Forward-thinking businesses are looking for automation to simplify the process and free up more time for high-value work.
Join our virtual breakfast briefing to explore the ways to integrate and automate, and the reasons to do so.
In partnership with Workato
Date: Friday 24 June 2022 | Time: 08:45-10:00 BST
Location: Virtual
As we enter an era of dramatic transformation, concepts, ideas and practices need re-defining. We redefine, reconfigure, and rewire your perspective to start from ground zero and ask the fundamental questions that are reshaping business practices today.
We were joined by members of our community for a cognitive reset to redefine disruption in the post-pandemic world.
In partnership with Ping Identity│ mParticle│ Tanium│ Parser│ Telstra│ Namos Solutions │Twilio
Date: Wednesday 25 May 2022 | Time: 08:00-18:00 BST
Location: The May Fair Hotel, Stratton Street, London
The digital disruption of sales and marketing is accelerating, making today's business environment more competitive than ever. Yet most traditional revenue organisations are unequipped with the right processes, people or technology to outperform their competition and thrive in the new normal.
We brought together senior leaders and experts to discuss how to meet customer expectations in a digital-first world.
In partnership with Outreach
Date: Friday 20 May 2022 | Time: 08:45-10:00 BST
Location: Virtual
To support Nimbus Ninety members on their migration journey, we hosted a virtual roundtable on Thursday 12 May in partnership with Unravel Data and Appsbroker. We delved into the key pain points members are experiencing and offer expert opinions on how to de-risk the process.
In partnership with Unravel Data | Appsbroker
Date: Thursday 12 May 2022 | Time: 18:00-19:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
The digital disruption of sales and marketing is accelerating, making today's business environment more competitive than ever. Yet most traditional revenue organisations are unequipped with the right processes, people or technology to outperform their competition and thrive in the new normal. We brought together senior leaders and experts to discuss how to meet customer expectations in a digital-first world.
In partnership with Outreach
Date: Thursday 28 April 2022 | Time: 08:45-10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
The future of technology risk management lies in the use of data to drive a trusted view in real-time. This enables leaders to lower their risk levels, while also getting more business value from their technology.
But how exactly can business leaders avoid relying on inaccurate and incomplete data from multiple tools and platforms? Our members joined us over dinner to illustrate how to achieve a single, accurate, and rich view of technology risk.
In partnership with Tanium
Date: Tuesday 26 April 2022 | Time: 18:00 - 20:45 BST
Location: The Mercer, London
To make the most of a best-in-class data platform, tech leaders can benefit from little-known insights into how to optimise tasks, free up capacity and troubleshoot issues faster. But the route to optimisation is not always clear.
In this session, we brought together leaders facing these common challenges. Over the course of the evening, we’ll offer up actionable ways to master monitoring and governance and to bring about big business benefits - for both employees and the bottom line.
In partnership with Unravel Data
Date: Thursday 31 March 2022 | Time: 18:00-19:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Roundtable Discussion
We brought customer experience professionals together with fraud and risk leaders to uncover simple but smarter ways to detect anomalous activity in real-time, without compromising the customer experience.
In partnership with Ping Identity
Date: Thursday 10 March 2022 | Time: 18:00-19:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Defence members joined this off-the-record briefing to learn about Defence Equipment & Support's FCG, its role within the Defence innovation ecosystem, current focus areas, future demand signals, and new commercial competition framework.
In partnership with DE&S Future Capability Group
Date: Monday 7 March 2022 | Time: 11:00-12:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We brought together senior technology leaders to discuss how to create, test and optimise omnichannel experiences in new and novel ways.
In partnership with Ping Identity
Date: Thursday 3 March 2022 | Time: 18:00-19:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Hitachi Vantara and a select group of industry experts joined us for a need-to-know update on the latest developments in ransomware. We unpacked the steps organisations can take to strategise and deliver a ransomware recovery plan that’s fit for the future.
In partnership with Hitachi Vantara
Date: Thursday 10 February 2022 | Time: 08:45-10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We know uncertainty and turbulence will continue to impact our organisations throughout 2022, but which megatrends will impact IT service operations the most? And does this all add up to a perfect storm for technology leaders? We explored solutions and connected the dots to show how IT operational excellence can meet tomorrow’s business needs. With so much fundamental change, taking the same approach as before just won’t cut it.
In partnership with Tanium
Date: Tuesday 8 February 2022 | Time: 18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We joined forces with Sabio to explore how high growth businesses merge a fresh approach to employee wellbeing with AI tools to enable integrated desktop experiences for agents. Over breakfast brought together a combination of Nimbus Ninety members, from both customer service and automation backgrounds to debate and uncover how the two can work in tandem to deliver humanised services.
In partnership with Sabio
Date: Thursday 27 January 2022 | Time: 08:45 - 10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
How are tech stacks evolving to keep pace with changing customer expectations? In this session, we spoke to leaders from brands who are re-imagining and re-engineering their technology stacks to intelligently analyse myriads of data and deliver personalised, meaningful interactions with customers when they matter most.
In partnership with mParticle
Date: Thursday 20 January 2022 | Time: 12:00-12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
To support Nimbus Ninety members on their migration journey, we hosted a members’ evening on Wednesday 19 January in partnership with Unravel Data, Appsbroker and Google Cloud Partner. Over a delightful selection of wines, we delved into the key pain points members are experiencing and offered expert opinions on how to de-risk the process.
In partnership with Unravel Data | Appsbroker | Google Cloud Partner
Date: Wednesday 19 January 2022 | Time: 18:00-19:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Digital leaders joined us to explore how to leverage customer identity to strike the balance between delighting and protecting your customers. The discussion focused on best practices for streamlining the digital experience to deliver business impact, and how to strategise to use customer identity to meet regulatory and compliance requirements without adding unnecessary friction.
In partnership with Ping Identity
Date: Tuesday 14 December 2021 | Time: 08:15 - 09:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Breakfast
An organisation’s ability to leverage AI-powered data analytics can really fly once it is in the cloud. In our last episode of this series, we heard from businesses that have utilised AI and machine learning to supercharge their data insights and reduce operational inefficiencies so that they can get back to the seriously value-adding stuff: innovation.
In partnership with Oracle
Date: Wednesday 8 December 2021 | Time: 12:00-12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by Hitachi Vantara and a select group of industry experts for a need-to-know update on the latest developments in ransomware. We unpacked the steps organisations can take to strategise and deliver a ransomware recovery plan that’s fit for the future.
In partnership with Hitachi Vantara
Date: Tuesday 7 December 2021 | Time: 08:45-10:00 CET
Location: Virtual Event
The stakes are high. One poorly targeted interaction or data breach can undo years of relationship building and lose the hard-won trust of many key customers. So how can brands better manage their data strategy to prevent a trust gap from emerging? We spoke to industry insiders and uncovered how they’ve simplified their customer data to better understand their customers and give them more of the kinds of interactions they value.
In partnership with mParticle
Date: Wednesday 1 December 2021 | Time: 12:00-12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Since performance experts don’t scale, organizations can instead develop a testing approach that does scale. The high-quality delivery of an application must become everyone’s responsibility – from the designer, coder, developer, QA tester to the performance engineer – so that teams can collectively design agile, durable software that’s fit for purpose from the start.
Our members enjoyed a complimentary wine tasting experience, and take part in an interactive discussion around the common pitfalls and easy solutions to building a robust performance engineering practice.
In partnership with Tricentis
Date: Wednesday 24 November 2021 | Time: 18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
One of the major barriers to getting value out of data is that many organisations don’t actually know the value of their data. It sits in pockets around the enterprise, inaccessible but with stacks of potential. In our second episode, we investigated how to unlock value from your hidden data in order to drive benefits across the value chain and cultivate a culture of innovation.
In partnership with Oracle
Date: Wednesday 17 November 2021 | Time: 12:00-12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
AWS, VMware and digital leaders in healthcare joined us to explore how to utilise hybrid cloud to leverage new digital capability, and roadmap the steps to seamlessly extend, migrate and modernise applications in the cloud.
In partnership with VMWare & AWS
Date: 17 November 2021 | Time: 08:30 - 10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
In brands we trust. Or do we? Increasingly customers are asking critical questions about what they receive in exchange for the data they share. In our first episode, we brought together big-thinkers from data-wise businesses to explore how to transform your data strategy into one that’s built on trust and customer consent.
In partnership with mParticle
Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021 | Time: 15:00-15:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Members of our community joined us at our first hybrid event, Chief Disruptor LIVE October 2021 for a two-day extravaganza supercharged with brand-new interactive formats. Investigated cross-industry problems and solutions in our Brain Storms panel discussions and put our disruptors in the hot seat with audience quickfire sessions.
In partnership with Tricentis I Ping Identity I Equinix I mParticle I ustwo I Tanium
Day 1: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Day 2: Thursday 21 October 2021
Location: Virtual access: Hopin, Physical access: Millbank Tower, London
Programme THEIA, the Army’s Digital Transformation Programme, is at the heart of the British Army Land Operating Concept and Army Operating Model. It also seeks to improve the Army’s integration with industry, partners, and allies, underpin its ambitions to be a significant contributor to HMG’s Global Britain strategy, and deliver an “asymmetric Army for the Digital Age”.
On this webinar, we learnt what progress the Army has made on this journey, and what its next steps will be.
In partnership with British Army
Date: Monday 4 October 2021 | Time: 09:00 - 09:45 BST
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by IT and security leaders to explore how passwordless could be the next step in your journey to securing the future of working-from-anywhere, and to understand how to use it to drive IT agility and enable happier, more productive employee experiences.
In partnership with Ping Identity
Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021 | Time: 18:00 - 19:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Digital leaders joined us to explore how to leverage customer identity to strike the balance between delighting and protecting your customers. The discussion focused on best practices for streamlining the digital experience to deliver business impact, and how to strategise to use customer identity to meet regulatory and compliance requirements without adding unnecessary friction.
In partnership with Ping Identity
Date: Tuesday 28 September 2021 | Time: 18:00 - 19:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Our first episode delved into the biggest problem statements that organisations come up against throughout their cloud migration journey, and how to tackle them while maintaining business as usual.
With a scene-setter from Nimbus Ninety on where industries are with getting the most out of their data.
In partnership with Oracle
Date: Wednesday 22 September 2021 | Time: 12:00-12:45 BST
Location: Virtual Event
AWS, VMware and digital leaders from the government and public sector joined us to explore how VMware Cloud on AWS can provide the hardened security and production-grade capabilities that government agencies require with the speed and flexibility of a cloud service, delivered with consistent infrastructure and operations.
In partnership with VMWare & AWS
Date: Tuesday 21 September 2021 | Time: 08:30 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Technological progression is accelerating, and digital capability is increasingly becoming a core trait of market leaders.
Members of our community joined us for a front-row glimpse into the IT strategies of industry disruptors and how they built their digital advantage.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: Every Wednesday in August | Time: 12:00 - 13:15 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Technology enabled opportunities for Government and Defence.
In partnership with Intel
Date: Tuesday 27 July 2021 | Time: 13:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by IT, data and business intelligence leaders to explore how to build a solid data strategy that drives data literacy and progressively builds analytic capabilities among the user base — both key foundational elements — to support the creation of a mature, lasting data-driven culture.
In partnership with Pyramid Analytics
Date: Wednesday 21 July 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:15 BST
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by senior data and technology leaders from across the manufacturing sector, including automotive, defence, construction and engineering, to define how to reach data maturity, exploit technologies such as AI and digital twins, and create the plants and products of the future.
In partnership with Cognizant
Date: Wednesday 7 July | Time: 12:00 - 13:15 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Whether our members work with SAP, Salesforce or ServiceNow, they joined us for a discussion on how to build the foundations for a centralised DevOps programme and proven strategies for evolving traditional packaged application quality processes to accommodate DevOps speed.
In partnership with Tricentis
Date: Tuesday 6 July 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
For businesses in 2021, sustainable growth is the coveted end game. Members find out how digital products informed by strategic thinking, underpinned by commercial insight, and created with care are driving growth for The Body Coach.
Our fireside session unpacked how ustwo set The Body Coach on a path to expansion and growth by bringing together strategy, design, product and technology teams to drive transformation.
In partnership with ustwo
Date: Monday 5 July 2021 | Time: 13:00 - 14:10 BST
Location: Virtual Event
A decentralised approach to infrastructure is vital to power the innovation and connectivity today’s consumers demand. We explore the steps enterprises are taking to harness networks, cloud and data to build digital advantage and forge a path to growth.
We were joined by senior technology peers to explore the principles of digital advantage and how to accelerate digital leadership at this cross-industry event.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: Tuesday 22 June 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by customer experience professionals to understand where the opportunities lie to revolutionise your customer experience through AI-driven omnichannel strategies. Explored new ways of leveraging emerging technologies for lasting loyalty and increased revenue.
In partnership with Wipro and AWS
Date: Thursday 17 June 2021 | Time: 08:30 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
A decentralised approach to infrastructure is vital to power the innovation and connectivity today’s consumers demand. We explore the steps enterprises are taking to harness networks, cloud and data to build digital advantage and forge a path to growth.
Senior technology peers joined us to explore the principles of digital advantage and how to accelerate digital leadership at this cross-industry event.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: Thursday 10 June 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Following opening remarks from thought leaders, this interactive workshop used digital collaboration to facilitate a Lightning Decision Jam with representatives from across Defence in order to assess:
In partnership with BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Date: Wednesday 9 June 2021 | Time: 08:30 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Joined by CX, operations and digital transformation leaders, we explored how sales order automation can differentiate you from your competitors and lay the foundations for exceptional customer experience.
In partnership with Conexiom
Date: Wednesday 9 June 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Our members joined us for an insightful investigation into how continuous end-to-end test automation can de-risk your enterprise integrations, letting you accelerate innovation while ensuring business continuity.
In partnership with Tricentis
Date: Tuesday 25 May | Time: 18:00 - 19:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Date: Thursday 20 May 2021 | Time: 14:00 - 15:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Joined by CX, operations and digital transformation leaders, we explore how sales order automation can differentiate you from your competitors and lay the foundations for exceptional customer experience.
In partnership with Conexiom
Date: Tuesday 11 May | Time: 08:30 -10:00am BST
Location: Virtual Event
With many organisations struggling to track buying behaviour or to create a 360° view of their customers, inability to access and use data effectively is crippling organisations’ CX dreams. In this session, we dived into the secrets behind data-driven hyperpersonalisation across touchpoints and explore how an end-to-end customer engagement platform can be the foundation for customer engagement success.
In partnership with Cheetah Digital
Date: Thursday 6 May | Time: 18:00 - 19:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Recovery and Growth: Seize New Possibilities
In and amongst these issues, organisations are trying to recover from the disruption caused by the global health crisis. Shifting consumer behaviour, a more vocal employee base and a new generation of digital entrants are redefining what industries look like and how they function.
We equipped business leaders to lead recovery and growth into a new future: one which is full of possibility and opportunity.
In partnership with BigID, Denodo, Equinix, OneTrust, Pyramid Analytics, SoftServe, Telstra.
Date: 26, 27 April 2021 | Time: 08:00 - 14:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Part 4 of The Idea Exchange
In The Idea Exchange, members connected and shared experiences with other business leaders across industries.
How do you map a path to recovery while keeping an eye on the horizon? In the final Idea Exchange of this series, we explored how businesses can take hold of the opportunities that 2021 has in store.
Date: Friday 26 March | Time: 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Ensuring security in the era of ubiquitous connectivity
We were joined by IT leaders to explore the future for ubiquitous connectivity, how to secure applications at the edge and the outlook for user experience in a distributed world.
In partnership with Zscaler
Date: 24 March 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by cybersecurity and IT leaders to understand how to utilise zero trust frameworks and how to streamline access processes to drive business continuity and operational agility.
In partnership with One Identity
Date: Tuesday 23 March | Time: 08:30 - 10:15 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by customer experience and digital leaders to understand the key steps to leveraging cloud, automation and AI to cater to the digital consumer, while maintaining the human touch.
In partnership with Sabio
Date: Thursday 18 March | Time: 08:30 - 10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Part 3 of The Idea Exchange
In The Idea Exchange, members had the opportunity to connect and share experiences with other business leaders across industries.
2020 was the year that brands fostered their personal relationships with their customers in order to survive. This proved to be an excellent customer experience strategy - how do brands keep this up in 2021?
Date: Friday 12 March | Time: 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by IT, data and business intelligence peers to assess whether you’re on the journey to an advanced data and analytics culture and understand the steps to move forward, in order to drive collaboration and maturity for business success.
In partnership with Pyramid Analytics
Date: 10 March 2021 | Time: 08:40 - 10:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
We were joined by a senior group of forward-thinking change-makers and help guide one another through commonly-felt disruptions, whether it be technological, social or economic.
Date: 26 February 2021 | Time: 15:00 - 16:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Explore the insights of the year ahead
In order to plan effectively, business leaders require an overview of market conditions. We discussed the headlines of what to expect in 2021, and some key insights for you to implement into your business strategy for the year ahead. Our new series will cover key areas including strategy and investment, remote working, customer engagement and most importantly, how to build a recovery plan.
Date: 2 March 2021 | Time: 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Lessons From The Real World
2021 offers a critical opportunity to embed the bold changes and new ways of working propelled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Members joined us to hear the steps leading companies from energy, healthcare, transport, media, financial services and retail are taking to deliver a new standard of digital advantage, at the invite-only launch of our e-book, Building Digital Advantage: Stories from the Real World.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: Wednesday 10 February | Time: 12:00 - 13:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Lessons for the Year Ahead
Looking back at organisations’ responses to the pandemic and challenges of 2020 can help leaders plan strategically for 2021. For leaders, it is vital at the moment to define priorities and lay out the path to recovery. We will examined the key lessons from 2020 and apply them to business priorities for 2021.
Date: 12 January 2021 | Time: 13:15 - 14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Beyond Business: The Path to Collective Recovery
In economies hit hard by the pandemic and ever-increasing potential for climate catastrophe, cooperation across organisations, industries and nations will be central to recovery – but by no means an easy feat. We explored the key actors and frameworks that will enable collective action against global challenges.
Date: 15 December 2020 | Time: 13:15 - 14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Discover the critical steps to thrive in 2021
As we approach 2021, join us for a virtual breakfast that brings the retail industry together to look ahead and learn from each other. Examine and explore success stories to understand how to exploit data and drive infrastructure innovation. Understand how they did it and discuss key challenges for 2021 with peers across the digital spectrum.
Make this your first step to thriving in 2021.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: 11 December 2020 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
What lessons from COVID-19 will build the agile and adaptive business? An expert panel explores the modern workplace, adaptive innovation and the shift to ‘cloud only’ - and how these three pillars will shape successful responses to recovery and growth.
Discover the key priorities for 2021 and beyond.
In partnership with Telstra
Dates: Thursdays 26 November, 3 December & 10 December
Time: 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Maintaining your competitive edge through automation
As more and more organisations prioritise productivity and operational efficiency, implementing automation of back office tasks for business resilience and competitiveness has become a necessary item on the digitisation agenda.
Digital leaders examined the benefits of sales order automation and the best practices for overcoming implementation challenges, as well as understanding the role that automation has to play in building long-term business resilience.
In partnership with Conexiom
Date: 9 December 2020 | Time: 12:30 - 14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
The Defence Innovation Centre and Army BattleLab
Join this webinar with Major General Jez Bennet CBE (Director Capability and the Army’s Innovation Champion) and Brig Matt Cansdale MBE (Head Future Force Development) to learn:
In partnership with Army Innovation
Date: 3 December 2020 | Time: 08:30 - 09:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
The transport sector has faced extreme operating conditions during 2020. Data has proved a powerful asset, as a near-collapse in passenger demand, mass transition to remote working and increased protection of frontline staff, challenged operators to make unprecedented and urgent decisions.
We were joined by IT, data and digital leaders from across road, rail, and air transport for the launch of the whitepaper. Discover how different modes are focusing their data strategy, the optimal technology and mindset to democratise data at scale, and how lessons from COVID-19 can inform the right path to data maturity.
In partnership with Cognizant
Date: 1 December 2020 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
In a world where 59% of organisations deploy a new software build daily, employing enterprise applications can harness new capabilities for agility but they also bring new challenges around complexity.
We were joined by software leaders and testing specialists to understand the key challenges behind enterprise application testing, where the opportunities for achieving quality lie and how to run a best-in-class software development team.
In partnership with Tricentis
Date: 25 November 2020 | Time: 08:40 - 10:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Building trust and security in the redefined enterprise
Working life has changed dramatically in the course of a year. For some companies it took just days to implement remote working at scale.
Looked ahead and build on the lessons from a turbulent year. We were joined by senior IT and security leaders to determine which actions will lead the transition to secure and flexible working environments.
In partnership with Zscaler
Date: 18 November 2020 | Time: 08:40 - 10:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Responding to the challenges of national resilience (Part 2 - with Major General David Eastman MBE, Deputy Standing Joint Commander (UK); and Ben Legg, CEO Digital People International & The Portfolio Collective, Former COO Google Europe, Nimbus Ninety Members' Advisory Board member)
We discussed how Defence successfully overcame the leadership and organisational challenges that COVID-19 presented, enabled by the successful integration and sharing of information. We explored how Defence’s initial lessons from COVID-19 have the potential to enable greater support to cross-government activities in future, and which lessons can be used by the private sector.
Date: Tuesday 10 November 2020 |Time: 12:30 - 14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
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Redefine vision, realise opportunities
However, navigating the path to the future from the now is strewn with obstacles.
At Chief Disruptor LIVE: Virtual November 2020, we examined how businesses can reorient and rebuild, while developing a new vision, a new way of working and a new approach to change.
Date: Wednesday 4 November 2020 |Time: 08:00 - 15:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
How to balance business performance with cost and risk
As organisations modernise, they tend to come up against three big obstacles: complexity, cost and risk. In 2019, 28% of CIOs cited the complexity of their current environment as a major challenge to modernising infrastructure.
IT leaders joined us to understand the key to overcoming complexity across the modern enterprise, best practices to protect and utilise your data, and how to drive innovation in a hybrid environment.
In partnership with Quest
Date: 21 October 2020 | Time: 08:40 - 10:15 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Understanding and mitigating the risk, without impacting legitimate access and use.
How can security policies adapt to balance the apparent conflict between increased reliance on access to information at all levels, and the ever increasing rise in the number of attacks? If an entirely defensive strategy doesn’t work, how can you develop a risk-based approach that applies appropriate controls, along with analytics that allow you to identify suspicious activity?
Members of the community joined our expert panel to help understand the threat and how to effectively manage it, without impacting legitimate access to information and use of your networks.
Date: 14 October 2020
Time: 13:30 - 15:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Throughout history, adversity and difficulty have forced humans to innovate. Today this is the case more than ever, with budgets cut and teams working apart. The barriers to innovation have grown, alongside the need for it. Series 2, examines what it means to be an innovative organisation and how disruption can be a driving force for good.
Join fellow digital and technology leaders in discovering how different industries are evolving, and what you can harness for your own. Dates to be released soon.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: Every Wednesday in September | Time: 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Build user engagement and adoption. Encourage cultural change using an analytics platform to foster greater collaboration.
Trust is a vital component of any data strategy. We explore how to build trust in data, how to increase collaboration and give your teams the flexibility and self-sufficiency to derive value from the mass of data flowing into your organisation.
IT and Business Intelligence leaders explored how to build trust in data at every level of the enterprise, how to democratise access to data and the benchmarks for trusted analytics.
In partnership with Pyramid Analytics
Date: 17 September 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:15 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Technology moves at speed. We look at how key technology concepts are shaping businesses through the eyes and experiences of those building and applying them, to discover how to prepare for a digitally complex future.
In this series, we’ll explore The Platform Economy, The Digital Ecosystem, The Smart World and The Future of IT Infrastructure.
In partnership with Equinix
Date: Every Wednesday in August
Time: 12:00 - 12:45 GMT
Location: Virtual Event
Fuelling transformation through testing
Mass remote working, a major shift to online transactions, and disrupted supply chains mean improving business agility and speed of delivery is imperative.
We explored the vital role of testing in digital transformation, assessing how cutting-edge, risk-based approaches and intelligent automation can accelerate innovation through rapid software development across the enterprise.
Date: Wednesday 29 July 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
How innovators are investing in technology and data to drive recovery and growth
Leaders in the field use AI and Machine Learning to demonstrated a deep-level understanding of their customers, using the stream of data to experiment, iterate and enrich products, building sustainable competitive advantage along the way.
Joined by fellow technology leaders, our members explored the vital concepts that power data-driven growth, bench-marked their approach against digital pioneers in Europe and beyond, and discovered the cutting-edge tools for fast experimentation and development of value propositions.
Date: Tuesday 28 July 2020
Time: 14:00 - 15:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Drive business continuity and realise the power of automation
Mass remote working has catalysed the need to digitise, automate and scale resource-heavy processes - a vital step to minimise disruption and prepare businesses for sustained operations in a low-touch environment.
Digital and operations leaders joined us at our interactive virtual event for unique insights into how to transform complex processes and where to focus to ensure business continuity.
Date: Tuesday 14 July 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Responding to the challenges of national resilience (Part 1)
The response to COVID-19 demonstrates that rapid transformation and innovation of Defence information activities is possible, with the potential to provide greater support to cross-government activities in future.
Members of our community, joined us to explore how the lessons from COVID-19 will inform wider technological innovation, accelerate Multi-Domain Integration and drive Information Advantage.
Date: Thursday 2 July 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Optimise and scale with cloud
Cloud is essential for future growth. It has enabled massive transformation, from critical workloads through to innovative digital ecosystems. With devices, sensors and data proliferating, making the right infrastructure decisions is increasingly complex - and costly.
Our in-depth sessions brought IT leaders and CSPs together to solve challenges, supercharge strategy and build a roadmap for infrastructure innovation to support business goals.
Date: Thursday 25 June 2020
Time: 08:30 - 10:15 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Short and mid-term imperatives to reposition for a new future
Industries are rising to the unprecedented challenges presented by COVID-19. The response requires new strategies to keep businesses running, find new efficiencies, and reprioritise projects.
Joined by fellow technology and business leaders at this interactive virtual event, members shared experiences and hash out short and mid-term strategies to deliver priorities and strengthen business for the future.
Date: Thursday 18 June 2020
Time: 08:15 - 10:55 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Imperatives for deeper agility, responsiveness and resilience
Among the many battles taking place to contain and respond to COVID-19, two fronts have emerged for many organisations. Firstly, supporting the essential and heroic frontline work taking place within many industries, and secondly, tough business and technology decisions, looming in order to weather today’s storm of uncertainty. These decisions are far-reaching and time-sensitive, placing huge pressure on IT leaders to deliver an almost unprecedented level of business agility.
Members were joined by peers for intensive cross-industry learning and discussion on seven strategic imperatives for agility, responsiveness and resilience.
Date: Wednesday 10 June 2020
Time: 08:25 - 10:15 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Fuelling innovation with social data
To successfully innovate and reposition for an altered consumer landscape, CPG leaders must identify meaningful near-term impacts whilst also getting ahead of the longer-term trends and behaviour change that will reshape categories.
Joined by insights, analytics and digital marketing leaders, we explored how brands can systematically and scientifically approach social data and adapt insights strategy to successfully navigate the storm of change.
Date: Tuesday 9 June 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:30 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Pivot To a New Future.
Chief Disruptor LIVE is designed to empower your business to pivot as quickly and effectively as possible. We brought disruptors and reactors together to lay the path forward through uncertainty.
Packed with keynotes and masterclasses, our speakers and partners equipped our members for change in a volatile world.
The series finale to Chief Disruptor Breakfast Club.
Date: Tuesday 2 June 2020
Time: 09:00 - 16:00 BST
Location: Virtual Event
Accelerating the shift to remote working at scale
In a short time, the global pandemic has radically altered priorities for organisations across the world, with major implications for the workforce.
IT infrastructure, security and digital transformation leaders joined us to explore the scenarios that are rapidly reshaping how and where work is done.
Date: Tuesday 19 May 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:30
Location: Virtual Event
Transforming businesses with intelligent automation
Today’s wave of business automation is as seismic as the personal computing revolution envisaged by Microsoft over 30 years ago. A robot for every person is the new equivalent of a computer on every desk.
Senior peers joined us to examine the rise of the software robots.
Date: Thursday 23 April 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:30
Location: Virtual Event
4 vital strategic initiatives for 2020 and beyond
With the global economy experiencing radical shifts, IT leaders are facing a set of challenges unlike anything witnessed in the recent past.
What are the strategic imperatives in this challenging environment? IT leaders for cross-industry learned around 4 critical trends that will accelerate your technology strategy.
Date: Thursday 2 April 2020
Time: 08:40 - 10:30
Location: Virtual Event
Automation and innovation through cloud
The rapid growth in data combined with intense market competition is driving business leaders to rethink digital strategy along a number of fronts.
Senior peers joined us to explore how to realise a new wave of operational efficiency and lay the foundations for innovation and growth.
Date: Thursday 19 March 2020
Time: 08:00 - 11:00
Location: Virtual Event
Discovering new sources of competitive advantage
Digital transformation is the engine for modernisation across industries. Whilst major gains have been made, organisations now face new complexities that risk holding back further leaps in innovation.
New revenue streams, enhanced customer experience and business model innovation are on the horizon. Senior peers joined us for an informed exploration of the steps necessary to build capability and embed AI into the fabric of your organisation.
Date: Thursday 5 March 2020
Time: 08:00 - 11:00
Location: Prince Philip House, SW1Y 5DG
Discovering deeper customer engagement
Great brands grow with their customers. As more interaction is digital in nature, how do you harness the mass of behavioural data to reflect individual tastes and values?
To accelerate personalisation, digital and e-commerce leaders attended this evening event to discover cutting-edge approaches from brands championing this vital trend.
Date: Thursday 13 February 2020
Time: 18:00 - 21:30
Location: The Mercer, London, EC2R 8AY
Moving teams from chaos to clarity
Marketing and digital teams are under pressure to deliver campaigns at speed. Yet 60% of time is spent on ‘work about work’ - eating into vital creative and revenue-generating activity.
Marketing and digital leaders joined us at this interactive breakfast where they discovered their major productivity pain points and how to eliminate them.
Date: Wednesday 5 February 2020
Time: 08:00 - 10:30
Location: The Mercer, 34 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AY
Managing the impact of rapid data growth
The world is increasingly datafied. Human experience and action is discoverable on an unprecedented scale. Entire cities, in all their complexity, can be visualised and analysed.
Members explored the challenges of operating in a high growth data environment, how to exploit rapidly expanding and new data sources, and which technology approaches will underpin the global data-driven business.
Date: Wednesday 29 January 2020
Time: 18:00 - 21:30
Location: Andaz Studio, London, EC2M 7QN
Driving business outcomes through successful marketing automation.
Proving ROI, aligning sales and marketing, and reducing the complexity of marketing technology are some of the top challenges for marketers today. With businesses fighting for attention from consumers, connecting the dots is increasingly important for survival.
Senior marketing and technology peers joined together in discussing the benefits of marketing automation to your business, and drive outcomes from marketing strategy.
Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020
Time: 08:00 - 11:00
Location: Threadneedles Hotel, 5 Threadneedle St, London EC2R 8AY
Laying the foundations for sustained growth
With 2020 fast approaching, strategies are in place for the changes it may bring. But with cloud, data and AI technology developing faster than forecasts can predict, building the foundations for a future-proof business is crucial to sustaining growth, for next year and beyond.
60 members explored how they can advance their business strategy with the right digital foundations for success, including new approaches to AI, and modernised methods for data and multicloud.
Date: Thursday 5 December 2019
Time: 08:00 - 11:00
Location: The Embassy, 19 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HN
The secrets of rapid scale and innovation
Platform companies and digital innovators have redefined the concept of scale, enabling game-changing products and services to reach customers more rapidly than ever before.
This lively evening event brought together digital innovators to explore the new rules of growth and scale.
Date: Wednesday 13 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 22:00
Location: Lumiere, Southbank, SE1 0DW
Unlocking new value from your data
Investments in AI and cloud are increasing due to their combined ability to generate game-changing insights and business outcomes, at speed and scale. But very few organisations are successfully utilising these powerful new technologies due to a multitude of data challenges that seem insurmountable.
Senior peers discovered how others are outmanoeuvring their competitors, and explored how their teams can rapidly turn their data challenges into strategic opportunities.
Date: Thursday 17 October 2019
Time: 18:00 - 22:00
Location: Andaz Studio, London, EC2M 7QN
Supercharge your business.
It's time to supercharge your business - all of it. The disruptors are becoming the disruptees, as competition evolves fast across sectors. But evolution creates opportunity and at Chief Disruptor LIVE October 2019, we'll be jumping feet first into the opportunity landscape for businesses today.
Over 2oo digital leaders from across industry joined to evaluate the current state of change and reinvigorate approaches to disruption.
Date: Tuesday 1 October 2019
Location: Millbank Tower, London, SW1P 4QP
Outmanoeuvre your competitors through AI advantage
The ability of artificial intelligence to derive clear insights from complex data can provide a huge competitive advantage. However, businesses from different industries face the same strategic challenges. From aligning people and processes to understanding the value of your data and the new security landscape, every organisation must create strong foundations before AI can power them forward.
Members of the defence community and the Nimbus Ninety community explored how to outmanoeuvre their competitors, and turn their intelligence and AI challenges into their key differentiator.
Date: Tuesday 1 October 2019
Time: 18:00 - 22:00
Location: Millbank Tower, London, SW1P 4QP
Release your digital ambitions
Your digital ambitions cannot flourish without cloud. Bringing intuitive experiences and data-rich services to life depends on your multi-cloud strategy and ongoing management.
We explored, realigned and recharged your #cloudgoals at our rapid-fire breakfast workshop.
Date: Tuesday 24 September 2019
Time: 08:00 - 11:00
Location: IBM, Southbank
The path from cloud to data to AI
AI holds so much promise for liberating the world's information. Whilst pilots are common, executing a fully-fledged AI strategy requires a critically different approach to data and cloud.
Senior leaders, tasked with architecting the path from cloud to data to AI, joined us for a lively evening of debate and networking.
Date: Thursday 12 September 2019
Time: 18:00 - 21:30
Location: The Menier Penthouse, SE1 1UN
Technology affects every industry and profession, including law, medicine, marketing, advertising, real estate, journalism, the City and defence.
We heard from people who are already established in their careers in technology, and those looking interested in careers in technology, in an informal setting over a drinks.
Date: Wednesday 11 September 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Location: 15 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 3AR
Invitation Only
Your customers' happiness is everything.
Senior marketing and product peers joined us explore how to cut through the noise of big data to measure happiness, and find quick and meaningful ways to connect to customers saturated with digital experiences.
Date: Thursday 20 June, 2019
Time: 18:30 - 22:30
Location: The Covent Garden Hotel, London
Insights from The Smart Report Retail
We were joined by leading retailers to explore incisive new research into the retail industry.
Date: Thursday 6 June 2019
Location: The Gherkin, London
Data power, AI and the future of sales
Senior members from across industries joined us for a lively evening to discover the path to data enlightenment.
Date: Wednesday 22 May 2019
Location: The Gherkin, London
Leave Legacy Behind - The Road to Dev-ops and Agile
Senior IT and Infrastructure leaders joined us for breakfast and cutting-edge thinking on how to leave legacy behind.
Date: Thursday 9 May 2019
Location: The Ivy Market Grill, Covent Garden
Recharge strategy. Get projects back on track.
Senior peers joined us to explore how to pinpoint problems in CRM strategy and get a proper plan in place.
Chief Disruptor is designed to change your perception of what "Disruption" really means. With looming competitive threats, new technologies, and shifting customer relationships, Business, more than ever, has become a game of survival. Now is the time to act: not just to survive, but to thrive through change.
Senior leaders from across industries joined us at our explosive two-day summit packed with interactive sessions, and opportunities to meet the boat-rockers and change-makers responsible for the disruptive climate.
Moving from legacy to digital operations
Senior peers explored the impact of the digital process automation across a range of industries.
Marketing in a post #DeleteFacebook world
Senior peers explored the impact of the data-conscious consumer on marketing, and the wider implications for customer data strategy.
Building intelligent experiences in regulated industries
Senior peers shared perspectives on how to deliver an effective and intelligent customer experience in a regulated environment.
Cybersecurity, Risk and Generation Z
Senior professionals joined us to explore why the workforce is different, what new behaviours are emerging and how security strategy needs to adapt.
Our community came together with a whole host of experts to define what the future of work will look like.
Identifying the Information Security Challenges in an Increasingly Digitised Workplace
Security leaders came together to explore the challenges and tools needed to create a security strategy that adapts to the complexities of the new world of work.
Don't commiserate the end of the summer. Instead, celebrate the launch of our autumn Chief Disruptor magazine!
We were joined by panelists Will Hodson and Joanne Roxburgh, as they debated this edition’s theme: ‘The Digital Citizen’. Digital has changed the way we consume public services. It’s changed the way we think of ourselves as individuals, it’s changed the way we act as citizens, customers, and employees.
Will Hodson is co-founder of Lookaftermybills, the automated programme (seen on Dragon’s Den) set to truly disrupt the utilities industry.
Joanne Roxburgh is VP of Academic Services at Higher Education Partners, the online programme that gives access to affordable higher education.
The Trends Shaping how Customers will Behave and Buy
Members from a broad array of household brands and retailers explored the world of the future shopper; their behaviour, mindset and the tech that matters.
From Legacy to Disruptor: How to Fundamentally Change your Model and Mindset
Technology and business leaders from some of the globe's most recognisable brands came together to build a roadmap to deep-level digital change.
Identity Management for a Changing World
Over 35 leaders from some of the world's most recognisable brands debated and explored how digital identity is evolving, and innovative approaches to identity management.
The value-defined customer journey
Senior peers joined together to discuss how to translate identity and purpose across the spectrum of digital experiences?
40+ senior colleagues joined us to explore the new threats that are rapidly emerging and how a deeper insight into human behaviour could reshape security strategy.
Rethinking cloud strategy: cutting-edge approaches for cloud migration
13 technology leaders came together to define the route to a successful cloud strategy, how to de-risk complex migrations and learn which approaches achieve results.
Embracing experimentation for rapid innovation in the customer experience era
Members from across industries joined us to explore how a culture of experimentation can thrive in the enterprise.
Getting to grips with human behaviour and digital body language
Senior e-commerce and marketing leaders from the UK's most recognisable brands explored how understanding your customers’ “digital body language” can help deliver better customer experience.
The future of brands in a post-truth era
30+ leaders joined us for drinks, speeches and a panel discussion on how, in the post-truth era, brands can demonstrate trust and earn the loyalty of today’s demanding consumer.
The evolution of the digital workplace: driving transformation through a user-centered approach
Senior technology leaders joined us to explore the technologies that are radically changing attitudes to work, and understand how to build the digital workplace that enables skills to thrive.
Optimising digital assets through The Digital Factory
Digital leaders from major brands joined us to explore how to embed operational efficiency across a multi-brand organisation to restore competitive advantage.
Powering the intelligent and disruptive organisation
With 10 keynote speakers, personalised masterclasses and an expert panel, 200 digital leaders joined us to get to grips the power of data and the potential it holds.
Achieving visibility of data-related risk
Security, technology, data and compliance leaders joined us to identify and mitigate data-related risks, without disruption to cloud enabled digital transformation.
From Descriptive to Prescriptive: define and advance your analytics strategy
16 analytics, insight, data and marketing leaders from the UK's top brands joined us to evaluate their analytics maturity and define a roadmap towards a prescriptive approach.
Breaking down the barriers to digital service delivery and innovation
Senior digital, delivery and innovation leaders from across public non-profit sector organisations to discuss how to keep digital transformation on track.
An exploration of the forces shaping digital disruption
We brought together members, disruptors, innovators and partners to explore how to seize the opportunities presented by tech-driven change.
Harnessing the true power of data to drive deeper customer loyalty
Marketing, digital, customer experience and e-commerce leaders from the UK’s major brands joined us to understand how to turn marketing data into a powerful asset.
The next wave of personalisation: transforming digital customer experience and delivering ROI
We gathered digital leaders to discuss how to truly achieve personalisation in a continually changing landscape of user behaviour.
Boost productivity, power innovation and propel data driven transformation through cutting-edge approaches to automation
We brought together members, disruptors, innovators and partners to explore how to seize the opportunities presented by tech-driven change.
Platforms, ecosystems and the emergence of 21st Century business models: capturing value, driving innovation and powering growth in the platform economy.
We brought together members, disruptors, innovators and partners to explore how to seize the opportunities presented by tech-driven change.
The future of cloud is now, at NEXT
We brought together executives, customers, partners, developers, IT decision makers, and Google Engineers to build the future of the cloud.
Harnessing the power of the connected consumer: data, technology and organisational change for transformational digital experiences
We brought together members, disruptors, innovators and partners to explore how to seize the opportunities presented by tech-driven change.
Navigating the digital age: the definitive cybersecurity guide
Members joined us at the Shard to discuss the future of cybersecurity and hear from an interactive panel discussion with industry leaders.
We bring together a broad range of senior stakeholders responsible for driving digital transformation initiatives across business and technology functions, through a variety of member driven activities including our summits, research, reports and dinners. Our members, all of them disruptive leaders, share a common goal; to fast track their learning and transform their challenges into opportunities.
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