TechLeaders Insight Summit
Building the Intelligent Enterprise
The era of AI experimentation is over. With the core obligations of the EU AI Act now live and the NIS2 operational deadline weeks away, Europe's largest enterprises are being asked to prove that AI ambition, operational resilience and cost discipline can hold together at once. This is where the CIOs and CISOs making those calls come to compare what is actually working.
Why Now
The AI Act is live.
The core obligations of the EU AI Act are now in force. Governance, transparency and accountability have moved from roadmap item to standing requirement.
NIS2 and DORA are being enforced.
Supervisors have stopped extending grace. Operational resilience now has to be demonstrated — with evidence, and under named personal accountability.
AI has reached production.
Agentic systems are leaving the lab and entering live operations, raising the bar on data quality, platform readiness and trust.
Every line is under pressure.
Boards are asking for more growth from technology and lower cost from IT, in the same breath.
Upcoming Speakers
Richard Van Der Meer
Paolo Cinelli
Susanne Ratzenberger
Pedro Liaño
Prasanna Pandian
Stefan Romberg
Agenda
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Registration
4:30pm - 4:40pm
MOC Welcome & Meet the Team
4:45pm - 6:15pm
Mission Tracks: The Catalyst
Track 1: Prioritizing Transformation: Where to Invest, Where to Consolidate and Where to Stop
Every roadmap now has more demand than budget, and AI has only widened the gap between what's possible and what's fundable. This workshop gives CIOs and CISOs a structured way to make the hardest portfolio calls: what to invest in, what to consolidate, and - the conversation most avoid - what to stop. Do we go for the ‘big bang’ or for incremental change and development. Working through real prioritisation tensions with peers, you'll stress-test your own roadmap against the room's. You'll leave with a practical framework for ranking initiatives by value and risk, language to defend tough trade-offs to the board, and a sharper view of what to cut first.
Track 2: Building the Resilient Digital Core: Infrastructure Strategies for the Next Five Years
Resilience has become a board-level test of survival, yet most cores are a patchwork of legacy and cloud never designed to bend without breaking. This workshop pressure-tests what a genuinely resilient infrastructure looks like over a five-year horizon - across hybrid estates, AI workloads, and a regulatory bar rising under DORA and NIS2. Collaborating with peers, you'll map where your own core is strongest and most exposed. You'll leave with a prioritised view of where to harden first, strategies to fund resilience as an enabler rather than a tax, and a candid benchmark against the room.
Track 3: Preparing for the Next Major Incident: What High-Performing Security Teams Do Differently
It's no longer if but when - and the gap between teams that recover in hours and those that unravel for weeks comes down to what they did beforehand. This workshop dissects what high-performing security teams do differently before, during and after a major incident, as AI accelerates both attacks and the speed required to respond. Through scenario-based discussion with peers, you'll examine your own readiness honestly. You'll leave with practical gaps to close now, a clearer model for decision-making and communication under pressure, and a benchmark of your incident readiness against the strongest teams in the room.
Track 4: The Next Generation Operating Model: Faster Decisions, Better Delivery, Stronger Governance
Most operating models were built for a slower, more predictable era and now quietly throttle the speed the business demands. This workshop explores how to redesign the IT operating model for 2026 — faster decisions, better delivery, and stronger governance, without those goals pulling against each other. Working with peers, you'll examine where your own model creates friction and where AI and automation genuinely create capacity. You'll leave with practical operating-model shifts you can apply now, a sharper approach to balancing autonomy with governance, and a benchmark of how your model compares across the room.
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Cocktail Reception
7:20pm - 9:30pm
Gala Dinner
7:30am - 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am - 8:40am
MOC Opening
8:40am - 9:05am
Gamechanger
From Cost Centre to Growth Engine: Building an IT Strategy That Directly Drives Business Performance
9:10am - 10:40am
Mission Tracks: The Blueprint
As a continuation of the Catalyst Mission track, these sessions will establish a strategic blueprint to chart the pathway toward identifying a solution.
Track 1: Prioritizing Transformation: Where to Invest, Where to Consolidate and Where to Stop
Track 2: Building the Resilient Digital Core: Infrastructure Strategies for the Next Five Years
Track 3: Preparing for the Next Major Incident: What High-Performing Security Teams Do Differently
Track 4: The Next Generation Operating Model: Faster Decisions, Better Delivery, Stronger Governance
10:45am - 11:15am
Future on Fire
The Resilient Enterprise: Modernizing Infrastructure Without Increasing Risk
11:20am - 11:50am
Future on Fire
Simplifying Complexity: How Europe's Leading CIOs Are Rationalizing Technology Estates
1:00pm - 2:05pm
The Provocation Tables
2:05pm - 2:35pm
Radical Perspectives
Accelerating Business Outcomes Through Modern IT Foundations
2:40pm - 3:45pm
The Provocation Tables
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Radical Perspectives
Reinventing the Enterprise, Process by Process: An AI-First Blueprint for Real Transformation
Most enterprises are layering AI onto processes never designed for it. This keynote shares a different, hard-won approach: reinventing critical business processes to be AI-first and agentic from the ground up — across a sprawling, legacy-heavy landscape of dozens of entities and systems. Starting from value drivers rather than technology, it walks through a five-stage framework that maps each process, locates the real pain points, and defines where AI should run autonomously, augment people, or stay human — proving the model on two deliberate extremes before scaling. You'll leave with a practical blueprint for prioritising, governing and operationalising AI-first transformation that lasts
4:25pm - 4:55pm
Radical Perspectives
Building Cyber Resilience Without Slowing the Business Down
Security leaders face an impossible-sounding mandate: defend an expanding, AI-accelerated threat landscape while removing friction from a business that wants to move faster. With regulators raising the bar and attackers weaponising AI, cyber resilience can no longer come at the cost of speed. This keynote explores how leading CISOs are embedding resilience into the flow of the business making the secure path the fast path. You'll leave with practical approaches to reducing friction without reducing protection, a sharper way to communicate cyber risk in business terms, and a candid benchmark of how your resilience posture compares across the room.
7:15pm - 10:00pm
Offsite Evening Experience
7:00am - 8:15am
Breakfast
8:15am - 8:20am
MOC Opening
8:20am - 9:50am
Mission Tracks: The Reckoning
Continuing your mission tracks, having built the blueprint we now enter the reckoning – a decisive phase where insights are rigorously challenged and crystallised into solution-led outcomes.
Track 1: Prioritizing Transformation: Where to Invest, Where to Consolidate and Where to Stop
Track 2: Building the Resilient Digital Core: Infrastructure Strategies for the Next Five Years
Track 3: Preparing for the Next Major Incident: What High-Performing Security Teams Do Differently
Track 4: The Next Generation Operating Model: Faster Decisions, Better Delivery, Stronger Governance
9:55am - 10:25am
Ecosystem Exchanges
10:30am - 11:00am
Radical Perspectives
Creating the Always-On Enterprise: Lessons in Availability, Recovery and Operational Resilience
11:05am - 11:35am
Radical Perspectives
The Future-Ready Infrastructure Blueprint: What Leading Enterprises Are Doing Differently
11:40am
Radical Perspectives
From Reactive to Predictive: Creating Smarter IT Operations
12:15pm - 12:45pm
MOC Closing
Why attend?
Connect with like-minded senior leaders for a curated agenda, focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Be a part of exclusive shared learning, horizon scanning and actionable insights enabling organizations to deliver transformative strategies.
Build meaningful relationships with solution providers matched to your business priorities to help accelerate your projects and deliver your objectives.
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