45th CIO Insight Summit
Reinvent. Accelerate. Connect. Lead.
The CIO Insight Summit brings together technology leaders to explore enterprise modernization, AI adoption, connectivity, and resilience. Through interactive workshops and peer-led discussions, attendees will gain practical insights to accelerate transformation, drive innovation, and prepare their organizations for the future.
Previous Speakers
Binu Varghese
Robert Piascik
Howard Spira
Cheri Esposito
Jalen Byford
Chris Pesola
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: From Project to Product: Rewiring IT for Continuous Value
The project model of ‘fixed scope, fixed end date, hand off and move on’ is quietly capping the value IT can deliver. This session makes the case for a product operating model built around persistent teams, outcomes and continuous value, and what it takes to make the shift without derailing the roadmap. Leave with a practical route from project factory to product organisation.
Track 2: Engineering Resilience: Estates That Bend Without Breaking
Resilience is no longer a disaster-recovery checkbox; it is a design principle for the whole estate. This session digs into how to engineer systems that absorb shocks, degrade gracefully and recover fast, from architecture and dependencies to the operational muscle behind them. Leave knowing where your estate is brittle and how to build the bend-don’t-break resilience the business now expects.
Track 3: Spending Smarter: A FinOps Playbook for Defensible Tech Investment
With every dollar of technology spend under the microscope, CIOs need more than cost-cutting. They need a defensible story for where the money goes and what it returns. This session lays out a practical FinOps playbook for visibility, accountability and disciplined prioritisation across cloud and beyond. Leave able to defend the budget with evidence and redirect spend to what moves the business.
Track 4: Cutting the Cord on Legacy: A Modernization Strategy That Pays Its Way
Legacy systems are the anchor on speed, cost and risk, but ‘rip-and-replace' rarely survives contact with reality. This session offers a modernization strategy that funds itself, sequencing the work so each step delivers value rather than betting everything on a big-bang finish. Leave with a pragmatic path to retire the past without stalling the present.
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 Strategic Enabler: Repositioning IT as a Growth Engine and Originator of Competitive Advantage
For too long IT has been measured as a cost to be contained rather than a source of advantage. This opening keynote reframes the mandate, positioning technology as an originator of growth, differentiation and competitive edge, and challenges CIOs to lead that shift in perception and reality. Leave with a sharper narrative for the boardroom and the conviction to own the growth agenda.
9:10am - 10:40am
Mission Tracks
The Blueprint
Building directly on The Catalyst, partner-led working sessions move each stream from diagnosis to design; shaping the practical, prioritised blueprint each theme will carry into execution.
Track 1: From Project to Product: Rewiring IT for Continuous Value
Track 2: Engineering Resilience: Estates That Bend Without Breaking
Track 3: Spending Smarter: A FinOps Playbook for Defensible Tech Investment
Track 4: Cutting the Cord on Legacy: A Modernization Strategy That Pays Its Way
10:45am - 11:15am
Future on Fire
The Network Is the Strategy: Why Connectivity Decides Digital Speed
As architectures fragment across cloud, edge and partners, connectivity has quietly become the deciding factor in how fast a business can move. This session argues the network is no longer plumbing but strategy. It will show how getting it right unlocks speed, resilience and new capability. Leave rethinking connectivity as a source of competitive velocity rather than a background cost.
11:20am - 11:50am
Future on Fire
When It Mattered Most: Resilience Lessons From a Significant Global Disruption
When a major disruption hits, plans meet reality and the gaps show fast. This candid session unpacks hard-won lessons from navigating a significant global disruption, exploring the decisions that held up, and the ones that didn’t. Leave with a clearer, battle-tested view of what real resilience demands before the next crisis arrives.
1:00pm - 2:05pm
Roundtables
Track 1: The IT Talent Equation: Building, Buying and Keeping the Skills Your Roadmap Depends On
Track 2: Taming the Sprawl: Cutting Vendor and SaaS Complexity Before It Cuts You
Track 3: Business-Led IT: Harnessing Citizen Development Without Losing Control
2:05pm - 2:35pm
Radical Perspectives
One Cloud, Many Countries: Scaling a Global Platform Without Losing Control
Scaling a single platform across borders collides with a thicket of data, regulatory and operational realities. This session explores how to expand globally while keeping control, balancing standardisation with local requirements on sovereignty, compliance and performance. Leave with practical principles for a global platform that scales without fragmenting or spiralling out of control.
2:40pm - 3:45pm
Roundtables
Track 1: Data You Can Trust: Turning Governance and Quality into an Enterprise Advantage
Track 2: Governing Enterprise AI: Guardrails, Shadow AI and Responsible Adoption at Scale
Track 3: Green Compute: Hitting Sustainability Targets as AI and Data Demand Surge
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Radical Perspectives
Zero Trust, Real Results: Securing the Distributed Enterprise
Zero Trust is easy to endorse and hard to deliver across a sprawling, distributed enterprise. This session moves past the buzzword to the real results: what actually changed, what it took, and where the effort paid off. Leave with a grounded view of how to make Zero Trust deliver measurable security outcomes rather than slideware.
4:25pm - 4:55pm
Radical Perspectives
Killing the Mainframe: A Multi-Year Legacy Exit That Delivered ROI
Exiting the mainframe is one of the most daunting (and most deferred) decisions a CIO can make. This session tells the story of a multi-year legacy exit that actually delivered ROI, with the strategy, sequencing and hard choices that made it work. Leave with a credible blueprint for tackling your own legacy exit and proving the return.
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
The culmination of the mission-track journey: streams come together to separate what’s real from what’s noise, and to lock in the concrete commitments each theme carries back to the business. The output every delegate leaves with.
Track 1: From Project to Product: Rewiring IT for Continuous Value
Track 2: Engineering Resilience: Estates That Bend Without Breaking
Track 3: Spending Smarter: A FinOps Playbook for Defensible Tech Investment
Track 4: Cutting the Cord on Legacy: A Modernization Strategy That Pays Its Way
9:55am - 10:25am
Ecosystem Exchanges
10:30am - 11:00am
Radical Perspectives
Beyond Migration: Turning Cloud Sprawl into Operating Leverage
11:05am - 11:35am
Radical Perspectives
You Cannot Automate Chaos
AI is too often cast as the fix for every operational problem, when success depends far more on process discipline, operational maturity and data quality than on the technology itself. Drawing on scaling a live industrial operation, this session shows why foundational excellence must come before automation, and where AI genuinely adds value. Leave with a clear-eyed principle: AI doesn’t replace operational discipline, it amplifies it... for better or worse.
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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