VP Engineering
Loblaw Companies Limited
Jaspal Sawhney is a technology leader at Loblaw Companies Limited, responsible for enterprise architecture, technology strategy, and emerging technology adoption across the organization.
His work spans enterprise platforms, cloud modernization, and technology supporting Loblaw's stores and pharmacy operations. This includes simplifying legacy systems, reducing technology complexity, and improving how applications and services are built and operated.
His current focus includes modernizing Loblaw's enterprise integration stack, building loblaw enterprise platform for AI adoption, and addressing the challenges of operating technology at scale.
Jaspal particularly enjoys solving problems of scale, where architecture decisions need to balance simplicity, reliability, cost, and the practical realities of running a large retail business. He is also interested in how AI can help rethink existing processes, reduce operational complexity, and change the way technology teams and businesses work together.
His approach emphasizes practical execution, cost discipline, and building capabilities that can be reused across the enterprise.
Sunday Jan 10
12:15pm - 12:45pm
Logicbroker Stage, Javits North, Rm 404
What does it take to grow a business for more than 100 years? For both Stanley 1913 and Loblaw Companies Limited, longevity has never been about standing still. It's about continuously adapting to changing customers, markets, and technologies while staying true to the strengths that made them successful in the first place. In this candid conversation, leaders from two iconic brands will share how they balance heritage with innovation to fuel their next phase of growth. From expanding beyond breakthrough products and entering new markets to scaling AI across stores, supply chain, procurement, corporate functions and employee experiences, the two executives will discuss the decisions, risks, and lessons learned while evolving businesses built to endure.
