Transformation & Technology Investment · Dubai 2027
Transformation Summit Dubai 2027
Transformation programmes and technology investments change how an organisation works. Project Economy Forum Dubai brings the leaders who run them together with the executives who fund them, to ask whether the change is real.
Project Economy Forum Dubai · 27–28 January 2027 · Dubai, UAE
Change that has to be delivered, not declared.
Transformation is the deliberate change of how an organisation operates: its processes, structures, systems and culture. Much of it now runs through technology, from enterprise platforms and data to automation and AI. Technology investment decides which of those systems an organisation builds or buys, and how they are delivered.
These are projects, but unusual ones. Their scope moves, their benefits depend on people adopting new ways of working, and their success is measured in the organisation after go-live, not at go-live.
Project Economy Forum treats transformation and technology as two of eight areas on one agenda, governed by the same executives and competing for the same capital as capital projects and R&D.
What transformation and technology leaders are responsible for.
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The case for change
Defining what must change, why, and what the organisation will look like afterwards.
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02
Technology investment
Choosing platforms, deciding what to build or buy, and sequencing the systems to be delivered.
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Programme leadership
Running multi-year programmes that combine technology, process and organisational change.
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Adoption
Making sure new systems and ways of working are actually used.
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Benefits
Defining, tracking and realising the benefits the programme was funded to deliver.
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06
Governance
Keeping sponsorship, funding and scope aligned as the programme and the business evolve.
The questions on transformation and technology.
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Is the organisation actually changing?
A programme can report progress while the way work gets done stays the same.
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Will the system deliver what the business needs?
Requirements drift, and a working system does not guarantee business value.
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How should AI investments be governed?
AI initiatives multiply quickly. They need the same portfolio discipline as any other investment.
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When should a programme be re-scoped?
Long transformations outlive their original assumptions. Knowing when to change course is a leadership skill.
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Who owns the benefits?
Benefits belong to the business, not the programme. Accountability often fades after go-live.
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How do digital and physical investments compete?
Boards weigh technology spending against capital projects and R&D. One view of all three helps them decide.
Transformation across the life of a project.
Every Forum follows a project from first decision to final proof. A transformation passes through each stage, usually more than once. Decide, Fund, Deliver, Prove
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01Decide
Choosing the change
Which transformations and technology investments deserve funding now.
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02Fund
Funding in stages
Releasing money as programmes prove progress, not all at once.
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03Deliver
Transformation that sticks
Delivering with partners, driving adoption and managing scope as the business moves.
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04Prove
Value after go-live
Measuring whether the organisation now works differently, and what it gained.
Transformation and technology at Project Economy Forum Dubai.
27–28 January 2027 · Dubai, UAE. Day One is the Executive Dialogue, a private working session for CEOs, COOs, CFOs and strategy leaders. Day Two is the Forum: one stage following a project from first decision to final proof.
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Decide
Are we doing the right projects?
Ending the wrong projects early, and one view of capital, technology and R&D.
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Deliver
Why big projects miss, and what the best do differently
Seeing trouble early, delivering with contractors and partners, and transformation that sticks.
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Lunch
The Leaders’ Tables
Hosted tables for Transformation and for Technology, two of eight.
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Prove
Did we get what we paid for?
Measuring value delivered, and what the board must be able to prove.
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officers, CIOs and heads of technology and transformation take part alongside CEOs, COOs and CFOs, and the leaders of the capital, R&D and portfolio functions they compete with for funding.
Head of function and above. Every place reviewed. Indicative programme.
Questions.
What is a transformation summit?
A gathering of the executives and programme leaders responsible for large-scale organisational change. At Project Economy Forum Dubai, transformation is treated as an investment, from the decision to fund it to the value it delivers.
What is technology investment management?
The discipline of selecting, funding and governing investment in systems, platforms and data so that it delivers business value, not only working technology.
Why is transformation part of a project economy forum?
Because transformation is delivered through projects and programmes, funded by the same boards, and judged by the same question: did we get what we paid for?
Who attends?
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officers, CIOs and heads of technology and transformation, with CEOs, COOs and CFOs. Places are for heads of function and above, and every request is reviewed.