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"Here’s a bag of soil and here's a purchase order from a big pharma company. Your job is to build the tech stack that makes one go from the other.”

Thanks to Artificial Intelligence and $17 billion on technology spending annually, it will not be the same when he leaves.

“The target operating model is UBS. The IT that we choose is UBS… It doesn't mean that necessarily all the time the UBS technology and target operating model is the right one. But it is the one that we can execute faster…”

More than a third of European CXOs are looking to move 25 to 27% of their assets to a sovereign cloud.

If you think the past five years you spent rebuilding your entire IT stack means you can now relax, think again, says former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker.

"The entire system is event-driven. Everything is on the public cloud and the things that have very high availability requirements are on multiple public clouds. You’re not lifting and shifting some other person's nasty 1980s software. This is all brand new microservice-based software."

A world-leading provider of investment data, analytics and research is on a mission to migrate to the cloud by 2025 – and it’s finding benefits beyond its core business case.

"We have a federated Enterprise Architecture approach; making sure that we don’t get constantly caught in these endless loops of centralisation and decentralisation..."

A big ERP overhaul, sustaining app-led revenue growth and a focus on supply chain optimisation are priorities at Nike...