Architecting Digital Resilience:
A Splunk Observability Executive Roundtable
Empowering Decision-Making & Operational Resilience
- Tuesday, Oct 6th
- 🇬🇧 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM UK
- The In and Out (Naval and Military) Club, 4 St James's Square, London
Join a select group of IT and Engineering Executives at London’s historic In and Out (Naval and Military) Club for an exclusive evening of peer-to-peer networking and strategic discussion.
Event Highlights:
- Focus: How leading organisations leverage end-to-end digital visibility to drive executive decision-making, build operational resilience, and accelerate business growth.
- Format: Private, executive-only dinner roundtable and peer discussion.
- Venue: The In and Out (Naval and Military) Club, St James's Square, London.
Key Discussion Topics Include
- Strategic Visibility for the C-Suite: Discover how to empower your organisation with end-to-end visibility to support critical executive decision-making.
- Exclusive Insights from .conf 26: Get a first-hand look at the latest news, product updates, and future roadmaps straight from Splunk’s flagship conference.
- Accelerating Growth & Automation: Learn how leading brands are utilising enhanced detection capabilities and automation to resolve performance issues faster and scale into new markets.
Featured Customer Spotlight: Specsavers
We are thrilled to welcome a special guest speaker from Specsavers. During our roundtable discussion, they will share a peer-to-peer case study detailing their journey with Splunk Observability. Hear firsthand how Specsavers has enhanced their detection capabilities, utilised automation to resolve performance issues faster, and leveraged Splunk as a critical driver for their ongoing expansion into new international markets.
Agenda
- Welcome & Executive Networking
- Opening Remarks & .conf 26 Briefing by Mark Wood at Splunk
- Customer Spotlight: The Specsavers Journey
Secure Your Seat
Due to the highly exclusive nature of this event and the limited capacity, we encourage you to confirm your attendance as soon as possible.
(Please note: Attendance is by invitation only and space is strictly limited to ensure an intimate and impactful discussion.)
John Dee
Director of Strategy at Somerford
After 35 years in the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, rising from Private to Lieutenant Colonel with operational service in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the Gulf, and South Asia, John retired in 2019 to become Strategy Director at Somerford Associates. In this role, he bridges the public and private sectors by engaging senior stakeholders and aligning strategic business risks with emerging technologies, leveraging his deep background in information management for decision-makers.
Additionally, John leads Somerford’s strategic outreach, heads the Somerford Veterans Network, and spearheaded the company's Bronze and Silver Defence Employer Recognition scheme. He manages a 1,600-member military LinkedIn network and has personally helped around 350 military intelligence personnel transition into civilian employment over the past year.
Andy Slater
Global Observability & Automation Lead
Andy has been with Specsavers for the last 5 years and is the global Observability & Automation Lead; tasked with driving value from their Observability and AIOps tools. Specsavers use Splunk as their main observability platform taking advantage of their full product set and recently won an "Observability Visionary" award from Cisco for their work on observing modern cloud based services.
Mark Woods
Splunk CTO
Mark is a passionate technologist. Innovative technology (in all shapes and colours) has always been the backbone of Mark’s career, from mission-critical delivery to innovation acceleration, global portfolio optimization to fundraising and acquisition selection to business building.
At Splunk, he helps leadership teams and international policymakers understand the seismic impact that data-driven approaches can create and get the right mix of enabling technology, expertise, empowering guidance and practical governance to bring about positive change.
“Strategy is useless without a general decision-making framework, a framework is useless without resilient processes that adapt to changing priorities - leveraging data is the only way to close the loop.