
UK & Ireland CIO Community
Inner Circle
2 March 2023 | The Carlton Tower Jumeriah, London
2 March 2023
The Carlton Tower Jumeriah, 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:
Defining Ideal Data Ecosystems to weather economic storms and uncertain environments
Accelerating Decision Making For Timely Value Realisation
Digital Talent & Product Centricity for Speedy Outcomes
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
Royal Mail Group
CIO

Claire Dickson
DS Smith
CIO

David Germain
QBE
Group CIO

Javed Iqbal
BAT
Group CIO

Robbert van Rutten
Shell
SVP & Downstream CIO
Agenda
2 March 2023
16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception
17:30 - 18:45 Discussion Topics
Digitally-Driven Outcomes, Quicker Business Decisions

John Abel
Technical Director, Office of the CTO
Google Cloud

Gary Allwood
IT Director
ABP

Femi Bamisaiye
CIO UK
Aviva

Doug Grantham
CIO, Investec Private Bank (UK)
Investec

Hasani Jess
CTO
Simply Business

Dave Martin
CTO
Anglian Water Services

Jenny Wood
Chief Operating Officer, Services
NatWest Group

Mike Yorwerth
CTO
M & S
As global economic and political volatility continue, the enterprise is looking at IT to accelerate digital ecosystems in order to create an avenue for high growth and quicker benefits. To respond to this increased demand, CIOs are scaling productivity by solving business challenges with product-centric teams and architecting sophisticated ecosystems to ensure insights are delivered to key decision-makers.
Organisations are moving beyond the stage of ‘transformation’ and now demanding digital execution, as they position the enterprise to weather economic storms and unpredictable setbacks in the future.
Join your peers to discuss how CIOs are capturing the outcomes of digital execution.
Topic 1: Accelerating Decision-Making For Timely Value Realisation
How would you describe your current and ideal data ecosystem?
Has the demand for self-service data and analytics risen for your organisation? What are you doing to enable business leaders with dashboards and insights in real-time? Has that affected your data governance strategy?
Have you seen the level of adoption that you’d like from leaders to impact quicker decision-making? What steps have you taken to identify value realisation and measure outcomes obtained by data and analytics?
Topic 2: Digital Talent & Product Centricity for Speedy Outcomes
What sort of roles are you hiring for in the coming year? Are they more business focused or technology-focused?
Many CIOs have turned toward the organisation of fusion teams to operate in a more product-centric way. How have you done this? What benefits are you seeing? How are you changing mindsets, while supporting agile journeys?
How do you start building your tech environment and work environment for the future workforce?
18:45 - 19:15 Networking Break
19:15 - 20:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner
20:30 - 21:30 Social Hour
Apply to Participate
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