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Roundtable Topics
Each Executive Roundtable has been carefully curated around key challenges facing technology leaders across different areas of IT and business leadership.
This ensures each discussion brings together a diverse group of senior peers, creating focused, balanced and valuable conversations.
The Data Architecture Behind Enterprise AI: Discuss the data foundations needed for reliable enterprise AI, from integration and accessibility to governance, quality and support for agentic applications.
Keeping AI and Cloud Data Resilient: How can organisations protect and recover the data supporting AI and cloud services? Discuss resilience, recovery readiness and maintaining business continuity when disruption strikes.
Identity as the Foundation of Enterprise Security: Explore how organisations can strengthen identity security, manage privileged access and maintain effective controls across employees, applications and increasingly automated systems.
Building Better Partnerships Across Digital Infrastructure: Explore how enterprises and technology partners can align priorities, share expertise and overcome delivery challenges to build more effective digital infrastructure.
Physical AI: Where Will Enterprise Adoption Happen First?: Where will intelligent machines, robots and autonomous systems deliver value first? Discuss the strongest enterprise use cases and what will determine early adoption.
IoT: Turning Connected Data into Business Outcomes: Explore how organisations can move beyond connecting devices to using IoT data to improve operations, reduce costs and support better business decisions.
Data Centres: Choosing the Right Infrastructure for AI Workloads: Explore how enterprises should choose between on-premise infrastructure, colocation and cloud capacity for AI workloads, considering performance, cost, control, scalability and resilience.
Preparing Enterprise Platforms for AI at Scale: Explore how organisations can prepare their platforms for growing AI demand, addressing integration, infrastructure capacity, performance and operational complexity.
Scaling AI Beyond Isolated Use Cases: What does it take to move AI beyond individual pilots? Discuss shared capabilities, operating models and integration approaches that support adoption across the enterprise.
From AI Assistants to Governed Agents: As AI moves from providing answers to taking action, how should organisations define its authority? Explore permissions, accountability and human oversight for enterprise agents.
Powering Data Centres When the Grid Cannot Keep Up: Discuss how data-centre operators can respond to grid constraints, secure reliable power and plan for growing demand without compromising resilience.
Robotics: What Is Ready for Enterprise Deployment?: Cut through the demonstrations and identify which robotic technologies are ready for operational deployment, where they can deliver value and what barriers remain.
Cyber Resilience: Are Enterprises Preparing for the Right Threats?: Discuss whether current resilience plans reflect the threats organisations now face and how security, recovery and operational teams can prepare for disruption.
Edge AI: What Should Run at the Edge and What Belongs in the Cloud?: Explore how organisations should divide AI workloads between edge devices, on-premise infrastructure and the cloud, balancing speed, cost, security and performance.
Proving the Value of Enterprise AI: Compare practical approaches to measuring AI’s impact on productivity, costs and business outcomes, accounting for adoption levels and the ongoing economics of usage.
Making AI-Led Analysis Trustworthy and Reproducible: How can teams trust and validate AI-generated analysis? Explore traceability, reproducibility and the checks needed to turn analytical outputs into dependable business decisions.
Where Should Customer-Service AI Agents Be Given Autonomy?: Which customer interactions should AI agents handle independently? Discuss boundaries, escalation and how to balance service efficiency with customer trust and experience.
Building Enterprise Applications for an Agentic Future: Discuss how enterprise applications must evolve to accommodate AI agents, connect business systems and support automated workflows with appropriate controls.
Digital Twins: From Visibility to Operational Intelligence: Explore how digital twins can progress from visual representations to operational tools that support simulation, prediction and better real-time decisions.
Managing the Connected Enterprise at Scale: Discuss how organisations can monitor and maintain large connected estates, improve interoperability and manage distributed data across devices, edge systems and enterprise platforms.
Automation: Where Is It Delivering Measurable Business Value?: Identify where automation is creating measurable value, which projects are struggling to scale and what separates successful deployments from expensive experiments.
Moving Embedded AI from Use Case to Production: Explore what it takes to embed AI into operational products and workflows, including integration, deployment, monitoring and maintaining performance in real-world conditions.
Physical AI: Moving from Experimentation to Real-World Deployment: Discuss the practical requirements for deploying Physical AI, including simulation, infrastructure, safety, integration and operation outside controlled environments.
Cybersecurity: Securing Identities, Devices and Autonomous Systems: Explore how security strategies must evolve as people, connected devices and autonomous agents interact across increasingly complex enterprise environments.
Data Centres: Power, Cooling and Capacity for AI Infrastructure: Discuss how operators and enterprises can secure the power, cooling and capacity required for increasingly intensive AI workloads.
Sovereign AI and Cloud: How Much Control Does the Enterprise Need?: Explore where AI models, data and cloud workloads should reside and how organisations should balance sovereignty, control, resilience, cost and access to innovation.
Data Governance for the AI Era: Discuss how data governance must evolve to support enterprise AI, including quality, ownership, access, lineage and the responsible use of organisational data.
Digital Transformation: Modernising Core Technology Without Disrupting the Business: Explore how organisations can replace legacy systems, modernise critical technology and introduce new capabilities while maintaining operational continuity.
Monday 19 October | 11:00–11:45
Seven roundtables running simultaneously
AI & Big Data
The Data Architecture Behind Enterprise AI
Discuss the data foundations needed for reliable enterprise AI, from integration and accessibility to governance, quality and support for agentic applications.
Cyber Security & Cloud
Are Businesses Ready for the Next Generation of Cyber Threats?
Explore how organisations can strengthen identity security, manage privileged access and maintain effective controls across employees, applications and increasingly automated systems.
Digital Transformation
Building Better Partnerships Across Digital Infrastructure
Explore how enterprises and technology partners can align priorities, share expertise and overcome delivery challenges to build more effective digital infrastructure.
Physical AI
Which AI Technologies Will Enterprises Actually Adopt in 2027?
Where will intelligent machines, robots and autonomous systems deliver value first? Discuss the strongest enterprise use cases and what will determine early adoption.
AI & Big Data
What Happens When Your AI Systems or Data Go Down?
How can organisations protect and recover the data supporting AI and cloud services? Discuss resilience, recovery readiness and maintaining business continuity when disruption strikes.
IoT Tech
We've Connected Everything. How Do We Turn the Data into Value?
Explore how organisations can move beyond connecting devices to using IoT data to improve operations, reduce costs and support better business decisions.
Data Centre
Choosing the Right Infrastructure for AI Workloads
Explore how enterprises should choose between on-premise infrastructure, colocation and cloud capacity for AI workloads, considering performance, cost, control, scalability and resilience.
Monday 19 October | 15:15–16:00
Seven roundtables running simultaneously
AI & Big Data
The Challenges of Scaling AI Across the Enterprise
Explore how organisations can prepare their platforms for growing AI demand, addressing integration, infrastructure capacity, performance and operational complexity.
AI & Big Data
Scaling AI Beyond Isolated Use Cases
What does it take to move AI beyond individual pilots? Discuss shared capabilities, operating models and integration approaches that support adoption across the enterprise.
Data Centre
Powering Data Centres When the Grid Cannot Keep Up
Discuss how data-centre operators can respond to grid constraints, secure reliable power and plan for growing demand without compromising resilience.
Intelligent Automation & Robotics
Which Emerging Technologies Are Ready for the Real World?
Cut through the demonstrations and identify which robotic technologies are ready for operational deployment, where they can deliver value and what barriers remain.
Cyber Security & Cloud
Are We Protecting Against Yesterday's Cyber Threats?
Discuss whether current resilience plans reflect the threats organisations now face and how security, recovery and operational teams can prepare for disruption.
AI & Big Data
From AI Assistants to Governed Agents
As AI moves from providing answers to taking action, how should organisations define its authority? Explore permissions, accountability and human oversight for enterprise agents.
Edge Computing
Edge AI vs Cloud AI: Where Should Enterprises Invest?
Explore how organisations should divide AI workloads between edge devices, on-premise infrastructure and the cloud, balancing speed, cost, security and performance.
Monday 19 October | 15:15–16:00
Seven roundtables running simultaneously
AI & Big Data
Preparing Enterprise Platforms for AI at Scale
Explore how organisations can prepare their platforms for growing AI demand, addressing integration, infrastructure capacity, performance and operational complexity.
AI & Big Data
Scaling AI Beyond Isolated Use Cases
What does it take to move AI beyond individual pilots? Discuss shared capabilities, operating models and integration approaches that support adoption across the enterprise.
Data Centre
Powering Data Centres When the Grid Cannot Keep Up
Discuss how data-centre operators can respond to grid constraints, secure reliable power and plan for growing demand without compromising resilience.
Intelligent Automation & Robotics
What Is Ready for Enterprise Deployment?
Cut through the demonstrations and identify which robotic technologies are ready for operational deployment, where they can deliver value and what barriers remain.
Cyber Security & Cloud
Cyber Resilience: Are Enterprises Preparing for the Right Threats?
Discuss whether current resilience plans reflect the threats organisations now face and how security, recovery and operational teams can prepare for disruption.
AI & Big Data
From AI Assistants to Governed Agents
As AI moves from providing answers to taking action, how should organisations define its authority? Explore permissions, accountability and human oversight for enterprise agents.
Edge Computing
Edge AI: What Should Run at the Edge and What Belongs in the Cloud?
Explore how organisations should divide AI workloads between edge devices, on-premise infrastructure and the cloud, balancing speed, cost, security and performance.
Tuesday 20 October | 11:15–12:00
Seven roundtables running simultaneously
AI & Big Data
Proving the Value of Enterprise AI
Explore how organisations should divide AI workloads between edge devices, on-premise infrastructure and the cloud, balancing speed, cost, security and performance.
AI & Big Data
Making AI-Led Analysis Trustworthy and Reproducible
How can teams trust and validate AI-generated analysis? Explore traceability, reproducibility and the checks needed to turn analytical outputs into dependable business decisions.
AI & Big Data
Where Should Customer-Service AI Agents Be Given Autonomy?
Which customer interactions should AI agents handle independently? Discuss boundaries, escalation and how to balance service efficiency with customer trust and experience.
IoT
Digital Twins: Where Are They Delivering Real Business Value?
Explore how digital twins can progress from visual representations to operational tools that support simulation, prediction and better real-time decisions.
Edge Computing
What's Holding Back Edge Computing at Scale?
Discuss how organisations can monitor and maintain large connected estates, improve interoperability and manage distributed data across devices, edge systems and enterprise platforms.
AI & Big Data
Building Enterprise Applications for an Agentic Future
Discuss how enterprise applications must evolve to accommodate AI agents, connect business systems and support automated workflows with appropriate controls.
Intelligent Automation & Robotics
Where Is It Delivering Measurable Business Value?
Identify where automation is creating measurable value, which projects are struggling to scale and what separates successful deployments from expensive experiments.
Tuesday 20 October | 14:30–15:15
Seven roundtables running simultaneously
AI & Big Data
Moving Embedded AI from Use Case to Production
Explore what it takes to embed AI into operational products and workflows, including integration, deployment, monitoring and maintaining performance in real-world conditions.
Physical AI
Moving from Experimentation to Real-World Deployment
Discuss the practical requirements for deploying Physical AI, including simulation, infrastructure, safety, integration and operation outside controlled environments.
Cyber Security & Cloud
Cybersecurity: Securing Identities, Devices & Autonomous Systems
Explore how security strategies must evolve as people, connected devices and autonomous agents interact across increasingly complex enterprise environments.
AI & Big Data
Sovereign AI and Cloud: How Much Control Does the Enterprise Need?
Explore where AI models, data and cloud workloads should reside and how organisations should balance sovereignty, control, resilience, cost and access to innovation.
Digital Transformation
Modernising Core Technology Without Disrupting the Business
Explore how organisations can replace legacy systems, modernise critical technology and introduce new capabilities while maintaining operational continuity.
Data Centre
Can Data Centre Infrastructure Keep Up with AI Demand?
Discuss how operators and enterprises can secure the power, cooling and capacity required for increasingly intensive AI workloads.
AI & Big Data
Data Governance for the AI Era
Discuss how data governance must evolve to support enterprise AI, including quality, ownership, access, lineage and the responsible use of organisational data.