Deloitte at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™

With 30 years of experience designing and delivering transformative, technology-enabled programmes across industries, Sam is a senior digital leader and one of the founders of Deloitte Digital. He played a central role in launching and scaling the business in the UK, across EMEA, and globally. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Deloitte’s global Consulting business, leads the firm's alliance with NVIDIA in EMEA, and works directly with clients on high-impact transformation initiatives. Sam helps organisations unlock value through digital technologies - enhancing customer experiences and transforming internal operations. He has advised executive teams on digital adoption, developed enterprise-wide strategies, and delivered digital training for boards and leadership teams. He has modernised technology delivery by combining platform transformation with capability building. At Deloitte, he led the firm’s first e-commerce engagements in Europe and built foundational delivery capabilities in banking, government, and insurance - efforts that seeded sector-specific teams now led by partners who began their journeys under his leadership. Sam’s delivery experience spans private and public sectors, including the replatforming of johnlewis.com, Aldi’s first e-commerce launch, and digital banking services for Tesco Bank, Virgin Money, and Metro Bank. In insurance and wealth, he supported Prudential and M&G in modernising customer propositions and internal functions. In the public sector, he led the digitisation of UK visa applications for the Home Office and provided quality assurance for the UK Government’s digital identity programme. Sam blends strategic thinking, engineering pragmatism, and deep delivery expertise. His ability to shape strategy, build capability, and partner closely with clients continues to define his impact.

Stacey is the AI Market Leader for Deloitte EMEA. She is a Senior Partner with over 27 years experience leading engagements for iconic brands to support revenue growth, digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and efficiency gains. She currently focuses on a portfolio of clients in the Consumer industry, specifically in luxury, retail, travel and the services sectors. As the market leader for AI, Stacey developed Deloitte’s go to market strategy, working with analysts, AI luminaries, Alliance Partners and many Client Executives. She has shaped Deloitte’s approach to market, upskilled our people and partners and successfully grown our industry-specific capabilities and offerings, addressing all areas of AI transformation, from experimentation and PoC’s, to scaling capabilities, organisational change, agentic development, and more recently focusing on Sovereign AI. She has been integral to the AI programme at Deloitte and a key contributor to Deloitte’s own transformation journey. Stacey joined Deloitte as a Partner in 2009 and has held various leadership positions across the Firm. Driven by helping clients solve their most complex problems, she has worked across Global Tax and Trade; Risk, Compliance, Governance and Controls; and Technology and Transformation, serving clients around the world. She speaks 6 languages and has lived in various countries including the US, the Netherlands and Germany. As a working mum, she is an advocate for women in business and has championed diversity, equality and inclusion throughout her career.