Vice President, Product Management, Issuer Processing, Visa
Chief Digital Officer and CIO, AstraZeneca
Renowned Physicist, Bestselling Author, and BBC Host
Professor Brian Cox is one of the world's most recognised voices in science. Known for making complex science accessible, he is a leading figure in the ATLAS experiment at CERN and a presenter for various BBC programmes, including Wonders of the Universe.
Marcus Millership leads GBS Strategy and Service Management at Rolls-Royce, with extensive experience in transforming operations, shared services, and technology. Having led a large-scale People Services transformation, he now oversees the GBS strategy reset and a multi-year transformation programme.
Olivier Renault oversees the performance and resilience of Sainsbury's connectivity, hosting, workplace, and tooling platforms. Passionate about customer centricity, he ensures always-on operations. Sainsbury's uses ServiceNow to support seamless operations and is exploring AI to enhance its digital services.
Paul Ballard leads data-driven modernisation, resilience, and AI adoption at Nationwide Building Society. Previously Principal Architect at Nationwide, he shaped enterprise architecture and application-portfolio decisions before stepping into his current strategy role—grounding today's AI work in strong architectural governance.
As a senior executive at Aviva, Dan Godfrey leads talent and people transformation initiatives. He brings extensive experience from senior HR roles across private equity, banking, hospitality, and the public sector.
Ashish is a transformational leader who redefines procurement by integrating digital analytics and AI to revolutionize global supply chains. He builds agile, tech-enabled ecosystems that drive data-driven decisions, process innovation, and exceptional business outcomes.
Ruth Kirby brings a wealth of experience across digital adoption, operations, and finance transformation. Ruth has led AI-enabled service transformation on the ServiceNow platform - unifying customer and field service workflows and turning change into measurable outcomes.
Director, Technical Lead for Global Technology Operations, National Grid
In his role at National Grid, Paul Miller brings a hands-on blend of strategy and engineering within IT operations. With an early career in the British Armed Forces, he brings a practitioner's view on where AI helps today and how to scale it responsibly across the enterprise.
Vice Chairman, ServiceNow
Nick Tzitzon has been a leader at the highest levels of global business and government for 2+ decades. As group leader at ServiceNow, Nick oversees marketing, corporate affairs, innovation, servicenow.org, global impact, and environmental sustainability functions as well as the Office of the CEO.
SVP, Global Learning and Development, ServiceNow
Jayney Howson leads the global reskilling movement through ServiceNow University, a personalised learning experience accelerating the company's growth as the AI platform for business transformation. With over 20 years of experience, she brings a deep passion for creating inclusive learning environments.
We live on a small planet around one star amongst 400 billion in one galaxy amongst 2 trillion in the observable universe. How do we know that? How did we get here after 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution? And, more philosophically perhaps, what are we to make of our place in this incomprehensibly strange and vast universe?
Join Professor Brian Cox, renowned physicist, best-selling author, and BBC presenter, for an exciting discussion driven by Professor Cox's outstanding experience in the world of science.