UK & Ireland CIO Community
Executive Summit
14 October 2026 | Convene at 155 Bishopsgate
14 October 2026
Convene at 155 Bishopsgate
Collaborate with your peers
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:
Rethinking Cybersecurity for an Unpredictable World
Agentic AI as a Driver of Enterprise Transformation and Value Creation
Evolving the IT Operating Model for Enterprise Value
UK & Ireland CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Debra Bailey
OSB Group
Group CIO
Claire Dickson
Haleon
CDTO
Javed Iqbal
BAT
CDIO
Lex Aling
Johnson Matthey
CIO
Natasha Davydova
Centrica
CIO
Amit Thawani
Lloyds Banking Group
CIO, Insurance, Pensions, Investments
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your UK & Ireland CIO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Breakout Sessions
Reimagining the National Lottery— A Two-Year Digital Transformation
Allwyn has completed a groundbreaking two-year digital transformation, fundamentally reshaping the technology behind the National Lottery. Allwyn committed to a full replacement of legacy systems - an ambitious promise that has now been delivered, following a comprehensive overhaul that has created a future-ready platform.
Join this session to learn how Allwyn has:
- Delivered an ambitious end-to-end digital transformation programme
- Built a scalable, future-proof National Lottery platform
- Demonstrated a strong commitment to digital excellence
From Experimentation to Enterprise Impact— Democratising AI at Elanco
How Elanco moved from AI experimentation into measurable enterprise value setting them up for success in a dynamic and evolving environment.
In this peer-led session, learn how ElancoGPT evolved from early multimodal trials into a secure, agentic platform empowering employees to build, automate, and innovate at scale under strong governance.
You’ll learn:
- How ElancoGPT grew from open-access tools into a fully integrated enterprise platform
- The thinking behind persona marketplaces, deep integrations, and user-driven automation
- Key lessons from building and scaling ElancoGPT
Executive Boardroom Session
Modernising Leadership — Driving Strategic Transformation
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
Keynote Session
Does Your C-Suite Have the AI Savviness to Drive Results?
AI adoption is accelerating, but executive understanding is struggling to keep pace. With only 21%of C-suite leaders considered AI savvy, many organisations risk missing opportunities, making poor decisions, or failing to govern AI effectively.For CIOs, success depends on more than deploying AI. Leaders across the business need the knowledge and confidence to shape strategy, manage risk, and drive AI-enabled transformation.This session explores how to identify executive AI capability gaps and build the leadership expertise needed to maximise the value of AI investments.You will learn how to:
- Define the AI knowledge and skills executives need to lead effectively.
- Identify leadership capability gaps that can hinder AI success.
- Build a practical roadmap to strengthen AI literacy across the C-suite.
Apply to Participate
Each application is carefully vetted to ensure members meet established criteria, preserving the quality of the network and enabling meaningful, peer‑level discussions among leaders from the world’s leading organizations.
Once you submit your application, a Community Program Manager will schedule a conversation to understand your priorities and interests and complete onboarding, including access to year‑round community events.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Convene at 155 BishopsgatePublic Transport & Parking
By Underground:
Liverpool Street (Central, Circle, Elizabeth, Hammersmith & City or Metropolitan Line)
For exits from all underground lines follow signs for Liverpool Street mainline station. Once on the main concourse of the mainline station, look for signs for Way Out 1 (Bishopsgate West) located next to platform 14. Take the escalator or stairs up to street level where you will see a Police Station on the opposite side of the road. Turn left and follow Bishopsgate past the entrance to 135 Bishopsgate. Turn left up the external arcade stairs. Enter 155 Bishopsgate, once inside take the escalator on your left up to the first floor. At the top of the escalator turn right and enter the gold double doors into the 155 Bishopsgate 1st floor registration.
By Train:
Liverpool Street Station
Follow directions for Underground from the main concourse.
By Bus:
155 Bishopsgate is served by many bus routes including 388, 242, 149, 135, 78, 48, 47, 42, 35, 26 and 8.
Parking:
There is an NCP car park at Finsbury Square (EC2A 1AD).
Hotels Nearby
45 Curtain Rd
Shoreditch
London EC2A 3PT
0.4 Miles
12-20 Osborn Street
London E1 6TE
0.6 Miles
Andaz, London Liverpool Street
40 Liverpool St
London EC2M 7QN
0.1 Miles
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