On 10 November, senior IT leaders will gather at the Hilton London Canary Wharf for a day of keynotes, roundtables and pre-arranged supplier meetings. Places are complimentary for qualifying buyers, but limited to just 70+ guests.
AI is moving faster than most governance frameworks. Threat actors are getting younger and bolder. And the role of the IT leader has shifted from running technology to steering the business.
The Elevate.Tech Summit tackles all three in one focused day, led by the people dealing with them first-hand.
Headline keynotes
Joe Tidy, Cyber Correspondent, BBC News
From LulzSec to Scattered Spider: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet
The BBC’s first-ever Cyber Correspondent, Joe has spent over a decade at Sky News and the BBC. He’s the author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos and presenter of the Cyber Hack: Evil Corp podcast. He’ll trace how teenage hacking groups evolved into today’s most disruptive threat actors – and how to break the cycle. Joe is also hosting a roundtable to continue the conversation.
Giles Lindsay, CIO, Agile Delta
Organisational Agility Is Not a Team Problem – It’s a Leadership One
A board-level CIO and CTO with 25+ years in financial services and SaaS, Giles is a Global CIO 200 and UK CIO 100 honouree and author of two Amazon bestsellers, Clearly Agile and The Adaptive Leader. He’ll argue that agility stalls at the leadership table, not the team level – and why AI makes fixing that urgent.
Brian McGeough, CIO, Creditsafe
The AI Leadership Agenda: Realising Value Whilst Managing Risk and Governance
With 30+ years at Intel, Activision and AWS, Brian now leads a global technology function of around 450 engineers across the UK, Ireland and India.
Sarah Leteney, Group CIO, Urenco
The New IT Leader Mandate – From Technologist to Strategic Leader
Named in the UK Top 100 CIO Awards in 2024 and 2025, Sarah brings three decades of IT leadership across blue-chip and central government organisations.
Roundtables: small groups, real conversations
Roundtables seat 6–8 senior leaders, so every voice is heard. Topics include:
- Leading Through Continuous Disruption – Jaya Jha, Global Head of Platforms, Genus plc. How to keep adapting without losing control, and what should stay stable while everything else moves. Jaya leads strategy across enterprise apps, cloud, data and AI.
- How can we encourage diverse-thinking talent into tech at all levels? – Mollie Brentnall, UK & IT Director, Crawford & Company. A Hot Topics Global Future CIO 100 winner and former IT Director at AXA Partners, Mollie also hosts Cultural Shift: Looking Beyond the Technical.
- Human + AI: The Future Operating Model for Institutions – Alma Shala, University of London. Responsible AI governance, data strategy and culture change, from a leader driving transformation behind the UK’s Lifelong Learning Entitlement.
- Technology Transformation: Why Leadership Determines Success – Barry Smith, CIO and Transformation Leader. 20+ years leading ERP, cloud, cyber and AI governance programmes, and advising boards on technology risk.
- Board Reporting for Cyber – Chris Gunner, vCISO, Thrive. How to tailor security updates so the Board actually acts on them.
Plus sessions from Simon Ball (Scott Bader), Indi Singh Sall (NG Bailey IT Services), eSentire and Pexip – and The Breach, a hands-on ransomware escape room where your team races to find the attacker and recover the decryption key.
See the full speaker line-up →
Why attend
- It’s fully funded. Seminars, roundtables, breakfast, lunch and refreshments are all complimentary for qualifying buyers.
- Meetings built around your projects. Pick the solution providers you want to meet. We pre-arrange 30-minute one-to-ones, with no hard sell and no mismatched appointments.
- Benchmark in a day. Compare products, services and approaches for upcoming IT, cloud, cyber, data and AI projects – without months of sales calls.
- Shape the agenda. Share your challenges when you apply and we’ll use them to shape keynote and roundtable topics.
- Peer-level networking. Spend the day with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, IT Directors and Heads of IT facing the same pressures.
“Love the format of these events, they are structured really well which results in meaningful conversations rather than a typical expo…” – Apogee Corporation
Places are limited
With just 70+ places and itineraries built in advance, the earlier you register, the more choice you get over meetings and sessions. Qualifying attendees are senior decision-makers with budget sign-off and active or upcoming projects.
Book your complimentary place →
Not ready to commit? Register your interest or see how the day runs.
Elevate.Tech Summit | Tuesday 10 November 2026 | Hilton London Canary Wharf
