Coal, oil, gas, mining; these industries have long been dominated by a few massive players. The price of their product is so volatile, and the barriers to entry so high, that they are very difficult to break into. These are highly regulated industries with deep impact to global economy, so many different angles need to be covered before change occurs.

The Digital Experience and Personalisation Dinner took place on the 30th of January at the South Place Hotel. It provided a forum for members to network, relax, and discuss some of the latent opportunities and thornier problems with digital customer experience and personalisation.

Optimizely, the world’s leading experimentation platform, has provided us access to four of their white papers which we would like to share with you. Focused on experimentation, the white papers show readers the benefits of building this type of culture, including maximising investments and how to improve the customer experience with minimal risk. It also explains how to choose and implement the right experimentation solution for you and your organization.

The Digital Trends Report 2018 is hugely exciting: it’s our big, annual quantitative research document which refines the insight of almost two hundred of our C-level members into a single insight-rich report.

Calling all disruptors… Propelled by innovation, members rarely have time to digest the change which they fuel. To understand the whirlwind from above, look no further: Nimbus Ninety is pleased to announce the release of its magazine, Chief Disruptor.

The Data and Infrastructure Dinner took place at Searcys at The Gherkin on 5 December 2017. It was a chance for members to network, and discuss data infrastructure challenges and solutions.

The GDPR compliance dinner took place on the 22nd November at the South Place Hotel, in partnership with DocuSign. DocuSign are the answer to the question of how signatures go digital; they have also brought out tools to help businesses demonstrate compliance with GDPR.

The digital factory dinner took place at Rosewood, London, on the 16th November. It was a chance for executives from brands including consumer goods, high street banks, and software companies, to talk over dinner and drinks about the challenges they faced and some of the solutions they might implement.

This interactive dinner took place at Searcys at The Gherkin on the 8th November. It was a dinner for industry leaders from backgrounds such as finance, retail, media and the public sector. The dinner was conducted in partnership with Optimizely.

Christmas approaches: Amazon Echo was Amazon’s most bought product over the 2016 Christmas period, and stakeholders will be watching anxiously to see if they’re still selling as the novelty wears off. Creative Strategies found that 22% of early adopters used their Amazon Echo less over time.[1] But businesses should also watch. Just as screen-based computers and mobiles have changed how they must present themselves, voice, in its infancy, could too.