Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Join us at the Holbein's Restaurant in the Städel Museum where attendees will enjoy dynamic discussions, fantastic wine and gourmet dishes as the kitchen lets their passion for cooking run wild. 

This is your opportunity to pre-book private face-to-face meetings with executive peers attending the summit, using a private online portal running up to and during the event. Gain real, practical insights into what other companies and industries are doing to take back to your boardroom.

Please note: This is for CIO attendees only.

When Henning Krüger became CIO at Lufthansa Technik, he was tasked to rebuild the existing IT and workshop landscape, but why? So, the IT function could become the driving force for the digitisation of a business that builds, services and maintains one fifth of the jets worldwide.

Krüger will share his insights and learnings during this session including his three steps to IT transformation:

• IT architecture adaptation
• Change management and people
• Creating a culture of innovation

Digital transformation is already well under way for many organisations and is generating significant new markets and opportunities. But the journey is not easy; many companies struggle as they seek to transition from the current static model, to an agile and modern operational setup. The automation and streamlining opportunities offered by fast moving technology developments as well as shifting workforce expectations challenge traditional working practices, putting the workspace at the centre of any successful digital transformation program.

In this session, you’ll have the chance to discuss:

• The need for a new approach to the digital workspace, improving employee experience, productivity and engagement
• Key considerations in laying the technology foundations for this culture shift
• Ensuring that your organisation is future ready and able to derive true business value from this workplace evolution

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lucy Guille.

Any digital strategy cannot be absent of a plan for IT talent and leadership development. Whether it’s retooling the skillsets of existing staff or attracting new leaders with the right stuff, IT is at the heart of any organisation’s ability to keep pace in a fast-moving digital era. This interactive session explores: 

• Human capital strategies for building and developing the specialised talent required for innovation
• Fresh approaches to leadership development
• The challenges leaders may face from new ways of working to managing multi-generational teams

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact  Lucy Guille. 

The cloud and mobility are powerful enablers of digital transformation, but many IT organisations are grappling with legacy architectures and processes that haven't evolved in over 30 years. When apps lived in the data centre, it made sense to invest in building a 'hub-and-spoke' network and to protect that network by employing a 'castle-and-moat' security model. But agility demands from both internal and external stakeholders in the new world of SaaS, cloud and mobility requires organisations to evolve their network and security architectures.

MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group’s IT department was no stranger to transformations, yet it was only their fifth transformation that began to drive technology to be a strategic asset. Leading the charge was their newly appointed CTO, Atul Bhardwaj, who joined the executive board fundamentally change the organisation’s approach to digital and technology in just 18 months.

Join Bhardwaj as he shares:

• The journey of a complete IT transformation
• How to make the business think through the lens of technology products
• Lessons learned and advice for other IT leaders going through similar transformations

Over 80% of a business’s data sits in Enterprise Applications, this data drives business critical operations and fuels new Application development which creates new digital experiences for customers.

However, many businesses struggle to move, manage and harness their data with the speed and efficiency needed to drive swift Application development. Application development life cycles are often long and resource intensive.

During this roundtable we will discuss the ‘why’, including:

• What it takes to become a data-driven organisation; discussing the bottlenecks, organisational roadblocks and exploring ways to shorten Applications development life cycles.
• The major barriers to harnessing data such as organisational, technical, legacy IT infrastructure, data silos, data security, and skills shortages

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lucy Guille.

For many organisations, the digital ecosystem begins with the customer. To capture maximum value, CIOs must ensure that the customer experience is seamless – creating the right channels for connection, capturing and utilising the right data to innovate products or services, and enhancing the speed-to-delivery for new business lines.

In this interactive session, you’ll discuss:

• The expectations of the digital-first customer
• The CIO’s role in product development and design in a digital economy
• How to evolve a data-centric approach to consumer insight and foster new business opportunities

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lucy Guille.

The execution of digital transformation strategies is requiring new leadership perspectives that open the empowerment for employees, users and citizens to be part of this journey. Change agility is required when leadership decisions bounce between technology and business innovation, as well as traditional organisational mentality. This presentation will introduce strategies that accelerate diverse and inclusive organisational culture while enforcing digital equity.

The Internet of Things and automation advancements have enabled manufacturing and other industries to modernize factories, reduce operational costs and raise efficiency. Due to these advancements, IT and OT need to be more aligned than ever. In this discussion you’ll cover:

• Best practices to cultivate the relationship between IT and OT to drive execution
• The inherent hurdles innovative projects create, such as change management and reskilling staff and security
• What Industry 4.0 success looks like, and advice for those starting the journey

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lucy Guille.

As the digital agenda becomes part of a business’ DNA, the CIO’s relationship with the business can only strengthen. But why stop there? With such expertise in business and technology there is a plethora of options for a CIO’s next step; including executive board positions.

Join this discussion to:

• Explore the professional journey from technology leader to business leader
• Bring the technology agenda to board level
• Discover what is possible after the CIO role?

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact Lucy Guille.

Within the context of digitalisation, the dynamics of technological drivers and user behaviour accelerate constantly. Against this background, Siemens Healthcare’s IT strategic focus is to “Digitalise the Core”. This tackles four focus fields – “Innovation for Users”, “Cybersecurity”, “Applications and Processes”, and “Digital Transformation of IT (DigIT)”.

Join Dr. Henkel, as he expands on the following key takeaways and more:

• IT is driver of and affected by digitalisation at the same time
• Creating and cultivating a sustainable capability (digital) transformation is key
• Digital transformation requires a special focus on change management and the people