Despite significant progress in recent years, the journey towards gender parity in leadership is far from complete. Women now hold 44% of FTSE 100 board positions yet represent just 37% of senior leadership roles and fewer than 10% of FTSE 100 CEO positions. While the boardroom is becoming more balanced, representation in the most influential executive roles remains uneven.
CHAIR
Nicki Pritchard, Managing Partner, Anderson Quigley
SPEAKERS
Dame Theresa Villiers, Director and Trustee, Shaftesbury | Kate Mackie, Global Chief Marketing Strategy & Operations Officer, EY
This session will provide practical insights into the financial challenges and opportunities that arise at senior leadership level. Attendees will hear an update on the current investment landscape, explore the increasing complexity of wealth, remuneration and tax planning, and consider strategies for managing investments alongside broader financial priorities. The discussion will also examine the benefits of taking a coordinated approach to tax, investment and financial planning, maintaining flexibility as careers and circumstances evolve, and planning for long-term goals and legacy. The session will conclude with an interactive Q&A, and the final slide will include a QR code for those who wish to book a complimentary consultation.
SPEAKERS
Michael Winson, Senior Investment Director, Rathbones | Chris Noble, Senior Financial Planner, Rathbones
Achieving $B Impact on Cloud Spend with FinOps: A Palo Alto Networks Case Study
Managing spend remains the number one cloud challenge. Traditionally IT spend has run on fixed budgets but with cloud running on consumption, costs can fluctuate often as a result of over-provisioning, cloud sprawl, poor visibility, inefficient pricing models and tagging failures. The true cost is more than just financial and brings with it operational drag, encumbered strategic processes, wasted time and damaged confidence.
SPEAKERS
Zhen Cao, JAPAC Value Realization Lead, Google Cloud
HR Technology Transformation: Mastering Change Management and Culture
Philip Wixon recently led the HR systems transformation at the Hong Kong Jockey Club. This constituted a 30-month programme whose outcome was the consolidation of more than twenty HR systems into a single cloud platform plus supplementary tools serving over 18,500 employees multiple business entities and locations.
CHAIR
Alastair Procter, Head of Global Reward, Mobility, Analytics and HR Shared Services, Omnicom Management Europe
SPEAKERS
Philip Wixon, Former Head of HR Transformation, The Hong Kong Jockey Club
Artificial Intelligence has moved beyond experimentation to become a strategic business imperative. Yet despite significant investment, many organisations struggle to move from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide transformation. While individual use cases often demonstrate value, relatively few companies have successfully embedded AI across core business processes at pace and scale.
CHAIR
Adela Araujo, VP President Programme and Portfolio Delivery, Colt Technology Services
SPEAKERS
Arslan Sharif, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Moto Hospitality
