In the fast-evolving world of GBS, women often encounter gaps in promotion, visibility, power, networking, and influence. This panel discussion will address these challenges head-on and provide practical strategies to help you take control of your career trajectory.

Join us as we uncover the barriers that limit advancement and share actionable insights to raise your profile, expand your network, and communicate with authority.

In this session, you will learn to:

• Enhance Visibility: Showcase your achievements so your contributions are recognized and valued

• Build Powerful Networks: Create connections that open doors for collaboration and growth

• Influence with Confidence: Speak like a leader—communicating with clarity, authority, and impact

• Lead with Presence: Learn how to show up with confidence and authenticity, making your leadership presence natural and impactful

Leave inspired and ready to champion yourself—and give back to those who supported you, creating a cycle of empowerment and mutual growth.

As Global Business Services (GBS) organizations expand into broader functional scopes and deliver increasingly complex services, operating models and service management frameworks must evolve. Traditional workflows designed around ticket routing and reactive support are no longer sufficient. The rise of Agentic AI - AI that can act autonomously, make decisions, and execute work on behalf of users - is redefining how services are designed, orchestrated, and continuously improved.

This session explores how leading GBS organisations are harnessing Agentic AI capabilities to elevate service performance, reduce manual workload, and transform the employee experience.

• Redesign the Service Management Framework to connect processes, data, and journeys across a matrixed global organisation

• Establish business partnering roles and a unified “front door” experience enhanced by AI-driven guidance

• Deploy Agentic AI to transition from case handling to case prevention — resolving issues without tickets, anticipating client’s service requests, orchestrating workflows end-to-end, and enforcing policy automatically

• Use predictive insights and autonomous performance steering to optimize SLAs, drive continuous improvement, and measure value creation in real time

Fausto Grelli, Head of Enterprise Service Management, McDonald’s

Dominik Loerts, Partner, Technology Consulting (Data & Analytics), EY

Maria Saggese, GBS Solution Lead Partner Global & EMEIA, EY

As technology takes centre stage in driving GBS maturity and evolution, CIOs are stepping into a strategic ownership role - architecting connected platforms, integrating AI and automation and unlocking the power of enterprise data to deliver new sources of value. This forward-looking CIO keynote panel will explore:

• How the GBS ownership model is evolving from finance-led to technology-enabled transformation

• The CIO’s perspective on reimagining GBS as a digital, intelligent enterprise backbone

• Evolving the GBS delivery model and scaling AI adoption by reinforcing c critical partnership between CIOs, CFOs and CHROs in

• Building the future-ready operating model to deliver continuous innovation and new sources of enterprise value

• What potential challenges do CIOs face when leading next-generation GBS transformations?

Caroline Basyn, Chief Digital and Information Officer, The Adecco Group

Gunter Van Craen, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Global Shared Services Leader and Member of the ExCo, Bekaert