
UK & Ireland CIO Executive Summit
19 June 2019 | London Hilton on Park Lane
19 June 2019
London Hilton on Park Lane
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with your peers to tackle top business challenges through peer-driven content and discussions at the UK & Ireland CIO Executive Summit.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Investing in your people and the right technologies
Innovating with advanced technologies and new delivery models
Influencing business stakeholders and enterprise outcomes
UK & Ireland CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Co-Chairs
Marina Bellini
BAT
Chief Information and Digital Officer, Director, Digital and Information
Diane Bitzel
Intertek
Group CIO

Claire Dickson
BP
CIO, Downstream

David Germain
RSA Group plc
Group CIO
Helen Walker
Department for Education
Chief Technology Officer

Craig Walker
Shell Downstream
VP & CIO
Agenda
17 June 2019
18 June 2019
08:00 - 08:45 Registration & Breakfast
08:45 - 09:40 Keynote
Thoughtfully Ruthless Secrets for Every Successful CIO

Val Wright
Global Leadership & Innovation Expert, Author of Thoughtfully Ruthless
What is the greatest lesson Val Wright has learned from her research, writing, and speaking on the subject of innovation while working with executives from Starbucks, LinkedIn, Financial Times, and Google? Her experiences have shown time and time again that it’s not the economy, market conditions, or competition that’s holding your business back; the secret is locked inside how leaders ruthlessly, (in a thoughtful way,) manage their time, energy, and resources, in parallel.
Join Val for an interactive session where you will:
- Learn how to magically invent more time and create additional capacity
- Understand how to easily demonstrate your IT and technology brilliance
- Become Thoughtfully Ruthless by focusing your time and energy on products, profits, and customers not internal energy black holes
- Discover how to evaluate and act to create an organization that catapults profit, revenue, and market share
09:40 - 09:55 Networking Break
09:55 - 10:40 Breakout Session
Ask the Expert - Building Strategies in a Digital World
Ian Cox
Senior Director, Analyst
Gartner
To succeed in digital business, organisations need a strategy that provides clarity about long-term direction while remaining flexible enough to deal with the dynamic and rapidly changing environment in which they operate. This requires a new approach to strategy creation.
This interactive session will answer questions such as how to:
- Create strategy when business needs are changing so quickly?
- Get the board interested in I&T strategy?
- Showcase ROI on I&T strategies
Attendees must register for this session. Seating is limited to 50 people and priority is given to C-level attendees.
09:55 - 10:40 Breakout Session
Achieve 100% Analytics Adoption with a New Class of Enterprise Intelligence
Hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc.
Rob Davis
Vice President, Product Management, International
MicroStrategy, Inc.
Despite having access to a wealth of data, enterprises still struggle to effectively deliver trusted insights to the entire workforce—preventing them from realising the full value of their data investments. Overcoming this challenge takes pervasive adoption of trusted analytics.
This session will cover:
- Mastering the next wave of Enterprise Intelligence with zero-click analytics
- Empowering your workforce to get more from tools they use, every day
- Using mobile productivity apps to impact every business role and function
09:55 - 10:40 Executive Boardroom
Articulating and Supporting Your Organisation’s Cyber Risk Strategy
Hosted by BitSight Technologies
Graeme Hackland
Chief Information Officer
Williams F1
Ewen O'Brien
VP EMEA Enterprise
BitSight Technologies
The only certainty in cybersecurity is that it must be woven into the very fabric of your business, and as a CIO you must be part of the leadership working to stay ahead of a cyber disaster.
Join to discuss how to:
- Effectively and efficiently manage your digital supply chain risk
- Enable security teams to collaborate with the business in an ever-increasing threat landscape
- Measure and communicate cyber risk to the board for greater understanding
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.
09:55 - 10:40 Executive Boardroom
Creating a Customer-Centric Strategy – Embrace a Digitally Enhanced Customer Experience
Hosted by Salesforce

Craig Walker
VP & CIO
Shell Downstream
Adam Spearing
Field CTO and Head of Ecosystems, EMEA
Salesforce.com
As emerging technologies like AI reshape the digital landscape, businesses are exploring new ways to create smart and engaging digital customer experiences. Carve out some valuable face-to-face time with technology peers innovating around exciting new developments in this space.
You’ll discuss:
- Investments your peers are making,
- Early success stories and the benefits of connecting your enterprise to a more intelligent, digitally enhanced customer experience
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 your event Program Manager.
10:40 - 10:50 Networking Break
17 June 2019
18 June 2019
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