8 - 10 Mar • Europe • Online
Capitalising On New Influence
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CIO Digital Summit
The move to the virtual workplace has given IT an influence like never before! As customer centric digital transformation makes the technology organisation a revenue generator and as emerging technologies sit at the heart of the employee experience in the new world of work, it is time for the CIO to step up.
Join 45+ senior IT leaders on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology and drive your industry forward collaboratively.
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Attendees100%
Senior Executives9 Hrs
Industry InsightsSpeakers Include
Lesley Salmon
CIO
Que Tran
Head of IT Europe and Russia
Ravindra Rao
CIO Europe
Prem Padmanabhan
VP
Wolfgang Bitomsky
CIO
Alfonso Razzi
Group CIO
Ash Shah
Global Programs Director
Charles Southwood
Vice President, N. Europe and MEA
Siddhartha Chatterjee
Head of Data and Analytics
Craig Hughes
Chief Enterprise Architect
Keith Dargie
Chief Information and Digital Officer
Ross Chippendale
Head of Workplace Technology
Neil Usher
Chief Workplace & Change Strategist | AI and author of 'The Elemental Workplace' (2018) and 'Elemental Change' (2020)
Marco van Gelder
Senior Consultant
A. Gaye Soykök
Chief Product Officer
Why Attend
Connect with 45+ 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
Calling All Outstanding Technology Leaders - Europe
FREE TO ENTER • OPEN NOW • CLOSING 16 FEBRUARY
This award will recognise outstanding C-Suite (or equivalent) information technology executives who can demonstrate exemplary leadership through real-world achievements in their field. Judges are particularly interested in seeing evidence of the application of innovative technologies or strategies over the last 12 months that have led to improved business performance and operational efficiencies.
Event Agenda
Day one
Day two
Day three
09:00 - 09:20
Opening Remarks
Intro & Challenger Panel - 3 Roundtable moderators
Prem Padmanabhan VP, UST
Wolfgang Bitomsky CIO, FCC Environmental Services
Alfonso Razzi Group CIO, Toto Holdings
09:20 - 09:50
Keynote
Building bridges with cloud - Using cloud and edge technologies to get closer to the customer than ever before
CIO’s must make significant decisions around distributed cloud, edge, management platforms and analysis as the IOT revolution will take us closer into the lives of users. This is IT's chance to truly enable the organisation to deliver better outcomes for their customers.
Ash Shah Global Programs Director, AXA Group Operations
09:55 - 10:35
Interview
Functions on the rise - How forming a strategic partnership with HR gives technology its best chance of adding value
Effective automation, re-skilling and workplace transformation will be based on increasingly digital organisations putting people at the heart of everything they do. This panel will consider the value of a strategic alliance between IT and HR to address the critical societal need to find the optimal fusion between people and technology.
Lesley Salmon CIO, Kellogg’s
10:35 - 10:45
Insight Break
10:45 - 11:45
Roundtables
Track 1: Capitalising on new influence - Push through critical change and move from servent to enabler
Six in ten CIO’s feel that their influence has increased as a result of the pandemic according to the Harvey Nash CIO Survey – how are you going to navigate both the opportunities and challenges?
Track 2: Opening the toolbox!- Experimenting with emerging capabilities to deliver competitive advantage
Almost half of all technology leaders feel that the pandemic has permanently accelerated digital transformation and the adoption of emergent technologies. How do you move successfully from pilot to creating profit?
Track 3: Leading a digital first culture - How technologists facilitate this conversation accross the organisation.
According to research by KPMG , self-described “digital leaders” outperform in every one of five meaningful business measures. Yet what does it take for CIO’s and technologists in general to create and lead a digital first culture?
11:50 - 12:10
Keynote
Transformation with talent - Protecting the company while recruiting and engaging expanding talent pools
Que Tran Head of IT Europe and Russia, DP World
09:00 - 09:10
Opening Remarks
09:10 - 09:40
Keynote
Opportunistic AI Expansion - How to think strategically about AI to develop internal centres of excellence.
This session explores the challenges of developing AI in house with a view to becoming a centre of excellence while ensuring that wider executives fully understand the technologies before making decisions that impact IT.
Semeen Akhter CIO Global F&R and Europe, Unilever
09:45 - 10:25
Panel Discussion
Democratising data- breaking the ritual of corporate data models to make insights truly accessible
For the promise of data to be realised and to truly place it in peoples hands, you have to put it in a format that they can use.
Charles Southwood Vice President, N. Europe and MEA, Denodo
Siddhartha Chatterjee Head of Data and Analytics, Groupe ADP
Craig Hughes Chief Enterprise Architect, Danske Bank
Keith Dargie Chief Information and Digital Officer, Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service
10:25 - 10:35
Insight Break
10:35 - 11:35
Roundtables
Track 1: Capitalising on new influence - Push through critical change and move from servent to enabler
Six in ten CIO’s feel that their influence has increased as a result of the pandemic according to the Harvey Nash CIO Survey – how are you going to navigate both the opportunities and challenges?
Track 2: Opening the toolbox!- Experimenting with emerging capabilities to deliver competitive advantage
Almost half of all technology leaders feel that the pandemic has permanently accelerated digital transformation and the adoption of emergent technologies. How do you move successfully from pilot to creating profit?
Track 3: Leading a digital first culture - How technologists facilitate this conversation accross the organisation.
According to research by KPMG , self-described “digital leaders” outperform in every one of five meaningful business measures. Yet what does it take for CIO’s and technologists in general to create and lead a digital first culture?
11:40 - 12:10
Keynote
Enabling the organisation through agile – Understanding IT’s role in taking different co-design methodologies into thew wider business
IT has become a thought leader in agile and co-design methodologies in order to bring digital products to market at the speed required to be competitive in the market place – how can it use its experience in leading agile to become a better strategic partner to the wider business
Ross Chippendale Head of Workplace Technology , Atlassian
09:00 - 09:10
Opening Remarks
09:10 - 09:40
Keynote
Hybrid by design - Should IT be leading workplace transformation
Join two established workplace transformation leaders who have sat at the centre of technology, HR and real estate for years and ask the question of what role technology leaders should be playing in its transformation.
Neil Usher Chief Workplace & Change Strategist | AI and author of 'The Elemental Workplace' (2018) and 'Elemental Change' (2020), GoSpace
Marco van Gelder Senior Consultant, Veldhoen + Company & Workplace Innovation Researcher at Tilburg University
09:45 - 10:45
Roundtable Review
Moderators from the respective panels share key insights, observations and future challenges with the rest of the delegation
Prem Padmanabhan VP, UST
Wolfgang Bitomsky CIO, FCC Environmental Services
Alfonso Razzi Group CIO, Toto Holdings
10:50 - 11:30
Awards
CIO Leadership Awards
11:35 - 12:05
Keynote
Getting affluent in fluid organisations - Take home wisdom from corporates, decentralised organisations, community businesses, startups and nature.
Ravindra Rao CIO Europe , Sysco
A. Gaye Soykök Chief Product Officer, Pension the Pennies
