You’ve already invested in Data Governance, but most of what your organization actually knows never resided only in a database. This session shows exactly where knowledge governance fits into that journey and why it’s the piece that decides whether your AI systems can actually be trusted. You’ll leave with a clear, practical picture of what that looks like and concrete next steps.

AI is driving the strongest IT spending cycle in 30 years, and EMEA CEOs expect it to reinvent their business models. Yet most organizations remain stuck in early AI maturity, held back by execution rather than interest. Drawing on IDC’s latest research, this session explores how to close the AI execution gap: building trustworthy data and governance foundations, proving business value, and moving beyond efficiency to new revenue. Discover how CIOs can balance resilience with reinvention as orchestrators of the AI-fueled business.

SoftwareOne helps organizations turn technology into meaningful outcomes across software, cloud, data and AI, serving 80k+ clients in 70+ countries. With 83% of companies saying innovation is critical yet 46% finding their cloud costs too high, it takes cost out first, averaging 25% IT savings, to self-fund innovation. Backed by top-tier Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud partnerships, it offers five AI capabilities, from strategy to governance, for a human-led, AI-enabled workforce.

The core shift in AI isn’t the technology but trust in automated decision-making: the question is moving from “What can AI do?” to “What are we willing to let AI do?” As systems evolve from bots that answer to automations that execute to agents that decide and act, Aduro argues they should be treated as digital employees, with defined access rights, cost limits, escalation protocols and final accountability. The next management challenge is orchestrating hybrid human-AI teams, which turns AI from a tool into a workforce participant.

How can organizations simplify customer communication while reducing cost and complexity? This session shows how a single platform can manage invoices, notices, marketing and ad-hoc documents across multiple channels, improving efficiency and creating a more consistent customer experience.

Containers now run the business, yet most organizations still protect them as an afterthought. This session explores the resilience gap between traditional backup and Kubernetes environments, and why business continuity is the real goal.

UiPath presents its platform as the #1 business automation platform for the agentic era, trusted by 10,000+ enterprises and named a Leader in IDC’s first business automation MarketScape. It orchestrates AI agents, robots and people end to end, helping a bank make credit decisions 50-70% faster.