The media industry has undergone a greater transformation at a greater pace than most industries could adapt to. When disruption is the new normal how do you leverage your brand, trust and values in an increasingly noisy space to existing and new audiences? Guardian News and Media’s Chief Digital Officer, Zach Brand, shows what you need to do to build the right systems and culture to ensure you can be agile, authentic and lead the pack.

Ocado Technology develops the innovative software and systems that power the online grocery retail platforms of Ocado.com (the world's largest online-only grocery retailer) and Morrisons (the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain). In this presentation Anne-Marie will look at the level of digital technology in place and how that's been an enabler to become the worlds largest online-only grocery store.

How do you engender Digital Transformation when your Technical Debt is equal to the GDP of a small country? Lack of investment and a technology race to the bottom for government organisations over many years has left an internal digital environment that frustrates colleagues, impacts operations and thwarts digital transformation.  It’s the flipside to the brilliant work Government Digital Services and departments are doing to transform the public facing services.  How are we solving this for colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions?

In this presentation Darren will look at how digital transformation is more than Alexa and a pretty website. Darren will talk about the journey of transformation, the barriers and the reasons we're succeeding. The presentation will feature lessons learnt through both success and failure.

Zach Brand, Chief Digital Officer, The Guardian

Anne-Marie Neatham, Chief Operations Officer, Ocado Technology

Helen Milner, Chief Executive Officer, Good Things Foundation

Darren Goldsby, Chief Digital Officer, The Jamie Oliver Group

This session will give the chance for the audience to ask questions to our panel session from the keynote talks, we will also be chatting further with our speakers on topics such as digital disruption, digital vision and digital strategy.

Exhibition Area 

The utilities industry is currently one of the most exciting places to work. Substantial changes in the way we deliver/consume/trade and manage energy and it’s related infrastructure are constantly driving innovation and regulatory change. These changes in turn mean we need to accommodate new approaches to allow us to meet the demands of our customers. Internal customers who want to be able to experiment with new technologies, generate proof of concept/value prototypes without the need to navigate a traditional IT governance process. External customers who expect to be able to access their data using new channels, with new insights. With these new demands in mind National Grid created ngLabs. We are a technology innovation team based in the UK and US who work with the both regulated and non-regulated businesses. This presentation will look at the challenges we have faced, the projects we have delivered (successes and failures) and how we are helping to shape future business strategy fuelled by espresso, a healthy disrespect for the conventional ways of delivering IT and a shared love of computer games.

With digital rapidly disrupting the way customers are interacting with services and how people want to give to a cause, the charity sector is being forced to look at their current models, ways of working and use of technology in order to continue to meet service user need and raise funds. Polly will explore the successes and challenges the British Red Cross has faced on their own digital transformation so far, why digital skills are crucial to this journey and how they are starting to better utilise technology to help people in crisis.

Yell.com is the UK’s leading online business directory. Our website was launched in the UK in 1996 by the publishers of the Yellow Pages directories. Since then, we have put the names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 2.8 million businesses¹ at your fingertips. David will look at the journey taken from legacy systems to a new digital business model.

A standing lunch will be served in the exhibition area, a great chance to meet fellow attendees and