All 2025 Conference Topics

2025 Conference Topics at a Glance

The 2025 agenda delivered the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CIOs and their leadership teams.

Scaling Artificial Intelligence

As teams race to drive greater innovation, growth and efficiencies with their GenAI initiatives, the challenges of scaling these emerging technologies loom large. Learn how to think about these complexities and hurdles, from training and talent to cost and implementation.

Articulating the Business Value of IT

There’s an art and science to identifying and measuring the value of IT. Learn how you can craft a more impactful business value narrative and support it with metrics that your business leadership will care about.

Culture and Change

Create a culture that embraces continuous exploration and the quest for game-changing business practices and capabilities. Learn how to manage ongoing change and keep employees motivated and engaged.

Cybersecurity and Risk Management

Reframe cybersecurity as a business issue and manage risks in response to the disruption created by rapid changes in the digital world and a volatile geopolitical landscape.

Democratization of Digital Delivery

CIOs need to provide executive leadership in the C-suite to collectively achieve enterprise outcomes through digital capabilities impacting IT leadership responsibilities, accountability and decision rights.

Digital Business Transformation

Build, scale, refine and accelerate your digital business strategy. Shift toward the next era of digitalization focusing on autonomous business. Discover how to create new products and business models that transform the business.

Innovation

Harness and apply innovation to drive disruption, leveraging emerging technologies to achieve your digital ambitions. Learn techniques that generate disruptive ideas.

Executive Influence

Discover how to be a transformational leader, influence stakeholders and embrace the evolution of the CIO role. Strive for a high-performing generationally and geographically diverse team.

Operating Models

Explore how to align operating models with enterprise, information and technology strategies, as well as how to adopt new operating models that are a better fit for the current environment.

Stakeholder Management

Top-performing leaders are people-centric and focus on relationships. Improve your executive relationships and develop your interpersonal skills to amplify your impact.

Strategic Planning and Execution

Learn how to create and execute dynamic and adaptive strategies that build resilience and position your organization to thrive.

Inclusive Leadership

Leaders must go beyond just attracting and retaining diverse talent and build their leadership competencies. Foster inclusion and belonging as a fundamental lever for motivation and engagement.