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Forthcoming events
Unless explicitly stated, all events start with coffee at 6:00pm
with the talk commencing at 6:30pm, generally finishing around 8:00pm.
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Thursday 25th September 2008
| title : |
Avoiding the Trap of IT led business change - Benefits realisation in practice |
| speaker : |
Gerald Bradley, Chairman, Sigma Consulting |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
In spite of all the statistics showing that IT-led business change invariably fails, many continue to fall into this seductive trap. Effective benefit realisation turns this around, starting with the desired outcomes and then exploring how to realise them. Having been refined and proven the over 22 years, the approach has become a de facto public sector standard, recommended as "best practice" by the Home Office and used as a basis for the benefits part of MSP.
Gerald is the author of "Benefits Realisation Management", a regular conference speaker and a leading expert in the field of benefits realisation.
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Thursday 16th October 2008
| title : |
User Centred Design: Delivering the Web Proposition |
| speaker : |
Andrew Lamb, Service Design Manager, Directgov |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
How often have you found web applications that don’t deliver what you want or are so badly designed they’re frustrating to use? User centred design is the discipline used to discover a meaningful proposition and create a user experience that customers will thank you for. Andrew will describe current best practice and share his own successes and failures from nine years of pushing the boundaries.
Andrew is an e-business development specialist who has worked in every web discipline. Previous to his role at Directgov, he was accountable for the customer experience and delivery of NorwichUnion.com, RAC.co.uk and BSM.co.uk.
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Thursday 20th November 2008
| title : |
British Computer Society: adapting to our constantly changing world |
| speaker : |
Ian Ryder, Director of Brand, Marketing and Professionalism & International, BCS |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
Ian will examine the growing contribution of the BCS to public and private sector thinking on information technology issues, and the importance of the role of brand and reputation in achieving influence. He will outline his aspirations for the BCS and explain his confidence in its future.
Ian is a pioneering thinker, author and lecturer on the subjects of brand strategy, reputation and customer management. Before joining the BCS he was vice president, brand and communications EMEA for Unisys Corporation and director, global brand management for Hewlett Packard. Ian has held senior marketing roles in several major technology companies and has provided independent brand strategy advice to many other companies inside and outside the technology industry.
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Tuesday 2nd December 2008
| title : |
Eight significant events in Computing (please register with Kingston & Croydon Branch) |
| speaker : |
Dr William Olle, T. William Olle Associates |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
Retired consultant Dr William Olle, will describe eight of the most important developments of the past 50 years of computing, ranging from the first programmable computer, the creation of memory and discs, through to the invention of the first personal computer in the '80s, and the explosive impact of the World Wide Web and Internet in the '90s.
Bill Olle entered the computing field in 1953 as a graduate student at Manchester University. In 1957, he moved to the Netherlands where he worked in computing for a NATO organization. In 1964, he moved to the USA where he was employed by Control Data and then by RCA. In 1972, after a year in Norway, he returned to the UK and established his international computing and lecturing practice. He retired in 1993. He has attended every IFIP congress and has previously been an invited speaker in Stockholm in 1967 and Canberra in 1996.
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Thursday 15th January 2009
| title : |
The Search for Shared Meaning: How Social Media Changes Everything |
| speaker : |
Dave Briggs, Independent Consultant, Davepress.net |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
Blogs, online video, photo sharing and social networking are redefining the way that people interact with each other and with organisations. Understanding the implications of this is vital for any organisation which wishes to remain relevant in a Web 2.0 world. Dave will discuss how organisations can approach these new tools, and how such an approach should relate to existing strategies and communication plans.
Dave is the author of Dave Press, a blog about digital participation, and has been quoted in The Guardian about the issue of public servants blogging. He is an independent consultant, working mainly with government, helping civil servants communicate and collaborate online.
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Thursday 19th February 2009
| title : |
The Power of Personal Information |
| speaker : |
Tom Ilube, CEO, Garlik |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
Who owns your personal information? Every time you buy something and register a new account with a company you lose control over private knowledge about you. Against a background of increasing concern about data protection and privacy, Tom will consider the options for putting control back into the hands of consumers, and the impact this will have.
Through his company, Garlik, Tom is pioneering a range of services to help give people real power over their personal information. Previously, Tom was Chief Information Officer of Egg plc, the innovative online bank. Tom's career spans 20 years with companies including Goldman Sachs, PwC and the London Stock Exchange.
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Monday 9th March 2009
| title : |
Search - the Science Making Tomorrow’s World |
| speaker : |
Dr Andy McFarlane, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science, City University |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
After five millennia, are traditional libraries heading for the dusty storeroom as loose agglomerations of on-line knowledge are searched by increasingly sophisticated methods? What does the history, current science and practice tell us? When the Google-generation come to power will they burn the books or reach for their library tickets?
Andy is chair of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group and co-Director of the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City University. He will be joined by leading colleagues from the profession.
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Thursday 19th March 2009
| title : |
Understanding the bigger picture of business and technology and what that means to you and technology |
| speaker : |
Andy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
Everyone knows that Web 2.0 is considered to be "the" technology game changer, but why and how can this affect Enterprises, and how do other popular new terms such as "Agile Enterprise", Enterprise 2.0, Business Technology and Mesh Collaboration connect with this? This will prove to be a thought provoking session that introduces many new ideas.
Andy is a leading thinker and practitioner helping clients realise the impact of new technologies on their business models and has published white papers.
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Thursday 16th April 2009
| title : |
Intelligent Fraud Detection: Neural Computing and Artificial Intelligence in the detection of payment fraud |
| speaker : |
Nick F Ryman-Tubb, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, City University |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
The Times headline reported in July 2008, "Huge rise in card fraud as criminals find rich pickings online", with over £535m being lost in the UK to criminals, often used to fund organised crime and terrorists. Clearly the tools already in place to tackle the problem are not keeping pace. Nick will describe a practical application of Neural Computing and Artificial Intelligence in the detection of such fraud. His project uses a pioneering approach to using "thinking computers" that adapt to the temporal nature of transactions.
Nick Ryman-Tubb has developed solutions for businesses using neural computers for almost 20-years. He founded and was CEO of the UK neural firm that now protects 1-in-7 of the world's mobile telephone subscribers from fraud. He is a well-known innovator, with successes such as the first neural computer to "taste champagne" and "sniff out explosives and drugs".
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Thursday 21st May 2009
| title : |
Customer service oriented government: The challenge of public sector service transformation |
| speaker : |
Alexis Cleveland, Director General, Transformational Government, and the Cabinet Office Management |
| venue : |
BCS, Southampton Street, London |
Transformational Government is uniquely positioned to deliver the capability for personalisation across public services by focusing on the citizen, joining up across delivery bodies, and enabling efficient handling of complex issues. Responsible for the Service Transformation Agreement, Alexis Cleveland will assess progress to date and the challenges that lie ahead for this ambitious agenda.
Alexis Cleveland was Chief Executive of The Pension Service, an agency of the Department for Work and Pensions, until August 2007.
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