Innovation Hub, Accenture Labs, Liquid Studio and Fjord Digital Studio. The West region is the global center of digital innovation, and I feel privileged to work here at a time when technology is transforming the way we work and live. I’m responsible for bringing innovation to clients, enabling them to drive business acceleration and digital transformation. Based in a highly competitive market, I am passionate about attracting top talent and strengthening the impact we have on local communities. I also serve on Accenture’s North America Leadership Team and its Global Leadership Council, where I provide input into the company’s overall strategic direction. Every day, I lead a world-class team of innovation leaders, subject matter experts and design-thinkers who work extremely hard to deliver the business change our clients require. This expertise is augmented by a wide range of strong business partnerships with technology leaders from across the world, allowing us to bring the very best capabilities into the service of our clients. With a career spanning 30+ years at Accenture, I have previously served in a variety of leadership roles in the company’s Financial Services practice. Before being appointed as Regional MD in December 2016, I led the company’s Financial Services business in North America and served as managing director of Accenture’s global Insurance industry practice. Outside of work I’m involved with the Bay Area Council, and I’m on the Board of Regents at Santa Clara University. I’m also an avid golfer, basketball player and love to ski. Most weekends you will find me enjoying the beautiful Bay Area outdoors with my wife and three children. Show less Show less of John’s summary Articles & activity 1,740 followers TECH SPOTLIGHT: A New Extended Reality Prototype to Help NFL Coaches Train their Teams John’s profile photo John Del Santo Published on LinkedIn There’s no better place to be than San Francisco right now, where barely a day goes by without a new innovation coming along. From AI to Extended Reality, automation to voice, the way we engage with technology is changing by the minute and opening new, exciting possibilities in the process. Here’s one great example for you – particularly if you’re a football fan. Our San Francisco Accenture Labs recently built an Extended Reality (XR) prototype that promises to change the way coaches train their teams, and how they approach coaching of a particular a game. As many of you know, XR brings together technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality to create completely immersive experiences. The highly visual nature of the tech makes it perfect for sports, where teams need all the help they can get in understanding plays and honing their strategies. Imagine you’re a football coach. In the past, when you created new plays, you’d spend your evenings uploading them into a clunky software tool so you could demonstrate them to your team on a 2D screen. When you consider that NFL coaches have to teach around 120 plays per week that’s a hell of a lot of work. With our new app, coaches simply draw a play onto a tablet using a digital pen. The app then generates the play in an Augmented Reality (AR) environment, which everyone on the team can view immediately just by holding up their tablet. The immersive concept allows plays to be visualized as if on a real football field and provides the simplest and most intuitive way yet of teaching complex strategies to players. This means all those laborious hours once spent illustrating plays can be reallocated for other training needs – a difference which could mean winning the next big game. On top of that, all the data becomes digital, so coaches can track how much time players are spending learning each new play. Here’s how it works: The XR team scored an impressive touchdown with this one. And while this application is for football, it’s also a perfect example of how XR can transform processes by blending the physical and the digital worlds – something that will prove important for all businesses in all industries. 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Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 411,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com... 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