The Technology Chapter
The Adolphus, Dallas, TX
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The Technology Chapter
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Agenda
Day 1
Registration & Networking Lunch
Welcome Address & Signature Partner Keynote
The summit officially opens with a forward-looking welcome address, setting the agenda for two days of insight, collaboration and strategic discussion. You’ll hear the vision behind this year’s programme and the themes shaping the technology landscape in 2026 and beyond.
Our Signature Partner then takes the stage with a keynote designed to challenge thinking, spotlight emerging risks and opportunities, and provide a practical perspective from the front line of innovation. It’s an energising start to the summit, offering a shared foundation for the conversations and sessions that follow.
Modernising Legacy Without the Big-Bang: Rebuilding While Running
Enterprises are moving away from headline-grabbing transformation programmes and toward continuous, modular modernisation. This session explores how organisations are evolving legacy systems safely, using strangling patterns, domain decomposition and capability-led change, all while keeping critical services running.
Data Provenance & Trust in a Distributed Data Estate
As data becomes increasingly fragmented across clouds, platforms and SaaS ecosystems, trust and provenance have become essential. This workshop dives into automated lineage tracking, data contracts and decentralised governance models that support compliant, high-quality data at scale.
Strategically Matched 1:1 Meetings
These focused 1:1 sessions connect you with peers and sponsors based on shared priorities, challenges, and areas of expertise. Each meeting is tailored using attendee insights, ensuring every conversation is relevant, purposeful, and aligned with your interests.
Whether you’re exploring new ideas, pressure-testing a strategy, or discovering emerging capabilities, these sessions are designed to provide genuine value in a brief period. It’s an opportunity to participate in informed, high-quality discussions that go beyond introductions and lead to meaningful exchanges.
Peer-Led Problem Solving
This collaborative session brings executives together to unpack real challenges, share practical experiences and explore new approaches as a group. Rather than traditional presentations, the focus is on open dialogue, identifying what’s working, what isn’t, and how others are navigating similar issues in their own organisations.
Guided by a facilitator, you’ll work through emerging pain points, compare strategies and exchange insight with peers facing the same pressures. It’s an opportunity to gain clarity, discover alternative viewpoints and walk away with ideas you can apply immediately.
Designed to be energetic, conversational and outcome-driven, this is where collective expertise turns into practical solutions.
Hands-On Technology Insights
The demo sessions give you the chance to explore emerging capabilities directly with our partners, seeing how their technology performs in real scenarios rather than on slides. These are practical, interactive demonstrations designed to help you understand what each solution actually does, how it integrates, and where it can support your priorities.
You’ll be able to ask focused questions, dive deeper into specific use-cases and get a clear sense of the value behind each offering. It’s a straightforward, no-pressure way to compare approaches, discover what’s possible, and uncover ideas you can take straight back into your own environment.
A meaningful opportunity to experience innovation first-hand and engage with the people building it.
Strategically Matched 1:1 Meetings
These focused 1:1 sessions pair you with peers and sponsors based on shared priorities, challenges and areas of expertise. Each meeting is curated using attendee insights, ensuring every conversation is relevant, purposeful and aligned to your interests.
Whether you’re exploring new ideas, pressure-testing a strategy, or discovering emerging capabilities, these sessions are designed to deliver genuine value in a short window of time. It’s a chance to engage in informed, high-quality discussions that move beyond introductions and straight into meaningful exchange.
AI-Native Engineering Platforms: Redefining How Software Gets Built
Engineering is undergoing its biggest shift in a decade. Leaders will explore how AI-native development stacks, automated testing, intelligent code generation, guardrails and AI-assisted workflows are reshaping delivery, reducing cognitive load and improving software quality across the enterprise.
Governing Technology in a Fragmented World
Rapid platform expansion, hybrid estates and decentralised data have made governance harder than ever. This workshop focuses on federated oversight models, designing guardrails at scale and improving visibility across complex estates without slowing down innovation.
Strategically Matched 1:1 Meetings
These focused 1:1 sessions pair you with peers and sponsors based on shared priorities, challenges and areas of expertise. Each meeting is curated using attendee insights, ensuring every conversation is relevant, purposeful and aligned to your interests.
Whether you’re exploring new ideas, pressure-testing a strategy, or discovering emerging capabilities, these sessions are designed to deliver genuine value in a short window of time. It’s a chance to engage in informed, high-quality discussions that move beyond introductions and straight into meaningful exchange.
Wellness Time & Sponsored Activities
This dedicated break in the programme is designed to help you reset, recharge and prepare for the evening ahead. Take the time to pause, step away from the pace of the day and choose whatever helps you feel at your best, whether that’s a moment of quiet, a walk, or connecting informally with peers.
Our partners may also host optional activities during this window, offering relaxed opportunities to explore new ideas, continue conversations or experience something a little different. Full details will be shared closer to the summit, giving you the freedom to engage in a way that suits your energy and interests.
Pre-Dinner Happy Hour
Gala Dinner
The Gala Dinner is the centrepiece of the summit’s first day, an evening designed to bring the entire community together in a refined, welcoming setting. Enjoy a relaxed three-course dinner while connecting with peers, partners and industry leaders in an environment that encourages open conversation and meaningful interaction.
During the evening, you’ll hear from a distinguished technology leader delivering an insightful keynote woven into the dinner experience. Expect a thought-provoking perspective on the evolving technology landscape, offering strategic clarity and ideas that resonate long after the final course.
Post Dinner Drinks
Day 2
Breakfast
Platinum Partner Keynote
Day 2 opens with a keynote from our Platinum Partner, offering a sharp, forward-looking perspective on the trends reshaping technology in 2026. Expect a session grounded in real-world insight, highlighting emerging risks, new opportunities and the strategic shifts leaders need to prepare for.
From Programmes to Products: Redesigning Technology Operating Models
Organisations are shifting from project-based delivery to product-centric operating models. This session explores the implications for team design, funding, governance and performance — and how product thinking can drive clearer ownership, better alignment and sustained enterprise value.
Automation, AI Agents & Human + Machine Workflows
The move from RPA to intelligent, orchestrated digital workforces is accelerating. This workshop examines how AI agents, workflow engines and human teams can operate together safely, and how organisations can design oversight, governance and measurable outcomes for hybrid work models.
Strategically Matched 1:1 Meetings
These focused 1:1 sessions pair you with peers and sponsors based on shared priorities, challenges and areas of expertise. Each meeting is curated using attendee insights, ensuring every conversation is relevant, purposeful and aligned to your interests.
Whether you’re exploring new ideas, pressure-testing a strategy, or discovering emerging capabilities, these sessions are designed to deliver genuine value in a short window of time. It’s a chance to engage in informed, high-quality discussions that move beyond introductions and straight into meaningful exchange.
Networking Break
Panel Discussion
“Technology Leadership in 2026: Building the Systems, Structures and Strategies That Move the Business Forward”
In 2026, technology leaders are being asked to balance modernisation, resilience, intelligent automation and experience design, all while keeping the business secure, compliant and competitive. This panel brings together senior executives to explore how technology leadership is evolving, and what it now takes to build the systems, structures and strategies that move the enterprise forward.
The conversation will span architecture, data, governance, automation, operating models and the shift toward platform-led delivery. Expect honest insights on prioritisation, capability building, organisational design and the practical realities of leading technology in a landscape defined by complexity, opportunity and constant change.
Designing Experience-Centric Architectures: Building Platforms Around Customer Journeys
Experience is now an architectural challenge. This session explores event-driven design, unified experience layers, integration across CX/EX platforms, and how organisations are re-architecting systems around customer and employee journeys to deliver seamless, context-aware interactions.
Data Resilience & Cyber-Ready Storage Across Hybrid Estates
With rising operational and cyber threats, organisations need resilient, compliant and recoverable data environments. This workshop focuses on immutable storage, recovery tiers, hybrid data protection strategies and the architectural patterns required to ensure survivability across the modern data estate.
Strategically Matched 1:1 Meetings
These focused 1:1 sessions pair you with peers and sponsors based on shared priorities, challenges and areas of expertise. Each meeting is curated using attendee insights, ensuring every conversation is relevant, purposeful and aligned to your interests.
Whether you’re exploring new ideas, pressure-testing a strategy, or discovering emerging capabilities, these sessions are designed to deliver genuine value in a short window of time. It’s a chance to engage in informed, high-quality discussions that move beyond introductions and straight into meaningful exchange.
Peer-Led Problem Solving
This collaborative session brings executives together to unpack real challenges, share practical experiences and explore new approaches as a group. Rather than traditional presentations, the focus is on open dialogue, identifying what’s working, what isn’t, and how others are navigating similar issues in their own organisations.
Guided by a facilitator, you’ll work through emerging pain points, compare strategies and exchange insight with peers facing the same pressures. It’s an opportunity to gain clarity, discover alternative viewpoints and walk away with ideas you can apply immediately.
Designed to be energetic, conversational and outcome-driven, this is where collective expertise turns into practical solutions.
Hands-On Technology Insights
The demo sessions give you the chance to explore emerging capabilities directly with our partners, seeing how their technology performs in real scenarios rather than on slides. These are practical, interactive demonstrations designed to help you understand what each solution actually does, how it integrates, and where it can support your priorities.
You’ll be able to ask focused questions, dive deeper into specific use-cases and get a clear sense of the value behind each offering. It’s a straightforward, no-pressure way to compare approaches, discover what’s possible, and uncover ideas you can take straight back into your own environment.
A meaningful opportunity to experience innovation first-hand and engage with the people building it.
Strategically Matched 1:1 Meetings
These focused 1:1 sessions pair you with peers and sponsors based on shared priorities, challenges and areas of expertise. Each meeting is curated using attendee insights, ensuring every conversation is relevant, purposeful and aligned to your interests.
Whether you’re exploring new ideas, pressure-testing a strategy, or discovering emerging capabilities, these sessions are designed to deliver genuine value in a short window of time. It’s a chance to engage in informed, high-quality discussions that move beyond introductions and straight into meaningful exchange.
Lunch
Closing Keynote & Closing Remarks
The summit concludes with an inspiring keynote from a respected technology leader within our community, offering an honest, forward-looking perspective on the technology landscape and the leadership challenges shaping the years ahead. Expect a grounded, experience-led talk that ties together the themes explored across the summit, bringing clarity, perspective and momentum for what comes next.
Following the keynote, the final remarks bring the programme to a close, reflecting on the key insights, shared moments and connections made over the two days. It’s a chance to gather final takeaways, acknowledge the community that makes the Technology Chapter so powerful, and leave with renewed focus for the year ahead.
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