Technology & Innovation Summit
EMEA

Join us as we focus on how to help women leaders in your organization break down barriers and overcome challenges. Learn from your peers on advancement strategies for women leaders and participate in a conversation about how to develop meaningful relationships with women leaders in the Tech industry. All are welcome to join!

Generative AI has quickly sparked excitement with business and technology leaders, with an unprecedented amount of enterprise projects being kicked off in a very short space of time. But while companies are eager to experiment with this new technology, they often quickly face significant obstacles that make it difficult to scale beyond the first single use case. So where are we with generative AI today? How can we make it a real catalyst for innovation and change, rather than stifling innovation? Given the current momentum around generative AI, this session will focus on how to assess opportunities and challenges associated with this fast-moving technology: 

• Why are we (mostly) still approaching (gen)AI in suboptimal ways? 
• What is needed to scale beyond the first single use case? 
• How can we make this technology a real catalyst for innovation and change, rather than stifling innovation? 

In this interactive session, we will discuss why agile paradigms are pervasively adopted but struggle because implementations often don’t meet all stakeholders’ expectations. Agile structures in organizations are perceived and lived very differently by employees and leaders, causing underwhelming performance. The role of agile leaders requires more attention if agile is to be taken seriously. In this panel discussion, attendees will:

• Discuss agile implementation challenges and how they correlate with leadership styles.
• Learn to assess under which conditions an agile paradigm is favorable and where it isn’t.
• Understand the essential skills and leadership profiles that enable agile organizations to become and stay successful.
• Enjoy a vibrant and fun discussion with a surprise guest.

Organizations move to the cloud has enabled many advantages such as increased agility and scale. However, as net zero targets become common and in response to regulatory pressures, tech leaders are looking to optimize their cloud infrastructure and its CO2 emissions to support their corporate sustainability goals. Join this peer roundtable session to understand the architectural steps you can take to reduce and optimize your cloud environment.

Join Forrester CEO George Colony and Vice President, Principal Analyst Martha Bennett for an interactive Q&A on their keynote topics.

Delivering business results in the face of today’s business dynamics requires technology leaders to relentlessly align, continuously adapt, and develop a higher level of trust with business teams. But how do leaders achieve and sustain this level of performance to fully unleash the promise of emerging technologies, co-innovation, and transformation, all while delivering on mission-critical projects? Join us for this presentation and panel to learn about how to achieve the following: 

• Align and adapt to changing business dynamics with high-performance IT. 
• Calibrate regularly to instill a higher level of trust with business partners. 
• Create the organizational flexibility to pivot in line with business dynamics. 

The stage is being set for 2025. Come listen to Forrester’s top technology analysts discuss the next frontier of innovation threats, advantages, and opportunities.

Join us at our reception where you can network with Forrester experts and industry peers who will be part of the ELE program throughout the event.

 Avoid The “She’s Not Strategic” * Trap: Balancing Influence And Effectiveness To Lead In Technology

If you take pride in your ability to get stuff done and prefer to let your work speak for itself (because you’re uncomfortable with self-promotion), this session is for you. Paradoxically, many ambitious and talented women miss out on leadership opportunities precisely *because* they’re excellent at getting stuff done — they end up spending all their time executing effectively, or no one notices their strategic contributions among all the operational work that they do. For this session, we’ve assembled a fantastic panel of technology leaders who’ve faced this challenge. Here’s what you’ll take away from this session if you join us:

• How to make space for contributing strategically — and how to highlight your strategic contributions (yes, this will involve some self-promotion!)
• How to build influence and visibility with the leaders above you in the organization
• How to help those more junior to you avoid or climb out of this trap

As companies are embracing new technologies like automation and generative AI, they typically run into traditional obstacles rooted in their organizational setup and existing talent structures. To unlock the value of AI, companies need to tear down their internal data silos and embrace trust, adaptivity, and alignment across the entire organization. In this session, we will decompose these existing challenges and outline how high-performing leaders can effectively steer, align, and motivate their organization to deliver value from their AI strategies.

Key takeaways:

• Understand how to address the AI bottleneck by breaking down operational and data silos.
• Embrace trust, adaptivity, and alignment as core principles of high performance.
• Learn how to apply the guiding principles of high performance to leadership for AI.

Welcome to the highly anticipated Forrester Technology Awards, the only assessment dedicated to recognizing excellence in technology strategy. This awards honors remarkable IT organizations that have proven their mettle in aligning technology with the dynamic needs of the business.

The success of enterprise architecture (EA) depends on the business outcomes that EA leaders must look for and the dominant high-performance IT style of the organization. EA leaders need to understand which best practices to prioritize to set their practices up for success in their respective business contexts. Attend this session to:

• Understand and identify the architecture value best practices that drive each high-performance IT style.
• Craft a dedicated roadmap to deliver the strategy you choose.

The last two years have seen significant technology innovation and has been a boon for business productivity; the same goes for threat actors. This presentation will explore the future of cybersecurity in the context of the opportunities of emerging tech. Attendees can expect to learn how to:

• Approach AI practically in the context of security.
• Balance business needs when modeling emerging threats.
• Leverage visibility to boost risk and opportunity.

Past and future technologies and paradigm shifts such as agile, DevOps, low-code, and even AI have been reshaping the software development world, but generative AI (genAI) is disrupting it. The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is being accelerated, done in real time, and compressed. At the same time, automation of all tasks of the SDLC (through TuringBots) is empowering both professional coders and citizen developers, totally transforming their experience. As you overcome short-term hurdles, prepare in the long term for a new breed of AI-infused platform enabling fast iteration for top-down and ground-up application generation. In this session, you will:

• Understand the impact of genAI on the SDLC as well as low-code, professional, and citizen developer strategies.
• Live the experience and learn about the emergence of application generation platforms, infused with both predictive and generative AI.
• Explore the implications of these trends for your enterprise software strategy.