2021 UK & Ireland CIO Inner Circle

Collaborate with your peers

Join UK & Ireland's top CIOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Sustain momentum within IT to keep up with the pace of change

Evolve operating models to deliver better speed, agility and innovation

Shift funding to new challenges or services and the future of organisational structure

Co-Chairs

Debra Bailey

O2 (Telefónica UK)
CIO

Marina Bellini

British American Tobacco
Chief Information and Digital Officer, Director, Digital and Information

Agenda

6 December 2021

17:00 - 18:00 Executive Networking Reception

18:00 - 19:15 Discussion Topics

The CIO's Role in Accelerating Digital Business

Gary Allwood

Head IT

ABP

Claire Dickson

CIO

DS Smith

Adam Forde

Group CIO

Spectris

Ian Golding

Interim Group CIO

SThree plc

Sarah Greasley

CTO

Direct Line Group

John Lockett

Group CIO

Serco

Kath Moore

Chief Information Officer, Automation,Utilities & Innovation

HSBC

Sharon Penfold

Technology Director

Action for Children

Yanna Winter

CIO, Head of Generali UK IT and GC&C IT

Generali UK

Digital acceleration in uncertain times requires the ability to adapt at speed and scale. ‘Agile’ methodologies and becoming ‘resilient’ do not quite cut it. Whether restructuring existing applications, infrastructure and security ecosystems or preempting new initiatives to bring services and applications to market faster than ever before, CIOs are immersed in strategising and building support for these critical business objectives.

In this interactive conversation among peers, CIOs will discuss their role in proactively contributing to organisational success.

Topic 1: Digital Business Acceleration

How are you evolving your operating model to deliver better speed, agility and innovation?
How are you optimising for future resilience and not just immediate efficiency?
How are you shifting funding from less valuable initiatives to new channels or services?

Topic 2: Fostering a digital-first mindset

How have you evolved your cross-business partnerships in the past year?
What’s new or next in your organisational structure to support digital business?
How will you sustain momentum within IT to keep up with the pace of change?

19:15 - 19:45 Networking Break

19:45 - 21:15 Summary Discussion & Dinner

21:15 - 22:15 Social Hour

Location

Venue

Shangri-La London

MORE INFORMATION

Evanta, with support and agreement from the host venue, is following the latest government guidance.

We request all participants to be fully vaccinated.* You will receive a separate communication a few days prior to the conference to provide an attestation that you will be fully vaccinated*, have not tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days, are not experiencing any symptoms consistent with COVID-19, and you have not knowingly been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days. For those who will not be able to attest to these criteria by the program date, we look forward to seeing you at a gathering in the future.

Evanta will also implement the following measures at the conference:

Increased cleaning and sanitizing of the event space
Decreased capacity and minimized congestion where possible across the venue, including more space in aisleways
Touchless or reduced contact interactions throughout the program

Our host venue will have the NHS QR code available upon entry for any participants who wish to check-in upon arrival to the conference.

*For the purposes of this guidance, people are considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19 ≥2 weeks after they have received the second dose in a 2-dose series or ≥2 weeks after they have received a single-dose vaccine.