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Peer-led · Vendor-neutral · Chatham House Rule

The room where what actually works gets said out loud.

A small, peer-led session for senior engineering and security leaders to work through what is actually hard, in a room without vendors.

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Session ledger

A record of where the room has already been.

Each past session leaves a recap behind, the patterns, the honest failures, and the controls people actually adopted. Read what came out of the table.

    What the roundtable experience is like

    A working session, not a stage.

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    Peer-led discussion

    Not a presentation. No decks, product walk-throughs or sales narratives. The conversation stays on experience, not promotion.

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    Moderated peer discussion

    A neutral moderator keeps it practical, balanced and on track. The focus is real decisions, trade-offs and lessons learned.

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    Chatham House Rule

    Participants share openly. Insights can be repeated, but never attributed to individuals or organisations.

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    Curated attendance

    Each table is carefully selected to keep the group senior, relevant and interactive. Quality matters more than numbers.

    Upcoming events

    The next sessions.

    Seats are limited and allocated on application. Two themes, run as separate closed-door mornings.

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    What the Roundtable Experience Is Like

    Real conversations. Real decisions. Real Impact.
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    • Peer-led discussion
    • Moderated peer discussion
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    What previous attendees say

    The room, in their words.

    I learned an awful lot. The roundtable let you walk around in another person's shoes and hear the challenges they've got. Sitting with people who have made completely different trade-offs, for good reasons, is the fastest way to check your own thinking.

    MG

    Matthew Gardner

    Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

    Different people from different organisations, not only finance but also retail and the NHS. It was very useful to hear what people are doing, and that they were practitioners, not governance people. You get answers grounded in what teams are actually running.

    OS

    Oxana Samk

    Responsible AI Lead, HSBC

    It wasn't an echo chamber, just reaffirming what I already thought. I needed to hear other people's use cases, from people at different stages solving the same things in ways I hadn't considered. I walked out feeling much more positive about AI than when I walked in.

    JM

    Justin McKanna

    Head of Software Quality Engineering, Tokio Marine HCC

    It was really well run. Everyone got a chance to introduce themselves, and people were very welcome to discuss as opposed to just listen. It was two-way, so when someone spoke you understood the context they were speaking from.

    PL

    Peter Lizak

    Director Enterprise Resilience, Uphold

    I'm always looking to calibrate what we're doing against the market, and this was a good calibration exercise. A good mix of senior individuals, so it wasn't just high-level talk. People were specific about what they had built and what they had learned the hard way.

    SV

    Silky Vaidya

    Global Director of Engineering, GoStudent

    Overall it was very productive. The topics were timely with what's happening in the industry right now, and everyone was really engaging. It didn't feel like a series of presentations, it felt like a conversation between people dealing with the same problems on the same timeline.

    MK

    Muthu Karunarathna

    Software Engineering Manager, Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data

    What I got from it was practical and honest. I came away with guardrails teams will actually adopt, and some uncomfortable truths about what works, what stalls, and why. The most valuable part was hearing real "we tried this and it failed" stories that stop you repeating the same mistakes.

    CC

    Claudio Cidade

    Software Engineering Manager, Presight

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