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Conference Agenda 2026
Thursday, November 5
08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration & breakfast
09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome & Editorial Opening
09:45 AM - 10:05 AM
Headline Sponsor: Transformation Reset: What Will Define the Next Decade of Enterprise Leadership
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM
CIO Innovation Showcase: here from CIO Award winners sharing projects
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Platinum Sponsor: Successful Transformation requires Data Sovereignty and Compliance
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
CIO Innovation Showcase: here from CIO Award winners sharing projects
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Tea & Networking
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Insight Exchange table: Leadership Conversations That Matter Interactive peer discussions on AI, cybersecurity, talent, data strategy, and the future of digital leadership. IDelegates will select one journey and rotate across three themed tables within that journey during the conference.
Journey 1: Enabling the Intelligent & Automated Enterprise
– Building the Intelligent Enterprise with AI Agents and Automation
– Hyperautomation and the Future of Workforce Productivity
– Data, Decision Intelligence, and Autonomous Operations
Journey 2: Experience Driven Business Growth (EX/CX)
– Data Strategy as a Revenue Driver
– Customer Experience in a Hyper-Personalised World
– Digital Business Models and New Revenue Streams
Journey 3: Delivering Data Sovereignty and Compliance
– Compliance Automation in the Age of Continuous Regulation
– Digital Trust, Privacy, and Consumer Control in Decentralized Ecosystems
– Sovereign AI Infrastructure and Cross-Border Data Governance
Journey 4: Security as a Competitive Advantage
– Cyber Resilience in a Geopolitical Risk Environment
– Cybersecurity as a built-in capability
– Identity, Trust, and Zero Trust Transformation
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Platinum Sponsor: Getting the foundations right: how to modernise for transformation
12:45 PM - 13:05 PM
Gold Sponsor Panel – Redefining the Future Enterprise
13:05 PM - 14:00 PM
Lunch, Networking & Lunch Roundtable
14:00 PM - 14:20 PM
Keynote: The Next Move: Successfully Transitioning to a New CIO Role
14:20 PM - 14:40 PM
Panel: The New Leadership Mandate: Why Great CIOs Think Like Business Leaders
14:40 PM - 15:00 PM
Closing Keynote: From Technology Leader to Enterprise Leader
15:00 PM - 15:05 PM
Closing remarks