CIO UK Live Series - July Edition 2022

Overview

The War on Talent is real and all organisations need to understand how to compete, as well as retaining and up-skilling existing workforce to drive competitive advantage. Join this months edition to understand and gain key insights into:

The great resignation or the great onboarding, challenge meets opportunity

Realigning and defining your talent strategy and what success means for your teams

Understanding the new generation’s mentality and creating the path for developing the right data teams for your organisation

Harmonising your data strategy with your organisational culture, flexibility and growth plans for your teams

What to expect

• Sessions 6+
• Live Interactions 1:1
• Virtual Attendees 200+
• Speakers 5+

What we will cover

• The Great Re-shuffle What does this mean for your team and organisation and how can we lean into this as a potential opportunity
• Skills Clarity What specific skills and resources do you need across the next five years to drive your organisational transformation
• Data Culture Over Everything A strong and robust data culture will not only attract talent but assist in keeping existing teams happy and motivated.
• Utilising Competitive Advantage What sets your organisation apart and can offer unique competitive advantages

Agenda

• 8:57 pm Welcome(Plenary)
• 9:02 pm Thought Leadership: Balancing the Data Governance ‘See-Saw’ to Accelerate Businesses(Plenary) In today’s evolving business environment, trust is the lynchpin for successfully navigating unchartered paths. For CIO's and their teams, trust in the data they rely on is ultimately the true test of all. A strong data governance strategy is essential yet striking the right balance is vital to ensuring trust in the data drives and supports the commercial and business objectives. In this session, we discuss: Explore the data governance challenges / why is DG so hard? Why striking the right balance between control and autonomy can mitigate data chaos How to deliver a collaborative data governance model
• 9:22 pm Keynote: The Great Resignation or the Great On-boarding(Plenary) To help data leaders thrive during times of adversity we need to understand the current workforce and navigate the war on talent, where are the opportunities to lean into the disruption economy? Join this session to explore: The great re-shuffle or the great onboarding Challenge meets opportunity Creating a strong culture of creativity to retain and attract talent Whats your unique competitive advantage?
• 9:42 pm Thought Leadership: The Five Stages of Data Maturity - How to Accelerate Your Journey From Those Who Have Already Done It(Plenary) Today’s most successful organisations are utilising data to drive rapid growth, transformation and innovation. They are each on a journey towards greater data maturity, increasing the value of their data and deepening their insights as they go. In this session we will explore how you can shape the future of data at your organisation, harness the power of data to drive competitive advantage, increase productivity and enhance customer experience.
• 10:02 pm Keynote: Realigning and Defining Your Talent Strategy(Plenary) As IT professionals we need to re-assess and re-evaluate our strategy according to our existing talent and workforce, alongside what needs we have to align to our strategic objectives, both as a team and as an organisation. Join this session to explore how to: Realign your talent strategy, are we utilising our existing workforce to their best ability? Understand what success means for your teams Creating the right environment for growth
• 10:22 pm Thought Leadership -The Era of Connected Intelligence(Plenary) Early graph innovators have already pioneered the most popular use cases – fraud detection, personalisation, customer 360, knowledge graphs, network management, and more.Building upon their efforts, the next generation of graph thinkers are engineering the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• 10:42 pm Keynote: Understanding the Next Generation’s Mentality(Plenary) We're often so busy managing our current workforce needs and pressure we can be absent in looking at what the next generation needs, beyond just a monetary exchange the next generation are looking to work with companies that align with their values, and that can be clearly and accurately demonstrated. Join this session to understand: How the next generation’s mentality works - can you demonstrate your company aligns to being value driven as well as data-driven Creating the path for developing the right data teams for your organisation - are you diversity focused? Ensuring your organisation aligns to values that graduates and new talent can see works with purpose, responsibility and care
• 11:02 pm Panel: Evolution of the CIO(Plenary) As enterprises accelerate digitalisation and strengthen enterprise resilience and agility post pandemic, CIOs must expand and evolve their responsibilities to increase contributions as business executives and leaders of IT. Join this panel session to learn: Emerging trends, expected challenges and what’s ahead for CIOs in 2022 Leading the team to digital transformation CIO’s role in contributing to overall success of the organisation
• 11:22 pm Keynote: Harmonising your Data Strategy with Organisational Culture, Flexibility and Growth(Plenary) Understanding how to manage your ongoing organisational and culture needs, being able to think pro-actively as well as being flexible to learn and grow as moments and new opportunities present themselves. Join this session to gain insights into: How to harmonise your data strategy and how to fine tune the details Drive organisational culture initiatives Present flexible and clear growth plans to keep teams energised
• 11:42 pm Closing(Plenary)

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