IDC Europe CIO Summit Defining Technology Leadership in a Digital-first World

14:15  -  15:10
Workshop 1A: Sustainability: addressing energy consumption and carbon footprint of IT

Sustainability and climate protection are the new strategic imperatives for the coming decades. Almost all company leaders are currently concerned with the question of how to adapt their company to the goal of climate neutrality and how to embark on intelligent "decarbonization paths". Rising energy costs, binding emission targets and detailed specifications for sustainability reporting, will force changes to the operation of data centers

In this workshop, we will discuss the challenges of sustainability for IT.  We will look at how to use digital technology thoughtfully and responsibly and understand the critical role IT can play in organizations.

14:15  -  15:10
AIOps, Hyperautomation and Automation Fabric: Solutions for the Digital-First Enterprise

The adoption of Intelligent Automation is often thought of as costly and requires fundamental changes across the enterprise. Our interactive session will help you to meet the challenge and address these questions

• Are you using the right technology to drive digital transformation and the automation journey?
• What are the critical technology features an automation technology platform should provide to accelerate the digital transformation journey?
• How should Intelligent Automation best be applied and integrated?
• What is the best technology approach for driving digital transformation? A technology that is most versatile to apply or just the best of breed?

 

14:15  -  15:10
Securing the New Edge

Organisations continue to migrate to the cloud for their network and security controls with many adopting service-defined capabilities from the trend-setting Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture. This architecture is proven to optimise value from IT and security teams however also comes with many unforeseen challenges.

In this session, we will discuss lessons learned from this migration and how the “New Edge” being created for organisations allows IT and Security teams to:

• become a strategic business enabler for cloud

• drive risk reduction, cost reduction and productivity increases

• optimise future digital transformation through network and security transformation and consolidation

 

15:30  -  16:25
Every CIO is a Cloud Operator - Challenges beyond the Technology

The prominence of cloud computing and always-on services means that enterprise organisations need to adopt the right operational model that blends services from multiple public clouds into existing datacenter infrastructure and on-premises workloads while extending out to the edge.  This has a significant impact, and it requires new skills, tools and strategies to successfully enable business resilience, agility and growth.  Every CIO and their respective organisations must be able to control their own cloud destiny while leading and enabling their next wave of innovation. Let’s share challenges and best practices on how to succeed on this journey with regards to people, process and technology.

15:30  -  16:25
Skills, Leadership and WTF – What’s The Future?

IT skill shortages will affect 90% of orgs by 2025, and skills gaps will cost more than $6.5 trillion globally through 2025*

Come participate in a workshop about the state of skills among tech leaders and what it means to an organization.

This is an imperative for What's The Future (WTF)of business around the globe, especially in light of the

Great Resignation and skill shortages reported everywhere. How do leaders, who's tech skills may not be what they were,

hire the next prototypical tech professional and keep them from leaving their organization. Upskilling, reskilling, and preskilling

may be part of a well thought-out strategy, but come to this workshop to find out what others are successfully doing today.

 

15:30  -  16:25
You can't improve what you don't measure: Collaboration and value realization for European technology executives

IDC’s recent C-Suite survey revealed that European technology executives believe:

1. Their top pain point is ‘creating a collaborative culture to deliver innovation at scale’ and

2. Their most serious hurdle to completing digital initiatives is ‘lack of confidence due to missing ROI’ 

Improving collaboration in the C-Suite and measuring ROI / value realization are interconnected and persistent challenges faced by executives in many industries. Investing in progress can bring significant benefits, not least during heightened economic uncertainty. 

Participants in this workshop will discuss these challenges and identify good practice, with the goal of taking away at least one new idea to help them in their organizations.

10:50  -  11:45
Accelerate your Hybrid Cloud Journey

The challenges on the way to the public cloud are greater than expected. According to several surveys the majority of companies worldwide have not yet saved the hoped-for amount of time and money for business-relevant projects. In this workshop we will look at the challenges, discuss our experiences, and best practices. Can the journey to the public cloud be accelerated by 1 or 2 years? Can the cost of the public cloud be reduced by 30% or more? The experiences from customers promise interesting discussions. We look forward to your participation.

10:50  -  11:45
How do you secure the hybrid workplace and drive better user experience and productivity?

Hybrid workforces are proving that flexibility does not come at the expense of productivity.  But companies must be able to balance the need for knowledge workers to operate anywhere at their peak with the need to protect company data and information. The question is how do you achieve this? In this workshop, we will hear from peers their challenges and experiences and discuss how to build a secure “anywhere organization”.

 

10:50  -  11:45
Designing a Sustainable and circular IT Strategy that Delivers

So, we’ll all be net zero through scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2050 or sooner. Agreed. But how?

We’re all grappling with the magnitude of our sustainability commitments and just how complex managing our upstream and downstream responsibilities will be. From tracking the provenance of every component, product, and service we use, through to ensuring our own products and services deliver their full intended value and are retired and recycled with care when the right time comes. IT have a pivotal role to play throughout. This workshop will discuss the essential elements to consider when building your own Sustainable IT strategy, leaving you with some great insights that you can turn into action.