The document provides information about the Global Business Events conference on 14-15 April 2015 at the Celtic Manor Resort in Wales. It will include roundtable discussions and presentations on topics like agility, innovation, and the evolving role of the CIO. Speakers will discuss digital strategies, security risk mitigation, and using technology for new business opportunities. Attendees will include CIOs, CISOs, and other IT leaders who want to drive business results through technology.

1. GLOBAL BUSINESS EVENTS
14-15th April 2015
Celtic Manor Resort, Wales
Global Business Events
John Funnell
Marketing Director
Global Business Events
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2. Where do you experience your light bulb moments?
You know, those rare gems that can completely change the course of your company’s future?
Or your life. Probably not when you’re up to your eyeballs in budgets and forecasts.
That’s why we’re inviting you to step away from everything and focus on what really matters.
Growth. Innovation. Your career.
The CIO Event has one obsessive aim: to create an environment that sparks ideas,
where you’re guaranteed to learn something new.
It could be a new approach to a difficult market. A new business idea in an existing sector. A different slant
on an old problem. A perspective you've seldom considered before. Or an honest account of how badly
something went wrong.
We’re seeking out all of the above, to give you a completely refreshing experience.
Let’s talk about the atmosphere
I’m going to invite you to paint a mental picture.
There’s a buzz in the air. You’re in a room alive with creative energy and you’re surrounded
by a fascinating group of individuals.
Many of them lead some of the world’s most inspiring companies. Others are here because they've made
brave business moves that catapulted their businesses forward. Some are old friends,
others new acquaintances. But they’re all people you’re excited to meet.
And you’re surprised at just how many people you've had a chance to meet. And how frank and open
everyone has been. If you had to put your finger on it, you’d probably sum it up as being highly personal.
Intimate event.
From the quality of the discussion to the inviting comfy sofas - everything has just screamed at you to open
up, and that effect seems to have worked on everyone. You’ve heard your fellow leader be more candid
than ever before and boy has that been interesting…
Back to here and now.
I hope this has given you a flavour of what you can expect on 14th April 2015.
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3. Who You’ll Meet
CIO's and IT Directors who share your aspirations
to drive results, growth and profitability
through technology. Those who are pushing
the boundaries, taking their companies
forward in new, unexpected ways.
Every attendee is hand selected. As each
speaker or attendee signs up, we ask them who
else they’d like to meet, which companies they
admire. Their recommendations then
become the next people we contact.
To ensure the event never veers away from it’s
goal of delivering a personal, trusted
environment, we find the optimal size is 80
people. It's about quality rather than quantity.
An Event Built Around You
Everything about the CIO Event is built on Attendee feedback.
The programme, the speaker panel, the audience, even the suppliers.
We specialise in bringing the most game changing, innovative solution providers to your attention.
The only vendors we approach are either recommended by you, or they’ve come to light through
our own detailed search for thought leaders, disruptors and boutique advisors on the subjects
under discussion at the event.
Tell us who you want to meet and we’ll make those meetings happen.
Tell us who you don’t want to meet, and we’ll steer clear.
The success of our financial model rests on the quality of these meetings, which means we’re not
in the business of introducing people who don’t want to be introduced. Expect to find a refreshing list of
businesses to select from, and an open, illuminating exchange with those you choose to meet.
A Format to Stir Things Up
Presentations - Only when there’s some thing really interesting to say
Panels - When several opinions are better than one
Round tables - To allow those sparks to catch fire
Candid in the extreme - Leaders sharing their worst mistakes of the last 12 months
Networking: The No 1 Priority
It would be a crime to gather together such a group, and not give them enough time to get to
know each other properly. From a speaker dinner on the 14th April, right through to the gala
dinner on the 15th, you’ll find the programme full of time to relax and exchange ideas.
Track 1
Agility, Innovation, Mobilisation
Track 2
Exploring the Evolving Role of the CIO: strategy
and business impact
In the Boardroom
Security Risk Mitigation and Regulatory
Compliance
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4. Gold
Standard
EVENT PARTNERS
Mark Dundon
CIO - NHS
Gary Cheetham
CISO
NFU Mutual
Adam Forde
CTO
Coca Colaa
Speakers
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Troels Oerting Joergensen
CISO
Barclays
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5. CIO UK:
Embedding
Agility into
Your Business and
Technology Processes
Day 1
16:00 – 16:45 REGISTRATION AND AFTERNOON COFFEE
15:40 – 16:00 WELCOME ADDRESS
17:00 - 18:30
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
These sessions are open,
informal and a great chance
to really gauge what your
peers are planning and
to share ideas and lessons
learned. Pick the session most
aligned to your priorities and
you will walk away with
tangible ideas on how to solve
your biggest challenges. Due
to popular demand, there is an
opportunity to attend two
roundtables, as they are all
repeated at 16:30.
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6. A) Examining the
Difference between
Data and Information
and Knowing your
End Result –
Dr Michael Langer,
CIO
B) Smart sourcing and
effective partner
management: improve
the flexibility of your
business through
outsourcing
C) Recognising and
Educating on Social
Engineering to Prevent
Hacking and Security
Breaches
D) Adopting a
Customer Centric
Approach to Product
Development and
Ensuring Internal Buy In
– Hugo Smith, Inter
im CIO, Eastburn
Technology
E) Developing a
Robust Digital Strategy
- John Seglias, CIO,
Abellio Group
F) Exploring the Key Legal
Requirements for
Successful IT Outsourcing
- Dr Sam de Silva,
Parnter, Penningtons
Manches
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7. 18:00- 19:30
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
(repeated as above)
A) Examining the
Difference between
Data and Information
and Knowing your End
Result – Dr Michael
Langer, CIO
B) Smart sourcing
and effective partner
management: improve
the flexibility of your
business through
outsourcing
C) Recognising and
Educating on Social
Engineering to Prevent
Hacking and Security
Breaches
D) Adopting a
Customer Centric
Approach to Product
Development and
Ensuring Internal Buy
In – Hugo Smith,Interim
CIO, EastburTechnology
E) Developing a
Robust Digital
Strategy – John Seglias,
CIO, Abellio Group
F) Exploring the Key Legal
Requirements for
Successful IT Outsourcing
- Dr Sam de Silva,
Parnter, Penningtons
Manches
18:30 – 19:30 BUFFET DINNER
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8. Day 2
7:30 - 8.30 Registration
8.45 - 8.49 Global Business Events Welcome
8:50 - 8.59 Chair Opening Address
9:00-9:25 Keynote Discussion – Defining and Exploring Agility and Innovative
Approaches to Improving the Agility of Your Business through IT Leadership
Your CIO advisory board members will continue this important discussion we started at the
previous CIO UK meeting back at Heythrop Park. You will explore the idea of agility and its varied
interpretations; what does it mean to you and your business strategy?
Most importantly, how do you measure and tangibly improve agility?
We will continue the theme of agility throughout the day so this is the perfect
opportunity to benchmark and discuss ideas and approaches.
Tom Saunders, CIO, Department for Education
9.30
Agility,
Innovation,
Mobilisation
Exploring the
Evolving Role of the CIO:
strategy and business
impact
Closed Door
Boardroom
Security Risk
Mitigation and
Regulatory
Compliance
Establishing Parameters and
Measurability of Agility
Agility is becoming a widely used
term but is it measureable and
achievable? Does the
measurement come in the shape
of customer satisfaction of new
products?
This session will allow you to
develop a firm idea of what
agility means for your business and
whether the benefits lie in agile
processes or technolgies…or both!
You will also discuss and debate the
opportunistic advantages of being
flexible and capitalising on short
term trends and
ARMCHAIR INTERVIEW: Digital
Strategy and Governance
A candid, open interview with a
top100 CIO…too good to be true?
This is a unique opportunity to hear,
first-hand, an independent analyst
interviews an industry leader to delve
deeper into the questions
surrounding developing and
successfully executing a digital
strategy, such as;
- How can the CIO be a role
for culture change?
- Effective stakeholder
engagement
- Governance and process
challenges
- Consolidation and
harmonisation
QUESTION TIME! You will have the
chance to submit your questions
The boardroom provides an
open, relaxed discussion forum
to allow the group to throw
ideas around without fear of
being recorded, quoted or held
to ransom! In order to prevent
security breaches and serious
threats, the industry needs to
collaborate and be free to
share…this is the only place you
can do it.
How Does it Work?
Well, we’re calling it unstructured
structure! The power is in your
hands…
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9. 10:15 Achieving Agility through
Innovative Cloud Software
Is cloud computing finally a
bona fide business strategy,
versus an IT optimisation
strategy? Business agility has
become the primary
advantage being delivered
by cloud but how do you
know what platform is right
for your organisation?
Rackspace (tbc)
PANEL: Identifying where
technology can provide new
business opportunities
Technology is an enabler
rather than a driver for digital
transformation but it is still
an important piece of the
puzzle. This panel of thought
leaders will discuss;
- Long and short term
technology trends
- How technology can
provide a differentia
tor for your business
- Doing more with less
budget
- Impact on customer
retention and revenue
Panellists:
Jon Braithwaite, CIO, Gala
Retail and Interactive
Adam Forde, CTO, CocaCola
John Shaw, CIO, Kingspan
technologies.
Sharon Cooper, CTO,
British Medical Journal
in advance for review.
Interviewer: Neil-Ward
Dutton, MWD Advisors
Interviewee:
Putting Agility at the Forefront
of Your New Digital Strategy
Discovering opportunities to
improve agility comes hand
in hand with developing an
emergent strategy.
This workshop will explore
ideas around agility for I
nnovation and
differentiation and how
organisational structure can
be adapted to allow for
more agility.
David will also discuss the
development of the new
digital strategy itself,
incorporating collaboration
internally, externally and
effective communication of
the strategy
Our Digital Transformation
Case Study
Digital transformation isn’t
only about the ‘front end’ of
your business.
Unless you can link this with
the rest of your operations
using digital technologies you
run the risk of setting
customer expectations that
your business cannot fulfil.
This case study will illustrate
the recent digital
transformation at Severn
Trent, which centred around
both the customer and
colleague experience to
deliver a
“digital work platform”
enabling agile, transparent,
integrated operations.
Myron Hrycyk, CIO,
Severn Trent
You will have the freedom
to set your own agenda on
the day but there is a loose
schedule, broken into 5 parts,
that that our boardroom
leaders have helped to
shape
INTRODUCING YOUR
BOARDROOM COMMITTEE…
Gary Cheetham, CISO, NFU
Mutual
Adrian Leung, Head of
Information Security,
Catalyst Housing Group
Troels Oerting, CISO, Barclays
Dave Jones, CISO, BBC (tbc)
9:30 – 10:30 REGULATION,
REGUALTION, REGULATION
- EU Data Privacy
Regulation and its
impact locally and
globally
- Ethics vs profits,
where is the ‘line’?
- Roll out and execut
ion won’t happen
overnight, what’s the
best approach?
10:30 – 11:30 PREVENTION IS
BETTER THAN CURE
- Threat modelling
- Hacking and hybrid
attacks
- Prevention strategies
- Social engineering
11:30 – 12:30 WHO’S AFRAID
OF THE BIG, BAD
10:50
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10. 11:30 Continuous Delivery vs.
Continuous Denial
Jes Breslaw, Head of Strategy
EMEA, Delphix
PANEL: The Journey from CIO
to Board Member
In today’s world of customer
centricity and connection,
the CIO now in a crucial
position to innovate,
transform and drive the
overall business strategy.
This discussion will examine
how to change perceptions,
take ownership at board
level and what skills and
training are needed to set
yourself up for a potential
CEO position.
How can you use your skills to
help the business:
productivity, efficiency,
product, revenue?
Panellists:
Gwyn Thomas, Chairman
UKCHIP and Honorary
Professor of Informatics at
Swansea University
Vince Spark, IT Director,
Stobart Group
across the entire
organisation.
David Swayne, CIO,
Goldsmiths, University of London
Agile Product Development,
a Case Study: The Internet
of things…or the Internet of
everything?
With over 20 billion daily
microprocesses predicted by
2020, all industries are looking
at whether and how they
can capitalise on this mass
digitalisation. Also known as
‘The Internet of Things’ – but
can this phenomena be
applied universally?
John will take you through
his current product
development journey,
as far as the proof of
Big Contribution:
understanding and
leveraging data in terms of
contribution to the business’
bottom line
The term ‘big data’ is losing
its meaning and momentum.
The value is not in data alone
but in what the information
gleaned from it can
contribute to your business
– whether that be cost or
efficiency savings.
How do you really profit
from data? Do you have
an achievable end goal in
mind? How do you gain a
competitive advantage?
Join this workshop to develop
or refine your big data/big
contribution approach
BOARD?
- Board level
engagement and
securing budget
- Best practice for
board buy in
- Diversification of skills
in the IT/security
department
- Technical experts and
business facing skill
sets are essential
- Filling the talent
pipeline
12:30 – 13:30 AD BREAK!
The discussion and
discovery of today wouldn’t
be complete without hearing
from those who can provide
potential solutions to our
challenges…
…but there’s a twist!
Up to 4 solution providers will
join the boardroom, each
with a 5 minute overview
of the latest tech
developments. You’ll then
have a chance to ask
questions and discover more
about the latest technology,
training and software
available at your fingertips.
The discussion continues
throughout the entire morning
but don’t worry if you miss
anything – we’re operating
on a ‘drop in’ basis so you
can tailor your event to your
needs!
12.10
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11. CASE STUDY: Tangibly
improving efficiency and
agility through workforce
mobility
The ability to communicate
effectively wherever you
are is essential for most
mobility strategies.
The main challenge facing
the industry is one of ensuring
harmonisation and selecting
and implementing unified
communications tools that
work across the entire
enterprise, taking into
account social and
cultural differences.
This workshop will take you
through the development
and execution of a global
mobility strategy.
concept stage and will then
open up the floor for
discussion to asses;
- The realities of IoT
and competitive
advantage
- Is it relevant for all?
- The state if maturity
of IoT
- How we can pinpoint
the benefits of IoT
centric product
design
John Shaw, CIO, Kingspan
and make an intelligent
contribution to your
business decisions.
Mark Dundon, CIO, NHS
Yorkshire and Humber
Commissioning Support Unit
Mobile Payment Platforms
and Customer Experience
Payment security is a critical
component of any payment
platform.
Developing seamless
functionality and security is
across your mobile payment
platform will ensure continuity
of the customer experience
and improved conversions.
What are the challenges and
opportunities of developing
a mobile payment platform
and does a cloud based
solution pose security threats
alongside customer
resistance?
Cathy McCabe, CIO, Jaeger
12.50
14.25
15.15
13:20 - 14.20 NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK
Lean Data Management
It’s a significant task to feed your ERP system with the data required to run your business.
Collecting, validating, and entering data is often done manually through cumbersome
interfaces across multiple channels.
With the explosion in data growth rates, the room for errors and more delays is only getting
bigger. All of this increases costs and creates risk exposure.
Learn how, by applying lean techniques with continuous improvement, you can rapidly
standardise and improve your ERP data management processes. Eliminating waste and
reducing data management costs.
Sponsored by Winshuttle, Speaker tbc
Agility, Innovation, Your Customer is the Closed Door
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12. SMART SOURCING AND
EFFECTIVE PARTNER
MANAGEMENT
One of the easiest ways to
improve the flexibility and
agility of your business is
through outsourcing and
accessing specialist skills
and services that are ready
made. However, managed
improperly or in the absence
of a thorough process, out
sourcing can be a hindrance
and source of inefficiencies
and high costs.What are the
smart approaches to
outsourcing? During this
workshop we will discuss;
- Deciding what to keep
in house vs. outsourcing
- Eradicating the time
consuming selection process
- Consolidation
PANEL: THERE’S NO SUCH
THING AS A FREE APP!
There is much debate around
data governance and ethics,
with a stark difference
between what is possible
and what is right.
This panel will serve to
address your organisation’s
boundaries around privacy
and personal data and
what is acceptable in line
with the overall values and
mission statement of the
business?How do you
balance gaining a
competitive advantage with
protecting personal privacy?
15.20
15.50
WE, THE PEOPLE
- Understanding the social
engineering threat
- Educating your workforce,
as the frontline of defence
- The human firewall
FEDERATION OF INFORMATICS PROFESSIONALS CONSULTATION
15.55
16.25
Developing the next generation of IT leaders and CIOs is an active process and
crucial for the continuity and cultivation of innovation. We’ve embarked on a
hugely successful apprenticeship scheme at Natural Resources Wales and this session
will outline the pathways for our apprentices, pros and cons and lessons learned. Most
importantly, you will hear directly from one of our star apprentices who has been
involved in our greatest achievement to date; a flood warning app was developed
and rolled out in a month!
16.30
17:00
THE APPRENTICE: YOU’RE HIRED!
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Organisations are slowly
turning towards customer
centric rather than IT centric
thinking, with technology now being a tool not a driver.
The first task is mapping your customer journey, their touch points and understanding
how they can and like to contact you. So what’s next? How do you keep your
customers engaged and enhance their experience
You will discuss and take away new ideas surrounding
accessibility, experience,
identifying pain points and
mobile/app development.
Panellists: Myron Hrycyk, CIO, SevernTrent
David Swayne, CIO, Goldsmiths, University of London
Hugo Smith, Interim CIO, Eastburn Technology
17:05
17:40
Closing Panel: I’ve Mapped my Customer Journey, Now What?

14. 14
17:30 – 17:40 Chair’s Closing Remarks
17:40 – 18:30 Free Time
18:30 – 19:00 Champagne Reception
19:00 – 21:00 Gala Dinner with Guest Speaker
DAY 3
10:00 – 12.55 Golf Tournament

15. EVENT ATTENDEES
CIO Managing Partner Product Security Director
IT Director Director of International IT VP Transformation and Office of the CIO
DEROCLE CIO Group Information Risk Management Head of Global Testing
Tony Deacy Chief Technology Officer Head of IT Architect Chief Technology Officer
Technical Director MD, North & East Kent Hd of Information Assurance &
Compliance (Group Engineering Services)
IT Director CIO IT Director, Europe
Head of Information Security CTO - Eurasia and Africa
IT Strategy Director Director CIO
CISO Head Of Business Area Head of IT
Head of IT Service & Operations
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16. Head of IT CIO - EUROPE CIO
Head of IT CIO Chief Information Officer
Head of IT CIO Chief Information Officer
Head of IT Head of IT Head of Information Security
IT Director CI Enterprise Architect/ Information Architecture
Snr Mgr Global IT Strategy & Governance Global Information Security & Compliance Director Global Head of Collaboration Technologies
IT Director CIO CIO
IT Director IT DIRECTOR Head of Architecture
Global Director of Enterprise Architecture Global IT DirectorDirector of Strategic Initiatives
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