Why attend?
CIOs and technology leaders revealed how they turned disruption into opportunity – showcasing real-world strategies for modernizing, securing, and scaling with confidence.
What Will You Gain?
The IDC CIO Summit is where technology meets transformation. Designed for forward-thinking CIOs, this premier event delivers actionable insight, peer connection, and expert guidance to help you lead with confidence in an AI-first, rapidly evolving digital economy. It’s more than a conference — it’s a strategic forum to sharpen your edge, align IT with business outcomes, and explore how resilient, intelligent architectures can power sustainable innovation. Step into the next chapter of digital leadership with the research, tools, and community that will help you navigate what’s next.
Strategic Leadership Insights
Discover how today’s CIOs are stepping up as enterprise strategists – shaping boardroom agendas and driving business value. As IT evolves from a support function to a source of competitive advantage, this session offers essential insight into the leadership mindset, influence, and alignment required to navigate complex change with confidence.
Balancing Act
Learn how today’s CIOs are blending deep technical expertise with strategic business insight to lead transformation from the front. This session explores how to translate tech fluency into enterprise impact – aligning innovation with measurable outcomes, influencing stakeholders, and building trust across the C-suite.
Pragmatic IT Strategies
Get clear on when to build, when to buy — and how to make the right call for long-term agility and value. This session dives into practical decision frameworks that help CIOs balance cost, complexity, and innovation, turning IT strategy into a catalyst for smarter, faster business outcomes.
Resource Optimization
Discover how leading CIOs are making every euro count – streamlining IT spend, reallocating resources, and unlocking capacity for innovation. This session shares actionable strategies to reduce waste, optimize budgets, and reinvest in digital initiatives without disrupting core operations.
Leveraging Emerging Technologies
Explore how CIOs are turning emerging tech into real enterprise advantage. From AI to machine learning and beyond, this session highlights how to move from experimentation to execution – using innovation to accelerate growth, sharpen competitiveness, and lead with confidence.
AI and GenAI from hype to impact
Cut through the noise and unlock real results. This session explores how CIOs are scaling AI and GenAI beyond pilots – embedding intelligence into operations, driving measurable outcomes, and turning innovation into enterprise value.
Expert Strategies and Real-World Applications
Gain trusted insight from those leading the way. This session brings together industry experts and seasoned CIOs to share proven strategies, emerging trends, and practical lessons from the field — all to help you lead with clarity, accelerate transformation, and deliver real business results.
Why Attend
As CIOs evolve into enterprise change-makers, this summit delivers the insight, connection, and clarity needed to lead with confidence in an AI-first world. Here’s what you’ll walk away with:
- Strategic Leadership for the AI Era: Discover how CIOs are shaping enterprise strategy – turning AI, innovation, and transformation into competitive advantage.
- Innovation That Delivers: Learn to align emerging tech with real business outcomes, ensuring every initiative drives impact, not just experimentation.
- Cloud, Data & Cybersecurity Priorities: Get practical guidance on building secure, scalable, and compliant IT foundations – from modern data architectures to cyber resilience.
- Smarter Resource Strategies: See how top CIOs are optimizing spend, managing vendor complexity, and unlocking budget for innovation that moves the needle.
- Proven Lessons from the Field: Hear firsthand how peers are leading successful transformations – building agile teams, overcoming obstacles, and creating measurable value.
Join a dynamic community of technology leaders, gain peer-tested frameworks, and future-proof your strategy for what’s next.
Key Topics
CIO as a Strategic Leader
Balancing Technical Expertise and Business Acumen
Pragmatism and Boldness in IT Strategy
Resource Management and IT Budgeting
Emerging Technologies and Innovation
Knowledge Hub
The Dynamic Role of the EMEA CIO: Steering the Digital Ship
In the digital business and AI-everywhere era, technology is now a strategic enabler that permeates every aspect of business operations. According to IDC’s Worldwide CEO Survey (February 2024, n = 67), 48% of CEOs in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) now report regularly to the board on the status of digital initiatives, highlighting the strategic nature of digital technologies among businesses.
5 Lessons to Shape Your AI Digital Future: Learning from the Past
A little over a year ago, a new phase of the digital business era began with OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT. The generative AI (GenAI) boom is expected to roundly influence what comes next: AI Everywhere. AI is expected to become a driving force of our digital future, impacting individual lives, consumers, citizens, workers, businesses, and society.
Henry Ford said, “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” What should we learn from the past to determine the way forward?
A Tech Marketer’s Guide in the Age of GenAI – Crafting Unique Narratives
In today’s digital landscape, where AI can churn out content in seconds, marketers face a unique challenge: How can we create narratives that stand out? Let’s explore strategies for crafting compelling and differentiated stories in the era of generative AI (GenAI).
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