UK & Ireland CISO Inner Circle

While the CIO and CISO roles will continue to evolve, all would agree that these jobs have fundamentally changed over the last five years. This dinner will be an opportunity to focus on what those changes mean to the way IT and security leaders must evaluate and implement the right technologies, foster a wide variety of partnerships across the business, build and develop strong teams, and bear an increased demand for high-level strategic thinking. Join your peers for this roundtable to assess your critical place in the post-transformation world.

Discussion Questions:

Discussion Topic 1: People

• What are your strategies in communicating with the board of directors?
• What impact does digital transformation have on your people and your processes? How do you manage that?
• What skills and roles are needed in the transformed enterprise and how are you meeting those demands?
• What steps have you taken to push for a more diverse workforce? What have been the barriers to change?

Discussion Topic 2: Strategy

• How do you allocate resources appropriately when investing in digital technology initiatives and their ROI?
• What technologies are creating the biggest disruptions to your business currently? Which ones are on the horizon?
• How can you work better across the C-suite to create a culture of adaptation and innovation?
• How do you more closely align IT strategy with business outcomes?

Discussion Topic 3: Personal Development

• With the increased understanding of technology by all functions and a constantly changing technology landscape, how are you proving your relevance to the business?
• How do you envision the role of the CIO and CISO in five years?
• What’s next for IT and security executives in the context of leading an organisation?
• What is your digital leadership mandate and what steps are you taking to execute on that mandate?