

CIO’s crossed a threshold where they are now seen as key to revenue generation through enabling and often leading innovative digital products. Yet the realities from the splurge to expedite digital channels and transform workplaces is only just settling in and many technology leaders are seeing cost cutting on the horizon.
This need to optimise profit rather than focussing mainly on delivering on budget represents a huge shift for the CIO who’s influence will only grow as digital becomes a more significant part of companies make up.
Connect with 70+ senior IT leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward. Our summits are designed to help you:
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Stay current with emerging business trends
Understand the impact new technology can make
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:20
09:20 - 09:50
Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of the Autonomous Workforce
Prior to March of 2020, the world’s knowledge workers lived a primarily in-office lifestyle.The pandemic exposed us to a new model of working and showed us that there are advantages to allowing employees to be flexible in where and how they work. In this presentation, Harry Moseley, Zoom’s Global CIO will discuss his own experiences both before and during the pandemic, as well as what he sees for the future of the world’s knowledge workers.
09:55 - 10:35
Practical Steps to Simplifying IT for a Future-Fit Business
Many companies have embarked on strategic technology transformation initiatives. But how do you establish a technology transformation roadmap which will enable you to continue to support business growth?
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: The journey to El Dorado! - Redrawing the map of the CIO landscape with revenue generation as the primary goal
How are CIO’s being called to create or enable revenue in new ways and at what intensity? What challenges are these creating?
Track 2: Breaking siloes to find universal truths – Throwing bricks or breaking bread?
In a virtual world where communication through data and apps is becoming that much more important, what else does IT need to do to grow relationships to ensure that data is acted on and the promise realised?
Track 3: Outsourcing, automating and democratising to go digital – shaping your IT organisation in response to an expanding innovation ecosystem
How do I structure my IT group to reflect the need for innovation and the changing capabilities of new technologies, outsources and partners?
11:50 - 12:20
Elevate your Hybrid Work Experience
Today's work environment demands new levels of flexibility to adapt to changing conditions, a distributed workforce and workflows that extend across your entire organization, customers and partners. Is your organization prepared to meet the challenges of hybrid work and thrive?
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:20
Discussion – Is Automation part of your business and IT strategy?
Generally, automation has been perceived as a lever for operational efficiency but the paradigm is shifting to focus on revenue generation. How do you see automation helping you in accelerating your digital transformation journey?
09:20 - 09:50
Collaboration With Confidence: Accelerating agility, adoption, and resilience in the Digital Workplace
Even before the pandemic, disruptive trends in SaaS collaborations services were creating both opportunities and challenges for IT leaders as they strive to both accelerate productivity and meet security, compliance and regulatory requirements. Over the last 18 months, these challenges have only intensified. In this session, AvePoint will share their experiences with enterprise organizations who are establishing and growing their modern Digital Workplace Services offering
09:55 - 10:35
Leadership Transformation in the Digital Era
In order to drive digital transformation, IT executives need to transform the way they lead. Over the last decade, technology giants have scaled to unprecedented revenues and trillions of dollars in market capitalization. What are the underlying forces behind their incredible success? What can IT executives learn and implement in their own organizations? How do you know if you have the right strategy and metrics to judge execution? Jedidiah Yueh, the best selling author of Disrupt or Die and the Founder and CEO of Delphix, will share insights from the front lines of digital transformation
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 10:55
How Do You Avoid The Compliance Tax?
The Compliance Tax is what your business pays in time, labor, opportunity costs, and fines to assert or attain compliance and respond to audit demands
10:55 - 11:55
Track 1: The journey to El Dorado! - Redrawing the map of the CIO landscape with revenue generation as the primary goal
How are CIO’s being called to create or enable revenue in new ways and at what intensity? What challenges are these creating?
Track 2: Breaking siloes to find universal truths – Throwing bricks or breaking bread?
In a virtual world where communication through data and apps is becoming that much more important, what else does IT need to do to grow relationships to ensure that data is acted on and the promise realised?
Track 3: Outsourcing, automating and democratising to go digital – shaping your IT organisation in response to an expanding innovation ecosystem
How do I structure my IT group to reflect the need for innovation and the changing capabilities of new technologies, outsources and partners?
12:00 - 12:30
The Revenue Enabling CIO: models, challenges and opportunities
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:20
Presentation- End to End Automation with UiPath: Path to Accelerated Growth and Operational Excellence
Gartner surveys found that more than 50% of CEOs and 69% of boards of directors are demanding accelerated growth and operational excellence. IT has played a strategic role in enabling remote work and ensuring business continuity during COVID-19 but at a cost of increasing IT operations overhead. The 2021 IT demand rebound driven by cloud and digital transformation, looks poised to sustain into 2022. UiPath provides a cost-effective path towards achieving both transformational and operational excellence needs through end-to-end automation
09:20 - 09:50
Accelerating your Modernization Momentum
Accelerating your transformation will take a sustained effort across multi-cloud strategy, developer efficiency, architecting for resiliency and zero trust
09:55 - 10:35
The GXI Advantage
The GXI Vol. 5 is forecasting the total capacity provisioned to privately and directly exchange traffic with a diverse and growing set of counterparties and providers at distributed IT exchange points. It is benchmarking the journey leaders are taking as they transform to digital
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 10:55
How Do You Avoid The Compliance Tax?
The Compliance Tax is what your business pays in time, labor, opportunity costs, and fines to assert or attain compliance and respond to audit demands
10:35 - 11:35
12:00 - 12:30
Digital empathy: From digital transformation to creating the metaverse
One of the biggest challenges facing leaders of digital transformation is adoption. How do you engage your employees enough to embrace the new systems you are introducing and to execute strategies you create?
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
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Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session
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There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.
If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
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