UK & Ireland CDAO Community
Executive Summit
16 October 2025 | Convene 155 Bishopsgate
16 October 2025
Convene 155 Bishopsgate
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with UK & Ireland's top CDAOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:
Scaling AI and Establishing Value
Developing a Data-Driven Culture From the Top
Ensuring Trust and Reliability in Data for AI Initiatives
UK & Ireland CDAO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CDAOs, For CDAOs™.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Christine Kemp
Jaguar Land Rover
Chief Data and AI Officer
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CDAO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your UK & Ireland CDAO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, 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.
Agenda
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote
Empower Your Organisation — Driving Innovation with AI for Everyone
Ranil Boteju
Group CDAO
Lloyds Banking Group
As AI transforms industries, leaders must find ways to make it part of their entire business. To get the most from AI, it should be accessible to everyone in the organisation, not just a select few. This approach helps ensure that AI solutions address real business needs. In this session, Ranil Boteju, Global CDAO will share how Lloyd's Banking Group is making AI available to all employees and building a data-driven culture.
Key topics include:
- How AI can drive organisational change and innovation
- Why it’s important to make AI tools and knowledge available to everyone in the company
- What leaders need to know to guide their organisations into an AI-powered future
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45 Executive Boardroom
Driving Results— Demonstrating D&A Business Impact and Win Executive Buy-In
As a D&A executive, proving business impact and securing executive support are critical to advancing your agenda. This session delivers practical strategies to showcase the value of your initiatives, engage key stakeholders, and connect D&A work to real business results. Learn how to leverage AI momentum, set realistic expectations, and highlight genuine opportunities for your organisation.
We’ll discuss:
- Linking D&A initiatives directly to measurable business outcomes
- Leveraging AI momentum to gain executive support for foundational data initiatives and increase engagement
- Presenting a holistic view of D&A and AI—demonstrating value, addressing challenges, and distinguishing real opportunities from hype
10:45 - 11:50 Networking Break
10:55 - 11:40 Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
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.
11:50 - 12:35 Executive Boardroom
Operational Excellence — Unifying Data Ecosystems to Power the Enterprise
Hosted by Fivetran
Lauren Sager Weinstein
Chief Data Officer
Transport for London
Unifying data remains a significant challenge for organizations of all sizes, often falling to D&A leaders to solve. Without a strong foundation and clear operational alignment, the potential of AI—and the value derived from data—can be diminished or missed entirely.
Join this session to discuss:
- How companies are achieving operational excellence through robust data foundations
- The importance of appointing the right "data stewards" to effectively leverage data across the business
- The key drivers for standardizing data pipelines, reducing operational costs, and accelerating decision-making
Apply to Participate
Apply to participate in the UK & Ireland CDAO Community Executive Summit.
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Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.
Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.
Location
Venue & Accommodation
Convene 155 BishopsgatePublic Transport & Parking
By Underground:
Liverpool Street (Central, Circle, Elizabeth, Hammersmith & City or Metropolitan Line)
For exits from all underground lines follow signs for Liverpool Street mainline station. Once on the main concourse of the mainline station, look for signs for Way Out 1 (Bishopsgate West) located next to platform 14. Take the escalator or stairs up to street level where you will see a Police Station on the opposite side of the road. Turn left and follow Bishopsgate past the entrance to 135 Bishopsgate. Turn left up the external arcade stairs. Enter 155 Bishopsgate, once inside take the escalator on your left up to the first floor. At the top of the escalator turn right and enter the gold double doors into the 155 Bishopsgate 1st floor registration.
By Train:
Liverpool Street Station
Follow directions for Underground from the main concourse.
By Bus:
155 Bishopsgate is served by many bus routes including 388, 242, 149, 135, 78, 48, 47, 42, 35, 26 and 8.
Parking:
There is an NCP car park at Finsbury Square (EC2A 1AD).
Hotels Nearby
45 Curtain Rd
Shoreditch
London EC2A 3PT
0.4 Miles
12-20 Osborn Street
London E1 6TE
0.6 Miles
Andaz, London Liverpool Street
40 Liverpool St
London EC2M 7QN
0.1 Miles
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