British Computer Society Event – Consumerisation of IT

British Computer Society
Event – Consumerisation of IT
The British Computer Society and 4it Recruitment would like to welcome you to our next Elite Group event to be held in Leeds at
the Park Plaza Hotel on the 21st October 2010.
This Free of Charge event is an opportunity for you to join fellow IT leaders in an informed debate on all aspects of the
‘Consumerisation of IT’. The debate will be led by industry experts and will provide the opportunity for you to explore these
issues with your peers and to consider solutions and best practice for your business.
2.00. Doors open
2.10. Introductions - Steve Brumby (Chair of BCS West Yorkshire branch) & John Seglias (BCS Elite GroupChair).
2:15. Dale Vile - The consumerisation of end user computing - Balancing the interests of employees and the business.
3:00. Jonathan Mitchener - Current and future device innovation and the changing employment and business
landscape in the future.
3.45. Refreshments
4.15. Mike Short - ‘’Applications,............anywhere............anytime".
5:00. Close
Dale Vile
Jonathan Mitchener
Mike Short
As an active industry
analyst, Dale has
extensive experience
in both end-user and
vendor
environments.
In the first part of his
career, he held
positions as developer, architect and
project manager within companies such
as Glaxo and Heineken. He later moved
on to the vendor community and worked
in various consulting, business
development and management roles at
Nortel Networks, SAP, JD Edwards and
Sybase. Dale has worked as an industry
analyst since the year 2000, initially with
Bloor Research, and later with Quocirca,
where he developed and ran the
company’s core primary research
business.
Jonathan is a
futurologist and
gadget expert. A
first class honours
graduate in
Computer Science
from the University
of Hertfordshire in
1988, and having undertaken a wide range
of roles in more than twenty years with BT
including research, systems deployment, and
technology and management consultancy,
he now operates freelance with different
organisations to help them understand the
impacts of future disruptive change on their
businesses. He travels widely to speak to,
inspire and provoke a range of audiences on
futures topics, and also writes for many
journals and magazines and makes media
contributions. He was invited to advise the
BBC's science magazine, 'Focus' as futures
expert in 2008. As is evident from his blog
(www.jonathanuk.net), Jonathan covers the
whole range of futures topics, but has
special interests in device and gadget
futures, and also robotics and
nanotechnology. Although coming at
futurology from a science and technology
perspective, Jonathan is keen to stress that
the future is about much more, and hence
he also relates his material to economic,
social and business contexts. He also uses
his research background to help advise
organisations on successful innovation
Mike Short is the Vice
President, O2
Group/Telefónica Europe
and Honorary President
MDA , having chaired
MDA 1998-2008. Mike’s
career spans 34 years in
Electronics and
Telecommunications,
with the last 21 years in Mobile
communications. He was appointed Director
of Cellnet in 1989 with multi-million dollar
infra-structure investments and UK
interconnect agreements. In 1993 the focus
moved to establishing Cellnet’s GSM service
and he was elected Chairman of the GSM
Association for 1995/96 and served on the
Executive Board for 5 years.
Mike’s focus today is on Public Sector use of
Telecomms supported by O2/TE Group
Research and Development in mobile. He
also is a Board member of the UK Children's
Council for Internet Safety, and the IET. He
has previously served as a Board Member of
PhonepayPlus and the Ofcom Spectrum
Advisory Board.He was appointed VP
Technology for O2 in 2000, as Visiting
Professor during 2006-08 at the Universities
of Surrey, De Montfort and Lancaster and
Board Member University of Coventry in
2006.He holds an honorary Doctorate from
the University of Stafforshire, is a Fellow of
BCS/ RGS / CIPS/IET and a member of the
Royal Television Society.
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