Executive Summit

AI is transforming the workforce, revolutionising how talent is developed and managed at every level. As AI automates routine tasks and accelerates skill development, it is reshaping roles for junior staff and executives. This session explores how leaders can leverage AI for organisational success. Discover the three key functions AI serves for leaders and organisations—mentor, reviewer, and sounding board—and gain practical strategies to maximise these. Learn how AI can enhance middle management, support junior employees, and help you become an outstanding leader in the age of AI.

In this session, you will:

• Explore the three core leadership roles enabled by AI
• Understand AI’s impact on employees and management
• Learn which technologies help you build an AI future

In today’s fast-paced digital world, organisations need more than just contingency plans, they need true resilience. As digital transformation accelerates, CIOs must keep their organisations running smoothly amid uncertainty. Johnson Matthey is setting the standard with a robust resilience strategy built on the Minimal Viable Company model, to ensure they can operate through any challenge. 

Join to explore:

• How Johnson Matthey is future-proofing its business by adopting innovative continuity practices and building organisational resilience in an increasingly digital world
• What the Minimal Viable Company approach looks like in practice and how it can help keep critical operations running, even in the face of a cyber incident
• Real-world insights you can use to empower your teams, minimise downtime, and ensure your organisation is ready to respond and recover from any incident

Discover the inside story of a sophisticated cyber heist that targeted multi-cloud environments to steal over $100 million. This session reveals the advanced stealth techniques used by attackers, the unique investigative mathodology which uncovered the attack, and the broader implications for organisations operating in multi-cloud settings. Gain practical insights to enhance your security strategy and prepare for evolving threats.
Join this session to discover:

• Emerging attacker tactics in multi-cloud and crypto environments
• Key takeaways for executives facing advanced cyber breaches
• Actionable steps to strengthen cloud security and incident response

For senior executives, communication is not about sharing information. It is about signalling leadership. This session shows aspiring CIOs how to engage boards and executive committees as strategic peers and decision‑makers, shifting away from operational updates toward clear, outcome‑focused recommendations.Participants will learn how to bring clarity, foresight, and calm authority to high‑stakes conversations, building credibility and aligning technology leadership with enterprise priorities.Key Takeaways

• Elevate the conversation by focusing on the decisions boards and committees need to make, not the activities teams have completed
• Lead with judgement by moving beyond presenting options to delivering clear, confident recommendations
• Demonstrate executive presence by communicating with composure and perspective to build trust at the top table

The future CIO is a strategic C‑suite leader who leads with emotional intelligence, authenticity, and self‑awareness. True executive success is never achieved alone; it is defined by the ability to build, empower, and trust high‑performing, cognitively diverse teams.This session explores the leadership capabilities aspiring CIOs need to scale their impact. It focuses on creating cultures of healthy challenge, reframing discomfort as a driver of growth, and treating inclusive leadership as a strategic advantage for long‑term success.

Key takeaways

• How to build exceptional teams by hiring complementary talent and investing in capability
• Using challenge and discomfort to drive growth and resilience within yourself and your team
• Leading with effectiveness and emotional intelligence to foster trust, engagement and credibility

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

As organisations accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption, CIOs face a critical challenge: enabling the agility of hybrid and multi‑cloud environments while maintaining data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and cyber resilience in a post‑Brexit landscape.With increasing regulatory scrutiny and board‑level accountability, data control and recoverability are no longer purely technical concerns.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Why regulatory requirements and data jurisdiction have become core business issues—and how to address them without limiting innovation
• How to achieve strong, immutable data protection and coordinated recovery across on‑prem, hybrid, and multi‑cloud environments
• Strategies to eliminate data blind spots through continuous discovery, classification, and protection of critical structured and unstructured data

Employees are using personal AI tools and browser extensions outside IT’s view, creating 'shadow IT' risks. As UK organizations adopt GenAI, these hidden tools in browsers lead to data leaks, compliance issues, and operational unpredictability. Traditional security controls often miss these threats.

Join Google Chrome Enterprise and a panel of UK CIOs as they discuss:

• How shadow AI in browsers is reshaping enterprise risk
• Why old security policies aren’t enough
• How to ensure productivity whilst securing your organisation's data

Organisations are moving beyond the initial experimentation phase with Generative AI, shifting their focus to embedding AI across business functions to drive consistent, high-quality customer experiences and preparing for large-scale adoption. This session will explore how to transition from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide implementation, highlighting strategies for building momentum, securing stakeholder buy-in, and fostering a culture of innovation that connects operational efficiency with measurable customer value to accelerate business growth.Join to discuss:

• Strategies for moving from AI pilots to scalable, enterprise-wide deployments that enhance end-to-end customer experience
• Building the business case: Demonstrating early ROI, customer impact, and alignment with board-level priorities
• Fostering a culture of innovation while establishing governance and trust across customer-facing and internal AI use cases

As organisations accelerate analytics and AI adoption, reliable data and automated workflows become the foundation for agility and risk control. Forward-thinking leaders are moving beyond reactive monitoring to achieve end-to-end visibility across the data lifecycle, embedding governance-driven accountability and intelligent automation with built-in guardrails to scale secure, decision-ready data operations.

Join this session to:

• Explore strategies to build trusted, enterprise-scale data workflows
• Discuss how to achieve proactive, end-to-end visibility across modern data ecosystems
• Identify actionable ways to embed automation into your workflows