Dinner at Eight Members’ Club
Main event at the Bulgari Hotel, Knightsbridge
The invitation only network for CIOs of organisations of significant scale
Overview
CIO Icons is a meeting of a handpicked group of CIOs that we believe represent
the most interesting and inspirational UK-based technology strategists
They control budgets of £30m to £500m+
“The fact that everyone was a CIO from a large business of high complexity kept the discussion truly relevant”
Debra Bailey, CIO, Telefonica
Quality of attendees
Selection
The advisory board hand-pick the most influential and inspiring CIOs to invite
from UK’s largest 500 companies or those that are specially tech intensive.
50+ CIOs attend the event .
Company Size
55% of the CIOs attending the last event were from companies with over 5,000 staff.
20% had over 20,000 employees.
29% were running technology departments with over 500 employees.
16% had over 1,000 employees in their departments.
They control budgets of £30m to £500m+.
Exclusive
“I thought the attendee list was really strong and the discussions and approach was fantastic!”
Charlotte Baldwin, CIO,
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Format
Selection
The event is structured for CIOs to discuss their challenges openly and honestly, and for sponsors to build and deepen relationships with CIOs by engaging in conversation around those challenges and sharing their expertise.
There will be a maximum of four non-competing sponsors, each representing their own area of specialisation so they too can share their thoughts openly and constructively.
For these sponsors, there are various opportunities to build targeted and serendipitous relationships with the CIOs.
Ice breaker
The pre-event dinner sits you next to a personalised selection of CIOs that you have chosen to meet from the list of attendees. It serves to build relationships and means people turn up the following day with a sense of familiarity and ready to go more in-depth.
Early start
We start the main event at the Bulgari Hotel with a networking breakfast to enable people to catch up with CIOs they’d like to meet.
Immersion
The day consists of a mixture of presentations delivered by eminent CIOs, and 4 discussion sessions. You will be seated in different groups of 6 to 7 CIOs in each discussion session and share ideas. Sponsors will be allocated tables and the CIOs will rotate to maximise touch points.
Meet over lunch
Another chance for you to select the CIOs you most want to meet and deepen relationships with during the chef’s uninterrupted table service.
Wrapping up in style
The event ends with our signature networking and champagne reception.
Exclusive
As one of four non-competing sponsors you get to share their expertise and demonstrate thought leadership.
Conversational
A total of eleven hours of structured and informal opportunities to build relationships with CIOs.
Engaging
“Great presentations, really good content, lots of good discussion
with other CIOs on challenges and opportunities. I learned a lot.
A good use of my time”
Barry Smith, CIO, Skanska
Previous attendees
Speakers and Advsiory Board Members from the last event.
Paul Coby,
Group CIO
Johnson Matthey
Clare Patterson,
CIO
Shell Energy
Cait O’Riordan,
CPO & CTO
Financial Times
Robin Dargue,
Global CIO
WPP Group
Paul Coby,
Group CIO
Johnson Matthey
Trevor Hanna,
IS Director
Associated British Foods
Charlotte Baldwin,
CIO
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Charlotte Light,
CPO & CTO
Channel 4
Garry Fingland,
Global CIO
The Weir Group
Ian Cohen,
Group CIO
Addison Lee
CIOs attended from
“Really well organised and attendees were all at a similar level. Plenty of
time for table chats and networking.”
Charles Ewen, CIO, Met Office
Sponsors
Four sponsors co-host the events
The Lead sponsor is Deloitte
Partner
CIO Icons is hosted in Partnership with La Fosse Associates
“A great way to deepen relationships with new and existing clients as our
technology underpins most business model transformations.
CIO Icons fits well with our brand.”
Margarete McGrath
Chief Digital Officer for Dell Technologies, UK and Ireland
Quality of the event
100% of attendees from the last event rated it as ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’
They rated it 8.5 on 10 as an event they would recommend to their colleagues
Conversational
“I don’t usually attend events, but the mix of CIOs from large companies
and the ability to get into proper conversations about our shared
challenges was really compelling.”
David Henderson, CIO, Global
Content
The agenda will include case studies from eminent CIOs on how to:
Set and deliver a technology strategy,
Build and manage an agile and innovative team,
Help create a more product (or customer) focused business,
Communicate technology strategy and,
How technology will affect their businesses over the next 3 to 5 years
to take full advantage of the opportunities presented.
A majority of the day is spent in structured discussions on the challenges faced by CIOs.
Sponsors are central to these discussions.