Agenda
Our agenda is designed to inspire, challenge, and connect. From keynote sessions with industry leaders to interactive workshops and networking opportunities, each part of the event is built to spark ideas and provide practical insights. Explore the schedule and start planning your experience.
FutureTech Summit
One day event
Networking and Registration
IDC¦CIO FutureTech Summit Opening Remarks
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IDC Keynote: Recalibrating for the AI Economy: Mastering Platform Innovation
In the fast-evolving AI economy, mastering platform innovation is key to unlocking transformative business value. This presentation offers a strategic roadmap for building AI-ready technology foundations and leadership capabilities. We’ll explore critical building blocks for scalable, secure AI workloads, followed by designing resilient cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures for sustainable AI innovation. Finally, we’ll examine the rise of agentic AI systems enabling autonomous decision-making across IT operations, governance, development, and observability. This presentation equips the C-suite and technology leaders to recalibrate their platform strategy and confidently lead their organizations into the AI economy.
Jennifer Thomson
Associate Vice President, Services, AccAD and Cloud, European Region, IDC
Held for Diamond Sponsor
Opening Panel Discussion: Moving At the Speed Of AI
As AI accelerates innovation and disruption across every industry, tech leaders face a relentless pace of change…….where yesterday’s breakthroughs are today’s baseline.
In this panel, industry experts will delve into strategies for staying ahead in this fast-paced environment. Topics will include building agile, AI-integrated organisations, fostering a culture of innovation, and learning, and will explore the value of a platform approach.
Archana Venkatraman
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC
Katie Nykanen
CTO, Learnlight
Rajesh Jethwa
Chief Technology Officer, Digiterre
Shivika Singh
Head of Global Strategy, Business Development, TikTok
Alpesh Doshi
Founder and CEO, Fintricity
Networking Break
Parallel Tracks
AI-Powered Technology and Leadership Building Blocks to Maximize Business Value
Held for Platinum Partner
Integrating AI with Legacy Systems: Strategies and Pitfalls
Associate Research Director, App Development and Delivery, Europe, IDC
CTO, GraniteShares ETFs
AI Consultant, Ex-Intel
Founder | AI Transformation Consultant | Human centric Design, Thriving Humans
Session Held for Platinum Partner
Session Held for TechTalk
Being Tech-ready To Support Future Business in the AI Era
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Diligencia
Interim CIO, PierMont DIgital
Head of Business Platforms & Data Engineering, Lebara
IT Director, Henry Boot
Building the AI-Infused Stack: The Shift to Agents Everywhere
Session held for Platinum Partner
Agentic AI in Enterprise: From Automation to Autonomous Decision-Making
Associate Vice President, Services, AccAD and Cloud, European Region, IDC
CEO, FlyingBinary Ltd
Director of Application Delivery, Ardonagh Advisory
AI Product Director & Strategist,
Session held for Platinum Partner
Held for TechTalk
AI-Driven Governance: Managing Risk, Compliance, and Ethical AI Use
Associate Research Director, App Development and Delivery, Europe, IDC
Associate Director of Education Technology and Web Development, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
CIO, Lif3away
Associate Director, AI & Analytics Advisory Congizant Consulting
Networking Lunch Break
IDC Connect Roundtables (Parallel Sessions)
Peer-to-peer discussions around topics, with the aim being to come up with three key takeaways from the group discussion. Delegates Attend 2×35 Min Roundtables.
IDC Connect Roundtable 1
Designing Cloud-Native, Platform-Centric Architectures for AI Workloads
IDC Connect Roundtable 2
Best Practices for Modern Enterprise Applications in the AI Era
IDC Connect Roundtable 3
AI in FinOps: Optimizing Cloud and AI Spend with Intelligent Automation
IDC Connect Roundtable 4
Building Resilient Hybrid and Multicloud Infrastructure for Scalable AI
IDC Connect Roundtable 5
Building and Managing AI Pipelines with Dev Tools and Automation
IDC Connect Roundtable 6
AI for IT Operations (AIOps): Predictive Analytics and Incident Resolution
Afternoon Networking Break
IDC Research Insight: Intelligent Business Operations: Becoming Smarter with Data
Archana Venkatraman
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC
Closing Panel: Rewiring Leadership: Is the CTO the Future CEO?
In a world where digital strategy is business strategy, the traditional path to the CEO chair is being redefined. As technology becomes the core driver of growth, innovation, and resilience, is the Chief Technology Officer now best placed to lead the enterprise forward? This panel explores the rising influence of the CTO and debates how the CEO role is evolving, and the skillsets required for tomorrow’s executive leadership.
George Mironescu
Associate Research Director, App Development and Delivery, Europe, IDC
Katie Nykanen
CTO, Learnlight
Ekua Cant
Visible Leadership and LinkedIn Strategy Expert,
Liz Gebhard
Fractional Commercial / Technology Executive and Board Advisor, Ex-Amazon/Target
Sharon Parmar
Humanity Works Consultancy and Ex-Mindshare,
Closing Remarks & Key Takeaways
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