28 sessions

Breakouts

  • Hospitality/Reception
    Breakouts
    Live
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    1:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Join us for an unforgettable lunch celebrating the power of women in AI! "AI for All: Women Leaders Driving Inclusive Innovation and Growth" is a unique opportunity to connect with trailblazing women who are leveraging AI to drive success in their careers and businesses.

    Hear from Nicola, Helen Graham from Shell and Natalie Daley from HSBCas they share their stories of using AI to overcome challenges and achieve their goals, inspiring and motivating you to harness the power of AI for your own success.

     

    Following the introduction, we'll break into smaller table discussions to explore the ways in which women can use AI to drive success in their careers and businesses. Each table will be facilitated by a thought leader in AI, and will focus on a specific theme or topic. This is your chance to share your own experiences, ask questions, and learn from others in the field.

     

    * Be inspired by women who are using AI to drive success in their careers and businesses

    * Learn how to harness the power of AI to overcome challenges and achieve your goals

    * Connect with a community of women who share your passion for AI

    * Leave with a renewed sense of purpose and motivation to succeed in AI"

    • Tuesday, Oct 151:15 PM - 2:15 PM BST

    , Chief Executive, UK & Ireland, IBM

    , Associate General Counsel IDT & Privacy, Shell International Limited

    Session Type: Hospitality/Reception
  • Hospitality/Reception
    Breakouts
    Live
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    8:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    For the second year running, we are hosting a special Public Sector Breakfast.  With mounting pressure to do more with less, and the necessity to act now to deliver real results, we believe technology has an increasingly significant role to play in delivering immediate success, whilst driving long term productivity. This session will host a provocative discussion on the future of public services, hear from industry experts and government leaders as they share real-life examples of how AI and digital transformation can drive greater efficiency.

    • Tuesday, Oct 158:00 AM - 9:00 AM BST
    Session Type: Hospitality/Reception

Keynote

  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    2
    1
    AI
    9:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15
    Tuesday, Oct 15

    Welcome - Nicola Hodson - IBM Chief Executive, UK & Ireland and Strategic Keynote - Scaling your business with AI and hybrid cloud - Kareem Yusuf - IBM Senior Vice President, Product Management & Growth, Rahul Kalia - Managing Partner, UK and Ireland, IBM Consulting, Professor Andy Hardy, CEO, NHS Coventry and Warwickshire.  The time for widespread business adoption of generative AI has come. As company leaders race to fulfill AI’s potential to improve productivity and boost innovation, they are shifting from experimenting with AI to deploying and infusing it across their businesses. At the forefront of this shift are efforts to reinvent customer service, modernize countless lines of code, and automate workflows. But success demands more than identifying the right use cases; it depends on having an open and trusted technology architecture – built on a hybrid-by-design cloud infrastructure – that scales the secure and compliant use of AI models across multiple IT environments. Understand why the right combination of breakthrough technologies and expertise is the key to creating unique business value from AI today.

    • Tuesday, Oct 159:15 AM - 10:15 AM BST

    , Senior Vice President, Product Management & Growth, IBM Software, IBM

    , Managing Partner, UK and Ireland, IBM Consulting, IBM

    , Chief Executive, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

    Session Type: Keynote
  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    2
    5
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    10:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Leading-edge companies are outperforming their competition in profitability, innovation, and revenue growth using generative AI assistants to transform how work gets done. In this session, learn how companies are deploying AI assistants to empower their teams with the expertise needed to deliver at higher levels of performance by turning piles of data into personalized insights and timely, automated actions, using natural language understanding and machine learning techniques to automate business processes. Questions can be answered faster, and developers can be more productive. Hear from IBM clients and partners about how they have built AI assistants to transform their operations, created new ways of working and used generative AI to create new competitive advantage at scale for their businesses.

    • Tuesday, Oct 1510:15 AM - 10:45 AM BST

    , General Manager, IBM Technology Sales, UK & Ireland, IBM

    , Vice President, Product Management, Digital Labor, IBM

    , Product & Technology Director AI, NatWest

    , CDIO, Department for Work & Pensions

    Session Type: Keynote
  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    AI
    12:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15
    Tuesday, Oct 15

    The world is rapidly advancing into the age of AI. Challenges and opportunities for governments and businesses have proliferated at lightning speed. In this quicksand environment, leaders must make time to reflect and devise considered strategies to chart a successful path ahead. In this unmissable keynote session, former Secretary of State and co-host of the chart-topping podcast The Rest is Politics, Rory Stewart will take part in a thought-provoking conversation covering some of the hottest global issues in AI. In the first half of this session, moderated by IBM UKI CMO Charlie Smith, Rory will offer his views on the geo-political context being shaped by the AI revolution, as well as implications for jobs and sustainability. In part 2, Rory and Charlie will be joined by Dr Nicola Hodson, Chief Executive, IBM UKI, and Tom Whipple, Science Editor, The Times, to look from the macro to the micro, covering the impact of AI on productivity in the public sector and business, the merits of open-source AI vs closed models, and responsible AI adoption. 

    • Tuesday, Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM BST

    , CMO, UK & Ireland, IBM

    , Author, Gpj

    , Science Editor, The Times

    , Chief Executive, UK & Ireland, IBM

    Session Type: Keynote
  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    2
    4
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    2:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Generative AI is moving from experimentation to production. In this session, learn how to create business value with responsible AI - using watsonx, an AI and data platform for generative AI and machine learning. With watsonx, you can train foundation models with your own trusted data and apply governance and guardrails—empowering you to use AI responsibly across business processes, streamlining key workflows and managing compliance with a multitude of emerging AI regulations. Learn from examples of how IBM enables a variety of businesses to multiply the impact of responsible AI and seize new opportunities for growth. ​

    • Tuesday, Oct 152:15 PM - 2:45 PM BST

    , Group Head of Partnerships and Innovation, Barclays

    , Director, Data & AI, IBM UK and Ireland, IBM

    , Director, Risk Advisory, Aligne Technologies Limited

    , Business Transformation Services Leader, IBM UK and Ireland, IBM

    Session Type: Keynote
  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    2
    2
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Today, the average enterprise uses 1,000 applications, multiple clouds and thousands of physical assets. As generative AI adoption accelerates, that number will only grow. Increasing complexity leads to inefficiencies, risk and waste, while limited visibility across disparate systems means we don’t always know whether the right issue is being addressed at the right time. Learn how IBM’s generative AI-driven insights and AI-powered automation capabilities put you in control to simplify and optimize all your business technology for maximum impact.

    • Tuesday, Oct 154:25 PM - 4:55 PM BST

    , VP Technology IBM UKI & CGM IBM Ireland, IBM

    , Director Digital Connectivity, BT

    , Technical Sales Leader, IBM Automation UKI, IBM

    , Director of Innovation, SCC

    Session Type: Keynote
  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    2
    6
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    5:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Welcome to the age of value creation with AI. But a technology is only as valuable as the ecosystem it enables. Enterprises seeking to incorporate generative AI in their workflows face challenges when it comes to inferencing costs, trustworthiness of AI, energy efficiency, portability, and being able to leverage enterprise data effectively and securely. Addressing these challenges requires not just innovation but also the right type of AI business strategy – one built on the collective power of an open, healthy AI community. Join this session to learn about the latest technologies from IBM designed to scale enterprise AI and unpack what a winning AI business strategy looks like.

    • Tuesday, Oct 155:00 PM - 5:30 PM BST

    , Director IBM Research Europa / Ireland and UK, IBM

    Session Type: Keynote
  • Keynote
    Keynote
    Live
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    5:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Closing Session

    • Tuesday, Oct 155:30 PM - 5:35 PM BST

    , Chief Executive, UK & Ireland, IBM

    Session Type: Keynote

Roundtables

  • Roundtable
    Roundtables
    Live
    3
    4
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The emergence of gen AI has revolutionized how business operate and how IT can support business outcomes. For established businesses, a hybrid cloud approach is the right strategic choice. Organizations aiming to derive value from their cloud investments and harness the potential of AI must adopt an intentional, hybrid by design approach. Adopting this strategy allows organizations to align architectural choices with business priorities across platforms, processes, and people, resulting in enhanced outcomes and a higher ROI. Join IBM Consulting, technology and industry peers to discuss how intentional architecture decisions based on business needs is the key ingredient to amplifying the value of hybrid cloud and AI to drive business outcomes.

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

    , Principal Storage Sales Manager, IBM

    , Infrastructure Sales, IBM

    , Director, CICS & Z Integration, UK R&D Labs leader, IBM

    , VP & DE. Global Industry Leader, Financial Services, IBM

    , Hybrid Cloud Services Leader UK&I Consulting, IBM

    , Country Leader, UK, Nordcloud (an IBM Company), Nordcloud (an IBM Company)

    , Director - IBM Cloud, IBM United Kingdom & Ireland, IBM

    , Principal WW Alliances and Embedded Solutions Leader, Storage, IBM

    Session Type: Roundtable
  • Roundtable
    Roundtables
    Live
    3
    5
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Are you making the most of the sustainability and ESG data your organization is capturing today? ​  As the importance of sustainability and the collection of ESG data to meet regulatory requirements grows, operations leaders are uniquely positioned to unlock its value to drive better sustainability and financial outcomes. A recent IBV report revealed that organizations who have successfully embedded sustainability into core operations, rather than confining it to accounting or reporting, are 52% more likely to outperform peers in profitability and revenue growth. Join industry experts and decision-makers to explore how operations leaders can unlock ESG data value using Gen AI, automation, and governance best practices to improve performance.​

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:00 PM - 3:30 PM BST

    , Customer and Marketing Transformation Strategy - Global CoC, IBM

    , Associate Partner, UKI Supply Chain and Sustainability Sector Leader, IBM

    , IBM Sustainability Sales Principal United Kingdom & Ireland, IBM

    , Senior Partner, EMEA Energy & Resources Industry Leader, UKI Sustainability, IBM

    , Head of Sustainability, Ikano Insight

    , CIO, National Grid ESO

    , Senior Sustainability Specialist, IBM

    , Envizi ESG EMEA Leader, IBM

    Session Type: Roundtable
  • Roundtable
    Roundtables
    Live
    3
    6
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Your clients demand better speed-to-market, better quality, and cost competitiveness that create increased pressure on enterprise IT.  Catering to such demands amid overall IT complexity is becoming humanly impossible to achieve while remaining cost-competitive. This is where the next evolution of IT is triggered, leveraging AI and analytics in the IT lifecycle including AIOps, FinOps, Cloud Cost Management and Technology Business Management approaches, methods and technology. Join IBM Consulting, technology and industry peers to discuss how you can adopt such practices to focus on delivering business value.​

     

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:45 PM - 4:15 PM BST

    , FinOps Advisory Leader, IBM

    , Partner | Cloud & Technology Advisory | UKI Cloud Advisory, IBM

    , Global Sales - Cloud Platform Sales, IBM

    , IT Automation Lead, IBM

    , AVP Apptio Solutions, EMEA, IBM

    , Solution Consultant, IBM

    , Director - Professional Services EMEA IBM Turbonomic, Technology Expert Labs, IBM

    , Sr. Technical Specialist, IBM

    Session Type: Roundtable

Solution Spotlights

  • Solution Spotlight
    Solution Spotlights
    Live
    3
    1
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    As generative AI proliferates, data volume continues to expand exponentially, with aggregate data stored set to grow over 250% in the next 5 years. Organizations must take advantage of this data to train, test and refine AI, but they have to prioritize governance and security as they do so. Coupling the enterprise-ready data and AI platform watsonx with Red Hat OpenShift and IBM infrastructure solutions helps organizations govern and secure both their data and their AI models without compromising performance. See how industry leaders are leveraging IBM technology and expertise to manage trusted data in hybrid environments—in the cloud, on premises, at the edge—and using it to seamlessly and securely fuel their ambitions for AI.

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

    , Director, CICS & Z Integration, UK R&D Labs leader, IBM

    , Executive Vice President, State Street Bank & Trust Company

    , SVP, Consulting Services Portfolio, Ensono

    Session Type: Solution Spotlight
  • Solution Spotlight
    Solution Spotlights
    Live
    3
    2
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    In today’s dynamic business landscape, organizations face the dual challenge of thriving in a competitive market while complying with minimizing their environmental footprint. This spotlight session delves into how you can advance both priorities with innovative solutions that empower you to: Streamline maintenance of renewable energy assets and maximize their performance, effectively manage emissions and minimize environmental impact; continuously optimize your field service team and operational efficiency; navigate climate-related risks and drive business resiliency. Discover the future of sustainable asset management and take the next step to advance decarbonization, optimize critical assets, and achieve lasting business success.

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

    , Senior Partner, EMEA Energy & Resources Industry Leader, UKI Sustainability, IBM

    , CIO, National Grid ESO

    Session Type: Solution Spotlight
  • Solution Spotlight
    Solution Spotlights
    Live
    3
    3
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    In the dynamic world where technology spans the hybrid cloud, work is distributed to teams around the globe, and emergent technology like AI is rapidly evolving, decisions can’t be made in a vacuum. Learn how bringing together performance management insights and disciplines like FinOps and TBM gives technology leaders the best ability to make data-driven decisions that improve cost efficiencies and deliver better business outcomes.

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:00 PM - 3:30 PM BST

    , Director, IBM Automation, UK & Ireland, IBM

    , Global Director, Cloud Platform Services, Unilever

    , Commercial Manager, EDF

    , Head of Cloud Economics & FinOps and Microsoft Azure Platform Lead (Interim) CTO IT, HSBC

    Session Type: Solution Spotlight

Tech Bytes

  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    1
    Security
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Organizations are pursuing innovation and transforming their businesses to drive growth and competitive advantage. However, as they innovate using cloud, AI and digital ecosystems, teams are challenged by securing identities, data, and workloads across the hybrid cloud. Join this session to learn what makes IBM’s Cybersecurity Services different—from our experts, ecosystem, AI and automation to our threat intelligence and delivery accelerators—and learn how we can help drive better security outcomes.

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:00 AM - 11:15 AM BST

    , Partner - Client Partner & UKI CSS Growth Platform Leader, IBM

    Session Type: Tech Byte
  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    2
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    FinOps has been widely adopted as the operating model for cloud. This quickly evolving discipline unifies engineering, finance, and business teams to manage cloud costs, optimize across the cloud ecosystem, and measure the value driven by cloud investments. Join this session to learn about the new and most comprehensive FinOps solution designed to meet practitioners along their journey and advance their practice with leading-edge capabilities.​

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:30 AM - 11:45 AM BST

    , AVP Apptio Solutions, EMEA, IBM

    , Technical Sales Leader, IBM Automation UKI, IBM

    Session Type: Tech Byte
  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    3
    AI
    12:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15
    Tuesday, Oct 15

    As enterprises speed towards embedding AI into their operations, ensuring they can govern workloads consistently across all their environments will be key for avoiding ethical, legal and regulatory violations. But how do you deploy an automated AI governance platform that ensures compliance, manages risk, and governs your AI workloads wherever they reside? Join us in this tech byte to explore AI governance in a hybrid cloud setting and why it is essential for deploying AI models at scale.​

    • Tuesday, Oct 1512:00 PM - 12:15 PM BST

    , Senior Product Manager - watsonx.governance, IBM

    Session Type: Tech Byte
  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    4
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    1:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, achieving exceptional outcomes demands more than just adapting to change; it requires leading with innovation and strategic foresight. This session is designed for executives who envision adapting to and leading in the digital age. Join us to explore how Watson’s cognitive capabilities, IBM’s consulting services combined with the robust IBM partner technologies, can empower organizations to navigate the complexities of modern business challenges to achieve unparalleled for business transformation.

    • Tuesday, Oct 151:50 PM - 2:05 PM BST

    , Lead Client Partner, Volkswagen Group UKI, IBM

    , AI, Analytics and Automation Practice Leader | IBM Consulting UKI, IBM

    Session Type: Tech Byte
  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    5
    Quantum
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    IBM Quantum Safe empowers organizations throughout their quantum-safe journey by enabling users to discover, observe, and transform their cryptography. Understand how to start your journey, understand post quantum cybersecurity risks, and understand how to build a strategy for quantum-safe transformation.

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:00 PM - 3:15 PM BST

    , Business Leader, IBM Quantum Sales EMEA, APAC & Japan, IBM

    Session Type: Tech Byte
  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    6
    Automation
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is an end-to-end automation platform to configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced workflows across your entire IBM portfolio of products. Red Hat works closely with IBM and its partners to deliver solutions through Certified Collections and direct partner support on the collections. In this tech byte, learn how Red Hat AAP delivers automation on IBM hardware, middleware, and application software.

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:30 PM - 3:45 PM BST

    , Automation Sales Specialist, Red Hat

    Session Type: Tech Byte
  • Tech Byte
    Tech Bytes
    Live
    4
    7
    AI
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    Dive in to the transformative impact of AI assistants that can help you maximize efficiency and drive innovation for your business.
    Discover how generative AI-powered assistants can help revolutionize your operations, supercharge productivity, and spark innovation across all business functions. Learn how watsonx Orchestrate, IBM´s cutting-edge conversational AI and automation solution, can help you effortlessly build AI Assistants that can be used to work on your behalf, from managing daily tasks to automating complex processes and delivering game-changing insights. Hear inspiring success stories and learn best practices to harness the full potential of AI Assistants and scale.

    • Tuesday, Oct 154:00 PM - 4:15 PM BST

    , Principal Product Manager, IBM

    Session Type: Tech Byte

Industry Tour

  • Industry Tour
    Financial markets
    Industry Tour
    Live
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The tour will start inside the Think Forum, at the Welcome Desk at Neighborhood 1 (Build & Tune AI Platforms). Please arrive at the Welcome Desk at least 5 minutes before your tour starts to collect your headset and meet your tour host. The tour will start promptly at the time stated above.

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:00 PM - 3:30 PM BST
    Session Type: Industry Tour
  • Industry Tour
    Banking
    Industry Tour
    Live
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The tour will start inside the Think Forum, at the Welcome Desk at Neighborhood 1 (Build & Tune AI Platforms). Please arrive at the Welcome Desk at least 5 minutes before your tour starts to collect your headset and meet your tour host. The tour will start promptly at the time stated above.

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:45 PM - 4:15 PM BST
    Session Type: Industry Tour
  • Industry Tour
    Industry Tour
    Live
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The tour will start inside the Think Forum, at the Welcome Desk at Neighborhood 1 (Build & Tune AI Platforms). Please arrive at the Welcome Desk at least 5 minutes before your tour starts to collect your headset and meet your tour host. The tour will start promptly at the time stated above

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
    Session Type: Industry Tour
  • Industry Tour
    Industry Tour
    Live
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The tour will start inside the Think Forum, at the Welcome Desk at Neighborhood 1 (Build & Tune AI Platforms). Please arrive at the Welcome Desk at least 5 minutes before your tour starts to collect your headset and meet your tour host. The tour will start promptly at the time stated above

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:00 PM - 3:30 PM BST
    Session Type: Industry Tour
  • Industry Tour
    Industry Tour
    Live
    watsonx
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    11:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The tour will start inside the Think Forum, at the Welcome Desk at Neighborhood 1 (Build & Tune AI Platforms). Please arrive at the Welcome Desk at least 5 minutes before your tour starts to collect your headset and meet your tour host. The tour will start promptly at the time stated above.

    • Tuesday, Oct 1511:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST
    Session Type: Industry Tour
  • Industry Tour
    Industry Tour
    Live
    Tuesday, Oct 15
    3:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15

    The tour will start inside the Think Forum, at the Welcome Desk at Neighborhood 1 (Build & Tune AI Platforms). Please arrive at the Welcome Desk at least 5 minutes before your tour starts to collect your headset and meet your tour host. The tour will start promptly at the time stated above.

    • Tuesday, Oct 153:45 PM - 4:15 PM BST
    Session Type: Industry Tour