Event

Executive Breakfast: Rethinking identity's role in resilience and growth

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Date

  • 11 November 2026
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Time

  • 09:00 – 11:00
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Location

The Savoy, London

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Spaces

12

Join fellow business leaders to discover how identity is pivotal to future success.

Ambitious organisations treat identity as a critical lever for accelerating growth and new ways of working. It decides how quickly a new market can be entered, an acquisition integrated, or an AI initiative scaled with confidence.

This session starts with what your organisation is trying to achieve, and what your identity foundation needs to look like to make that possible.

We examine what a modern, adaptable identity foundation unlocks for leadership teams. Including confidence to grow, capacity to absorb change, and fewer barriers between decision and delivery.

Together we’ll discuss:

  • Why growth ambitions depend on strong identity foundations

  • How to decide where identity sits in your growth strategy

  • Clarifying who owns identity as accountability shifts

  • What future-proof identity demands over the next three years

  • Why change programmes succeed or fail on identity

  • Welcome from Steven Jones. A short view on where identity is heading, followed by an opening question for the room: What’s the biggest ambition on your agenda for the next three years, and what’s standing in its way?

  • Identities role as a secure growth enabler

  • How Clifford Chance turned identity investment from an operational necessity into a strategic advantage that accelerated growth.

What you’ll takeaway

Drawing on real programmes across regulated, high-growth organisations, this session gives you the chance to compare notes with peers navigating the same questions, and leave with a sharper view of what your own organisation’s ambitions will require of its identity foundation.

Reserve your place to join a small group of business leaders exploring what identity makes possible for their organisation’s ambitions.

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Facilitators

Hannah Birch - Kocho CEO

Host

Hannah Birch

Chief Executive Officer | Kocho

Hannah is a passionate technology leader with over 30 years of experience driving transformation and innovation. From shaping global strategies at BP, Fujitsu, and Computacenter to leading complex integrations as Group Managing Director at Node4 and European MD at Ensono.

Facilitator

Steven Jones

Chief Technology Officer | Kocho

Steven has more than a decade of experience working in identity and security. Leading practices spanning identity, application development, and data and AI, supporting a blue-chip and enterprise client base across insurance, retail, manufacturing, and financial services.

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Client speaker

Paul McDonald

Domain Architect | Clifford Chance

Paul has extensive experience across M365 workloads, Enterprise Mobility and Security, and was instrumental in reshaping privileged identity for an international law firm.