Executive Summit

AI is now a board-level priority - and a board-level risk - placing CIOs and CISOs in the spotlight to demonstrate active, measurable management of AI exposure. Organisations are translating governance into enforceable controls and transparent reporting, replacing stopgap blocking with runtime guardrails. What are strategies that CIOs and CISOs can take back to their own organisations to establish clear decision rights, provide actionable risk metrics, and foster confidence among executive sponsors and boards, all while enabling safe and scalable AI adoption?

Join this session to learn:

• Establishing clear decision rights for accountable AI adoption
• Replacing stopgap blocking with enforceable, runtime guardrails
• Providing boards with transparent, actionable risk metrics

As organisations face accelerating technological change, shifting customer expectations, and growing operational complexity, transformation has become a continuous business imperative. Today's CIOs are increasingly accountable for driving change while strengthening resilience, managing risk, and enabling growth. How can technology and security leaders create lasting business value in an era of constant disruption?

Join this session to explore:

• Driving transformation as an organisational capability
• Balancing innovation and modernisation with operational resilience
• Aligning people, culture, and technology to accelerate change and deliver business value at scale

Frontier AI is changing both sides of the security equation. The cost and expertise required to build sophisticated software has collapsed, empowering almost anyone in the enterprise to become a builder. At the same time, the cloud is expanding beyond AWS, Azure, GCP and the traditional SaaS estate to include AI-native platforms and services. IT and security leaders must enable the business to embrace AI while protecting a broader technology surface from increasingly accessible and commoditised attacks.

Join this interactive session to discuss:

• Securing an enterprise where everyone can build, deploy and automate
• Extending cloud security beyond AWS, Azure and GCP to a new generation of AI-native platforms and services
• Defending against sophisticated attacks and zero-day exploitation as frontier models reduce their cost and complexity

AI has rewritten the technology leadership mandate. CIOs and CISOs must keep the enterprise available, secure and efficient while enabling AI-led transformation, productivity and innovation. Yet service, operations, asset, identity and knowledge often remain fragmented across systems, with people manually bridging the gaps. Adding more AI can accelerate individual steps without necessarily improving the end-to-end outcome.

This interactive session will explore how organisations can move from fragmented operations to coordinated action by:

• Creating shared operational context across services, knowledge, people, technology, dependencies and risk
• Coordinating action across teams, workflows and systems rather than stopping at recommendations or manual handoffs
• Embedding governance into execution, including policy, permissions, approvals, human oversight and auditability

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.

For CIOs and CISOs, managing risk is no longer limited to protecting systems from cyber threats. Today's technology decisions require organisations to consider broader questions about data access, supply chain resilience, third-party dependencies, and the potential impacts of foreign ownership, control and influence (FOCI).

Drawing on current government guidance and real-world considerations, this session will examine how organisations can take a risk-based approach to protecting critical information, assessing technology and supplier choices, and enabling trusted collaboration across increasingly complex digital ecosystems.

• Why data governance and technology risk are strategic leadership issues
• Understanding FOCI risks and their implications for procurement and technology decisions
• Balancing innovation, collaboration and trusted data sharing

As the digital landscape rapidly evolves, organisations must ensure their applications are resilient, scalable, and closely aligned with strategic business goals. Legacy systems and underperforming applications often create operational inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities. How can organisations modernise their application portfolios to unlock greater business value while building a more flexible and resilient technology foundation?

Join this session to:

• Modernise legacy systems to reduce operational and security risks
• Improve application agility, integration, and scalability to support evolving business needs
• Reduce technical debt while enabling future innovation

With technology budgets under constant scrutiny and investment priorities continuing to expand, CIOs and CISOs face increasing pressure to deliver more value from every technology dollar. The challenge is no longer simply controlling costs, but making deliberate investment decisions that align spending with business priorities, optimise existing assets, and enable sustainable growth.

Join this session to explore:

• Leveraging continuous cost visibility, disciplined vendor management and proactive resource allocation
• Building a culture of accountability and innovation to identify inefficiencies and reinvest savings into strategic initiatives
• Shifting the narrative from cost cutting to value creation by linking technology spend directly to measurable business outcomes

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.