

Despite the challenges in the global economy there is a real sense of optimism in IT organizations with increased budgets and the return on new digital channels starting to show. This optimism could be short-lived as customers and employees hold their loved brands to a whole new standard of experience. To keep up, companies will have to embrace a whole new toolbox of cultural and digital technology!
Join 70+ senior IT leaders on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology and drive your industry forward collaboratively.
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 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:45
Beyond Digital Transformation – When IT Actually Leads Organisational Transformation
09:45 - 10:25
Driving Technology Driven Cultures
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:25
Track 1: Driving Engagement and Innovation in the Post-Pandemic Workplace
Critical talent are complaining about feeling like 2nd class citizens to their office-based counterparts despite choosing their own flexibility. Innovation is suffering as it is hard to get IT teams to collaborate on the levels required. Are employees losing sight of the key purpose and outcomes of the business. Where will IT need to step up and create connection?
Track 2: Cloudvision: Modernize Applications to Drive Innovation and Cut Costs
Cloud was the undisputed hero of the last 2 years but as we come to terms with the splurge, how do we optimize and integrate our app ecosystem into a cohesive, integrated and frictionless experience?
Track 3: Opening the Toolbox: An Inquisitive Look at Next Generation Game Changing Tech
Despite the challenges in the global economy there is a real sense of optimism in IT organizations with increased budgets and the return on new digital channels starting to show. What new technologies have IT leaders been too scary to go for that now feel possible?
11:25 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:10
12:11 - 12:41
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Bold Leadership
One year out of one of the biggest jobs in IT, Larry Quinlan reflects on his experience of large-scale technology deployments, IT strategy and leadership
09:42 - 10:22
It’s All About Belonging- Harnessing the Power of Diversity Through Inclusion
IT leaders have never been under more pressure to drive innovation through cross functional teams. If we don’t design diverse groups that feel included to bring their best ideas, IT will lose its one chance to be a true strategic enabler.
10:22 - 10:32
10:35 - 11:25
Track 1: Driving Engagement and Innovation in the Post-Pandemic Workplace
Critical talent are complaining about feeling like 2nd class citizens to their office-based counterparts despite choosing their own flexibility. Innovation is suffering as it is hard to get IT teams to collaborate on the levels required. Are employees losing sight of the key purpose and outcomes of the business. Where will IT need to step up and create connection?
Track 2: Cloudvision: Modernize Applications to Drive Innovation and Cut Costs
Cloud was the undisputed hero of the last 2 years but as we come to terms with the splurge, how do we optimize and integrate our app ecosystem into a cohesive, integrated and frictionless experience?
Track 3: Opening the Toolbox: An Inquisitive Look at Next Generation Game Changing Tech
Despite the challenges in the global economy there is a real sense of optimism in IT organizations with increased budgets and the return on new digital channels starting to show. What new technologies have IT leaders been too scary to go for that now feel possible?
11:26 - 11:56
The Hub and the Spoke! Driving Innovation Through IT
Bringing different technologies to the forefront through cloud and consolidating app ecosystems to give product leaders the ability to adapt more quickly is at the heart of IT’s new value proposition.
11:58 - 12:30
09:10 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Overcoming Resistance to Drive the DX Agenda - Digital Empathy to true Democratization
09:41 - 10:21
Collaborating with R&D
Brands are under increasing pressure to create extra-ordinary outcomes for their clients! To achieve this IT and R&D will need to develop a special relationship. Hear from leaders of IT and R&D on how their relationship is transforming.
10:22 - 10:32
10:32 - 11:22
11:22 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Data Governance that Drives Democratisation
12:01 - 12:31
Executing to Automate: Enjoying Competitive Advantage through the Effective Scaling of Automation
12:31 - 12:41
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.
Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most
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.
On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A
Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.
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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.
If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.
I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years
Thank you so much! Great Summit - an outstanding 3 days that culminated in this Award ... I am humbled and honored. Congratulations to you all for pulling off a Hybrid Summit with Augmented Reality features that are truly unparalleled in the Industry! Collaborative, Interactive & showcasing leading edge technology ... GDS Summits really set the bar so high that a return to physical conferences might be re-evaluated in the Industry. You are an amazing Team of Professionals & I am truly honoured to have been a part of this Summit.