Hybrid Working and The 4 Day Work Week – Smart Strategy or Fantasy Fix?
The way we work has transformed. What began as a temporary measure during the pandemic has evolved into a lasting and strategic way of operating. For many organisations, hybrid working has become a key part of their long-term workforce model. The debate over remote work has resurfaced, with some arguing that working from home isn’t ‘proper work’ and has set the UK’s productivity back by 20 years.
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Clare Durnin, Chief People and Excellence Officer, Platform Housing Group Limited
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Alan Keers, CEO, Red Kite Housing | Brendan Burchell, Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Cambridge and four-day week qualitative research lead, University of Cambridge
The Growth CIO: Evolving to Drive Maximum Enterprise Value
For the modern CIO speaking the language of the board, the CEO and business partners when priorities and budgets compete is no mean feat. Demonstrating ROI against solutions and activites yet to be undertaken? Even harder. Yet CIOs have a unique opportunity to drive business growth across the enterprise.
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Dominic Redmond, Group Chief Information Officer, PageGroup
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Benedetto Conversano, Former CIO, Diageo. Digital Advisory Board, Mars Petcare
Operational Resilience & Cyber Risk | Embedding a Security Culture
Hackers aren’t breaking in, they’re logging in. When speed of getting things done is crucial, even for companies with the strongest controls the weakest link in the chain is always human. IBM says cyber attacks have a long tail: on average 200 days of disruption before even considering ongoing reputational damage.
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Christopher Burt, Co-Founder and Exec Chair, Risk Coalition
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Sunaina Aytan, Senior Cyber Security Consultant, Airbus Protect
As AI moves from concept to reality, many organisations are struggling less with the technology itself and more with its impact on people and culture. This session focuses on the practical and human challenges of AI adoption: anxiety about job security, confusion over future skills, and a growing divide between “AI insiders” and the wider workforce. We will consider how poorly managed implementation can erode trust, disengage employees, and undermine organisational values and what we can do to avoid that eventuality.
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Jeff Uden, Global Head of Performance & Attraction, Aventum Group
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Jamie Nevshehir, VP, HR Operations and People Analytics, NBCUniversal | James Gilding, Chief Strategy Officer, Knights Technologies
