AI and Tech Leadership | CIO Summit 2025
Tech leaders are under pressure to “do something with AI”, but not every choice is obvious or easy. Stepping back from the noise, CIO Summit offers space to learn from peers and industry experts, and to make sense of the hype.
Softwire is proud to join the conversation at this year’s event, leading two sessions focused on AI.
Tech Leadership in the Age of AI
Softwire Director Yemi Olagbaiye will share insights on how CIOs can lead with clarity and confidence amid AI disruption. This session looks at what works when choosing tools, aligning teams, and keeping strategy on track.
What to expect
- Practical frameworks to support decision-making
- Maintaining human-centred leadership
- Turning AI disruption into competitive advantage
Roundtable – AI in Action: Leading Change Across Teams and Technologies
This roundtable is a chance to hear about the approaches other CIOs are taking with AI within their organisations.
Talking points
- What happens after the strategy is written
- Common blockers – and how others are getting past them
- How to bring teams with you, even when AI changes the rules
Meet the speaker
Yemi Olagbaiye
Director, Client Portfolio
Yemi Olagbaiye is Director of AI Strategy & Innovation at Softwire. With over 15 years of experience spanning sales, consulting, and innovation strategy, Yemi sits at the intersection of commercial growth and emerging technologies.
His work focuses on helping large enterprises unlock business and customer value through data, AI, and digital transformation. As one of the firm’s most senior commercial leaders, Yemi has driven multi-million-pound growth across both public and private sector portfolios. He now spearheads Softwire’s push into AI strategy, advising clients on how to harness AI not just for productivity gains, but for differentiation, clarity, and long-term resilience.
Known for his provocative takes on the future of AI, Yemi believes we’re entering a new era where taste, (not just technical ability), becomes a strategic asset. He champions the shift from execution to curation as the defining leadership skill of the AI age, and argues that organisations must reimagine how decisions are made, communicated, and trusted in a world increasingly shaped by machine-generated output.
