CIO100 Symposium & Awards, Case Study

At CIO100, It Wasn’t About I.T. It Was About Identity.

When IDG invited Morris to keynote the CIO100 Symposium & Awards (India Edition), they weren’t looking for another digital transformation pitch. They wanted foresight. Urgency. A view from the edge. And a reason for their most senior CIOs to rethink not just their strategy but their role.

Morris delivered a keynote provocatively titled Re-Imagineering the Role of Tomorrow’s CIO, and used it to challenge the room to stop managing tools and start designing futures. He unpacked the accelerated human-tech relationship post-2020, the rise of precision technologies, and the idea that CIOs were no longer infrastructure leaders they were transformation architects.

The message landed hard. Applause turned into follow-ups. The audience didn’t just want inspiration. They wanted action.

Shift: From CIO as operations lead to CIO as anticipator, strategist, and organisational futurist.

The result?: Morris’s keynote was named one of the most impactful sessions of the event earning praise from IDG, CIO100 winners, and tech executives who saw themselves reflected, challenged, and redefined.