There is a difference between organisations born digital and those transitioning to become more digital. Is it leadership, risk, governance, regulation that therefore counts? The facts speak for themselves – When you consider the results of any organisation with a self-proclaimed digital-first leader at the helm, they are generally outperforming across the board. Why? Is it because they think about technology differently? Or because they can correlate business performance directly to the IT in place? So, what does it really take – when we look behind the PR gloss for CIO’s and technologists in general to create and lead a digital first culture?

• Does describing yourself as a technology company – and a digital leader – change the way you harness tech’s potential?
• Given its impact on business performance how do you facilitate this exploratory conversation at the board level?
• Has people’s introduction to a digital workplace, no matter how sophisticated, created a rare window for the technologist to discuss the future role of technology in their lives and the culture of the business?
• If the organisation is digital first, what does that mean for the way you prioritise talent and skill development?

During this interview, we will hear from Vice President of Data Science & Engineering, Deepna Devkar where she will answer questions and discuss the importance of leveraging data and AI in a time of digital transformation.

Innovation is all about creating measurable, quantifiable, and demonstrable value to both your customer and business. It is your ability to build the right product, for the right market, build it right with the right tools, processes and resources, and build it fast so you do not miss the market window. During this session, we will hear 20 lessons from 20 years of practice and introduce the innovation ecosystem and provide valuable lessons from practice to help you establish an effective culture of innovation and reward the right behaviour with a maniacal focus on the customer.

The world is currently living through industry 4.0. It is quite different than the three prior industrial revolutions (steam & waterpower, assembly lines, and computerisation) as it will challenge businesses on not only their business operations, but also on how efficiently they adapt to evolving human behaviours. This revolution is expected to impact all industries, disciplines, economies, and ultimately societies. In this new era, only those businesses that adapt to Industry 4.0 will survive and thrive, but what strategies to consider and what do they include? During this presentation we will consider how to correctly adopt AI, robotics, IoT, Cloud, Digital Twin, augmented reality and similar.

Andy Astley delivers enterprise scale cloud platforms and critical infrastructure for Central Government departments, in this presentation Andy will cover the following topics:

• Overview of the challenges faced by large organisations adopting cloud
• Common issues experienced because of organic cloud adoption
• Target model for a centralised cloud infrastructure platform and service
• Key considerations and benefits for a centralised cloud platform and service
• How to start your journey?

Given that change is constant (and even disruptive) it is mission critical for organisations to embrace and drive digitalisation to stay ahead of the curve and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This session will provide an example eco-system of how this can be orchestrated at an enterprise level with a particular focus on data in tandem with process, people, and technology.

As CTO of Test and Trace, in less than 3 months Neil built an agile delivery team of over 600 technology professionals who delivered critical National scale technology solutions throughout the pandemic on a daily basis. In this presentation Neil will share some of the techniques that will help you deliver transformational technology solutions at incredible pace along with some of the pitfalls to avoid.

Data is exploding and it is necessary for every organisation to make sense and monetise this data in a timely fashion. Cloud makes it possible to try out and iterate quickly with many different solutions and allows access to highly scalable compute and storage on demand. This presentation will highlight the main advantages of the cloud in the Data and analytics space.

The advent of more sophisticated technologies is revolutionizing the way we operate. So, we need to discern what practical solutions we need to bet on today; to bring a competitive advantage to our organisations tomorrow. Whether you are considering how to drive higher revenue, thrive amidst a global crisis, generate greater business value, or improve the customer or employee experience, there has been a significant increase in the capabilities and technologies at our disposal today. Let’s peek at some of them.

• Robotics Process Automation (RPA): improve workflows and let mundane and trivial tasks to the robots.
• Enhance your production with Industrial IoT solutions.
• Visualise the world through the lens of Advanced Analytics.
• AI in mainstream business.
• Blockchain, the future of the financial industry.
• Next-gen cloud, making datacenters obsolete.
• AI-based security to combat AI-based threats.