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12 June 2024 | Royal Lancaster, London
12 June 2024
Royal Lancaster, London
Get together with UK & Ireland's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Shaping the Efficient Enterprise with AI & Automation
Strengthening Partnerships for Wider Business Impact
Illustrating IT’s Value through Business-first Initiatives
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Claire Dickson
DS Smith
CIO
David Germain
QBE Insurance
Group CIO
Kate Platonova
Shell
SVP & CIO for Downstream and Renewables
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote
More details to follow!
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session
Hosted by ChromeOS
Michael Wheeler-Wyatt
Director of Chrome Enterprise EMEA
For CIOs, current external forces are making it tough to prepare for success. This, coupled with a fast-moving technology landscape means that the CIO must wear more hats than ever before. What are best practices to navigate the complexities of an evolving tech landscape in times of ongoing uncertainty? This session empowers CIOs by exploring strategies to build resilience, enable digital business outcomes and power the workforce to boost productivity.
Join this session and conversation with your peers to discuss:
· Practical solutions for enhancing productivity
· How to adopt fast moving emerging technology for a competitive edge
· Secure strategies to drive resilience through IT
10:00 - 10:45 Breakout Session
George Eapen
Global CIO
Petrofac
The threat of suffering a breach or disruption looms large on the horizon. CIOs managing the ever-expanding attack risks must fortify the foundations of their infrastructure, applications, and teams so that when the next big vulnerability is uncovered…you’re ready to respond. How should CIOs adapt their IT strategies and make them more responsive to new cyber risks? As a former CISO, now CIO at Petrofac, George Eapen will share his practical insights into how CIOs should assess their current digital strategy and prepare for what’s next.
Specifically, George will share:
10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Appian
Steven Teasdale
Area Vice President UK&I and Middle East
Appian
Linda Cooke
Group CIO
Chaucer Group
CIOs are defining and executing on IT strategies in an era of abundant data, innovative technologies, and an increasing need to deliver on ever complex business goals. As such, it’s never been more important to simplify the processes of delivering data to business users, ensuring greater productivity. What are the best techniques CIOs can use to drive efficiencies, remove data silos and drive more value to the business through data?
10:45 - 11:50 Networking Break
10:55 - 11:40 Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
11:50 - 12:35 Breakout Session
Craig Donald
CIO
The Football Association
Driving tech-enabled and insight-driven business outcomes varies drastically among organisations and it can be difficult for CIOs to know whether they are focusing on the right aspects of their strategy to accelerate digital business. The challenges faced span across multiple different areas — from providing data-driven insights and capabilities to demonstrating the impact digital strategy has on business outcomes. So how can IT Leaders get past the complexities of these challenges and utilise them to drive forward digital business initiatives? Join Craig Donald, CIO, The FA at as he shares his insights into how The FA are digitising participation in football across England, and radically transforming professional sport through their technology and data strategy. Specifically, Craig will share:
11:50 - 12:35 Executive Boardroom
Hosted by Netskope
Digital business transformation combined with the increasing threat of cyberattacks creates unprecedented security risks. CIOs must balance cybersecurity with the need to run the business, but what are the best ways to enable risk-based decisions across the organisation whilst protecting against security threats and other cybersecurity events? Join this boardroom to discuss:
11:50 - 12:35 Breakout Session
Hosted by Amdaris
Mihai Cernei
CTO
Amdaris
Tony McClelland
CIO
ACCA
CIOs are currently managing expectations of business stakeholders who are excited – but also bewildered - at the promise of disruptive technologies like AI. From bringing artificial general intelligence closer, to a reality of delivering monumental change for humanity, was does AI mean for your business today? How are you communicating the opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when new techniques hit the headlines? What are the use cases to deploy in your organisation for maximum impact?
Join this session to discuss:
11:50 - 12:35 Executive Boardroom
Judith van de Pas
Founder, Bloom Coaching & Consulting
Guest Speaker
Connecting with your purpose, articulating your goals and creating your path forward as a leader can be hard. Future IT leaders must ensure they are acting as true business enablers, driving change across their teams and organisations. But how can leaders drive this change in an effective and authentic way? What are the leadership attributes and team capabilities that are most critical to success? Join Judith van de Pas, Founder at Bloom Coaching & Consulting (and ex-CIO Community member), as she facilitates a space for you to reflect on how this relates to you in your development as adaptable change leaders and shares her insights research into:
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Parking and Public Transport
London Underground:
Lancaster Gate: Lancaster Gate (Central Line) tube station is adjacent to the hotel. The line connects with Oxford Circus, Holborn (British Museum) and Liverpool Street among other iconic London locations in less than 15 minutes.
Paddington: Paddington tube and railway stations are a mere 6 minute walk from the hotel. The tube station has access to 4 different lines and the railway station connects London with Heathrow via Heathrow Express as well as with other regional and national lines going to British cities such as Bath, Oxford, Reading, Windsor or Cardiff.
London Buses:
There are many bus routes (94 and 148) passing the hotel that are connect us with some of the most remarkable London places such as Victoria, Soho, Piccadilly or Oxford Street.
Parking: Available onsite for attendee rate - £55 for 24 hours. Limited availability.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Royal Lancaster, London at a reduced conference rate. Reservations should be made online or by calling 020 7551 6000. Please mention UK CIO Executive Summit to ensure the appropriate room rate.
Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of £432 GBP (plus tax) is 17 May 2024.
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