The Studio

Martine Wright shares her incredible journey from surviving the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London to becoming a Team GB Paralympian at the 2012 Olympics.

Through her compelling story and refreshingly honest approach, Martine will inspires you to make choices, seize opportunities, embrace change, prioritise teamwork, pursue continuous improvement, and believe in yourself.

At a time of rapid technological disruption, technology executives arguably face a surprising new challenge: staying relevant. 

As AI, cybersecurity and digital business transformation increasingly dominate boardroom agendas, and as technology becomes integral across all departments, how can technology leaders ensure they remain integral to strategic decision-making at the top table?

This panel will explore the evolution of the CIO/CTO/CISO—and critically the relationships they must foster to drive influence, action and avoid being sidelined by increasingly tech-savvy organisations.

In partnership with Freshworks

Dive into dynamic discussions with your peers on the biggest challenges senior leaders are tackling across today’s business landscape.

In an engaging roundtable format, you'll have the chance to voice your perspective and hear fresh insights from fellow leaders in cross-industry conversations.

As artificial intelligence reshapes industries, organisations must evolve to stay competitive. This panel will explore the essential components of becoming AI-ready, focusing on innovative strategies for integrating AI into workflows and restructuring teams and data management in an AI-centric workplace.

In partnership with Confluent

Dive into dynamic discussions with your peers on the biggest challenges senior leaders are tackling across today’s business landscape.

In an engaging roundtable format, you'll have the chance to voice your perspective and hear fresh insights from fellow leaders in cross-industry conversations.

In this fireside chat, Freshworks CISO Jason Loomis shares hard-earned leadership lessons from his 20-year career at the forefront of tech innovation and security leadership. 

HotTopics, in collaboration with charity partner Good Things Foundation, is calling on the C-suite to take action.

Digital exclusion is a growing divide that affects millions—limiting access to jobs, education and essential public services. This is more than just a business issue, it is a social imperative.

In this panel discussion we will debate why the digital divide is growing, how it can be addressed through collaborative industry action, the impact of new frameworks and government guidance and how C-suite executives must respond.

When criminals used deepfake to impersonate the CFO, this firm lost $25 million in a sophisticated scam.

In this fireside chat at The Studio, this CIO exclusively shares the incident’s lead-up and aftermath with HotTopics' Doug Drinkwater, exploring how social engineering bypassed traditional defenses. The speaker also unpacks the clash between evolving threats — the evolution of deepfakes, voice biometrics, and cybercrime-as-a-service — and lagging enterprise security maturity, and how security-savvy organisations must respond.