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UK & Ireland CIO Executive Summit

12 June 2024 | Royal Lancaster, London

12 June 2024
Royal Lancaster, London

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with UK & Ireland's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

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

Shaping the Efficient Enterprise with AI & Automation

Strengthening Partnerships for Wider Business Impact

Illustrating IT’s Value through Business-first Initiatives

UK & Ireland CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your UK & Ireland CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda


11 June 2024

12 June 2024

17:30 - 21:00  Networking

Governing Body Welcome Reception and Interactive Workshop

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Georgina Pawley

CEO & Founder - Life Body Health

Guest Speaker

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. 

Prior to the dinner, attendees will take part in a one hour interactive workshop, facilitated by Georgina Pawley, CEO & Founder, Life Body Health. Georgina will take you through a business impact assessment designed to help align leaders and organisations in a way that drives productivity and business results. This will be followed  by an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

The Game Changing CIO – How to Lead with Impact

As CIOs face ever-expanding responsibilities in their roles, they must remain effective in dealing with uncertainty and change. How can CIOs ensure they are leading and communicating with impact to drive forward successful digital business initiatives and position themselves as true business partners? Join Georgina Pawley, CEO & Founder, Life Body Health, as she takes you through an innovative measurement framework to better understand how your personal leadership qualities and team energies, can have the biggest impact within your organisation. Specifically, this session will drive insights into:

  • Understanding individual leadership tendencies and how they can be leveraged to maximise impact within the organisation
  • How CIOs can drive better collaboration and communication across their teams and the wider organisation
  • Dominant UK CIO leadership proclivities and how these align to the technology agenda

08:00 - 09:00  Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:45  Keynote

The Power of Vulnerable Leadership

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Daniele Fiandaca

Founder - Token Man Consulting

Guest Speaker

As CIOs, providing strong, inclusive leadership means giving people on your team the safety and space they need to thrive. Vulnerable leadership can contribute to delivering the psychological safety required for high performing teams but can be difficult to put into practice. Join Daniele Fiandaca, Inclusion & Diversity Specialist at Token Man Consulting as he challenges our myths around vulnerability and explores what could be different if we (our culture, our workplaces and ourselves) saw vulnerability as courage rather than weakness. Specifically, Daniele will discuss:

  • Why vulnerability sits at the heart of inclusive leadership
  • How vulnerability can contribute to delivering the psychological safety required for high performing teams
  • Practical ways to show vulnerability in the workplace and help provide the space needed to deliver an inclusive and diverse workplace

09:45 - 10:00  Break

10:00 - 10:45  Breakout Session

Strategic Leadership and the CIO — Unlocking Potential

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Ashling Cunningham

CIO

Irish Life

Today’s CIOs face lofty expectations and a changing set of skills necessary to be successful. They are expected to build healthy team cultures remotely, understand the nuances of inclusive leadership, manage high levels of ambiguity, and the list goes on. To meet this moment, how can technology leaders support their business and their people by developing successful teams at all levels? Join Ashling Cunningham, CIO at Irish Life as she shares her story, and recommendations, about how technology leaders can successfully lead teams through inclusivity and communication. Specifically, Ashling will share:

  • How fostering an inclusive mindset at Irish Life has contributed to successful transformation
  • How to gain key advantages with a one-team mindset when equipping employees for what comes next
  • Demonstrating the impact of your programs — on individuals, teams, and the organisation

10:00 - 10:45  Breakout Session

Driving Productivity and Security for Frontline Workers

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Michael Wheeler-Wyatt

Director of Chrome Enterprise EMEA

Google

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Matthew Glaze

Workplace Engineering Lead

E.ON Next

For CIOs, current external forces are making it tough to prepare for success. This, coupled with a fast-moving technology landscape means that the CIO must wear more hats than ever before. Hear from E.ON Next as they share how a cloud-first IT strategy boosted productivity, improved the customer experience and delivered cost savings for their bottom line.

Join this session and conversation with your peers to discuss:

  • Reliable IT strategies that deliver a boost to TCO and productivity
  • Building a Zero Trust IT mentality and prioritising security
  • Securing stakeholder buy-in for wide scale digital transformation


10:00 - 10:45  Executive Boardroom

Connecting Your Enterprise and Transforming Productivity Through Data

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Steven Teasdale

Area Vice President UK&I and Middle East

Appian

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Linda Cooke

Group CIO

Chaucer Group

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Tony Battle

Group Chief Digital & Information Officer

Jaguar Land Rover

CIOs are defining and executing on IT strategies in an era of abundant data, innovative technologies, and an increasing need to deliver on ever complex business goals. As such, it’s never been more important to simplify the processes of delivering data to business users, ensuring greater productivity. What are the best techniques CIOs can use to drive efficiencies, remove data silos and drive more value to the business through data?

  • Gaining buy-in from internal stakeholders on your data strategy
  • Bringing enterprise data sources together into an easily managed data fabric to drive efficiencies
  • Reducing complexities in an age of fast evolving technologies, driving a culture of data-informed decision making

10:00 - 10:45  Executive Boardroom

AIOps and Automation — A CIOs Guide to Demonstrating Business Value and ROI

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Tanju Arslan

Chief Digital Information Officer

BUPA

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Tim Chinchen

Field CTO

PagerDuty

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Adrian Poole

CIO & Global Technology Director

Bauer Media Group

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Raj Seth

Former CIO

GFG Alliance

It takes more than excellent ideas to secure funding for an IT automation project. To justify starting or expanding a project in today’s economy, you must demonstrate both current and future value, and how the project will support key business initiatives in service of your company’s goals. But with so many business priorities and objectives, how should CIOs decide which areas to automate for maximum business value? How can they better demonstrate that automation can yield significant impact and ROI, from both cost savings and revenue generation?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • How to grow revenue by increasing your innovation velocity
  • How to reduce costs to achieve operational efficiency at scale
  • Using automation and AI to mitigate the risk of operational failure and poor customer experience

10:00 - 10:45  Executive Boardroom

Next Generation Programme — Becoming a CIO — Where Should you Go From Here?

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Doug Grantham

CIO, Investec Private Bank, UK

Investec

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John Hobson

CIO, Europe

Kellanova

In 2024, the success of the modern enterprise increasingly hinges upon all things digital. This heralds the continued evolution of the CIO role, whose scope has needed to develop to be a representative that can successfully spearhead the digital enterprise. As such, the skills and traits of the prospective CIO have also shifted dramatically – and continue to do so.

The question for any aspiring CIO, then, should be which attributes are currently sought after? – and who better to ask than CIOs themselves.

Join this session to gain insight on:

  • Which qualities are currently in demand from organisations recruiting CIOs?
  • What are the key traits organisations look out for while assessing candidates?
  • How should you adapt your approach to meet the ever-shifting requirements of a CIO?


10:45 - 11:50  Networking Break

10:55 - 11:40  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

11:50 - 12:35  Breakout Session

Connecting Fans With Football Through Digital and Data

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Craig Donald

CIO

The Football Association

Driving tech-enabled and insight-driven business outcomes varies drastically among organisations and it can be difficult for CIOs to know whether they are focusing on the right aspects of their strategy to accelerate digital business. The challenges faced span across multiple different areas — from providing data-driven insights and capabilities to demonstrating the impact digital strategy has on business outcomes. So how can IT Leaders get past the complexities of these challenges and utilise them to drive forward digital business initiatives? Join Craig Donald, CIO, The FA as he shares his insights into how The FA are digitising participation in football across England, and radically transforming professional sport through their technology and data strategy. Specifically, Craig will share:

  • How the FA are embracing the ever-changing digital landscape to enable the smooth running of football across England
  • Communicating confidence to the business that digital strategy is aligned with wider organisational goals
  • The learnings and recommendations for CIOs looking to make the most out of their technology and drive business collaboration and value

11:50 - 12:35  Breakout Session

Beyond the Hypotheticals of AI — Approaches to Rationalise Adoption and Boost ROI

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Mihai Cernei

CTO

Amdaris

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Tony McClelland

CIO

ACCA

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Marcus Hunter

CTO

EVRi

CIOs are currently managing expectations of business stakeholders who are excited – but also bewildered - at the promise of disruptive technologies like AI. From bringing artificial general intelligence closer, to a reality of delivering monumental change for humanity, was does AI mean for your business today? How are you communicating the opportunities and concerns across the enterprise when new techniques hit the headlines? What are the use cases to deploy in your organisation for maximum impact?

Join this session to discuss:

  • The concerns and opportunities technologies like Generative AI hold for the organisation
  • Adoption versus mitigation to key stakeholders
  • The use cases that will ultimately drive value and ROI and value for the business

11:50 - 12:35  Executive Boardroom

Strategic Cyber Transformation — Empowering Business Resilience and Cyber Awareness

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John Lockett

Group CIO

Serco

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Annie Smith

Head of Generation Information Systems

EDF Energy

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Neil Thacker

CISO EMEA

Netskope

Digital business transformation combined with the increasing threat of cyberattacks creates unprecedented security risks. CIOs must balance cybersecurity with the need to run the business, but what are the best ways to enable risk-based decisions across the organisation whilst protecting against security threats and other cybersecurity events? Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • Implementing a robust and defensible cybersecurity program that enhances overall business value
  • Ensuring your cybersecurity strategy supports business resilience and growth while reducing risk
  • Effective partnership across the business to drive cyber awareness

11:50 - 12:35  Executive Boardroom

The Costs of Complexity — How CIOs Can Cut Both!

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Nigel Mort

CIO & Head of IT, Reinsurance

AXA

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Nicky Brennan

Group CIO

Wessex Water Services Limited

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Gary Allwood

IT Director

ABP

In today's challenging digital landscape, reducing operational complexity is a powerful force of cost optimisation and efficiencies that ultimately drive business outcomes. IT is continually asked to do more with less, avoid negative impacts to user experience, and maximise existing investments.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Optimising cloud costs and mitigating the effects of tool sprawl
  • Defining clear, measurable optimisation goals and tracking business outcomes
  • Ensuring automated workloads run smoothly and cost-effectively 


11:50 - 12:35  Executive Boardroom

Next Generation CIO Programme — How to Increase Your Adaptability and be a Strong Change Leader

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Judith van de Pas

Founder, Bloom Coaching & Consulting

Guest Speaker

Connecting with your purpose, articulating your goals and creating your path forward as a leader can be hard. Future IT leaders must ensure they are acting as true business enablers, driving change across their teams and organisations. But how  can leaders drive this change in an effective and authentic way? What are the leadership attributes and team capabilities that are most critical to success? Join Judith van de Pas, Founder at Bloom Coaching & Consulting (and ex-CIO Community member), as she facilitates a space for you to reflect on how this relates to you in your development as adaptable change leaders and shares her insights research into:

  • What the future IT Leader, and team, should look like
  • How IT Leaders can drive effective culture change
  • The leadership qualities and capabilities critical to success

12:35 - 13:30  Lunch Service

13:30 - 14:15  Keynote

Generative AI — A Leadership Perspective From the Past 18 Months

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John Abel

Managing Director, Office of the CTO

Google Cloud

While excited about the potential of generative AI to revolutionise their businesses, CIOs are approaching this transformative technology with a mix of curiosity and caution as they navigate the peak of inflated expectations Join John, for a practical exploration of where we are with generative AI today.

Specifically, this Keynote will cover:

  • Why diversity and business knowledge are critical for CIOs in harnessing Generative AI's potential
  • Establishing transparent communication strategies to internal and external stakeholder groups
  • Overcoming biases, addressing ingrained beliefs and identifying opportunities to enhance efficiencies


14:15 - 14:30  Break

14:30 - 15:15  Breakout Session

Navigating Through Complexity — Tesco Mobile’s Journey to Creating a Strong Business Through IT

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Sally Marriott

CTO

Tesco Mobile

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Nicky Green

Global I.T Director

LAVAZZA Professional Europe

Enterprise-wide transformations can be highly complex and often come with huge challenges. For Tesco Mobile, the prospect of a widescale transformation programme provided the opportunity to innovate customer facing technology and overhaul legacy IT systems. This came alongside a move to a business-wide agile way of working. With major updates needed around technology, culture and processes, the scope of the transformation was wide. Join Sally Marriott, CTO, Tesco Mobile as she shares the journey of how Tesco Mobile navigated this unique transformation, ensuring the company delivered successful outcomes both internally, and externally to customers. Sally will then be joined by Nicky Green, Global I.T Director at LAVAZZA Professional Europe for a fireside chat. 

Specifically, Sally will share:

  • The technology journey of delivering successful transformation in a complex operating environment
  • How Tesco Mobile was able to meet its objectives, despite challenges, and enable a change in ways of working, culture and mindset
  • The learnings and recommendations for CIOs looking to deliver significant technology and agile transformations with minimal disruption

14:30 - 15:15  Breakout Session

Unlocking Full Cloud Potential — IT Enhancements for Today’s Enterprise

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Scott Montgomery

VP, Strategic Initiatives

Island

While the vast majority of infrastructure has been upgraded and modernised to support the shift to the cloud, enterprise IT teams are still missing an equally seamless access method to deliver cloud-native apps and data to their end users. While traditional browsers have become the de-facto access point for the majority of business critical applications, they lack the deep visibility and hyper-granular policy controls enterprises need. This results in IT leaders surrounding their browsers with layers of tech to meet those needs.

Join this breakout session to discover:

  • Why traditional cloud security methods undermine your modernisation efforts and end-user experience
  • Embracing technological momentum to adapt to a "more-with-less" IT landscape
  • How enterprise CIOs are using this solution to bolster cloud security

14:30 - 15:15  Executive Boardroom

Application Modernisation in a Changing World – How CIOs can Innovate & Accelerate Digital Business

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Robert Castello

CIO

Stanley Black & Decker

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Cijo Joseph

Chief Technology and Information Officer

Mitie

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Andrew Quail

Chief Transformation and Information Officer

SGN

CIOs are operating in a rapidly evolving digital landscape, and IT departments often find themselves overloaded and in survival mode, with pressure on budgets, struggling to keep up with the demands of businesses. Meanwhile, business users with minimal technical know-how face challenges in effectively communicating their ideas and requirements to IT teams, caught up in the hypes of Generative AI and emerging technologies. How can CIOs ensure they set their organisations up for success in complex environments?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Improving operational efficiency, partnering with the business, and driving innovation by eliminating the barriers that legacy systems present
  • Keeping control of the narrative around emerging technologies, like AI, to better manage expectations of technology
  • Leveraging AI and innovative solutions to optimise the overall modernisation process

14:30 - 15:15  Executive Boardroom

Protect and Recover From Ransomware – A CIOs Guide

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Euan Davidson

Group Head of IT

KCA Deutag

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Gary Donnelly

Group CIO

Culina Group

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Simon Liste

CITO

Pension Protection Fund

The ransomware threat is a top-of-mind issue for so many CIOs; however, few feel totally prepared for an attack. Readiness Is essential to ransomware mitigation, yet significant gaps exist for most. Join this boardroom to discuss with you peers:

  • The proactive and reactive measures CIOs should put in place to defend against threats and secure backups
  • Mitigation best practices across readiness, prevention, response and recovery
  • Identify the priorities associated with mitigation in the next 12 – 18 months

14:30 - 15:15  Executive Boardroom

Next Generation CIO Programme — Practical Advice on Taking the Executive Step to CIO

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Pooja Bagga

CIO

Guardian Media Group plc

The career path to becoming a CIO has evolved as the role has become increasingly critical to business success. Beyond technology skills, you need to have the ability to influence stakeholders, be a capable communicator, be savvy at negotiating and possess the business and financial acumen to partner effectively with the business. With all this in mind, what are the most practical steps you can be taking now to ensure you’re ready for when the time comes. Join Pooja Bagga, CIO at the Guardian (and a ‘Next Generation Programme’ Alumni) as she shares:

  • Her journey to becoming a CIO, and the critical capabilities picked up along the way
  • The key skills needed to lead large scale, multi-year transformation programmes
  • Fostering partnerships and networks to set you up for success

15:15 - 15:45  Networking Break

15:45 - 16:30  Breakout Session

Are you Thinking Too Small About Sustainable IT Strategy?

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Lynda Petherick

CIO

New Look

Gartner expects that by 2027, 25% of CIO’s compensation will be linked to their sustainable technology impact. But focusing only on the sustainability of internal IT operations (“sustainable IT”) is too narrow a way to think about sustainable technology. As sustainable technology has the potential to facilitate new business models and tech-enabled products, how can CIOs make the right decisions when defining IT strategies with sustainability in mind and create an effective sustainable technology portfolio?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Understanding the business priority around sustainability, and what CIOs can actually control
  • Define your role in driving sustainability across the organisation
  • Evolving your teams mindset to drive momentum around sustainable initiatives

15:45 - 16:30  Executive Boardroom

Buy, Rent or Build? Investing Time and Resources in Applications

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Charlie Ewen

Director of Technology & CIO

Met Office

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Barry Nee

CIO

Practice Plus Group

Gartner research shows a near split of CIOs opting to build an application in-house versus buying or partnering with a third-party. Regardless of the choice, IT executives must deliver programs that are relevant and both cost and time effective to manage.

In this boardroom, you will discuss:

  • Aligning application strategy to business objectives
  • Best uses of application development
  • Adaptability of applications and threat readiness

15:45 - 16:30  Executive Boardroom

Crafting Your Narrative — Telling the Digital Story to the Business

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Ed Hutt

Group CIO

Impellam Group PLC

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Alison Davis

CIO

GE Healthcare

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Nicola Mckenna

VP, Team Manager

Gartner

Communication is a critical leadership competency, particularly in distributed work environments. Progressive CIOs use stories to deliver complex technical ideas through simple, persuasive narratives. What are the steps CIOs should take to become good storytellers? How can you convey your message and digital story in a way that resonates and focusses on the outcomes that stakeholders care about? Join this boardroom to discuss:

  • Building narratives that focus on unique challenges, plausible tension and desirable resolutions
  • Engaging stakeholders by focussing on the outcomes they care most about
  • Enable distributed employees to become storytellers who amplify leadership messages

16:30 - 16:45  Break

16:45 - 17:30  Keynote

CIOs, Take Stock — Prepare Yourself, and the Organisation, for What’s Next

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Kate Platonova

SVP & CIO, Downstream & Renewables

Shell

As digital transformation, innovation and technology advance at a staggering pace, organisations need to rapidly adapt and ‘look beyond’ the horizon to remain relevant, competitive and proactive. With the need to transform technologies, culture and organisational structures in a sustainable way, how should CIOs evolve their strategies, competencies and technology roadmaps to ensure they are well placed to deal with the changing obligations and opportunities. Join Kate Platonova, SVP & CIO for Downstream & Renewables at Shell as she shares her thoughts on:

  • Looking at longer term planning for emerging technologies, like AI, to remain relevant
  • Preparing for what the IT leadership role will entail in the coming years, including driving sustainable business
  • Ways to elevate the CIO role for influence across the C-suite and beyond

17:30 - 18:00  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

11 June 2024

12 June 2024

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Royal Lancaster, London
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Deadline to book using the discounted room rate of £432 GBP (plus tax) is 17 May 2024.

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