08:30-08:45: A Warm Welcome from Headline Sponsors, BAE Systems
with Theresa Palmer, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, BAE Systems AI

09:00-09:30: The Future World of Work
with Professor Margaret Heffernan, Entrepreneur, TED Speaker, Business Author & Former CEO

09:45-10:15: Tech Trends – The Next 10 Years
with Emma Kendrew, Cloud, Infrastructure & Engineering Lead, Accenture Technology UKI

10:15-11:00: BREAK

11:00-11:30: Data sharing is here to stay: Where does regulation go next?
with Deborah O’Neill, Head of UK Digital, Partner, Oliver Wyman

Countries across the globe have been looking to increase sovereignty, raising questions around whether free flow of data will persist. Meanwhile, individuals are raising questions about their privacy rights and losing faith in the information they are presented with online. To find out latest trends and potential future scenarios, join Deborah O’Neill as she shares the latest Oliver Wyman Forum research and helps make sense of the complex intersection between data, trust, and access to services we increasingly take for granted.

11:45-12:30: Panel: Technology Trends, Post-Pandemic

Facilitated by Julia Streets, CEO, Streets Consulting with Deborah O’Neill; Emma Kendrew; Sugeeta Bhanoo, APAC Head of Capabilities, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence; and Dzevad Trumic, Head of Site Reliability Engineering, Goldman Sachs

12:45-13:15: Cyber Power – The Shades of Grey
with Dr Mary Haigh, CISO, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Cyber Power was mentioned in the recent UK governments Integrated Review 22 times! And yet if you asked 10 people what cyber power is, you’d get 10 different answers. It’s getting lots of funding and attention but it’s very much in an early stage of thinking on what it really means. Is there such a thing as good cyber power and bad cyber power, or is it shades of grey? This shouldn’t just be some debate happening in a dark corner somewhere, this is something that impacts all of us. Looking at the last year I think we’ve all realised just how much our digital infrastructure can enrich our lives and underpin some of our most core societal values. Our trust of this digital infrastructure is vital, to our economy, to our way of life, to our core values as a society. Cyber power has the ability to both strengthen our digital infrastructure and weaken it. This talk explores the different forms of cyber power, the light and the dark, the shades of grey, and how it could impact us in our everyday lives.

13:15-14:00: BREAK

14:00-14:30: The Evolution of Cloud and Open Source Technologies
with Rachel Cassidy, Senior Vice President, Global Channel and Cloud, SUSE

The world around us has changed a lot in the past year – which has brought the agility and flexibility that cloud and open source technologies delivers into sharper focus. Join Rachel Cassidy, SVP of SUSE’s Global Cloud & Channels, as she demystifies these technologies with examples from the worlds of retail, autonomous vehicles and video games.

14:45-15:15: Fintech 2030

15:30-16:00: Move slow and fix things? Responsible tech in a disruptive era
with Dr Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London

Silicon Valley seems to have adopted the “move fast and break things” motto and it’s coming back to bite them. How can we be responsible in a world that rewards fast innovation? Despite talk of ethical development, we’re not seeing action. Those who speak out risk being pushed out – and often, that’s women. If we want change then where do we go from here?

16:00-16:45: BREAK

16:45-17:30: Panel: AI & Ethics: Making Ethics our top priority

Facilitated by Rob McCargow, Director of AI, PwC UK with Dr Kate Devlin; Professor Aimee van Wynsberghe, Humboldt Professor of Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bonn; Dr Allison Gardner, Lecturer, Keele University and CEO, AI Aware Ltd; and Rachel Free, Partner, CMS

17:45-18:15: VR is dead – or is it?
with Jeremy Dalton, Head of XR, PwC UK

The media regularly covers news on disappointing VR headset sales, but how valid are these concerns when considering the mainstream adoption of this technology? In this session, Jeremy will take you on a data-driven journey to try and answer this question.

07:00-07:30: How the No Code/Low Code revolution is transforming the tech industry
with Paul McGillivray, CTO and Co-founder at Remote, and Code Assembly

Paul McGillivray has seen many changes in the software industry as he’s watched it develop over his 20+ years as a serial tech founder and CTO. He believes that the emerging No Code/Low Code platforms are set to transform the business landscape once again, as we will see the next generation of the democratisation of technology. In this talk, he explains the key concepts of no code/low code platforms, how they are set to impact the software development industry, and business as a whole. He’ll talk you through the low code/no code revolution we’re about to see, as well as giving his take on the best ways to prepare and take advantage of this exciting new wave of tech.

07:45-08:15: How we built a countrywide Data Strategy

with Bethan Charnley, Head of National Data Strategy Implementation at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

08:30-09:00: The Wonder of Wearables
with Marija Butkovic, Founder and CEO, Women of Wearables

Marija Butkovic, founder and CEO of Women of Wearables, Forbes contributor and startup mentor and advisor will discuss how the rise of the Women in Tech movement globally has led to women building femtech products that solve real problems using technology as an enabler. Once considered a niche market, femtech is one of the fastest-growing health industries at the moment estimated to reach $50 billion by 2025. With the surge of innovations in fertility, menstrual health, sexual health, pregnancy, menopause, it is delivering next-generation solutions to female health issues that were neglected and under-researched for way too long. But, femtech as an industry goes beyond just female (reproductive) health, which is why this sector is poised for even bigger growth in the years to come.

09:15-09:45: D&I in AI in the post-Pandemic era
with Didem Un Ates, Managing Director, Data & AI, Europe, Accenture Microsoft Business Group, Accenture

09:45-10:30: BREAK

10:30-11:00: Journey into fintech
with Camille McKelvey, Head of Business Development STP, MarketAxess

11:15-11:45: How to Embrace and Embed Large Scale Change
with Na Zhou, Partner, Oliver Wyman Digital

Change can be scary. It can be intimidating for an individual making a new career move, and it can be terrifying at an organisational level. To find out how to navigate change at both ends of the spectrum, join Na Zhou as she shares her personal journey of parental responsibilities, career ambitions, and solving firm-wide data problems at a major UK insurer.

12:00-12:30: In the Lounge with Russ Shaw CBE, Founder of Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates

Join us ‘In the Lounge’ with Russ Shaw CBE, Founder of Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates, as he discusses GreenTech, Sustainability and Clean Energy.

12:20-13:00: BREAK

13:00-13:30: Societe Generale’s Digital transformation story
with Cecile Bartenieff, COO & Global Head of Technology and Operations for Societe Generale Global Banking & Investor Solutions; Member of Societe Generale Strategic Committee

13:45-14:15: The growth of Cloud Native Ecosystem: Interoperability and Interfaces
with Katie Gamanji, Ecosystem Advocate, CNCF

Within its 7 years of existence, Kubernetes has been the gravitational center of the Cloud Native landscape, elevating a pluggable system that contributed to the diversification of the entire ecosystem. To accommodate the expanding space of cloud-native tooling, it was necessary to introduce interoperability, standardization, and automation.

This talk will focus on the evolution of interfaces within the Kubernetes landscape, including networking, storage, service mesh, and cluster provisioning. Attendees will acquire an understanding of why the interoperability of open-source tools is pivotal in the modern infrastructure and drives the growth of the cloud native ecosystem.

14:30-15:15: Panel: Bitcoin and Blockchain: The story of digital currencies from Bitcoin to De-Fi to Central Bank Digital Currencies and what it means for us

Facilitated by Bridget Greenwood, Founder, The Bigger Pie, with Teggy Altankhuyag, Co-Director and COO, Coinfloor; Dr Amber Ghaddar, Founder, AllianceBlock; Jannah Patchay, Founder, Markets Evolution; and Devina Paul, CFO, Zumo

15:15-16:00: BREAK

16:00-16:30: Health tech apps: how do we know what’s real?
with Liz Ashall-Payne, Co-founder and CEO, ORCHA

Join Liz to explore the current state of play with health apps and technologies. We’ll discuss the importance of health app evaluation and accreditation, including the most important factors to consider when developing your own health app. Liz will also share some of her founding story, including how ORCHA came to be and her journey growing the business.

16:45-17:15: TBC

17:30-18:00: The Future of Drones
with Dr Pippa Malmgren, Founder and Chairman, Datifly