Executive Summit

AI is not just reshaping IT & IT Security roles - it’s rewriting the rules of workforce strategy for the entire enterprise. As CIOs and CISOs, you face urgent demands to balance innovation with human value, anticipate AI’s impact, and lead your organisation through ambiguity and change. Join Helen Poitevin Distinguished VP Analyst, Digital Workplace at Gartner as she shares how to turn technological disruption into opportunity, identify hidden risks, and create the future-ready IT workforce.

In this keynote, you'll hear more on how to:

• Envision and communicate your workforce planning destination within an AI context
• Identify blind spots and close the gap between present and future technology needs
• Inspire and mobilise Lines of Business and leadership to embrace the AI workforce journey

Data has always played a vital role in IT, but its strategic value is now greater than ever. As organisations depend more on data for decision making and innovation, CIOs must adapt how they manage and use data. Without clear alignment, data projects may lose relevance and fail to deliver value.

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss more on how to:

• Collaborate with business leaders to define their challenge, success criteria, and key data indicators
• Design a data framework that aligns business outcomes with organisational goals
• Enhance decision quality by using data and analytics to evaluate and inform outcomes

As the CIO role and IT organisation evolve, IT strategies and operating models must keep pace. Today’s digital demands require structures that enable agility, cross-functional collaboration and AI adoption. According to Gartner, 70% of CIOs are restructuring their teams to accelerate digital delivery and business impact.

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss:

• Leveraging the five building blocks of a modern IT organisation
• Aligning IT delivery with business capabilities and industry needs
• Embedding AI and fusion teams for future-ready operations

According to Gartner, 55% of CISOs highlight outdated organisational structures as the biggest challenge to improving their cybersecurity posture. Siloed teams and reactive approaches leave critical gaps in cyber risk oversight. How can CISOs shift to a model which puts business needs first and creates clear accountability?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss more on how to:

• Rethink your operating model to predict change and risks rather than react
• Customise cybersecurity frameworks to respond to business needs to ensure resilience
• Implement RASCI frameworks to clarify accountability and enhance efficiency

As the Generative AI lifecycle continues to unfold, CIOs and CISOs must delicately leverage AI's potential for efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage with the associated risks.

Join this peer-led boardroom to discuss:

• Establishing and evaluating informed boundaries for Generative AI usage and adoption
• Enabling responsible AI adoption that drives business growth across business units
• Ensuring compliance, regulation, and ethical considerations throughout adoption

By 2028, Gartner predicts that 15% of daily business decisions will be made autonomously by AI agents — creating new risk surfaces with direct operational impact. IT & Security leaders must extend resilience practices to agentic AI by quantifying agent risk, capturing and monitoring agent activity, and preparing recovery playbooks that reverse unauthorised or harmful agent actions. This holistic approach ensures workflows remain intact, data integrity is preserved and business continuity is upheld — even when AI agents make mistakes.

Join this session to learn:

• How to set resilience standards for AI agents to align with enterprise risk
• Proven strategies for detecting and containing unintended AI behaviour
• Playbooks for business continuity when AI disrupts workflows

As AI agents become part of the workforce, organisations face new risks that require an operational approach to security. With the rapid rise of “shadow AI”—internal tools created by digital innovation teams without proper security or data management review show the importance of adapting defenses and how it will the impact of existing controls. The good news is, you don’t have to start over, it’s possible to build on what’s already in place.

Join this session to learn:

• How to find and manage shadow agents and how to bring them under control
• How to protect agents from harmful or misleading information
• What you need to know about data protection when business teams use their own AI agents