Chief Information Officer
Sit-Down Hybrid

Data, analytics and AI are opening the door to new possibilities for how organisations can grow and differentiate themselves against competition at an accelerated pace. From Accenture research, 52% of organisations with future-ready operations are already using data and analytics at scale. Now it’s time to truly leverage the power of data to drive hyper-personalisation, create new products and brand new revenue streams for your organisation.

Join global sales coach and leader Ryan Tuckwood (SWISH Co-Founder and CEO) as he takes us on a dynamic, inter-active session on goals setting for leaders as we head into 2022. Without goals, we have no clear direction, Ryan will help to transform your mindset and help you develop both personally and professionally. This session will focus on:

• Habits and behaviours
• Infinite goal setting
• How to increase your productivity / your teams productivity
  

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.

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

In this digital information age there are vast amounts of data being created, moved, ingested, and transformed to support the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. DevOps and DataOps principles play a key role in assuring the business gets value from its data. Join this session to hear a real life story of leveraging orchestration, DevOps, and DataOps in a data-driven environment and how the effort helped to reduce cost, enabling data democratisation and ensuring quality data is accessible to all business users.

Leaderships can be hard yet so rewarding when you get it right. Join this session to learn the best way to pivot when you’re in the middle of a large project. How to make the challenges work for you and keep your team on track.

Key takeaways:

• How to plan outcomes, get runs on the board and celebrate them
• Flexible style on management in terms of, everyone is wired differently
• Communication is key: board, vendors, and staff

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
  

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
  

As enterprises accelerate digitalization 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.

• 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
  

Changing business and technical requirements, including the shift toward digital business and automation, require I&O leaders to evolve and advance their skills to stay relevant. I&O leaders need to:

• Implement innovative strategies that embrace technology innovations to stay ahead and impact business outcomes.
• I&O must build, integrate, broker, and govern technology platforms that balance resilience and agility
• Drive solutions that enhance customer experiences and solutions

The Growth Series is a new leadership initiative brought to you by Sit-Down Events. As part of our commitment to developing, nurturing and supporting our members we will be showcasing leading keynote speakers to help you and your organisation thrive and survive across these current times.