IDC European CIO Summit 2018 | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 16 September 2018 | Grande Real Villa Italia Hotel & Spa, R. Frei Nicolau de Oliveira 100, 2750 Cascais, Portugal

For the 5th time IDC convenes top CIOs from around Europe to discuss the issues most critical to their success in 2018 and beyond. The CIO Summit provides two days of learning, peer interactions and exploring the latest IT, Digital and Business trends that will help to shape and improve your business. Furthermore you will gain new impulses to drive your IT Initiatives in the right direction all year long.

The theme of the summit will revolve around “The European CIO in 2018: Orchestrating Business Transformation and Digital IT” with workshops, panels and debates focusing on how European Organizations will execute on their respective roadmaps and landmark use cases to becoming “Digital-Native Enterprise” where disruptive innovation is “business as usual”.

Key Themes
• Accelerating DX - Technology-centric transformation altering business and society
• Pace of change - Technology capabilities enable sustainable change at the speed of digital business
• DX delta- Leaders and disruptors widen performance gap
• Human versus machine - The impact of AI and automation
• Sense, compute, actuate - The new data-centric paradigm
• Platform disruption - Unleashing digital innovation's power for scale
• Cyberthreats - Theft, ransomware, and cyberattack on the rise
• Shifting economics - Changing value structures and the rise of digital capital
• The future workforce - Global demand for digital talent
• Innovation impasse - Legacy systems constraining transformation