8:30—8:45 Registration and Coffee

8:45—8:50 Welcome and Introduction

8:50—9:30 Inventing the Future—Jacqueline de Rojas. President, techUK

Invention is in our DNA. Our collective opportunity is to harness the power of digi-

tal transformation to deliver an economy that works for everyone.

Technology is changing the world. Ultimately it will have a much bigger impact on

all out lives then the decision to leave the European Union. Whilst we have to get

Brexit right, we must not lose focus on the big global forces for change or lose faith

in our ability to shape the future.

9:35—10:15 IT is dead, long live IT - Mark Aikman, Group CIO, The North of England P & I Assoc.

Leading CIO Mark Aikman debates the future of IT leadership. No longer the facili-

tator and regulator of IT, the CIO needs to be a true influencer in the business with

the people skills to match. Join him in this thought provoking presentation and

debate.

10:15—10:40 Coffee and Networking

Cyber Security

10:45—11:25

DevOps Digital Transformation

11:30—12:10 Rethinking and Rewiring Infosec - Jean-Christopher Gaillard, Founder, Corix Part-

A look back at the cyber security event of the year so far, what they can teach us

from a management perspective, and how to build an effective and efficient cyber

security practice for the current age, looking beyond the technology horizon, into

strategy governance, corporate culture and the real dynamics of transformation.

12:15—12:55

IoT

13:00—14:00 Lunch

Future of Work Information Security

14:00—14:35 From Trailing Edge to Leading Edge—Adrian Tucker, CTO, Department for Educa-

This session explores the transformation programme has delivered the total modernisation of the entire technology

stack within the Department for Education (DfE) with a mantra of going from "trailing edge to leading edge" within a

18 month window. This has been delivered through a strong IT brand identity and a energised team, organised into a

cohesive and responsive technical areas. The programme has seen a total transformation all aspects of the DfE's

technology, landing a ten-year shift in capability and delivering a cloud first enterprise, Windows 10 and Office 365. It

will also significantly reduce the technology's stack technical debt to under 20%, which in turn will enable the depart-

ment to re-engineer its business processes, fully embrace digital processes and deliver efficient and connected services

to the Education sector in England.

14:40—15:20

MicroServices Machine Learning & AI GDPR

15:20—15:50 Coffee Break and Networking

15:55—16:35 Expert Contributors Panel Session:

Led by: Rorie Devine, CTO & Growth Hacker, interim.team Chris Weston, Consultant, Chainmaker Consulting & Podcaster Alex Farr, Group IT Director, Transport Catapult Systems Nigel Willson, Global Strategist, Microsoft Hussein Badakchani, CTO, Biomex & Author

16:40—17:20 Close

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