Date:
24 June 2026
Time:
8:30
GMT
Location:
Duck & Waffle, 110 Bishopsgate London, EC2N 4AY

Bloomreach: Smarter Engagement for Digital Leaders

Summary

Your customers expect personalised experiences. Your teams need smarter tools. Your business demands growth. This briefing is about delivering all three.

Join Chief Digital Officers and senior digital leaders from leading B2C brands for an exclusive, invitation-only breakfast roundtable exploring how agentic AI and marketing automation are transforming customer engagement — and what it means for your organisation right now.

 

  • Driving personalisation at scale. Siloed data and disconnected tech stacks don’t have to mean generic customer experiences. Discover how leading B2C brands use Bloomreach to unify customer data and deliver hyper-personalised, omnichannel journeys — at speed and scale.
  • Engagement that converts and retains. From acquisition to loyalty, learn how to proactively engage customers at every stage of their lifecycle — with the right message, in the right moment, across every channel.
  • AI-powered automation that frees your teams. See how Bloomreach’s agentic AI lifts campaign performance, reduces manual overhead, and gives your teams the bandwidth to focus on strategy and innovation.

Agenda

Tuesday, 20th September, 2016
8.30 - 9:30

Morning registration & breakfast discussion groups

Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the key themes of the event over the course of breakfast at designated tables

9:30 - 10:40

Interactive session: Disaster recovery and business continuity exercise: Avoiding the newsroom

The audience will be broken down into smaller working groups and then be presented with an attack scenario.

The team members will have the opportunity to discuss how this will effect their own organisation and compare their differing response strategies. The scenario will continue to evolve and update as the session runs and will continue to look at the appropriateness of contingency plans, PR response of the company and disruption the scenario would cause.

Brian Brackenborough, CISO, Channel 4
Barry J Coatesworth, Group CISO, JLT Group
Mark Moran, Head of Business Continuity & Crisis Management, BBC

10:40 - 11:00Coffee break & networking
11:00 - 11:25Workshop 5: Leveraging DNS to block threats before they get into your enterprise

Hosted by Cisco-Endorsement-Lockup-side-by-side (1)

Paolo Passeri, Consulting Systems Engineer

11:00 - 13:05

One-to-One meetings

Intelligently matched one-to-one meetings:

  • Vulnerability Management
  • Security Awareness
  • Data Governance & DLP
  • Threat Intelligence
  • PUM & Authentication
  • IT Forensics
  • Third Party Risk Management
  • GRC
  • Malware protection
  • Identity & Access Management
11:25 - 11:50One-to-One Networking
11:50 - 12:15Workshop 6: Emerging Infosec Risks, Threats and Trends

Hosted by SecureWorks

Chris Yule, Senior Principal Consultant, Security Strategy

12:15 - 13:05One-to-One Networking

13:05 - 14:00 Networking Lunch
Security StrategyData, Risk & Governance
14:00 - 14.35

Building resilience into Information Security

  • With limited resources and an ever growing number of threats - What should be prioritised? How should the budget be spread?
  • Using agile methods to increase defence capabilities

Ante Gulam, Global CISO, MetaPack Group

14:00 - 14:35

Security architecture: retaining control as infrastructure diverges

  • Implementing controls across all systems and platforms that secure critical assets
  • Controlling privileged access management
  • Managing legacy and cloud access rights
  • Aligning controls and system design

Julian Osborne, CISO, Volkswagen Group

14:35 - 15:10

Building a security focussed organisation that is hungry to learn

  • Generating demand and desire for education and awareness activities
  • Creating security awareness advocates at all levels of the organisation
  • Driving continuous improvement

Thom Langford, CISO, Publicis Groupe
15.10 - 15.45

Security and the user experience - mitigating danger and supporting operators

  • How can information security mitigate the dangers of digital transformation?
  • Balancing operational efficiency, company security and corporate reputation
  • Ensuring the right systems are in place to support the chosen balance

Simon Salmon, Head of IT Nottingham Security Council

15.45 - 16.00Closing remarks from the Chairman
16.00End of the event
REQUEST AN INVITATION
OR BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW!