The Technology Chapter NA

Workshop 1: Building a Modern Foundation: Driving Enterprise Agility with a Flexible DXP

Hosted by: Ricky Pan, Liferay 

For many IT leaders, the hurdle to digital transformation isn’t a lack of vision—it’s the complexity of existing systems. Join this session to see how a modern, flexible DXP serves as the foundation for your digital ecosystem. We will demonstrate how to bridge legacy data into modern, AI-ready interfaces, allowing you to evolve your architecture without the risk of a "rip-and-replace."
 

Workshop 2: Digital Employee Experience as a Competitive Advantage

Hosted by: TBC 

Technology has become central to employee engagement, collaboration and productivity, most organisations would say they know this already. Fewer would say their employees actually feel it day to day. This session explores how technology leaders are redefining the workplace to attract talent, improve performance and support modern ways of working, and asks how much of that redefinition is felt by employees, versus described in an engagement survey.
 

Workshop 3: From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Value: Building, Governing, and Scaling AI

Hosted by: John Teuber, Retool

• Moving AI initiatives from experimentation to production and measurable business value
• Governing AI-built and vibe-coded applications as more teams across the business become builders
• Balancing business-led innovation with the visibility, control, and guardrails needed to scale AI across the enterprise
   

Workshop 4: Resilience Planning for the Next Disruption: Ransomware, natural disasters, workforce disruption

Hosted by: Doral Cooke, Dizzion 

Ransomware, natural disasters, workforce disruption - how organizations build IT environments that can absorb shocks without weeks of recovery. Actions and takeaways will be provided for attendees.

Workshop 5: Build, Buy or Partner? Navigating the New Technology Ecosystem

Hosted by: Amit Dinegare, Prgx

This discussion explores how technology leaders are evaluating investment decisions, managing sprawling vendor ecosystems, and building strategies flexible enough to hold up in a market that won't sit still.

Workshop 6: Upgrade or Rip and Replace: The Technical Debt Dilemma

Hosted by: Tashekka Fleming, State Court of Fulton County

Legacy applications limit agility, innovation and resilience, most of us know that already. The harder question is why so much of it is still there. This discussion explores how organisations are modernising application estates and managing technical debt without disrupting day to day operations, and asks how close ambition, risk and commercial reality really are to balance, versus how close we say they are.

Demo: Designing Experience-Centric Architectures: Building Platforms Around the Customer Journey

Hosted by: Ricky Pan, Liferay 

Experience is not just a design choice—it is an architectural requirement. Too often, our technical foundations reflect internal departmental silos rather than the actual path a user takes. In this interactive workshop, we will shift the focus back to the user, exploring how to build a unified experience layer to improve CX and EX journeys.

Workshop 7: Simplifying Enterprise Networks to Fuel your AI Ambition

Hosted by: Tata Communications 

As organizations scale AI, the network is becoming a critical enabler and a potential point of failure. This workshop explores how Tata Communications’ unified network fabric can simplify connectivity across data centres, multi-cloud and hybrid environments, while providing greater intelligence, visibility and control. Discover how a seamless, programmable and AI-ready network can turn complexity into competitive advantage and scale with the next generation of AI.

Workshop 8: Edge Intelligence: Processing Data Where It Matters

Hosted by: TBC

This discussion explores where edge technologies are genuinely delivering value, and asks what it actually takes to prepare for increasingly distributed technology environments, rather than just adding another layer of infrastructure to manage.