Roundtable
Information Security

DXC and Inspired Business Media Cybersecurity Partner Event

Join us for an engaging discussion on AI Innovation and Data Security: Building Trust and Driving Growth in 2025
April 2, 2025
UK & Ireland

DXC and Inspired Business Media Cybersecurity Partner Event

A Night to Celebrate Our Valued Partners!

As respected and loyal partners of DXC Technology, we want to take a moment to say thank you in style! In collaboration with Inspired Business Media, who have helped us deliver outstanding CISO events, we’re hosting an exclusive evening of connection, insight, and appreciation.

This special event will feature key DXC Technology executives, sharing their vision and reflecting on the strong partnerships that drive our success. It’s also a fantastic opportunity to mingle with fellow DXC partners and gain deeper insight into DXC’s evolving role in the cybersecurity space—and how you fit into the future.

Adding to the excitement, Pramel Shah, CRO at Inspired Business Media, will present the impactful events they run, the benefits they bring, and how DXC partners can get involved in 2025.

The evening will be expertly hosted by the fabulous Michelle Ayres, who you all know and love! Plus, expect great food, refreshing drinks, and plenty of opportunities to create lasting memories.

📅 Join us from 18:00 – Let’s celebrate and look ahead to an even brighter future together!

Michelle's Challenge

Who can bring in the best and or unique company merchandise.

“I think the product demos are really good, and I’ve enjoyed that. It educates me on what's happening in technology. Also I like to know what's happening behind people's day jobs in a similar role to mine. And so hearing some of the presenters speak about what they're facing as their challenges, they resonate with me.”
Mike Samra
CTO, The AA
“As an attendee, the value I've got from attending this is actually speaking and meeting with like minded people. I think it's really interesting, having conversations about what you do in your day job and being able to compare it with others. And from that, you end up solutionising over a conversation or over food and drinks.”
Goher Mohammed
Group Head of IT Security, L&Q
“I've had some great conversations today, talking to suppliers. 1 of them has made me think about some of the security aspects that I have within my own organisation. We have a good comprehensive security program going on, where we are at the moment. But there's been a few moments where it's made me think, have I got these things covered?”
Vicky Higgin
CDIO, Cityfibre
“Bring lots of water because you're gonna talk a lot. I think, it's just great to kind of get out and meet people and to see what other people are doing and go with an open mind because you'll actually learn a lot and you'll find people, I suppose, that have synergies with you and what you're trying to achieve.”
Michelle Kearns
Head of IT - Boots Ireland
“I think for me personally, for an organisation that is quite legacy, it's great to take forward some of the best practice that we've seen from other, speakers and and sessions today, really going away to look at how we can sort of drive the AI journey within our own business and how we can use data better to leverage, really insightful decision making.”
Neil Shah
IT & Digital Director, Arriva UK Trains
“I think there's been some really good presentations particularly around you know, everyone's talking about AI, but what does that really mean? There have been some good conversations around how we mesh AI with human interaction to make sure we're getting the best of both worlds.”
Andy Piper
CISO - Investment Bank, Barclays
“It's great to get the condensed meetings together. So it's actually quite useful from a time perspective for us to be able to do that. And actually, we've had an opportunity to appear out of one of the meetings. So it's great that that could potentially fund the entire event for us. And, now, that propels us to want to do more of these events with you.”
Robin Wright
Senior Account Executive, Fortra
“The network that we've established and built today, always goes a long way into having better conversations, getting better insights with the people we work with, and ultimately just delivering better all around service. So it's been a really great day and I highly recommend it to anybody as well.”
Marco Oliver
Co-founder & CEO at Configur
“The value to Devoteam of sponsoring this event has been an opportunity to present to the delegates, but also to have a number of really high quality 1 on 1 meetings with, with business and tech leaders from the UK. Some really inspirational people delivering some fantastic transformations. So it's been really good to talk to them.”
Richard Andrews
Managing Director UK&I, DevoTeam
“This is the 3rd event we’ve done with Inspire Business Media. And what I'm starting to see is that whilst we may pick up opportunities that can benefit our business in the short term. I'm starting to see real long term benefits and building relationships as I'm walking through the room. It's not just about meeting somebody and doing a meeting and generating a new project or a new opportunity. It's really meeting people that can amplify our message. And I think that's gonna drive a lot of value for our business long term.”
Andy Mullings
Global Director, Bluprintx
“The people who have been attending on the buyer side have definitely been the type of stakeholders that we would like to engage with as vendors. These are decision makers. These are influencers. These are high level ROI conversations. It’s been amazing.”
Yoav Lebens
UK Country Manager, OX Security
“The opportunity to speak to people both from a kind of one to one networking standpoint, over a coffee, face to face is really useful, really powerful to be able to swap those sort of war stories around how we're encountering challenges and how we're kind of overcoming them.”
Ben Trethowan
CISO, BRIT Insurance
“It's helping us to meet with key CISO target audiences that we would typically only dream of trying to meet in a typical financial year. So having 10 guaranteed meetings as part of the conference agenda has really, really helped us boost the pipeline and start those conversations.”
Chris Whelan
UK Regional Marketing Lead, NCC Group
“You know, for me, coming to an event like this has a huge impact, not only on my ability to build my personal brand a little bit, which is always really, nice thing for me to be able to do, but also in just taking away these really, really insightful moments from other people who are in the trenches as well and being able to implement them in my team.”
Heather Hurd
Senior Director, Content Marketing, FIS Global

Agenda

18:00
19:00
Drinks and Canapes
19:00
19:10
Welcome and Introductions
19:10
19:30
John Mundell - Cybersecurity Overview
19:30
19:50
Dave Spence - Senior Advisor for Delivery by DXC
19:50
20:10
Rod Babington - A leader in Security & Defence: from the trenches to the board room
20:10
20:30
Pramel Shah - Inspired Business Media Overview
20:30
22:30
Drinks and Networking
Drinks and Canapes
Welcome and Introductions
John Mundell - Cybersecurity Overview
Dave Spence - Senior Advisor for Delivery by DXC
Rod Babington - A leader in Security & Defence: from the trenches to the board room
Pramel Shah - Inspired Business Media Overview
Drinks and Networking

Why Attend?

Exclusive Networking

Connect with senior industry professionals in an intimate setting. Build valuable relationships that can lead to future business opportunities and collaborations.

Insightful Discussions

Engage in deep, meaningful conversations on key industry topics. Gain fresh perspectives and actionable insights from thought leaders and peers.

Tailored Content

Participate in discussions specifically designed to address your business needs and challenges. Benefit from content that is relevant and immediately applicable to your organisation.

Strategic Takeaways

Leave with practical strategies and ideas to implement in your business. Enhance your approach and drive growth with insights gained from the roundtable discussions.

About the Hosts

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates.

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