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Digital services in regulated environments are becoming more interconnected, data intensive and increasingly automated. As organisations move toward real-time analytics, advanced automation and AI-enabled processes, a recurring challenge emerges: CIOs retain full accountability for performance, continuity and compliance, yet execution is distributed across diverse platforms, cloud providers and third-party ecosystems.
This round table focuses on how organisations regain practical, enforceable control over their most critical digital services.
The discussion explores three core themes:
- Critical digital assets and data flows
Which parts of the service landscape have become non-negotiable due to business, supervisory or operational pressure, and how advanced analytics and AI increase the sensitivity and performance requirements of these assets.
- Operational autonomy and dependency risk
Where organisations feel their control is weakened by platform constraints, cloud concentration, hybrid fragmentation or vendor lock-in, and how these dependencies affect resilience, compliance and real-time service reliability.
- AI as a stress test on digital foundations
How AI-driven or latency-sensitive workloads expose the limits of existing infrastructure, require predictable performance, and elevate the importance of
controlled execution environments capable of handling sensitive data and critical workloads.
The objective of the session is to create a clear, peer-derived view of what operational control, autonomy and resilience must look like today, and how these capabilities need to evolve as organisations prepare for more data-intensive, AI-enabled and time-critical digital services. It is an opportunity to compare how to address current pressures, where vulnerabilities already exist, and what conditions will be required tomorrow to operate critical digital services with confidence at scale.
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