About DLF

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About the Digital Leadership Forum

The Digital Leadership Forum exists to help leaders thrive in the age of AI.


We believe the next decade of progress will be defined not by technology itself, but by the quality of leadership guiding its use. Our purpose is to bring together those who want AI to serve humanity  to create better organisations, better decisions, and a better world.


Through dialogue, learning, and collaboration, we connect executives, innovators, and thinkers who are shaping how AI is understood, governed, and applied. Together, we explore what responsible, effective, and human-centred AI leadership looks like in practice.


We are building a trusted space where ideas turn into action. Where cross-industry peers share experience, challenge assumptions, and define new standards for the AI era.


Our mission is simple: Leadership for the AI Age. We help leaders:

  • Understand the opportunities and risks of AI with clarity and confidence.
  • Build cultures of innovation grounded in responsibility and trust.
  • Turn emerging technologies into measurable advantage and positive impact.


If you believe leadership must evolve as fast as technology does, you’re in the right place. Join us as we navigate the AI frontier together.


Why join the DLF?

  • Connect with forward-thinking leaders who are shaping how AI is applied across industries.
  • Access curated insights, high-value discussions, and real-world case studies from senior practitioners.
  • Collaborate with innovators to tackle the most pressing AI challenges facing businesses today.
  • Stay ahead of emerging trends in responsible, effective and human-centred AI leadership.
  • Accelerate your digital and AI transformation goals with clarity and confidence.

If you would like to learn more about membership, register your interest here:

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How can the DLF help you achieve your digital transformation goals?

We support leaders and teams by offering:

  • Insight & Foresight — practical intelligence on the technologies, trends and strategic shifts that matter.
  • Strategic Guidance — frameworks, peer learning, and expert perspectives to help leaders make confident, responsible AI decisions.
  • Capability Building — tools and programmes to strengthen innovation, governance, and adoption across your organisation.

Join the DLF and become part of a trusted community helping shape the next era of leadership in the age of AI.


Our Initiatives

The DLF offers specialised programmes to help leaders leverage AI for impactful solutions including:

Our Core Forums

We focus on three specialised programmes designed to help leaders navigate high-impact areas of AI.


AI Healthcare Leadership Forum

Explore how AI is accelerating drug discovery, improving clinical outcomes, strengthening cybersecurity, and reshaping the entire healthcare value chain. Engage with senior leaders from pharma, MedTech, health systems and regulators as we define the future of AI in healthcare.


AI Enterprise Leadership Forum

A cross-industry forum for leaders responsible for transformation, operations, data, and innovation. We examine how AI is reshaping workflows, enterprise systems, productivity, decision-making, safety, and commercial performance — and how to implement AI responsibly at scale.

AI Robotics Leadership Forum

A dedicated space for leaders exploring automation, robotics, agentic systems, and human–machine collaboration. We focus on the opportunities, risks, and practical pathways to deploying intelligent robotics across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, security and beyond.

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“I enjoyed the simplicity of how complex concepts were presented, even to a non-technical audience”

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Bharathish Rao

System Owner

AstraZeneca

DLF bring together opposing examples from different companies about a topic, which helps you to see the differences in interpreting it.

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Emma Ledger

Product Owner

Sky

The Digital Leadership Forum provide a great way to engage in industry best practice.

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Madush Gupta

Product Owner

Lloyds Banking Group

The Digital Leadership Forum bring together a diverse group of Digital Leaders to share their experiences and best practices. 

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Sharon Taylor

Digital Client Partner Lead

Pfizer

The Digital Leadership Forum is thought provoking and collaborative. The speakers were very good, they complemented each other very well and brought out some really valuable points.

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Mark Jones

Associate Director

BDO

I particularly enjoyed hearing about design thinking case studies – it really brought the discussions and presentations to life.

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Sophie Harper

Senior UX Designer

BT

I find DLF sessions to be a fun and engaging way to learn about new issues.

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Paul Johnson

Partner

Baker McKenzie

“The Digital Leadership Forum is a friendly, well-informed community for anyone in the digital industry”

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Philip Le Count

User Experience Designer

Highways England

I find the online sessions very informative and full of knowledgeable and passionate people. I always take new learnings and ideas away from the forum.

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Lara Cook

Senior PMO Analyst

First Rate Exchange Services

Grant Thornton is supporting clients to accelerate their digital transformations leveraging our industry leading data, intelligent automation, cyber security, cloud, payments, distributed ledgers and technology risk expertise, coupled with our strategic ecosystem partnerships with the most innovative technology firms.

Sandy Kumar

Partner, Head of Financial Services Group

Grant Thornton

As organisations continue their digital transformation journey in a complex, competitive and ever evolving landscape, the ability to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the many facets of enabling effective digitalisation is critical for long term success.

Niresh Rajah

Managing Director, Head of Data, RegTech & Digital Assurance Practice, Financial Services Group

Grant Thornton

“The Digital Leadership Forum brings together a group of individuals from a diverse set of industries and jurisdictions that have a common interest in working out how things can be done differently using digital solutions.”

Andrew Beasley

Director

Clifford Chance

“A great place to hangout with peers and learn new viewpoints. I like the interactive features of the event – polling and panel discussions.”

Anil Tirunagari

Youtube Business Head Vietnam

Google

“A great place to meet like minded people and share knowledge in breakout discussions.”

Derwin Wu

Senior Manager, Digital Transformation

Hyphens Pharma International

“The Digital Leadership Forum is inspiring.”

Daniela Bogoricin

Twitter Next APAC Director

Twitter

We really value our relationship with the Digital Leadership Forum. With regular opportunities to listen, speak or interact at events, it helps us to provide the best experience for our customers.’’ 

‘’There’s always a DLF team member on hand to understand a problem we might be facing and use their network of connections to help us re-think how to approach it.” 

Charlotte Rae

Head of Customer Experience

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