Thank you to the Executive Leaders Network (ELN) for inviting me to talk today at your CIO, CMO, and DPO conferences. I learned a great deal from the speakers and panel discussions.

I was very honoured to be asked to speak on an expert panel recently, discussing the balance of marketing and privacy, at the Executive Leaders Network (ELN) conference in Reading. There was some great dialogue, views, hints, and advice, and it was great to meet with some fellow professionals from the data protection and marketing world, Lars Kramm, Nicola Lishak, Carly Hitchman (Morris), Chris Combemale, and William Richmond-Coggan.

It's good to see such events well and truly back on the agenda after all the lockdown issues, and these ELN conferences are first-class.

I would highly recommend anyone in the CTO/COO/CISO and DPO fields to attend any future ones organised by ELN, as they have a good mix of both InfoSec and Data Protection subjects being discussed, with the InfoSec elements being something that our roles need to encompass as the two areas often overlap in so many places.

Congratulations to all the ELN team members who organised this and to all the speakers and delegates for making it an excellent function to discuss ideas during both the talks, and during social time.

So, a big "well done" to Tanya Pryke-Smith, Steve Ashton, Charlotte Brown, Jonathan Newstead, Richard Parsons, Lucy Redwood, and all the rest of the ELN team.

Thanks for inviting me, Tanya; it was a great day and an excellent opportunity to share with like-minded peers while we all navigate the complexities of transformation, cloud, and data! I thoroughly enjoyed it.