Georgia Lewis Anderson

• Compare how leading enterprises are using AI in 2026, so you can see where your organisation sits on the maturity curve. 
• Learn which use-cases, metrics and operating models are translating AI deployments into measurable business outcomes and which aren’t. 
 
Moderator: Georgia Lewis Anderson 
Thomson Reuters - Group Chief Information Officer, Jason Escaravage  
Vodafone - Group Chief Technology Officer, Scott Perry 
Lloyds Banking Group – Chief Information Officer, Amit Thawani 

Oracle - Vice President AI Business Value, Neil Sholay

Zurich Insurance Group - Group Chief Information & Digital Officer, Ericson Chan 

• Clarify shared ownership of AI across the C‑suite so decisions are made from one coherent playbook, not competing agendas.

• Turn AI strategy into a practical operating model that business, technology, risk and people leaders can execute together, enabling AI‑driven products and services to become safer, more personalised and faster to deliver for customers.

Moderator: Uber – Chief Operating Officer (Uber Payments), Divya Bhardwaj 
NatWest - Group Chief Information Officer, Scott Marcar 
Barilla - Group Chief Digital & Business Technology Officer, Amitabh Apte 

BT Business - Chief Technology Officer, Colin Bannon

NBA – Chief Privacy and Data Governance Officer, Courtney Stout

• Stress-test your near-term AI priorities against real operational constraints.
• Leave with a sharper view of where to focus effort in the next six months to maintain strategic momentum.

• Establish a strategic approach to AI security and sovereignty that protects competitive assets while enabling confident deployment at scale.
• Work through the governance principles and architectural decisions that reduce risk without compromising innovation speed. 

• Map the architectural and integration strategy needed to deploy AI agents reliably across complex enterprise ecosystems.
• Work through the orchestration principles and standards that will underpin scalable, future-proof agentic systems.

• Translate high-level strategy and ROI goals into clear mandates for VPs, Directors, and Project Leads without becoming diluted.

• Build an AI-ready culture that focuses on practical upskilling and real-world change management.

Moderator: Experian - GM, AI & Automation, Christine Foster  
Vodafone - Managing Director IT Hub, Director Digital Data & Transformation, Miryem Salah 
Virgin Active - Chief AI Officer, Marco Ianonne  
Bayer - Global Head of Digital Transformation & AI – Strategic Marketing, Digital and R&D, Emanuele D’Agati 

• Examine the leadership behaviours, incentive structures and operating model changes needed to embed AI across the enterprise.
• Agree on a cultural transformation strategy that turns adoption bottlenecks into accelerators for long-term AI value.

Pandora - Chief Technology Officer, Garima Singh

• Turn AI-enabled efficiency into sustained business value.

• Measure freed capacity, reallocating it to new revenue streams, and building feedback loops that compound ROI over time. 

Moderator – Unicredit, Former CIO, Joanna Pamphilis

Santander – Chief Transformation, Data and AI Officer, Jasmeet Narang

Unilever – Global VP for Technology, Customer Operations, Francis Castro

Bank of America – Managing Director - Head of Technology, Operations and Outsourcing, Andy Price

Georgia Lewis Anderson

Georgia Lewis Anderson

• Consider what a distinctly European AI advantage could look like: sovereign capability, economic output, or something more nuanced and whether current strategies are bold enough to realise it.

• Explore the policy, talent, and investment decisions European leaders must get right in the next 24 months to avoid being permanently outpaced.

Moderator: Global Blockchain Business Council - Chief Revenue Officer, Emma Joyce

OpenUK – Chief Executive Officer, Amanda Brock

Era4 – Chief Strategy Officer, Sana Khareghani

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology – Director of AI Adoption and Preparedness, Mary Jones OBE

Airbus - Senior Vice President, Group Head of Disruptive Research, Technology & Innovation, Dr Grzegorz (Greg) Ombach

• Move beyond fractured global regulations with a unified, principles-first framework. 
• Operationalise these principles to reduce risk, accelerate innovation, and build the confidence needed to deploy AI at scale. 
 

Moderator: Brunel Business School - Dean of Brunel Business School and host of The AI Adoption Podcast, Ashley Braganza

Logitech - Global Head of AI Governance & Privacy, Emerald De Leeuw-Goggin

NatWest - Head of Responsible AI & AI Strategy, Dr. Paul Dongha

Travelodge - Chief Data Officer, Kinnari Ladha

• Overcome agent reliability, orchestration and governance challenges.

• Solve integration and scaling bottlenecks to speed up core processes and move agentic pilots from testing to enterprise-wide adoption.

Moderator: UKAI – CEO, Tim Flagg

Essity - Chief Digital Information Officer, Niklas Sundberg

Metro AG - Chief Information Officer, Khaled Bagban

Lloyds Banking Group - Managing Director, Transaction Banking Technology Platforms, Clare Schramm Fergus

MillTech – Chief Quant and AI Officer, Justin Xu