HOT TOPIC
WORKSHOPS 2026
HOT TOPIC WORKSHOPS 2026
Discover practical solutions to common challenges in roundtable discussions
Learn from seasoned professionals and thought leaders who bring years of experience to round-table discussions. Whether it’s AI asset management, CMDB, or compliance, you’ll gain invaluable insights to propel your career and business forward.
How to join:
Seats are limited to 10 participants per session, head to the Hot Topic Workshops area and sign up with our host on the day. First come, first served!
Sponsored by Xurrent

SPEAKER
Julian Wigman
MarXtar, Director of Professional Services
: A fast, practical look at what your ITSM logs reveal—and how better log quality, clearer errors, and the right data types can help you spot trends, resolve issues faster, and improve user experience.
Questions Julian will ask:
Q1: Do you get historical logs or is it point in time (ie.Ivanti/Halo versus Fresh)
Q2: Quality of log data; does it go deep enough, is it too techie?
Q3: What logs are useful (Email, automation, integration, system)
Q4: Do your logs help you spot trends
Q5: Are your logs helping you remediate & improve your user experience?
Q6: The “quality” of error messages should be a topic as well. The classic “An error has occurred!”; great, where is the detail.
Q7: Do you errors contain PII; where is the balance with PII and having enough info to identify the root cause or affected user
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SPEAKERS
Martijn Adams
General Manager EMEA & VP Global Channel | Xurrent
Marc Biebuyck
Co-Founder and Chief Product &Service Officer |Arkana Rama
Simon Martin
Chief Delivery Officer | Revo SM Group Ltd
Most organisations don’t fail from lack of strategy, they fail at the hand-offs. This roundtable explores how integrating ITSM, ESM, and ITOM into a single fabric bridges silos, reduces friction, and enables cross-functional services to be delivered with speed and control.
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SPEAKER
Mike Tricker
Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer, SymphonyAI
As AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, organisations find themselves at a critical inflection point. The promise of agentic AI — systems that break work into steps, use tools, adapt to outcomes, and operate across business-critical environments — is compelling. But so is the anxiety it produces. When AI acts autonomously, the stakes of opacity rise dramatically.
This roundtable brings together practitioners to tackle the trust gap head-on. Drawing on four decades of IT evolution and four years of hands-on AI deployment, the discussion will explore why trust — not technology — is now the primary barrier to meaningful adoption, and what can practically be done about it.
Participants will examine how explainability, human-in-the-loop design, tightly controlled automation rules, and reversible actions can transform agentic AI from a perceived black box into a system people are willing to rely on.
Whether you are deploying AI in enterprise workflows, this session will offer concrete frameworks for making AI’s reasoning visible, its failures recoverable, and its value undeniable.
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SPEAKER
Anton Zdziebczok
RealVNC, VP of Product
As AI reshapes expectations of IT support, what does the service desk need to become? In this interactive roundtable, Anton Zdziebczok, VP of Product at RealVNC, will facilitate an open discussion on how AI is changing service desk roles, skills, and value. Attendees will explore practical implications, share real experiences, and leave with clearer perspectives on how to evolve service desks to improve outcomes for users and teams alike.
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SPEAKERS
Martijn Adams
General Manager EMEA & VP Global Channel | Xurrent
Marc Biebuyck
Co-Founder and Chief Product &Service Officer |Arkana Rama
Simon Martin
Chief Delivery Officer | Revo SM Group Ltd
“Security that enables growth — not one that gets in its way
Compliance frameworks exist to protect the business — but too often they slow it down. This roundtable is a peer conversation about how GRC done well becomes a strategic enabler: reducing manual effort, building audit confidence, and giving leadership the visibility to make faster, better decisions. No vendor pitch. No technology briefing. Just a frank discussion about turning risk and controls into a competitive advantage.”
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SPEAKER
Arvind Parthiban
SuperOps, CEO
“Reactive IT isn’t a people problem, it’s an architecture problem. Disconnected tools, siloed data, and AI that can’t see beyond the ticket queue are holding capable teams back.
This hands-on workshop cuts through the noise: why most AI deployments stall, what unified context actually enables, and how to start the shift from firefighting to autonomous IT operations.”
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SPEAKER
Mike Tarbard
Every Child Online, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
This session explores how service desks and IT teams can enhance their existing offering by integrating sustainable IT lifecycle services without increasing operational overhead. Through a partnership approach, organisations can deliver accredited data wiping, responsible hardware reuse, and meaningful ESG outcomes. Attendees will gain practical insight into supporting client and organisational sustainability goals, strengthening stakeholder value, and turning routine IT processes into measurable social and environmental impact.


