As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs face growing pressure to turn investment into measurable business value. While 64% of EMEA CEOs expect results from agentic AI within the next 24 months, many organizations struggle to move from experimentation to scale, constrained by uncertain ROI, rising costs, and governance challenges.

This session explores how CIOs can close the expectations gap, build the foundations for agentic AI, and balance innovation with oversight to drive sustainable business outcomes

In this lessons learned session, our Data & AI experts reveal the real challenges posed by agentic AI, with special focus on its governance and control in the face of the exponential growth in the number and sophistication of agents within organizations. Through case studies and live demonstrations, you will see how to drive agent adoption at scale in your company in a secure, governed and business-aligned way, without slowing down your ability to innovate.

The first AI use cases are already underway. The challenge now is to transform that experimentation into a scalable, governed, and sustainable business capability. As the adoption of AI agents and solutions increases, organizations face new challenges related to governance, cost, and value creation. In this session, Insight will share how an AI Center of Excellence and an AI FinOps approach help control costs, accelerate adoption, reduce risks, and maximize the value generated by AI across the organization.

This panel will explore how CIOs are transforming legacy architectures to unlock innovation and enhance competitiveness. Participants will discuss how to reduce technical debt, simplify portfolios, modernize mission-critical applications, migrate to cloud-native architectures, and balance cost and value. The conversation will also cover investment prioritization and governance in hybrid and multicloud environments.

How can organizations provide secure and seamless access to virtual desktops and applications, internal web apps, and SaaS services without increasing complexity? Discover how Parallels RAS and Parallels Browser Isolation enable a unified Zero Trust workspace strategy focused on security and simplicity, while delivering the best user experience.

Digital modernization, cybersecurity, and AI adoption are usually discussed as separate priorities. This panel makes the case for treating them as one: how leading organizations are building resilience into every layer, from infrastructure to autonomous agents.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the gap between data generation and actionable insight is closing. For the modern CIO, the challenge is no longer just about storing vast quantities of information; it is about the latency of decision-making. As regional enterprises embrace the “AI-first” era, the underlying architecture must shift from traditional batch processing to a real-time intelligence model.

This session explores how Agentic AI will transform business processes, decision-making, and operating models. CIOs and experts will examine how to govern, mitigate risks, and scale autonomous agents in real environments—from self-directed automation to systems that learn, orchestrate tasks, and make supervised decisions. The discussion will also address transparency, compliance, workforce impact, and new architectures for deploying responsible AI.

In this keynote, we explore how autonomous AI agents are transforming the way individuals and organisations such as GTT work—moving beyond traditional automation toward systems that perceive context, make decisions, and take action independently. As agents become capable of orchestrating complex, multi step workflows across business functions, they unlock new levels of productivity, creativity, and operational scale.

A practical look at how data-driven value management enables and sustains Agentic AI execution to deliver real business outcomes.

This panel features only CIOs and end-user leaders discussing the human, strategic, and organizational challenges of transformation. It will explore how the CIO has become a business strategist—driving alignment between IT and enterprise priorities, developing digital talent, building AI-ready cultures, measuring real value creation, and leading responsible innovation. The session will foster an honest dialogue about lessons learned, governance models, friction points, and accelerating impact.

Enterprise resilience is becoming the cornerstone of continuity, security, and trust. This panel brings CIOs and experts together to examine how to build adaptive infrastructures, protect distributed data, ensure digital sovereignty, and maintain continuity through cyberattacks, regulatory change, or economic disruption. Panelists will explore strategies that converge security, compliance, and architecture through a “secure & resilient by design” approach.

• Cost control for IT leaders.
• Investment priorities for CIOs.
• Enterprise AI: Balancing Innovation, Infrastructure, and Governance
• Intelligent automation for productivity.
• Cybersecurity investment strategies: from protection to cyber-resilience in the era of agentic AI