The DIN CEO Leadership Experience: 26 hours, exclusively for DIN CEOs

Thursday 11 March, 11am, to Friday 12 March, 1pm
Hosted by our partners Amazon Web Services and Salesforce at their London HQs

Welcome to DIN’s annual leadership experience, created exclusively for the chief executives in our network.

For 26 hours (yes, we’ve counted the sleep!), we’ll bring together as many DIN CEOs as possible for insight, challenge and inspiration to help you lead your organisation with purpose.

We’ve shaped this year’s programme around your feedback from the last event. That means more on the issues facing you as a CEO, and more time to network and talk with each other.

What we’ll explore

• The changing role of the CEO: the new skills needed to lead at speed
• When it hits the fan: recovering when things go wrong
• What's it like to build a bat cave?
• How AI will change the way CEOs lead
• GenAI: creatures v machines
• Designing services that deliver and last
• Why transformation programmes fail, and what to do about it
• Social purpose and business minds: getting the balance right
• Making sense of an everything, everywhere, all at once world
• Leading through political uncertainty
• Personal wellbeing and why it matters
• And a taste of something different: how good has London’s grape harvest been this year?

Who you’ll hear from

Our speakers are leaders with long track records of success (and a few failures along the way), and stories to tell. There’ll be plenty of time to put your questions to them directly.

• Will Butler-Adams, CEO, Brompton Bicycles
• Sarah Powell, CEO, British Gymnastics
• David Pemsel, former CEO, Guardian Media Group
• Professor Iain Hennessey, Consultant Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon, Clinical Director & Co-Founder, Alder Hey Innovation Hub
• Matthew Parris, former MP and Times columnist
• Guto Harri, former Director of Communications to Boris Johnson
• Luke Tryl, Director, More in Common
• Helen Bailey, CEO, London Borough of Sutton
• Peter Cross, former Customer Experience Director, John Lewis and Waitrose
• Eddie Obeng, Founder and Learning Director, Pentacle – The Virtual Business School
• David Mattin, Futurist, Creatures v Machines
• Ed Thompson, AI Lead, Salesforce
• Steve Hopp, Senior Product Manager, Amazon Leo
• Clive Grinyer, Head of Design and Experience, Primitive
• Mark Bradley, Founder, The Fan Experience Company
• Neil Mullarkey, Founder, The Comedy Store Players, and improv coach
• Michelle Flynn, high-performance coach
• Richard Sharp, Founder, The Urban Wine Company

Who can attend?

This event is only for CEOs of DIN member organisations, so it’s a very exclusive room.

Timings

• Thursday 11 March: arrive from 11am
• Thursday evening: dinner at 7.30pm
• Friday 12 March: close at 1pm

We’d love you to join us for the full 26 hours, including dinner on the Thursday evening. It’s where some of the best conversations happen.

Hotel option

If you’d like to stay over on the evening of Wednesday 10 or Thursday 11 March, we’ve stayed at the hub by Premier Inn London Shoreditch in previous years and it’s handy for both venues. Book direct here: hub by Premier Inn | London Shoreditch

Cost

There’s no charge. The event is included in your DIN membership.

Attendance is free as part of your DIN membership subscription however due to an increasing number of no-shows without apologies there will be a charge of £199+vat for anyone booking who does not show up for this event.