The CIO Chapter UK

This workshop empowers CIOs and IT leaders to unlock the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within their organizations. Participants will explore real-world applications of generative AI, predictive analytics, and AI-augmented IT operations (AIOps) to drive automation, optimize decision-making, and uncover new revenue streams. Through case studies, expert insights, and hands-on exercises, attendees will gain a clear understanding of how to effectively integrate AI and ML into their strategies, harnessing these technologies for competitive advantage and long-term growth.

Key Takeaways:

• Discover how generative AI and predictive analytics can improve decision-making and business outcomes.
• Leverage AIOps to enhance IT operations and drive operational efficiencies.

As generative AI tools become embedded in day-to-day workflows, CIOs face a new wave of shadow IT—one that’s decentralised, fast-moving, and often invisible. This session explores how to detect and manage the unsanctioned use of AI and large language models across the enterprise. From data leakage risks to compliance blind spots, we’ll examine practical strategies for visibility, governance, and balancing innovation with control.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to identify and mitigate the risks of unsanctioned AI tool usage across departments—before it leads to data breaches or compliance violations.

• Discover governance strategies that allow innovation to flourish while maintaining visibility and control over AI and LLM deployments.

This workshop empowers CIOs and IT leaders to maximize the value of their data while maintaining quality, compliance, and ethical standards. Participants will learn how to implement real-time analytics to drive timely, informed decision-making, enable data democratization to foster a data-savvy workforce, and ensure adherence to regulations like GDPR. Through expert-led discussions and practical demonstrations, attendees will gain actionable strategies to build robust data governance frameworks that balance innovation with responsibility, paving the way for sustainable, data-driven growth.

Key Takeaways:

• Harness real-time analytics and data democratization to empower smarter, faster decision-making.
• Build robust governance frameworks to ensure compliance and ethical data use.

Years of digital transformation have created a data deluge that most organisations are still struggling to harness. Enterprises generate over 1,300 exabytes of dark data every day, and 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the last two years.

That’s not just noise — it’s untapped potential.

Join our roundtable to explore how your true advantage in the AI era lies not in the algorithms, but in the data you already have. Discuss why so much of it remains dark, unused, or siloed — and explore how discoverability and connectivity are the keys to unlocking its value. It’s time to turn your data into your most powerful asset.

Step away from passive listening and into active problem-solving. In this highly interactive session, you’ll work alongside your peers to explore some of the most pressing challenges and exciting opportunities facing your role today. Share experiences, exchange fresh perspectives, and leave with practical ideas you can take back to your organisation.

Ransomware continues to be the most critical cyber threat to organisations globally, reaching an unprecedented scale and impact. Despite the takedown of two major ransomware groups—LockBit and ALPHV—the overall volume of attacks remains largely unchanged, with costs projected to reach $265 billion annually by 2031.

Contrary to statistics, ransomware doesn’t have to be a matter of "when"—security teams have the power to turn it into an "if."

In this session, Pentera’s Shak Ahmed, Director of Security Engineering, will discuss actionable strategies to strengthen your defences and enhance your organisation’s resilience.

Strategic, predetermined and agreed meetings based on project alignment with executives and solution partners. 

This workshop equips CIOs and IT leaders with strategies to align technology operations with sustainability goals. Participants will explore key initiatives like energy-efficient data centres, green software design, and the adoption of ESG compliance tools to reduce their organisation’s carbon footprint. The session highlights how sustainable IT practices can drive cost savings, regulatory compliance, and a competitive edge while contributing to broader environmental goals. Through case studies and actionable insights, attendees will learn to implement scalable and impactful green IT strategies.

Key Takeaways:

• Implement energy-efficient and green technology solutions to reduce operational carbon footprints.
• Use ESG compliance tools to meet regulatory requirements and enhance sustainability reporting.

AI is now central to business strategy and national competitiveness—but with greater reliance comes greater risk. From regulatory complexity to infrastructure blind spots and emerging threats, leaders must rethink how AI is deployed, governed, and secured at scale.

This roundtable brings together senior technology and security executives to explore how to build secure, high-performing, and sovereign AI systems that meet the demands of enterprises and the public sector.

Key Takeaways:

• Architecting scalable AI infrastructure with visibility and control
• Why AI sovereignty is now a strategic imperative
• Mitigating risk across the AI lifecycle—from training to user interaction
• Enabling resilient AI delivery through modern architectures and traffic control
• Balancing cost, compliance, and agility as AI workloads grow

Surprisingly, the majority of breach-reasons today are NOT vulnerability-related, but rather caused by misconfiguration, application interfaces, supply chain or credential related security gaps. 

Exposure Management is here to allow a strategy and process for addressing the reduction of risk over the entire attack surface.

This session will present a simple, pragmatic approach to implementing an Exposure Management strategy with minimal incremental investment while focusing on automation and validation. 

Many organisations struggle with fragmented data sources, leading to inefficiencies and slow decision-making. This workshop explores how CIOs can integrate disparate data into a single, unified platform that ensures consistency, accelerates insights, and enhances business agility.
 

Key takeaways: 

• Strategies for consolidating multiple data sources
• The latest technologies in data unification
• How a unified platform can drive competitive advantage.

Step away from passive listening and into active problem-solving. In this highly interactive session, you’ll work alongside your peers to explore some of the most pressing challenges and exciting opportunities facing your role today. Share experiences, exchange fresh perspectives, and leave with practical ideas you can take back to your organisation.

For many executives, workforce management sits low on the digital transformation agenda – seen as a tactical need rather than a strategic driver. Quinyx changes that. By deeply integrating with your core ERP systems across HR, Finance, and Supply Chain, Quinyx operationalises your business data – turning workforce management into a direct lever for hitting KPIs, unlocking efficiency, and accelerating growth.

Without Quinyx, fragmented systems slow decisions, create compliance risks, and add friction to scaling. With Quinyx, scheduling becomes seamless: the right people, in the right place, at the right time, with the right knowledge. This clarity delivers quick wins for the C-suite – hitting targets faster, reducing labour costs, and ensuring compliance through AI-powered forecasting and automation.

In this workshop, we’ll explore how Quinyx:

Transforms WFM from a siloed process into a fully operationalised system tied to financial performanceEnables scalability by seamlessly supporting business acquisitions and solution rollouts with strong integrationsProvides full workforce visibility to reduce risk, de-risk decisions, and boost ROI. Empowers frontline teams with a mobile-first experience that drives motivation, retention, and productivity

Join us to see why leading organisations choose Quinyx as the quickest win in their digital transformation journey – delivering measurable results today while future-proofing growth for tomorrow.

Strategic, predetermined and agreed meetings based on project alignment with executives and solution partners.