UK & Ireland CIO Community
Inner Circle
6 December 2021 | Shangri-La London
6 December 2021
Shangri-La London
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
UK & Ireland CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the discussion topics and agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Debra Bailey
O2 (Telefónica UK)
CIO
Marina Bellini
British American Tobacco
Chief Information and Digital Officer, Director, Digital and Information
Claire Dickson
DS Smith
CIO
David Germain
RSA
Group CIO
Robbert van Rutten
Royal Dutch Shell
VP & Downstream CIO
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
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the UK & Ireland CIO Community Inner Circle.
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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.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue
Shangri-La LondonMore 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.
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