The first AWS ExecLeaders Forum of 2022 took place on 23 March, as a hybrid event held simultaneously at London’s Langham hotel and online. The theme for the forum, in collaboration with Intel, was the relationship between culture and digital transformation. In attendance were CEOs, CTOs, CIOs and other senior business leaders and technologists from across a range of industry sectors.

Some of the themes explored were:

Digital transformation is all about change, of course. As with all kinds of change, there is a simple truth lurking at the heart of digital transformation—if you want to succeed, you will have to stop doing things the way you have in the past and start doing them differently.

As obvious at that sounds, it was the starting point for the evening’s keynote talk from Joe Hildebrand, European Leadership & Culture Lead at Accenture.

During his talk, he pointed out that 82% of CEOs say that cultural imperatives are their biggest challenge when it comes to digital transformation.