CDO Institute: UK
Location: London, University of London, Senate House
Date: Thursday 28th November 2024
Time: 08:00 - 17:30 BST
Event Summary
The Global CDO Institute offers a curriculum of world-class, Chief Data Officer-driven academia helping executives respond to their top challenges and make the right decisions. Covering the latest trends and challenges, our flagship event provide a dynamic and agile mix of thought leadership, best practice discussions, and networking sessions.
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Agenda
Agenda
Registration and Networking Breakfast
Join us for coffee and pastries to prepare for the day of learning and networking
Opening Panel
- Best practices for implementing digital transformation initiatives
- The role of emerging technologies in driving business innovation
- Strategies for fostering a culture of continuous innovation and agility
- The importance of cybersecurity in the digital age
- Aligning digital initiatives with overall business strategy and objectives to ensure long-term success
Mary-Jane Newton
Ed-Tech Executive & CxO Institute Event Chair
Sophie Le Reste
Senior Manager - EMEA/International, Tangoe
Guv Dhaliwal
CIO, Longhurst Group
Adina Iliescu
Consumer Digital & Technology Director, Diageo
Dave Archer
Global Head of Data Governance & Data Excellence, Apex Group
Rob Garlick
Head of Innovation, Technology & the Future of Work, Citi
Session Track 1
Explore insightful sessions addressing the latest industry trends and challenges
- We’ll explore what organisational resilience is, how to measure it and provide some common traits that successfully resilient organisations share.
- We’ll look at how these organisations integrate resilience into top management and board level meetings, and associated trends.
- We’ll explore how organisations make better decisions, with some real-world examples of how organisations tackle the most complex cyber security and IT operations challenges.
Shaun Cooney
Field CTO, Splunk
Developers face challenges such as productivity, enterprise grade security, performance, and production optimization. How can we leverage Generative Artificial Intelligence to enhance the Software Development Lifecycle (DevOps) and achieve better outcomes? Such as reducing time spent on tedious tasks like documentation, optimize coding, quickly find bugs, and refactor large code bases.
To create this and other GenAI applications at scale, we built a multi-module platform to help our teams and clients get GenAI models and applications from ideation to production faster.
Ricardo Garza
VP of Innovation and Emerging Technologies, Softtek
Session Track 2
- Address the technological and cultural hurdles encountered during the merger of Televisa and Univision, focusing on strategies to overcome these challenges and maintain operational efficiency
- Discuss the necessary shifts in business and sales models to adapt to the digital landscape, including how to align content production and distribution with evolving consumer demands
- Explore the relevance of assuming the risks of a fully integrated platform, producing content for consumers from two countries, and how this can enhance content relevance and audience engagement on any platform.
Rodrigo Becerra Mizuno
Executive Vice President, Televisa Univision
- Streamlining data workflows to support rapid development and deployment
- Ensuring data privacy and compliance while enabling broad access for innovation
- Explore how optimised data management accelerates digital transformation
Matthew Livermore
Director, Sales Engineering EMEA, Delphix
- Discuss the implications of DORA and the necessary adjustments for your digital service strategies to ensure compliance with the Digital Operational Resilience Act
- How to ensure quality digital experiences by proactively monitoring and maintaining the performance of your digital services to meet regulatory expectations and enhance customer satisfaction
- Explore innovation under regulatory pressure and how to use the requirements of DORA as an opportunity to innovate our digital services and improve our competitive edge in the market
Sofie Feeney
Regional VP, North Europe, Cisco Thousand Eyes
As we navigate an age of relentless technological evolution, CIOs are at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge innovations like GenAI with quality assurance to optimise software performance while tackling cost challenges.
During this roundtable we will explore how embedding robust quality practices can avert disruptions, enhance efficiencies, and strike a delicate balance between risk, reward, and efficiency. Engage in an impactful dialogue with fellow CIOs, examine real-world scenarios, and discover actionable solutions to optimise risk management and quality control, ensuring your technology investments deliver the best outcomes for customers.
Join this discussion to share insights and uncover strategies that elevate your organisation's approach to risk management and quality assurance in an AI-driven landscape.
Alex Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Planit
Andrew Simister
Executive General Manager of Customer Experience
Session Track 3
AI is transforming every business function, and enterprises must quickly embrace and operationalize AI to stay competitive. Traditional governance tools were not designed to manage risk of AI systems at scale, and over 85% of AI projects fail as a result. This session will discuss the challenges with traditional solutions that slow innovation, and why enterprises must embrace a new, purpose-built approach to AI governance designed to empower and accelerate AI transformation.
Adriano Koshiyama
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Holistic AI
Join Tangoe for an interactive boardroom discussion on the key IT expense strategies for effectively managing fixed wireline telecom services and their expenses. Many organizations struggle with gaining visibility to what they have during mergers and acquisitions, rapid expansion, or consolidation initiatives, particularly when they are dealing with multiple carriers. Whether you are fully immersed in Unified Communications, still using wirelines, have various wireless devices, or a mixture of them all, you don’t want to miss this session!
In our roundtable we will cover how to:
- Audit existing tech services and assets to establish an accurate list to benchmark your current spending
- When to Consider Modernization Strategies
- Negotiate service provider contracts with the help of professionals
- Create budget for Digital Transformation Projects
You will leave with a few key recommendations on how to identify what you have and how to start enacting cost savings programs to help reduce costs and waste and more efficient use of existing communications services.
Sophie Le Reste
Senior Manager - EMEA/International, Tangoe
- Promoting Data Literacy to give employees the necessary skills to interpret data and make informed decisions at all levels of the organizatioLeadership buy-in and effective communication to manage and overcome resistance to change
- Breaking down data silos to establish a single source of truth for data
- Ensuring data is accurate, complete and up-to-data to deliver consistent data quality to deliver reliable insights
- Building trust in data with established data governance processes and procedures
Kassim Hussein
Head of Data and Analytics, Cleveland Clinic
Session Track 4
The majority of clients struggle to link AI to business impact. Join Keepler to discover how AI can be strategically integrated to improve both operational efficiency and business outcomes, and how to do so at scale across the organization. We will explore practical examples of AI implementations that generate tangible business value, from improving decision-making processes to optimizing resource management. Additionally, we will delve into the challenges and best practices for scaling AI initiatives and the importance of creating an efficient and prioritized roadmap to ensure they align with organizational goals
Sean Poulley
COO, Keepler Data
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the convergence of data and identity governance has become crucial for organizations striving to maintain continuous compliance. We will explore the integration of AI-driven solutions to enhance governance frameworks, ensuring robust security and regulatory adherence. Key subtopics include:
- AI in Data Governance: Leveraging AI to automate data classification, monitoring, and protection, reducing manual efforts and enhancing accuracy.
- Identity Governance and Administration (IGA): Implementing AI to streamline identity lifecycle management, access controls, and compliance reporting.
- Continuous Compliance: Utilizing AI to maintain real-time compliance with evolving regulations, minimizing risks and ensuring proactive governance.
Paul Cripsey
Director Solution Consulting Cybersecurity, OpenText
Networking Lunch
Connect with industry peers and exchange ideas over a relaxed midday meal
Session Track 5
Explore insightful sessions addressing the latest industry trends and challenges
- Explore how organisations can use data to uncover new opportunities and make informed decisions and the frameworks needed to integrate data insights into everyday operations and long-term strategy
- How leadership can inspire and foster a culture where data-driven thinking becomes a core component of decision-making across all levels of the organisation
- The importance of leveraging data as a critical resource to spark and guide innovation across different areas of the businessthe change process including effective messaging, stakeholder engagement and feedback mechanisms
Mike Leverington
Director of Data, ITV
Organizations are increasingly looking to leverage LLMs to explore various use cases. Building prototypes is often the first step to evaluate feasibility, but transitioning prototypes to production systems presents challenges across key dimensions: accuracy, speed, scalability, safety, and affordability. This session will be an interactive exploration of how organizations can address these challenges and smoothly scale AI-powered solutions from prototype to production.
Con Conlon
Founder and Managing Director, Merit Data & Technology
Sowmya Vivek
Principal Consultant, Merit Data & Technology
Struggling to advance your AI projects beyond the pilot stage? You’re certainly not alone – 70% of GenAI projects never make it to production. Join our 40-minute roundtable where industry experts will discuss practical strategies for moving past the proof of concept and driving real business value.
Learn what the most common blockers are – such as aligning AI with your strategic goals, data quality, and compliance - and how Credera is solving these problems for some of the biggest brands across the world with our structured scaling AI framework.
Mark Atterbury
Director, Head of Data, Credera
Session Track 6
- Explore the strategies and processes to ensure that your organisation can adapt and continue to operate effectively throughout times of change and disruption.
- Topics to be addressed include risk management, business continuity planning and building and maintaining robust systems.
- Learn how to identify vulnerabilities, implement mitigation measures and develop a resilient framework for business operations.
Matthew Simon
Director of Global Operations, Freewheel
- Why organisation need to evaluate the different approaches to browser security
- How the threat landscape is evolving to bypass browser security
- Why browser security is enhancing productivity for users and security teams
- How rethinking browser security can reduce costs and duplication
- What aspects of browser security secure access and data – both for managed and unmanaged endpoints
Tom McVey
Senior Sales Engineer EMEA
- Discuss approaches to achieving holistic unit economics as a foundation for IT cost transparency. How precise tracking, allocation and reporting that aligns IT spending with business outcomes and value can shift the trajectory of a business.
- Learn best practices for reducing cloud and infrastructure costs by integrating ITFM and FinOps, including resource right-sizing, usage monitoring, and leveraging reserved instances.
- Explore strategies to enhance data-driven decisions and maximize ROI, ensuring IT investments are transparent, measurable, and aligned with long-term business goals.
David Harding
CEO, MagicOrange
Session Track 7
- Explore beyond the hype of Generative AI, and the ways it can be used to enhance the business experience
- How can organisations effectively integrate generative AI tools into existing creative and production workflows?
- Understand key implementation and adoption challenges and ways to address them, including both ethical and practical considerations
Tara Waters
Experienced Chief Digital Officer
In this session, Dan Jones will delve into the key things organisations need to consider when building a robust cybersecurity strategy.
Cybersecurity is getting Harder. How can organisations be secure when they have less people, a larger estate and a larger attack surface?
- How can organisations make it Better? The importance of People, Technology and Process.
- Why you need your data Faster? And why Real Time Data Measured in Milliseconds is imperative.
- How to make your organsation Stronger with Visibility, Control, and Remediation
Dan Jones
Senior Security Advisor, Tanium
Session Track 8
- Proactive & collaborative cyber resilience utilising the world’s largest Asset AI of 5BN devices
- Practical and fast applications of AI in identifying assets, risk, remediation owners and automating the fix.
- Continuously monitor all assets and asset types from ground to cloud, IT to OT & IoT
United Airlines case study: 200M vulnerabilities, to 11,000 security findings and a “self defending AI inventory”.
James Watts
Sector Lead - Banking, Financial Services & Operational Resilience, Armis
- Best practices for ensuring data quality, compliance and accessibility across the organisation
- How to leverage advanced analytics and business intelligence tools to drive strategic decision-making
- Balancing data access with robust security measures to protect sensitive information in a rapidly evolving digital landscape
Kieran Poynton
Director of Data & Analytics, Bromford
Closing Session
- Discuss the importance of strategic alignment and how you can ensure that digital and AI initiatives align with long-term business goals? And how can the value of these initiatives be articulated to stakeholders?
- Explore how organisations can manage and utilise data effectively to support Digital and AI transformations. And what measures should be taken to protect data security and privacy in the context of Digital and AI initiatives?
Giles Lindsay
Chief Information and Technology Officer, Lif3away
Closing Drinks Reception
Event Speakers
Mary-Jane NewtonEd-Tech Executive & CxO Institute Event Chair
Sophie Le ResteSenior Manager - EMEA/International, Tangoe
Guv DhaliwalCIO, Longhurst Group
Adina IliescuConsumer Digital & Technology Director, Diageo
Dave ArcherGlobal Head of Data Governance & Data Excellence, Apex Group
Rob GarlickHead of Innovation, Technology & the Future of Work, Citi
Shaun CooneyField CTO, Splunk
Ricardo GarzaVP of Innovation and Emerging Technologies, Softtek
Rodrigo Becerra MizunoExecutive Vice President, Televisa Univision
Matthew LivermoreDirector, Sales Engineering EMEA, Delphix
Sofie FeeneyRegional VP, North Europe, Cisco Thousand Eyes
Alex EdwardsChief Operating Officer, Planit
Andrew SimisterExecutive General Manager of Customer Experience
Adriano KoshiyamaCo-Founder and Co-CEO, Holistic AI
Kassim HusseinHead of Data and Analytics, Cleveland Clinic
Sean PoulleyCOO, Keepler Data
Paul CripseyDirector Solution Consulting Cybersecurity, OpenText
Mike LeveringtonDirector of Data, ITV
Con ConlonFounder and Managing Director, Merit Data & Technology
Sowmya VivekPrincipal Consultant, Merit Data & Technology
Mark AtterburyDirector, Head of Data, Credera
Matthew SimonDirector of Global Operations, Freewheel
Tom McVeySenior Sales Engineer EMEA
David HardingCEO, MagicOrange
Tara WatersExperienced Chief Digital Officer
Dan JonesSenior Security Advisor, Tanium
James WattsSector Lead - Banking, Financial Services & Operational Resilience, Armis
Kieran PoyntonDirector of Data & Analytics, Bromford
Giles LindsayChief Information and Technology Officer, Lif3away
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