Welcome to Europe’s premier leadership conference

Budapest

Hungary

Global companies are increasingly leveraging the combined effect of digital technologies to be “future fit,” helping to drive business decisions, growth and their transformation journeys. At TCS, we call this amalgamation of business and technology Business 4.0, where organizations are becoming more intelligent, agile, automated, and on the cloud. They are shifting mind-sets from one of optimizing scarce resources to that of harnessing an abundance of resources, capital and talent. In turn, they are characterized by their ability to mass personalize, actively leverage ecosystems and embrace risk in delivering exponential growth.

TCS Summit 2018 showcased how global companies across industries are adopting a Business 4.0 framework. How the cloud is powering location independent agile methodologies at scale — allowing enterprises to meet ‘on-demand’ customer expectations, significantly compress innovation project life cycles and deliver differentiated value. And how artificial intelligence, automation and robotics require a vast sea-change in conventional thinking regarding human-machine collaboration – where machines get the first right of refusal on time intensive and complex tasks, and human productivity and customer experiences are elevated to new heights.

Madrid

Spain

TCS Summit Europe 2017 took place at Madrid’s landmark Westin Palace Hotel. The programme saw world leaders from business, politics and sports discuss adapting to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and going beyond their regular digital strategies to reimagining every aspect of their enterprise – Business 4.0.

The rapid integration of the physical, digital and biological worlds is impacting all industries and sectors. This provides significant opportunities to those companies who are ready to take advantage.

The word ‘disruption’ has negative connotations, but in today’s digital world it is something that companies should be striving for. If organizations don’t disrupt themselves, then others will enter the fray to disrupt the status quo and take away market share from sleepy incumbents.

In the summit’s discussion of superaccelerators – companies that are able to sustain long-term organic growth – it was made clear that part of these businesses’ success was their ability to bring ideas to market quickly.

Networking activities included guided tours of  Real Madrid’s iconic Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and a visit to the Spanish stock exchange, Bolsa de Madrid.

Berlin

Germany

TCS Summit Europe 2016 at Berlin’s landmark Adlon Hotel attracted more than 320 senior executives from Europe’s leading businesses, representing half of the Financial Times top 100 companies.  The programme saw world leaders from business, politics and sports discuss how organisations can align their cultures, strategies and mindsets to stay relevant in the ever-evolving digital economy. Senior politicians including former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg MP, and Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, were joined by leading figures from the European world of business and Formula One champions Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard.

The latter shared their experiences of learning from losing rather than winning grands prix, reinforcing the need to embrace failure in sport as in business. Another key learning for delegates was that the traditional dichotomy of business-to-business and business-to-consumer no longer exists, which means that we now need to think about people-to-people business models. Similarly, the worlds of brand and risk management are increasingly merging in an environment where organisations have to be transparent like never before. Networking activities included guided tours of Berlin and a visit to the world-renowned Friedrichstadt Palast theatre, visits to Berlin’s many museums.

Venice

Italy

Over 360 business, technology, economic and political leaders from all the top 10 competitive economies in Europe, representing 50 per cent of the Financial Times Europe 100 companies, participated in the TCS Summit Europe 2015. Former Prime Ministers (Mario Monti of Italy and Carl Bildt of Sweden), nine-time grand slam winner Monica Seles, and senior management executives such as CEOs, COOs and CIOs from organisations such as Legal & General, Royal DSM, Infineon, Telefonica, Visa Europe, ABN Amro, Unicredit, Ericsson and The Economist captured themes of “digital”, “leadership” and “hyper-connectivity” in their own unique manner. Former grand slam tennis champion Monica Seles sat down with Andrea Catherwood (ex-ITN and Bloomberg journalist) to discuss her career and the transferable lessons she’d learned as an elite sportswoman. The traditional gala evening of the summit was organised at the ‘Isola delle rose’ or ‘Island of roses’, a private island resort in the Venetian lagoon in the north of Italy. Besides the special tennis clinic led by the legendary Monica Seles, guided tours of Venice, a workshop on traditional Murano glassworks and golf were the networking activities on offer.

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