Just when you thought you had seen it all — post-pandemic blues, geopolitical conflicts, and global market volatility — along comes the AI-led tech revolution to pose even more pivotal change. As a tech leader, you now have a choice: Remain reactive and wait until the storm passes (which is not in the forecast any time soon), or actively seize the opportunity to craft a technology strategy and roadmap that enables and fuels AI opportunities, adeptly navigates risk, and drives business results.

While I already sense a certain level of AI fatigue among European tech executives, this is still the right time to responsibly and ethically embed AI into your organization, scale beyond the single use case, and unlock AI computing and agentic systems for intelligent automation, quick decision-making, and reimagined digital experiences. At the same time, you need to rethink your cloud strategy for composability, cybersecurity, and sovereignty, and you need to use application generation platforms to swiftly turn business need into reality, cut spiraling vendor costs, and break free from crippling tech debt.

You’ll Never Walk Alone

It’s always good to hear that you are not the only one feeling overwhelmed with the latest challenges. To navigate this defining moment and forge the strategies essential for this new era, I invite you to join Forrester’s leading minds and your peers at Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA in London October 8–10. At this year’s event, we’ll equip technology and security leaders with the skills, practices, and platforms to master today’s tech mayhem and achieve high performance in a volatile environment.

At T&I Summit, we will offer over 40 in-depth track sessions, workshops, and discussions where you can gain practical insights and tangible strategies to implement within your organization. Whether you are building your AI strategy, modernizing your tech stack, or securing your organization in testing times, you’ll return empowered to drive innovation and business value. Here are three themes that we are going to focus on at this year’s Summit.

Take Back Control

With all the changes happening now and more coming, things feel a bit out of control for most tech leaders. At T&I Summit, we’ll provide the strategic frameworks that tech leaders need to regain control and drive business value. Attendees will learn how to:

  • Craft resilient IT strategies and actionable roadmaps that harness emerging tech, with a focus on AI’s transformative impact on enterprise architecture and core IT capabilities.
  • Master pragmatic approaches to value delivery and financial management fit for a dynamic world.
  • Deconstruct and anticipate current and emerging risks; address digital sovereignty, AI, and other regulatory complexities head on; and act decisively to secure your organization.

Break Down The Silos

Siloed business operations have been the stumbling block for effective technology delivery for many years. Tech leaders and their business partners need to unite and create a culture of continual alignment with changing business needs. At T&I Summit, you’ll learn how modern tech strategies enable the reconfiguration of siloed core systems into scalable platforms and leverage the latest emerging technologies for differentiation and growth. We’ll share the best practices for reducing technical debt and the blueprints for changing traditional tech fabric into composable assets that scale.

Scale AI

AI promises to reforge business, but scaling beyond the first single use case is often hard. To realize this promise, organizations need an ambitious vision for process redesign, paired with advanced data and automation fabrics. In London, we’ll help you create a robust data and AI strategy, implement strong data and AI governance, and choose the right technologies to leverage enterprise data and drive process orchestration. The key to AI success is understanding how to drive transformation by scaling AI and emerging tech beyond the single use case, creating a culture of continual innovation for business growth.

Hope To See You In London

As I write this, the Forrester team is busy preparing and rehearsing all the sessions for Technology & Innovation Summit EMEA, and from what I’ve seen already, this promises to be another great event. I sincerely hope that you will be able to join us and look forward to seeing you all there.