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Fallen victim to a breach yet? Realistically every organisation will fall victim at some point or another. Will your attacker be able to identify and exploit a weak spot? Minimizing the “blast radius” and controlling the spread of an inevitable cyber security breach will limit the effects of an attack, but implementing the correct strategy for your business to build business resilience will play a significant role in determining how much pain your organization suffers from an incoming cyber-attack.

• Understand the common attacks in the cyber threat landscape ー from DDoS & Zero Day vulnerabilities to Account-Takeover
• Discover how to build business resilience and continuity practices into your organisation's IT security strategy and operations
• Learn how you can provide your users with risk-free access to applications and services

A Keynote session in association with Akamai

- How can you build and maintain human connection in a hybrid working environment?
- The challenges of creating an engaging and collaborative culture in a hybrid workforce

Gerard McGovern, Director, Digital Strategy, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

- How technology can be used to drive sustainability
- Addressing the importance of creating an extensive and effective sustainable technology strategy and embedding this in technology to maximise the value and business growth
- Explore ways to advance sustainability to deliver valuable results such as increased revenue & improved talent retention
- The importance of leveraging technology tools such as AI/ML, Data analytics to support your organisations sustainability goals

Emilia Cardamone, Associate Director - Digital, Turner & Townsend

As more and more employees work remotely, ensuring secure access to company resources is crucial for the success of any organization. In this session, we will explore how a cloud first security architecture can help you upgrade your remote access capabilities and keep your business secure.

- Benefits of a cloud-first approach to security, including the ability to scale quickly, reduce costs, and improve flexibility
- How cloud-based security solutions can help you protect your network and data from cyber threats and attacks
- Overcoming common challenges when implementing cloud-based security solutions, including legacy systems and cultural resistance to change

The State of the API 2022 reports that 51% of developers spend more than half of their company's development efforts on APIs. That's up from 40% and 49% the years before. For such a bulk portion of an organization's time, do we really treat APIs as strategic assets? Or are APIs still just a means to an end? In this talk we try to explain the current standard for API development and how much efficiency and productivity is left on the table on a daily basis.

A Boardroom session in association with Postman

The first digital transformation phase, where organisations worked to invest and digitise their products and services is mostly completed. The next phase for organisations is to scale and accelerate their operations and ways of working to create efficiencies and growth from their investments in digital. From CI&T’s experience working with hundreds of companies on this journey, this talk will focus on how to create success in this phase in particular looking at -

• The internal ownership of “digital” and the alignment of objectives and data between commercial and Technology,
• Improving agility as we we move from a Project to Product mindset and its organisational implications
• Creating and scaling efficiencies across the business both in processes and in the introduction of new technologies (e.g. Generative AI)

A Keynote session in association with CI&T

- Creating a clear vision of your digital investments supporting your enterprise long-term goals
- How to communicate to leadership the value of your digital investment to your key business objectives to avoid budget cuts
- Develop a structured roadmap for digital projects to follow and ensure the clear need for the product before investment

A Boardroom session in association with IronScales

- Understanding the need for you for applying digital technologies that will enable you to use innovation, remain agile and build speed and efficiency in your business operations
-The importance of building human and technological capabilities within your enterprise to maximise success
- Continue to build on the technologies introduced during transformation to ensure adaptability to hybrid work culture

- Understanding application security and how the implementation of the correct tools can have key benefits for your organisation and improve your cyber resilience
- How to approach application security to maximise the impact on your organisation
- How can application security help to keep data secure and protect from sensitive data leaks?

- Understanding the importance of comprehensive risk assessment and digital risks and vulnerabilities associated with digital technologies and data
- Explore strategies for protecting digital assets from cyber threats and breaches
- Discuss techniques for identifying, assessing and prioritising risks across the organisation

Explore the latest technology trends within cloud environments and their impact on enterprise IT. During this boardroom, discuss emerging trends such as edge computing, serverless computing, containerization, and hybrid cloud, and discover how these trends are changing the way your peers are managing their IT infrastructure and applications.

• Emerging technology trends within cloud environments, including edge computing, serverless computing, containerization, and hybrid cloud
• How these trends are impacting enterprise IT, including changes in infrastructure management, application development, and security
• Best practices for adopting new cloud technologies and managing cloud environments
• Real-world examples of successful cloud deployments and lessons learned from cloud migration projects

Connecting data sources seamlessly is essential for enterprises seeking to accelerate their time to insight, protect customer data, and deliver effective data governance. Leaders must leverage the right strategies and technologies to seamlessly move and integrate data into a centralised architecture. In this session, we will explore the steps data leaders must take to achieve seamless integration, including:

• Using automated, reliable, and scalable data movement platforms to accelerate your insights
• Integrating data into a cloud-based architecture like a data lake or data warehouse
• Ensuring data quality and consistency through governance processes
• Aligning data integration with business objectives and KPIs

For some time businesses have struggled to find the ready-skilled talent they need to close their digital and technology skills gaps. Even when they do, others are standing by, ready to poach. With such a finite talent pool, it has never been more important for businesses to properly understand exactly where their skills gaps are, how they can diversify talent strategies to ensure sustainable digital capability and how leveraging the untapped potential of existing employees can improve productivity and growth.

A Boardroom session in association with QA

- As organisations increasingly look to AI to improve business processes efficiency and productivity, we must ensure that AI is used responsibly. What is considered to be an ethical approach to AI?
- Discuss the principles to be evaluated by your organisation to ensure the use and development of AI remains ethical
- Explore the challenges of ethical governance when dealing with data and machine-driven services

- Develop a comprehensive understanding of attacks, vulnerabilities and preventative strategies
- Delve into the landscape of cyber threats targeting LLM environments and explore insights into various types of attacks and proactive measures to safeguard sensitive data
- Understand and adopt actionable strategies to fortify your digital assets, maintain confidentiality and ensure the integrity of operations in the face of evolving cyber risk

Jonathan Freedman, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer, Howard Kennedy LLP

- Explore insights into building and executing transformative strategies that embrace technological advancements, foster innovation and enhance business agility
- Understand how to align technology initiatives with overall business objectives, navigate challenges and the importance of creating a culture of change
- Delve into the critical components of digital transformation and how to guide your organisation to a future-ready, digitally empowered enterprise

As more and more employees work remotely, ensuring secure access to company resources is crucial for the success of any organization. In this session, we will explore how a cloud first security architecture can help you upgrade your remote access capabilities and keep your business secure.

- Benefits of a cloud-first approach to security, including the ability to scale quickly, reduce costs, and improve flexibility
- How cloud-based security solutions can help you protect your network and data from cyber threats and attacks
- Overcoming common challenges when implementing cloud-based security solutions, including legacy systems and cultural resistance to change

- The benefits of creating a digital environment that provides a platform which will enable your workforce to communicate, share information and access digital workplace tools
- How this can improve productivity and overall quality of work
- Ensure that your teams adopt and embrace digital workplace tools provided to them to maximise the value of their use
- The importance of building robust onboarding and training programmes on digital workplace tools

- Explore essential strategies to navigate the ever-changing and complex landscape of upskilling and reskilling in your organisation

- Understand the importance of reskilling and upskilling your teams to achieve a digital workforce

- Identify skills gaps, leverage emerging technologies and design effective training programs - Fostering a culture of continuous learning , measuring the ROI of training and overcoming challenges in the upskilling journey

- How AI driven insights and strategies are revolutionising industries and empowering decision making
- Explore the potential of AI to enhance productivity, optimise operations and create new opportunities
- Addressing ethical considerations and challenges that come with this transformative technology