Executive Roundtable Dinner | Thursday 10 September | 6:00pm | Corrigan’s, Mayfair, London
Hosted by Shaping Cloud

AI enables everyone to build.
You’re still accountable for everything built.

An intimate dinner for the technology leaders balancing innovation with control.

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What to expect

AI has changed the shape of enterprise technology faster than most operating models can adapt.

Employees can now create workflows, automations, copilots and business applications using AI and low-code tools with little or no central IT involvement. Innovation is accelerating rapidly, but inevitably so are the challenges around governance, visibility, security, supportability and cost control.

This private executive dinner hosted by Shaping Cloud brings together a small number of CIOs and senior technology leaders for a candid peer discussion around one of the defining questions facing modern IT leadership:

How do you enable faster innovation without losing operational and fiscal control?

We're keeping the table deliberately small and the guest list curated, so the conversation stays genuinely useful - an open, practical exchange between peers navigating the same challenges inside mid-sized and enterprise organisations - and all over an evening at Corrigan's Mayfair, Richard Corrigan's celebrated restaurant and a Mayfair institution.

What we'll explore

What you’ll take away

Over dinner, the discussion isn't scripted, but we expect it to touch on:

  • The operational reality of ‘AI readiness’ - what it actually translates to

  • The balance between innovation, governance and control

  • The next wave of shadow IT - and how to prevent it

  • The evolution of Azure estates for AI-era operating models

  • FinOps, cost visibility and commercial accountability

  • The changing role of the CIO and central IT function

We want guests to get a return in terms of both enjoyment and learning from their time spent with us, so we hope you will leave us with some great food and drink inside you and:

  • A clearer understanding of the operational foundations needed for successful AI adoption

  • Practical perspectives on governance, security and cloud operating models

  • Real-world insight into how organisations are managing AI-enabled innovation safely

  • Peer discussion around value, risk, cost and organisational change

  • A more modern view of how IT leadership is evolving

The Evening

As guests arrive, we settle in over welcome drinks and informal introductions - a relaxed start before the conversation begins.

Arrival & Drinks Reception

6:00 - 6:30pm

Welcome & Introductions

6:30pm

Opening the Roundtable Discussion

6:45pm

Dinner Served

7:15pm

Coffee & Closing Reflections

9:00pm

Places are limited and confirmed personally - please register your interest and we'll be in touch.

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