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This year’s CIO Summit was the best yet and a series of leading UK based CIOs shared their experiences and thoughts with an audience exclusively made up of CIOs. Some have kindly agreed to share their presentations with you here.



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This year’s CIO Summit was the best yet and a series of leading UK based CIOs shared their experiences and thoughts with an audience exclusively made up of CIOs. Some have kindly agreed to share their presentations with you here.

The CIO Summit took place at the St Pancras Hotel at the famous regenerated rail terminal that is now home to the Eurostar.

This year’s Summit featured presentations from Proctor & Gamble, Francesco De Marchis of Play.com, Mark Hall, Deputy CIO at HMRCamongst others.

If you weren’t able to attend the CIO Summit below is a virtual CIO Summit in the running order of the day.

IT leaders from a broad range of corporate and public sector organisations met with thier peers and attended presentations from high profile CIOs at the second CIO UK annual winter conference.

Richard Wilson, Director IT Operations, Cable & Wireless discussed transforming the user experience


Jack Cutts, Head of IT, Nottingham Building Society amused and challenged CIOs with his presentation titled: You don’t have to be a pigeon



Mark Thompson, IT & Marketing Director, TUI Travel plc demonstrated how technology has changed the travel industry both internally and externally

IT Innovation in the Travel Industry


Grant Tanner of Star took a wide ranging look at the benefits of cloud computing and demonstrated a customer case study


Owen Powell, CIO, Inner North West London PCTS challenged the audience of CIOs with a view that IT will never truly align with the organisation

Why IT Will Never Achieve Business Alignment


Colin Bannister, CTO at CA closed the event with a presentation of research his organisation carried out on the CIO role.

The future role of the CIO



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