As AI systems become increasingly agentic - acting with more autonomy, initiative, and influence - the need for a new kind of human leadership has never been greater. Technology may accelerate decisions, but it cannot set direction, build trust, or inspire people to change. That’s the role of agentic leadership: intentional, visible, and human-centred. 

Drawing on both current research and her experience leading global data programmes and coaching senior executives, Helen Mannion will show why organisations must evolve their leadership as much as their technology. 

Attendees will leave with clear insight into how they can accelerate AI adoption in organisations, the specific leadership behaviours that make the biggest difference, and practical steps they can take to start building the conditions for AI to succeed.

We all understand the importance of a business brand or a personal brand. But every team has a brand too - a reputation that shapes how others see you, trust you, and choose to work with you. The challenge is that most leaders don’t intentionally define it.

In this interactive VIP session, Helen Mannion will guide senior leaders through a Team Brand 360 reflection, exploring how their teams are perceived today and how they want to be known tomorrow. Drawing on lessons from personal branding and customer experience, she’ll show how the same principles - clarity, consistency, and visibility - can help teams strengthen their identity and influence.

Attendees will leave with practical tools to start shaping their team brand and fresh insight into how a structured Team 360 process, training, and coaching can accelerate adoption and embed culture change at scale.

Data governance can feel like rules slowing you down – but done well, it does the opposite. It gives clarity, builds trust, and lets teams move faster with less risk.

This interactive session will explore how to make governance practical, human, and useful in your day-to-day work. We’ll focus on the real decisions people make every day, how to clarify ownership, and how to overcome common blockers without adding unnecessary overhead.

Through scenario-based exercises and a simple governance mapping activity, you’ll leave with actionable steps to take back to your organisation – helping you turn governance from a box-ticking exercise into a genuine business enabler.

AI is as revolutionary to data as the computer was to the typewriter.

The hype of GenAI is unavoidable. In today’s AI-driven world, how can you enable and educate your organisation to embrace a GenAI strategy and narrow down your use cases to those that truly drive value?

Struggle to get the investment you need for business-critical data management projects? It can feel like you’re banging your head against a wall to get the business to appreciate its importance. But, as a profession, we need to better explain the foundational role it plays in delivering business outcomes. 

Join Helen Mannion, Chief Data Officer at Specsavers, Paula Rudkin, Partner & Head of Data Management at Knight Frank and Antony Marlow, Director of Data Management at Cynozure as together they aim to create the spark that ignites the fire for how we better engage, communicate and relate to our business colleagues on this topic. 

Expect to take away ideas, different approaches and be inspired to embrace a new way of getting data management the look-in your business needs to enable its success.