The event starts at 08:00 with registration and a light breakfast. Take this opportunity to connect with senior data and AI leaders, setting the stage for a day of insightful discussions and networking.
Our five trends explore the nuanced landscape where human experience meets technology and societal changes, revealing critical insights for forward-thinking leaders. This year, we delve into how AI is shaping people’s life journeys, raising profound questions about meaning, worth and purpose. We highlight the need for heroes to champion paths where AI makes humans more, not less. We also examine the rising energy among people over 40, as demographics, culture and science collide to empower them to age with optimism. In a world captivated by spectacle, we look at why stability is a need rising in value, and how culture through play is manifesting in local, live and offline experiences—and what these shifts means for businesses globally.
For some, Agentic AI feels out of reach, but those who are moving from experimentation to deployment are feeling the benefits of first-mover advantage. In this session, leaders already leveraging Agentic AI within their organisations will talk about how they navigated complexity, differing levels of readiness and balanced ethical responsibility in deploying these programmes; all whilst maintaining human oversight, accountable design and thoughtful design for scaling purposes.
As data and AI move from enablement to execution, the role of the Chief Data Officer is rapidly evolving. This session explores what’s next for the CDO, shifting from data stewardship to business leadership, owning outcomes, driving adoption, and shaping how organisations make decisions with AI.
Nectar360 powers one of the UK’s largest loyalty ecosystems, leveraging transactional and behavioural data from over 20 million collectors to create valuable relationships between the UK’s favourite brands and their customers. This session will explore practical approaches to data monetisation, from precision-targeted retail media and closed-loop attribution, to developing new revenue streams and partnerships. Walk away with the know-how to responsibly and effectively harnessing data as an asset to drive growth, differentiation and long-term value.
This is your chance to network with peers, exchange ideas, and continue building connections in a relaxed, collaborative environment.
Each roundtable will focus on an expertly curated scenario designed to address a challenge facing date leaders. Choose two tables based on the scenarios which most resonate with you. There will be two rotations, and each discussion will last 40 minutes.
From Ambition to Action: Aligning AI Strategy with Executive Vision
How to Gain Support for your Data Team Across the Business
The Evolving Role of the CDO Alongside the Rise of AI
Connecting Data Initiatives to Enterprise Impact
Building AI That Works: Operational Value in a Regulated World
Removing the Human from the Loop without Compromising Customer Experiences
Embedding Data Capability Across the Business
AI Adoption: Scaling Beyond Proof of Concept
Leading Large-Scale Data Transformations: Successes and Lessons Learned
Building Maturity in Data Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
How Can Data Leaders Shift From ‘AI Theatre’ To Delivering Measurable, Board-Visible Business Impact?
AI Literacy & Adoption As A Change Process: Why Strategy Alone Isn’t Enough
Intelligence at Scale: The Blueprint for AI-Ready Data Foundations
Embedding Data into the Core: Driving Performance in High-Stakes Environments
From Data Foundations to AI Advantage: Building Sustainable Competitive Edge
Scaling AI in Complex Ecosystems: Governance, Trust and Enterprise Adoption
From Insight to Income: Driving Measurable Business Value Through AI
Building the AI-Ready Organisation: Foundations, Governance and Growth
Operationalising Responsible AI: Embedding Ethics into Enterprise Delivery
Leading Through Change: People, Purpose and Performance in AI Transformation
Roundtable 1: From Ambition to Action: Aligning AI Strategy with Executive Vision
Roundtable 2: Building Robust Foundations to Ensure Safe Adoption of AI
Roundtable 3: Removing the Human from the Loop without Compromising Customer Experiences
Roundtable 4: Transforming Data from an Inhibitor or an Enabler
Roundtable 5: The Evolving Role of the CDO Alongside the Rise of AI
Roundtable 6: CIO vs CDO: Who Owns the Future of Data and AI?
Roundtable 7: How to Gain Support for your Data Team Across the Business
Roundtable 8: Connecting Data Initiatives to Enterprise Impact
From Ambition to Action: Aligning AI Strategy with Executive Vision
How to Gain Support for your Data Team Across the Business
The Evolving Role of the CDO Alongside the Rise of AI
Connecting Data Initiatives to Enterprise Impact
Building AI That Works: Operational Value in a Regulated World
Removing the Human from the Loop without Compromising Customer Experiences
Embedding Data Capability Across the Business
AI Adoption: Scaling Beyond Proof of Concept
Leading Large-Scale Data Transformations: Successes and Lessons Learned
Building Maturity in Data Teams to Drive Business Outcomes
How Can Data Leaders Shift From ‘AI Theatre’ To Delivering Measurable, Board-Visible Business Impact?
AI Literacy & Adoption As A Change Process: Why Strategy Alone Isn’t Enough
Intelligence at Scale: The Blueprint for AI-Ready Data Foundations
Embedding Data into the Core: Driving Performance in High-Stakes Environments
From Data Foundations to AI Advantage: Building Sustainable Competitive Edge
Scaling AI in Complex Ecosystems: Governance, Trust and Enterprise Adoption
From Insight to Income: Driving Measurable Business Value Through AI
Building the AI-Ready Organisation: Foundations, Governance and Growth
Operationalising Responsible AI: Embedding Ethics into Enterprise Delivery
Leading Through Change: People, Purpose and Performance in AI Transformation
Enjoy a delicious lunch while networking with fellow attendees. This is the perfect opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations, share insights, and build valuable connections with industry leaders and peers in the data and AI community.
With the turn of the year comes unique opportunities and hurdles to overcome for leaders in this space. This panel features the industry’s top minds to discuss how to deal with challenges such as impending AI disillusionment, appealing to a resistant workforce, creating genuinely valuable AI use cases that can scale as well as keeping data at the heart of their actions and decisions.
Many organisations invest heavily in producing data, yet struggle to turn it into reusable, business-ready assets. In this session, we explore a multi-year journey as Gary’s team deployed a business-aligned Common Data Model (CDM) to standardise data the moment it lands in the lake, creating consistency across systems and domains. This approach enables rapid deployment of cross-business use cases, accelerates AI delivery, and drives measurable returns.
A candid conversation with Johanna Hutchinson, 2025’s top-ranked DataIQ 100 Europe leader, exploring the most pressing challenges facing data leaders today. Drawing on her experience leading at scale in a highly regulated, high-stakes environment, Johanna will share how she is navigating the realities of building trust in data and AI, balancing innovation with governance, and demonstrating tangible business impact amid growing scrutiny and uncertainty. This session offers an honest, practical perspective on what it really takes to lead data successfully in 2025, and what data leaders must prioritise next.
Be part of the exclusive group of attendees networking with the 2026 DataIQ 100. Enjoy a selection of drinks as we celebrate the achievements of the most influential people in data and AI.
