5th annual Business Innovation Summit

5th annual Business Innovation Summit
When: 26 Mar 2025 Where: London, United Kingdom 60 Speakers Where to register: events.economist.com

AI offers potential—but how can leaders measure impact? This summit brings together senior executives from diverse industries and disciplines—including strategy, technology, operations and data—to explore vital trends affecting corporate performance and transformation strategies in London.

This programme scrutinises the impact and value of AI and other frontier technologies and how to measure this. Get these insights from influential speakers and leave confident in transforming your organisation while delivering profits.

Speakers

Angela Byrne
Chief executive, Retail Bank, NatWest NatWest Group
Loretta Franks
Chief data & analytics officer, Kellanova Kellanova
Aneesh Raman
Chief economic opportunity officer, LinkedIn LinkedIn
Jessica Hall
Chief product officer, Just Eat Takeaway.com Just Eat Takeaway.com
Taner Akcok
Chief technology officer, corporate bank Germany and global head of API banking, Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank
Huiming Chen
Chief financial officer, Europe, Illumina Illumination AI
Dan Winn
Chief technology officer, Deliveroo
Marcin Detyniecki
Group chief data scientist & head of AI research and thought leadership, AXA Axar AI
Danielle D’Lima
Vice-president operations, Depop
Bastien Parizot
Senior vice-president IT & digital, Reckitt Reckitt
Renaud Heyd
Chief financial officer, SAP newsapi.ai
Arul Daniel
Chief information officer, Twitch Twitch
Betsabeh Madani-Hermann
Global head of research, Philips Philips
Niresh Rajah
Chief data & artificial intelligence officer, DLA Piper DLA Piper
Idan Vlodinger
Chief executive, Statement.io
Amitabh Apte
Chief digital and technology officer, Barilla Barilla Group
Costi Perricos
Global gen AI lead, Deloitte Deloitte
Shreya Ruikar
Head of AI strategy – HR, DHL Group
Jon Steinberg
Director, global policy campaigns, Google Google
Giovanni Di Filippo
President, EMEA infrastructure solutions, Lenovo Lenovo
Nadine Thomson
former president, product operations, Choreograph, WPP WPP
Greg Smith
Executive director and general manager EMEA SSG Sales, Lenovo Lenovo New Vision
Grzegorz (Greg) Ombach
Head of disruptive research and technology, senior vice-president, Airbus Airbus
Stacey Winters
North & South Europe gen AI lead, Deloitte Deloitte
Winny Li
Group treasurer, PPD Clippd
Eléonore Crespo
Co-chief executive, Pigment
Giorgia Molajoni
Chief technology officer, Plenitude
Abraham Georgakarakos
Vice-president of digital, e-commerce, and AI, Virgin Media O2 Virgin Media O2
Claire Davenport
Chief operating officer, Multiverse
Pankaj Kaul
Chief risk officer, A-CAP, Autoliv
Lorraine Barnes
UK gen AI lead, Deloitte Deloitte
Hebe Middlemiss
Head AI strategy and innovation, research and development, AstraZeneca AstraZeneca
Timo Elliott
Vice-president, global innovation advocate, digital transformation, analytics, and AI/ML, SAP SapienML
Peter Jackson
Global head of data office (interim), Schroders
Usha Mishra
Chief of social policy, UNICEF China UNICEF
James Waters
Senior vice-president and chief business officer, Booking.com Booking.com
Ian MacKenzie
Chief operations and technology officer, St. James's Place Placer.ai
Jon Lexa
President, Sana Sana
Jarek Wojnarowski
Vice-president global business services management, Pandora Pandora Radio
Fabrizio Antonelli
Global head of data and AI, Swarovski
Pinar Ozcan
Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation, Oxford University Oxford Onco-Therapeutics
Tikiri Wanduragala
Senior consultant infrastructure solutions EMEA, Lenovo Lenovo
Royston da Costa
Assistant Treasurer, CTP, AffilACT Ferguson
Tony Wimmer
Head of data & analytics, payments, J.P. Morgan J.P. Morgan & Co.
Isabell Welpe
Professor of strategy, Technical University of Munich Munich Re
Rajeev Jain
Leader, finance operations transformation, HP QANDA(Mathpresso)
Ahmed Khedr
Vice-president retail digital transformation, e& Size&Me
Martin Thelle
Christina Chen
Chief executive, First AI Group Sai Group
Tram Anh Nguyen
Co-founder, CFTE
Marco Rossetti
Head of big data and AI, Vodafone Italy JS Italy
Ruth Miller
Principal consultant, Lenovo Lenovo
Morne Rossouw
Chief AI officer, Kyriba
Tania Saxl
Innovation director, Satalia, WPP WPP
Nick Curran
Chief growth officer, CI&T CI&T
David Pool
Data & AI development director, QA QANDA(Mathpresso)
Grace Anderson
Global vice-president gen AI & digital adoption, Sodexo Sodexo
Tahmid Quddus Islam
Vice-president, innovation and technology, Citi CITiO
Yemi Olagbaiye
Client solutions director, Softwire
Shane Afolabi
Head of pre-sales, Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer

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