UK & Ireland CIO Executive Summit

Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Join us at the Hilton Park Lane within the Wellington room, where attendees will enjoy dynamic discussions, fantastic wine and gourmet dishes whilst enjoying fantastic views of Hyde Park.

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. 

IT is no longer a separate entity in an organisation. A function that touches every part of the business requires strong leadership from frontline managers to middle management to director-level to drive value.

Join Helen to learn more about:

• 1:1 coaching and positive role models as strategies to improve the IT talent pipeline
• How to understand your people’s motivations, how they perform and how they like to be rewarded
• How to challenge the status-quo and keep a culture of empowerment, delegation and distributed leadership

As technology continues to be the primary driver of business capability, CIOs have stopped being looked to as simply providers of internal technical support. IT executives must modernise the enterprise to move to value-based, iterative approaches to technology implementation and utilisation while also driving cultural change. This session explores:

• Enterprise platform strategy vs. siloed, single-purpose technology stack
• How do CIOs align IT investments to business top priorities?
• How does IT make smarter decisions across the entire IT value chain?

In an increasingly competitive landscape, new thinking, new technology and new ways of doing business are essential. But to fully embrace and leverage innovation, CIOs must be fully aligned to the strategy and execution of the organisation whilst driving the evolution of digital products at pace.

Take this opportunity to discuss methodologies for defining new opportunities through technology, including:

• Exploring APIs to expose key business assets to make faster, better decisions
• Giving your people the right techniques & tools to foster a digital culture
• Powering the next set of innovative solutions and customer experiences with APIs

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 rapid pace of change in the world today will mean that one in six organisations will fail in the next five years because they can’t keep up. Surviving and thriving in today’s industries requires creating innovative ways to respond and evolve at speed. This means moving away from the legacy systems and process rigidity associated with traditional business models. It means finding ingenious ways to drive and sustain growth in the face of rapid technology and customer changes.

In short, it means fundamentally re-imaging your organisation's entire set-up, including your approach to digital. It’s no longer plausible to adopt a ‘digital at the edge’ approach. Today’s organisations must be digital at the core. Yet, it’s not easy for organisations – particularly the big, legacy ones – to pivot at speed.

Under Chatham House Rule, this conversation will cover:

• What are your war stories when transforming your firm to a digitally driven enterprise? 
• Share your lessons and make new connections

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. 

In this session, senior IT leaders will: 

• Explore real-world scenarios and best practices 
• Share how to successfully navigate the journey to the cloud

Wood had pockets of brilliance, but it was locked deeply within sectors, geographies and client contracts hindering collaboration. It was necessary to start again, and build a new team of collegiate, globally connected leaders to drive transformation in an accelerated and purposeful way. 

Wood’s CTO will share how to:

• Harness engineering domain expertise with digital disruption to optimise total expenditure
• Bring great minds together to create solutions impacting client’s total expenditure
• Persuade the board to increase investment in innovation and link it to business cases 

CIOs are continuing to look toward the Cloud to deliver true business value through flexibility, cost optimisation and empowering users to be as productive as possible. This session will focus on a discussion of how to move past “lift and shift” approaches to the Cloud and how to generate competitive advantage as you adopt more Cloud technologies and services.

This session will explore:

• Design considerations for delivering applications in the Cloud
• How to think and operate in the world of hybrid multi cloud
• Tools and techniques focused on optimising Cloud strategies

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
• Discuss why the role of the CIO opens up the pathway to other c-level positions

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.

Deep neural networks are bringing new capabilities to AI, creating smart systems that can outperform human labor at many tasks. These new systems bring business advantage to successful implementers. But success is not easy to come by.

This session gives an opportunity for you and your peers to discuss and share:

• Progress and challenges in implementing AI-based initiatives to advance your business
•  Best practices from the AI and ML space

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.

Join Mark Hall from Legal and General for this thought leadership session on communicating with the board. 

Digital transformation is remaking every aspect of modern business, not only creating business value, but also changing the risk landscape. Capitalising on this opportunity, threat actors have adjusted their tactics, but interestingly, all attacks share a common trait: they target people.

Most organisations have little visibility into which of their people receive sophisticated threats, targeted threats, or large volumes of threats. We call these targets: VAPs (Very Attacked People). In this presentation we will cover:

• How organisations can identify which people and departments are highly targeted
• How to design a people-centric security program for highly attacked, vulnerable, and privileged users

 CIOs globally are struggling with the primacy of technology outpacing the availability and skill development of their talent. This interplay is complex, and a failure to act by schools, universities and the enterprise organisations themselves is only going to worsen the technology skills shortage.

In this session you’ll have the chance to:

• Evaluate retraining your workforce vs. recruiting those with the right skills
• Discuss what it takes to create opportunities for the next generation to thrive in a technology career
• Understand how the education sector and businesses can work together to engage the talent of the future

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.

 Disruption is threatening businesses in every market; leaders must come together to solve the problems posed by digital transformation. The IT function needs to move from being product-orientated and restricted by legacy systems to be product-centric and ready to innovate.

Join this discussion to explore how to:

• Build a multi-facetted team able to reorient quickly to business priorities
• Reduce end-to-end cycle time
• Measure the effectiveness and success of agile ways of working  

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.

Diversity and inclusion are no longer fringe topics or a “nice to have”. They’re now recognised as part of a core strategy to attract and retain great talent and to ensure your company will thrive in the midst of disruption. Debbie Forster is CEO of Tech Talent Charter, a fast-growing and award-winning organisation bringing companies together to drive diversity in tech. Through her work with hundreds of companies, she is discovering and sharing the keys to moving the dial on diversity in tech.

Join Debbie for an interactive and practical session where you will:

• Understand the value of diversity to your company and how striking to the heart of inclusion will put it at the core of your company to drive effectiveness and innovation
• Learn the essential building blocks of a diverse and inclusive tech team (and how to avoid the pitfalls!)
• Understand how to take your existing programmes to the next level of effectiveness