Executive Summit

AI is now a board-level priority - and a board-level risk - placing CIOs and CISOs in the spotlight to demonstrate active, measurable management of AI exposure. Organizations are translating governance into enforceable controls and transparent reporting, replacing stopgap blocking with runtime guardrails. What are strategies that CIOs and CISOs can take back to their own organizations to establish clear decision rights, provide actionable risk metrics, and foster confidence among executive sponsors and boards, all while enabling safe and scalable AI adoption?

Join this session to learn:

• Establishing clear decision rights for accountable AI adoption
• Replacing stopgap blocking with enforceable, runtime guardrails
• Providing boards with transparent, actionable risk metrics

 As AI investment surges, organisations find themselves caught between ambitious pilots and the challenge of scaling to production. The barriers to progress are less about technology and more about business dilemmas, organisational readiness, and the pace of change that renders traditional planning obsolete.

Join this interactive breakout session, where you will discuss with your peers: 

• How to empower and lead an AI-enabled workforce amid competing priorities and organisational change
• Practical strategies for embracing the AI development lifecycle and overcoming non-technical barriers
• Approaches to measure, prove, and maximise AI ROI for business impact

Legacy systems and evolving leadership priorities are redefining the CIO agenda. To ensure resilience and sustainable growth, CIOs must drive strategic modernisation that aligns technology, culture and vision. Thoughtful leadership is essential to overcome resistance, enable adaptive platforms and leverage emerging technologies for competitive advantage.

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss how to:
• Modernise core infrastructure to enable adaptive platforms
• Overcome resistance and lead organisational transformation
• Leverage AI and sovereign cloud for future advantage

As organisations accelerate digital transformation, CIOs must go beyond strategy to achieve real business adoption and measurable outcomes. Success requires forging trusted partnerships, aligning IT and business priorities and dismantling organisational silos to unlock innovation at scale. In this session, Gabriela Popescu, Global CIO at Versuni, shares insights from to her leading transformation journey across a global enterprise. Revealing how CIOs can build trust, foster collaboration and embed a digital-first culture to ensure digital initiatives deliver lasting business value.Join this session to explore how to:

• Build trusted IT-business partnerships that accelerate transformation
• Break down silos to drive collaboration and innovation
• Demonstrate measurable business value through data-driven decision-making

This year, Gartner predicts 70% of boards will expect CISOs to operate as strategic business partners rather than technical gatekeepers. The CISO role is rapidly expanding: no longer just writing policies or securing IT, but collaborating across product teams, embedding security in DevSecOps and designing resilience from the ground up.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Leveraging business acumen to influence decisions at the highest level
• Embedding security into products, processes and organisational culture
• Building a holistic strategy that safeguards people, assets and business continuity