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Featured Speaker:Jacqueline de Rojas, President, techUK

Jacqueline is the President of techUK and sits as

a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK

technology business Rightmove plc. She serves

on the government’s Digital Economy Council and

is also a business advisor to the Dept for Exiting

the EU. A mentor to CEOs of fast growing tech

businesses for Bird & Co’s Board and Executive

Mentoring practice, she is also an advisor to the

boards of tech transformation advocates Digital

Leaders and of Accelerate-Her, which addresses

the under-representation of women in tech. She

lends her support to the Girlguiding Association as a

special advisor for their technology transformation with an aim to inspire them

into the world of science, technology, engineering, arts and maths.

In 2016 she entered the @Computerweekly Hall of Fame after being voted

Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in IT 2015; she was listed on

Debretts 2016 500 People of Influence – Digital & Social and named in

Europe’s Inspiring Fifty most inspiring female role models for 2017. She is

passionate about diversity and inclusion which informs where she places her

support and drives reform.

Inventing the FutureInvention is in our DNA. Our collective opportunity is to harness the power of

digital transformation to deliver an economy that works for everyone.

Technology is changing the world. Ultimately it will have a much bigger impact

on all out lives then the decision to leave the European Union. Whilst we have

to get Brexit right, we must not lose focus on the big global forces for change

or lose faith in our ability to shape the future.

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Jean-Christophe Gaillard is the Founder and

Managing Director of Corix Partners He is a senior

executive and a team builder with over 25 years

of experience developed in several global financial

institutions in the UK and continental Europe,

and a track-record at driving fundamental change

in the Security field across global organisations,

looking beyond the technical horizon into strategy,

governance, culture, and the real dynamics of

transformation.

A French national permanently established in the

UK since 1993, he holds an Engineering Degree from Telecom Paris Tech

and has been co-president of the Cyber Security group of the Telecom Paris

Tech alumni association since May 2016. He runs the Corix Partners blog and

contributes regularly to The Digital Transformation People, the Innovation

Enterprise and Business 2 Community forums.

He is an expert contributor on the CIO WaterCooler, and has previously

published articles in, InfoSecurity Magazine, Computing, the C-Suite.co.uk, Info

Sec Buzz and the IoD Director websites. He was listed in the top 10 of UK 30

most influential thought leaders on Risk, RegTech and Compliance by Thomson

Reuters in April 2017.

Featured Speaker:Jean-Christoph Gaillard, Founder, Corix Partner

Rethinking and Rewiring InfosecA look back at the cyber security event of the year so far, what they can teach

us from a management perspective, and how to build an effective and efficient

cyber security practice for the current age, looking beyond the technology

horizon, into strategy governance, corporate culture and the real dynamics of

transformation.

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Featured Speaker:Adrian Tucker, CTO, Department of Education

Adrian has been with the DfE for four years

driving transformation and pace within the

technology function.

Adrian could bring to bear his commercial and

working at pace experience to the Public sector.

This experience came from the private sector

where Adrian had been a career retailer working

for companies such as Arcadia, Boots and in

the telco sector, again in their retail functions at

T-Mobile (EE) and Vodafone.

Adrian has breadth of knowledge from both operations view point as well as a

technical one. He oversaw some large-scale projects in time an example being

such the rebranding 1200 Alliance Pharmacy stores into Boots within 18

months. Adrian was listed in the CIO100 for 2017.

From Trailing Edge to Leading EdgeThis session explores the transformation programme has delivered the total

modernisation of the entire technology stack within the Department for

Education (DfE) with a mantra of going from “trailing edge to leading edge”

within a 18 month window. This has been delivered through a strong IT brand

identity and a energised team, organised into a cohesive and responsive

technical areas. The programme has seen a total transformation all aspects

of the DfE’s technology, landing a ten-year shift in capability and delivering

a cloud first enterprise, Windows 10 and Office 365. It will also significantly

reduce the technology’s stack technical debt to under 20%, which in turn will

enable the department to re-engineer its business processes, fully embrace

digital processes and deliver efficient and connected services to the Education

sector in England.

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Mark Aikman is a CIO with 20 years’

experience of leading large global IT

functions, highly complex challenging

change and digital transformation

programmes. Innovative and contemporary

approach to leadership and partnership,

delivering business outcomes using

ground-breaking development models.

Mark’s background spans many verticals such as FMCG, Finance & Insurance,

Oil & Gas and Telecommunications, having spent many years working directly as

and for CIO’s and main boards of leading FTSE listed companies.

Mark is currently Group CIO at the North Group, one of the world’s largest

marine insurance companies. Mark is leading the largest business and

technology transformation programme in the 157 year old history of this unique

commercial insurer. Mark’s career has seen him lead major transformations

at BP, T-Mobile and the Cadbury Schweppes organisations as well as recently

being listed in the UK CIO100 for 2017.

Featured Speaker:Mark Aikman, Group CIO, The North Group

IT is dead, long live ITLeading CIO Mark Aikman debates the future of IT leadership.

No longer the facilitator and regulator of IT, the CIO needs to be a true

influencer in the business with the people skills to match.

Join him in this thought provoking presentation and debate.