AI is no longer a side conversation. It is now a leadership mandate. Yet many organizations are discovering that scaling AI is less about launching more pilots and more about building the right operating model for trust, control, and business impact. In this session, Dell and NVIDIA will explore how CIOs can move from AI experimentation to enterprise execution by addressing the issues that matter most: readiness, governance, economics, sovereignty, and operational scale. ​

For more than 25 years, Luise Bang has led transformation in some of Europe’s most complex industries: rail, defence, aerospace, energy and telecom. A former executive at Bombardier, Airbus Defence & Space, MHI Vestas and Vodafone, she is now a Board Member at ABENA, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and Esoft, bringing a unique perspective on strategic clarity, organisational resilience and leadership under pressure. In this opening keynote, Luise argues that strategic shifts are never elegant or comfortable, but they are essential. Technology doesn’t create transformation; leaders do. CIOs today hold the real power to shape the next decade by removing ambiguity, driving alignment and leading with courage.

Expect a keynote that is bold, honest and energising, and a call to action for CIOs to lead with courage, clarity and conviction.

Frontier AI models can now find vulnerabilities, write working exploits and chain them into complete attack paths at machine speed – and the same capability is available to adversaries. Cisco has run these models against its own portfolio, analysing roughly 1.8 billion lines of code across more than 25 languages in eight weeks, work that would historically have taken years. Adele Trombetta and Chris Barnard discuss what changes when patching becomes a continuous operating rhythm rather than a quarterly project, why reachability matters more than severity score, and how CIOs build the investment case for infrastructure that can keep pace.

AI is everywhere. Expertise is getting cheap. Good decisions are not. CIOs need architects for two things: building the foundations AI runs on, and modeling decisions at every level, from enterprise strategy to technical choices, before humans or agents make them. Drawing on RATP Group’s experience, Ibrahima Ndiaye shows why the architect’s value has shifted from expert and governance  to influencing and enabling decisions

AI investment is accelerating, but enterprise value remains elusive. Most organizations struggle to translate AI activity into measurable business impact—not because the technology fails, but because the operating model doesn’t change. The strategic question has fundamentally shifted: organizations are no longer asking “How can AI help us work better?” but rather “What becomes possible now?” Agentic AI expands the entire option space for strategy and operations, unlocking new degrees of freedom. However, winners won’t be those who automate the most or bolt agents onto legacy systems. They’ll be those who reimagine the possible—who exploit the new strategic option space agentic AI creates and build the enterprise architecture to support transformational impact.

An org chart can’t tell an agent who’s ready for what’s next. Workforce strategy and workforce readiness now depend on the same data, the same signals, and a shared operating agreement.
Without that shared view  the strategy may be unusable by AI.

Building digital foundations that support AI at scale while remaining resilient, adaptable and ready for future business and technology change.

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In an era dominated by constant buzz around emerging technologies, true organizational transformation relies far more on strong leadership and clear strategy than on technology alone. Drawing from the real-world experience of guiding ANBW Energy through a major transformation, this keynote outlines the journey from initial chaos to structured, strategic execution. Beyond the mechanics of strategy, the session examines the rapidly changing role of the modern CIO—shifting the focus from purely technical oversight toward value-driven leadership, building high-performing operational teams, and embracing personal growth by knowing when to let go of legacy approaches to enable long-term success.

In this closing reflection, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA revisit the ideas that mattered most and the throughline connecting them all: mandate, model, and leadership. You’ll leave with a clear sense of your next move and a partnership built for the long term. The technology will keep advancing. What endures is the trust to move forward, together. Thank you for shaping the conversation. The real work, and the real opportunity, starts now.​