Brazen Summit 2026, Day 1: Technology Leadership in a Changing World

The opening morning of the Brazen Summit: four sessions for senior technology and business leaders on where technology investment is paying off and where it is not.

It starts with the launch of Ghyston's State of Tech Leadership Report 2027. Ric Hill and Emily Hill present the findings, then a panel chaired by Sam Deacon, with Sue Turner OBE, Richard Potter and Tom Heath, tests them against practice. The second half turns to execution: a fireside chat between Ric Hill and Mike Whitehead on modernising legacy systems without stopping the business, then Liam Maxwell, the UK government's first Chief Technology Officer, closing with a keynote on risk, regulation and resilience. 09:30 to 12:30 at St Nicholas Church. Paid; techSPARK has not published a face price.

Why go: this is the CTO and board room of the festival, and Maxwell is a first-hand account of running technology at state scale. Best for technology leaders, CIOs and non-executives.