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Thursday 18th February 2010

title :	Cloud Computing and the Law
speaker :	Miranda Mowbray, Senior Technical Contributor, HP Labs Bristol
venue :	BCS, Southampton Street, London

Miranda will speak about some foggy legal issues to do with cloud computing, including access to data by foreign governments, data usage rights and security. She will give some examples from customer agreements currently used by prominent cloud computing providers. She will also mention some new research that may resolve some of these issues.

Miranda Mowbray is a Senior Technical Contributor at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol where her research interests include online communities, peer-to-peer technologies and privacy for cloud computing. Miranda cofounded e-mint, the UK Association of Online Community Professionals. She was recently a Visiting Industrial Fellow at the Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society, UC Berkeley.

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Thursday 11th March 2010

title :	Data to Decision to Action in London's Traffic Systems
speaker :	Derek Renaud, Chief Engineer, Technical Development Group, Surface Transport, Transport for London
venue :	BCS, Southampton Street, London

For our Science week talk, Derek will give us an insight into the complex systems which manage London’s traffic flow. Further information will be available on the branch website.

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Thursday 18th March 2010

title :	Business Change in Kensington and Chelsea
speaker :	James Archer, Business Analyst, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Debbie Paul, Managing Director, Assist Knowledge Development
venue :	BCS, Southampton Street, London

Firstly, James will present on a major change programme, the transformation of Adult Social Care at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The presentation will include the key issues and outcomes for the project, including the business analysis work James carried out to resolve the issues and find effective solutions. Debra will then use the experiences from James’s project and will discuss the principles and approaches adopted by business analysts when defining and evaluating options for business change.

James Archer is a practicing Business Analyst and Project Manager with 20 years ICT experience mainly in the public sector. He speaks and teaches on various aspects of Business Analysis to organisations across the UK and is a co-founder of the Business Change Specialist Group of the BCS.

Debra Paul is the Managing Director of Assist Knowledge Development, a training and consultancy company. She jointly edited and wrote the bestselling BCS publication, Business Analysis. Debra is a regular speaker at business seminars and is a founder member of the BA Management Forum, co-founder of the BCS Business Change Specialist Group and an ISEB examiner for Business Analysis.

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Thursday 22nd April 2010

title :	The use of automated testing tools throughout the traditional software development lifecycle
speaker :	Dr Phillip Isles MBCS, Test Manager, HSBC Private Bank
venue :	BCS, Southampton Street, London

Software testing, or a lack of testing, is often blamed for high-profile system failures. Usually, there is an underlying reason why testing was ineffective, which is often a lack of time to run all planned tests. Can automating some of the tests help? Phillip will describe some of the testing tools available to teams (including Business Analysts, Developers and Testers), and provide examples from his testing career over the last ten years.

Phillip is a hands-on Test Manager, responsible for all the software testing activities within the UK sector of HSBC Private Bank. He manages teams of test analysts in India and China. He is also the chair of the ISEB Software Testing Accreditation panel, and a member of the Software Testing Specialist Group committee.

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Thursday 20th May 2010

title :	AGM, then: Social Computing in the Enterprise Comes of Age
speaker :	Stef Shoffren, Avanade UK
venue :	BCS, Southampton Street, London

Social computing has progressed in leaps and bounds over the past few years, growing up from simple isolated departmental instances of discussion forums or blogs to fully fledged integrated applications that can incorporate many of the aspects of social computing seen on the public internet. How can companies now harness these tools both internally with their employees as well as externally with their partners and customers to deliver tangible business benefits?

Stef is a leading thinker on using social computing to deliver business benefit. He has recently helped large blue chips clients to deliver collaborative applications that add value to their businesses. He has presented at large technical conferences including Microsoft TechEd and Microsoft Architect Insight.

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