Interviews, articles, speaking engagements, and external contributions — organisations, publications, and forums that Neil has been part of or spoken with.
Interviews and recorded conversations on technology leadership, the evolving CIO and CTO role, and what organisations actually need from technology at the top.
Cyber Heard, the podcast from invitise — why most organisations adopt AI top-down for the wrong reasons, how ungoverned use of AI tools is creating a new class of data breach nobody has priced in, and why defenders operating at the speed of policy will always trail criminals operating at the speed of code.
Listen to the episode ↗Cyber Heard, from invitise — the full video conversation. AI adoption, ungoverned tool use, and the governance gap between how fast attackers move and how fast organisations are allowed to.
Watch on YouTube ↗Dentro Talent — a conversation on how the CIO role has changed, what boards actually need from technology leaders, and the gap between the title and the work.
Read the interview ↗Dentro Talent — the full video conversation. The CIO role, the expectations gap, and the conditions under which technology leadership actually succeeds or fails.
Watch on YouTube ↗Articles, commentary, and contributions published through external organisations and initiatives.
Technology and public sector transformation — articles on how government organisations adopt technology, where it goes wrong, and what better looks like.
Published articles on convergence and continuity in technology strategy, cybercrime and evolving threat landscape, and what it means for organisations operating at the frontier of public safety.
Selected speaking engagements — conferences, leadership forums, and invited presentations across technology strategy, architecture, and the future of digital systems.
The only non-IBM person ever to present at this globally streamed internal leadership event. Invited by the presidents of IBM's Distinguished Engineering team to present on ecosystems architecture — a model for how organisations think about and design capability across interconnected digital ecosystems. Delivered during the BT period.
Speaking on where the telecommunications industry is heading — the structural shift in how telcos create and sustain engagement, and what that means for the technology decisions organisations in the sector are making now.
Fireside conversation at Google's European Banking and Finance forum — discussing how financial services organisations actually work with technology partners, what good looks like, and the conditions under which transformation programmes succeed or fail.
Represented the UK at an EU-level initiative in Brussels focused on a centralised pan-European capability for employment and lifelong learning — bringing together key data to support a cradle-to-grave platform of information spanning education, employment, skills, and lifelong development.
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Neil Catton is an independent technology strategist with thirty-nine years across more than twenty industry sectors, working on a fractional and advisory basis with organisations facing high-stakes technology decisions. He writes on technology, ethics and human purpose, and is the author of four books, most recently Predictive Purpose (2026).
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Neil Catton is an independent technology strategist with thirty-nine years across more than twenty industry sectors, from computer operator to Group CTO and, along the way, CISO. He works on a fractional and advisory basis — fractional CTO and CIO roles, board briefings, technology due diligence and interim leadership — including Group CTO/CIO advisory to the Global Consortium Group on AI and data strategy for public safety.
He is the author of Predictive Purpose (2026), the trilogy The Next Evolution, The Cognitive Crucible and The Shadow System, and the ebook Working as Designed. He writes the Substack The Next Evolution. His argument, across all of it, is a single one: technology has to be designed for the individual human being — not the organisation deploying it, and not the efficiency metric justifying it.
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An independent technology practice, trading under Neil’s own name. Thirty-nine years in the industry across more than twenty sectors — from computer operator to Group CTO, and CISO along the way. The work is fractional and advisory: fractional CTO and CIO roles, board briefings on AI, AI readiness reviews, technology due diligence, data strategy, interim leadership and programme recovery, speaking and masterclasses. Several engagements run at the same time, across different sectors. It is a portfolio, not a single post, and no one client is the headline.
Talks are built for the room rather than delivered from a deck.
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Out 23 October 2026. For review copies and interviews, email nc@neilcatton.com.
A book about the value organisations never count because the brief never asked.
Every technology investment starts with a brief. The brief decides what is in scope, the scope decides what gets measured, and what gets measured becomes what success looks like. Everything outside that line goes uncounted – not because anyone rejected it, but because nobody was asked to look.
Predictive Purpose is about that line. It shows how to see the frame a brief draws before it closes, how to ask what an organisation’s existing capability could also be for, and how to make that wider value countable in terms a decision-maker will act on.
A curated panel of senior fractional CTOs reviewing real technical problems for founders and scale-up leadership teams, live. Neil sits on the Attending Panel for selected sessions.
Live case reviews for founders, run monthly. Sessions Neil has taken part in, collected as they happen.
