Practitioner-led events for City technology leaders. Chatham House rules. No slides and sales.
Request to JoinThe City CIO Club brings together a small, carefully selected group of CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders from across the City of London and its surrounding financial and professional services ecosystem.
We host focused events on the issues that actually matter: infrastructure, risk, regulation, emerging technology, and the commercial reality of running large-scale operations. Every session runs under Chatham House rules. There are no vendor presentations, no sponsored content, and no sales pitches. Experienced practitioners sharing what they are actually doing.
Membership is by application and invitation only.
Each month we host a dinner and a webinar, each on a different topic. Dinners are held in the City under Chatham House rules. Webinars are open to all members.
Most organisations are spending heavily on AI, but very few can point to measurable commercial returns. This dinner examines what separates the companies extracting genuine value from those still running pilots, and why the gap between AI investment and AI income is proving so hard to close.
AI systems that don't just advise but act: scheduling, purchasing, triaging, coding. What agentic AI means for enterprise operations, where it is already running in production, and the governance challenges of handing decision-making authority to machines.
AI has turned data centres into the fastest-growing consumers of electricity on the planet. Three focused sessions on the energy crisis and grid constraints, cooling at the edge of physics, and the risk and regulatory response taking shape across Europe and the US. Expert speakers followed by roundtable discussion.
Nearly 40% of CIOs expect to overspend on digital infrastructure in the next 18 months, with technical debt the primary driver. How the most effective technology leaders are quantifying, communicating, and systematically reducing the legacy burden while still delivering new capability.
How stablecoin payment rails are reshaping settlement, treasury operations, and cross-border transactions. What CIOs running payments and treasury systems need to understand about the technology infrastructure underpinning the next generation of financial plumbing.
Premiums rising, exclusions multiplying, and regulators pushing personal liability onto technology leaders. How the cyber insurance market is reshaping risk ownership inside organisations, and what CIOs and CISOs need to do before their next renewal.
Compute capacity, data residency requirements, and the geopolitical forces reshaping where and how organisations process their most sensitive workloads. What happens when the demand for GPU capacity collides with tightening rules about where data can live and who can access it.
Attackers are using AI to generate phishing at scale, evade detection, and automate reconnaissance. How the threat landscape has shifted, what autonomous detection and response looks like in practice, and why the traditional SOC model is breaking down.
The competition for engineering and AI talent has reshaped hiring, retention, and outsourcing strategies across the City. Where the skills gaps actually are, how the relationship between in-house teams and service providers is changing, and what the smartest CIOs are doing differently.
Cloud spending has overshot forecasts across the board. The rise of FinOps, the quiet trend of workload repatriation, and how technology leaders are renegotiating their relationship with hyperscalers as the economics of cloud shift.
DORA, the EU AI Act, NIS2, and the growing regulatory burden on technology leaders. How the compliance landscape is reshaping the CIO role, what boards actually need to hear about technology risk, and why operational resilience has become the issue that gets you invited to the boardroom.
Every enterprise carries systems it cannot easily replace. How to make the strategic call on what to retire, what to wrap, and what to rebuild, and how the most effective CIOs are making the case for modernisation investment when the board would rather spend on AI.
Membership gives you access to a private network of senior technology leaders across the City, and a set of resources designed to keep you informed, connected, and ahead of the curve.
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