UK CIO Virtual Executive Summit

A paradigm shift has occurred in the last few months, positioning IT as agile superheroes. CIOs now must plan for a new wave of business expectations and quickly develop revenue generating innovations, while balancing employee workloads and resource capacity. In this keynote, CIOs will share how they intend to capitalise on their new position as a strategic business driver.

As a CIO, it is crucial to enable the digital agenda while connecting technology with business value. During this unprecedented time, organisations can leverage digital offerings to alleviate impacts on operations and business performance. 

In this virtual boardroom discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• How to reprioritise digital projects to meet new needs

• Strategies to communicate value to your board

• New and existing partnerships to push objectives forward

The spring pandemic only accelerated the growing trend of building out engaging digital experiences that meet your customers where they live. In this boardroom discussion, CIOs collaborate over new and innovative ways to connect digital-first consumers with the brands they follow. 

In this virtual boardroom discussion, CIOs will discuss:

• Strategies to partner across the organisation to drive digital offerings

• How to identify and execute digital priorities

• Best practices for implementing on an accelerated timeline

If the past several months has done one thing for the CIO, it’s caused these executives to reflect on how to lead up, down, and across the organisation. In this keynote, CIOs will discuss how and why they have had to select new tools in their leadership toolkits, including trust, empathy and increased communication, in order to lead the organisation through disrupted times. 

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Increased demand and truncated timelines have ushered in a new vision of technology leadership in the enterprise. CIOs will have to adjust their focus to coordinate and advance digital initiatives that are increasingly defined and led by leaders throughout the enterprise. While this may reduce the breadth of CIOs’ responsibilities over time, their influence and impact within their organisation will not change. 

In this session, you will discuss how to:

• Manage new digital foundations with more speed to market

• Redesign the IT operating model to allow IT and business teams to collaborate more closely

• Evolve from digital evangelists to catalysts of other leaders’ digital ambitions

Management boards and CIOs alike talk at length about the potential impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on business processes, proficiency and performance. This session aims beyond the AI hype to target real world results in the enterprise. 

Join your peers to discuss:  

• Building AI awareness and capabilities to move from POCs to production 

• Practical use cases that drive successful outcomes  

• The right tools and suppliers for your business 

An informal and interactive opportunity for you to network with peers in small groups. 

Meet virtually for in-depth conversations with your colleagues

Conducting business virtually makes it more challenging to meet and network with like-minded peers. During this time of disruption and uncertainty, it’s become even more critical to collaborate with peers who are facing the same challenges.

Now, we are bringing you the opportunity to set up 1-to-1 meetings in a private, virtual setting with community peers directly after the Virtual Executive Summit.

• Peer-to-Peer meetings are 25 minutes in length, giving you the chance for more personal interaction and in-depth conversation with your fellow UK CIO Virtual Executive Summit peers.
• All conversations are private and will not be recorded
• Meet up to 3 peers based on your shared interests or priorities

Participant Testimonials

• ‘If I came just for the peer to peer meetings, my time was well spent. This is truly your USP.’ Stuart Hughes, CDIO at Rolls Royce
• ’The peer to peer mtgs were maybe the BEST part of this mtg’ Edward Wagoner, Executive Director, Digital, JLL
• ‘Best idea ever; I had such productive sessions with all three of my peers’ Dd Budiharto Sr. Director of Cybersecurity, Baker Hughes

How to participate

Please contact your Program Manager to participate.