A sea of change is upon us. While experts estimate that up to 70 percent of applications have moved to the cloud, the transformational promise has fallen short of the hype and expectations. Today’s router-centric WAN approaches can’t keep up, causing enterprises to hit the wall. This roundtable will discuss the complexity of network management in a multi-cloud era and how networks can adapt to meet the needs of the business at the speed of business.

A sea of change is upon us. While experts estimate that up to 70 percent of applications have moved to the cloud, the transformational promise has fallen short of the hype and expectations. Today’s router-centric WAN approaches can’t keep up, causing enterprises to hit the wall. This roundtable will discuss the complexity of network management in a multi-cloud era and how networks can adapt to meet the needs of the business at the speed of business.

Cloud computing is no longer a new technology with the cloud market now worth $325bn and bringing with it digital innovations that now define the modern business world. But this path to success was by no means assured. The cloud by its nature requires that enterprise IT teams relinquish some control of their systems and data to third parties. Preventing widespread adoption was the belief that cloud computing was less secure than on-premise systems and that opening up to cloud services would seriously expose businesses.

Given cloud adoption rates today, to some extent these concerns have been overcome. But how does Cloud Computing play in your organisations IT strategy today and in the future? Join our excellent networking dinner to discuss with your peers and experts from Nominet to understand how cloud computing can be an business enabler.

How the increased digitisation of services, application migration to cloud and the sharing of APIs, means organisations have had to change the way they think about how they protect, detect, and test their defences against cyber-attacks. This roundtable will therefore look to discuss and explore what "good" looks like in the form of case studies, what organisations need to consider and how the attackers are also transforming their tools and techniques in the wake of this digital evolution.

IFRS17 represents a somewhat unique and unprecedented challenge to CFOs in the insurance industry and although there are many familiarities with previous regulatory requirements it brings a host of new demands. As focus is shifting from impact analysis to execution, please join Paul McDonnell Global Insurance Advisory Leader at PwC, Matt Benaron IFRS17 Solution Lead at CCH Tagetik and a group of your peers to discuss the different approaches being adopted, market trends, implementation best practice and how to leverage technology to gain insight into the impact of the standard on your business and in turn on the KPI’s of your executives.

The CFO’s role has dramatically changed over the last decade, the expectation of insight into the commercial potential of departments is elevating the CFO from the money manager to the confidant of the CEO and a key partner to all areas. This event will focus around how to make this transition in your organisation, where to start and how to keep evolving, using technology and processes to run an industry leading back office.

We invite you to join our Box MD of Financial Services, Bijon Mehta and our panelists, Oliver Harris, Cryptocurrency Strategist for JP Morgan, Robert Wade, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs and Stefan Malray, Head of Innovation, ING Bank, for an evening of wide-ranging discussion on innovation in financial services with an emphasis on customer engagement, evolving business models, and enhanced uses of technology to drive business value.

This dinner will explore the challenges CFOs are experiencing in manufacturing, how the modern CFO, as a business leader needs to understand the nuances of each department and ensure they are adding across all discipline. We’ll also explore how to utilise the latest technologies to gain the business insight needed to drive innovation, futureproof the business and thrive for the years ahead.

The modern CFO is a true enabler, working across departments aligning business functions to objectives and goals. The days of finance as purely processers are over, using technology finance has a unique view of your organisation and this insight has transformed finance into a strategic function. This dinner will explore the challenges CFOs are experiencing across the service sectors, how the modern CFO, as a business leader needs to understand the nuances of each department and ensure they are contributing and collaborating, business wide. We’ll also explore how to utilise the latest technologies to gain the business insight needed to drive innovation, futureproof the business and continue to thrive in the years ahead.

According to a 2018 Palo Alto Networks survey, 70 per cent of cybersecurity professionals working in large organisations across the EMEA region expressed concerns that a rush to the cloud is not taking full account of the associated security risks. IT and security teams are rightly recognising the need to do more to match the speed and agility of the cloud whilst maintaining consistent security across all their organizations’ environments. Too many organisations still see security as a business inhibitor when, in fact, the right security will serve to accelerate business innovation and success.