Purpose
To provide a structured forum for technology leaders to surface, discuss and shape key people, operating and capability themes across Technology.
The summit exists to:
- Share perspectives and lived experience across teams
- Identify common challenges and opportunities
- Generate informed options and direction that can be progressed through the appropriate forums
This is a working and shaping forum, not a decision-making body.
Attendees
- Technology leadership
- CTO
- CFO (if required)
Input
The summit is informed by:
- Topics emerging from people and capability needs
- Feedback from teams and leaders
- Cross-technology issues requiring shared thinking
Output
The summit produces directional outputs, not approvals:
- Shared understanding of key issues and opportunities
- Agreed themes to progress or explore further
- Clear areas requiring follow-up via people/HR processes, technology forums or working groups, or policy/operating model review
- Feedback loops to inform future summits
Outcomes are captured as inputs into subsequent processes, rather than stand-alone decisions.
Responsibilities
Sponsor (CTO)
- Sets the overall context and objectives for the summit
- Ensures focus remains on shared technology leadership topics, not operational status
- Confirms how outputs will be progressed through the appropriate forums after the session
Participants (Technology Leaders)
- Bring experience, insight and challenge from their respective domains
- Contribute openly to discussions on people, ways of working, and future direction
- Share feedback from teams to ensure discussions reflect real issues and opportunities
- Help shape themes, options and areas for further exploration
Facilitator
- Structures the agenda to encourage balanced discussion and participation
- Keeps conversations outcome-focused, without forcing decisions
- Captures key themes, insights and points of alignment or divergence
- Ensures the session remains a working forum, not a reporting meeting
Output Owner(s)
- Capture and document themes, discussions and suggested areas of focus
- Ensure outputs are fed into relevant follow-up forums (e.g. HR, technology forums, working groups)
- Used to inform policy reviews, initiatives or future summits
- Maintain continuity between summits by tracking recurring themes