| Know IT & Share IT |
Tuesday 4th December 18:15
BCS,
5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with SUPINFO
The International Institute of Information Technology
Organisational Knowledge Management
in the age of Social Networking
Social Networking is a hot topic on the Consumer Web
thanks to sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace. But what role do social networks
play inside organisations?
What is Social Network Analysis (SNA) and how can
organisations make use of it? What are Knowledge Networks, Communities of Interest and
Communities of Practice and what must be considered when creating them? What tools and
technologies exist to support organisations in the creation and growth of such networks?
Does the creation of social networks lead to more ‘Collaboration’ and less
‘Knowledge Management’?
Our expert presenters were:
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| ITIL DELIVER - CAN YOU MANAGE IT? |
Thursday 8th November 18:15
Learning
Tree International Ltd, Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street London, NW1 1AD
This event was in association with Learningtree International
Learn about good
service delivery and support using ITIL3, and good project delivery using efficient
project management.
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is the global
standard for IT service management. ITIL 3 is the latest release of this customisable
framework for best-practice delivery and support of IT services and infrastructure. As
well as an in-depth overview of ITIL 3 and its practical uses, we’ll explore how ITIL
3 advanced processes can benefit your organisation.
We’ll also look at some best
practice Project Management techniques and tools designed for efficient management and
delivery of projects. We’ll provide an overview of project management including
benefits, components and tips specifically for IT professionals.
Our expert presenters were:
- DAVID BARTHOLOMEW Learning Tree Instructor & Course Author
- KEVIN SULLIVAN Learning Tree Instructor & Course Author
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| DRM On - The World Beyond Digital Rights Management |
Tuesday 23rd October 18:15
BCS,
5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with SUPINFO
The International Institute of Information Technology
The complexity, international
dimensions and potential nightmares of digital media and intellectual property issues are
often in the news. Stories feature innovative technology, legal disputes, battles for
market share, and potential lucrative profits for major stakeholders.
- Why do major music labels now want to embrace DRM-free music?
- Why was litigation against Google’s YouTube inevitable?
- What are implications of competition between BBC’s iPlayer and iTunes?
At this event we’ll explore a panorama of the dizzy heights and subterranean
depths of the world around DRM - and of the wider distant horizons around it.
We
considered aspects of the background and future of the technology, standards and
applications. We looked at digital content issues, intellectual property rights and how to
sell, distribute and control them.
Our expert presenter was:
- JUDE UMEH Capgemini and North London Branch Committee Member
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| IT’S A MASHUP - the end of Business As Usual |
Monday 15th October 18:15
BCS, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with SUPINFO
The International Institute of Information Technology
The very nature of business is
changing. Home users are becoming more sophisticated drivers of technology than
traditional businesses. The mechanics of SOA (service-oriented architecture) and Web 2.0
are of less interest to them than how to use the growing availability of easy-build
web-based technology as dynamic, customisable components for products and services.
Forward-focused individuals and innovative organisations able to contribute to these new
market directions are exploring a world of business opportunities and significant
benefits.
Our expert presenter was:
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| Code IT |
Thursday 13th September 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
What are the choices when it comes to modern programming languages?
When is Java a better option than one of the .NET languages and vice versa? What
advantages do languages such as Ruby and Smalltalk offer? What frameworks and Open Source
projects are driving the adoption of these languages? Why are Microsoft and Sun creating
variants of their core languages for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)?
We got an update on the .NET programming languages, Java, Ruby (on Rails) and Smalltalk
that will address the above and more, from those that are really in the know. No, not the
vendors, but users!
Our expert presenters were:
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| ICT for Economic Development |
Thursday 12th July 18:15
BCS, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) such as the PC, the
mobile phone and the internet have revolutionised the way people in the Developed World
live. Now, there is increasing interest, supported by real-world instances, that ICT could
have a similar effect on individuals and communities in the Developing World.
Examples
include farmers in Uganda using mobile phones to check market prices of their crops in
order to gain a fairer deal from buyers, health workers in Kenya using Personal Digital
Assistants (PDA) to access medical information while out in the field and rural
women’s artisan groups in southern India using the Web to sell their wares directly
to consumers.
Come and join us to gain an introduction to ICT for Development (ICT4D).
Learn about its theoretical underpinnings in IT and Development Studies. Find out if ICT
really have the potential to reduce poverty. Gain an insight into what has been achieved
to date and what is to come. Hear about actual ICT4D projects from Africa and the India
Subcontinent.
Our expert presenters were:
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| Your Career - Plan IT to Succeed! |
Wednesday 13th June 2007 18:30
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This Event was in association with
womenintechnology.co.uk
Why do some people have a satisfying, successful career and others,
with the same talent and expertise, do not? To what extent does it depend on who you know
and who likes you? How can you pro-actively take charge of your career and direct it as
you wish? And how can you best choose and use IT recruitment expertise to help you along
the way?
Come to this interactive event to learn about effective career planning and
development; and about how to feel good, do better - at work and elsewhere too - with an
enjoyable, sustainable career.
This evening will include a workshop to enable you to
start working on your individual future career development - and to ask the questions that
matter…
Our expert presenters were:
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| Virtually There |
Wednesday 9th May 2007 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This London Regional Event was in association with
BISSG
Do you know that there’s an increasing range of Avatar-based
virtual worlds (graphical worlds featuring 2D and 3D representations of people) that allow
users to assume multiple identities and roles, and also to design and build their own
landscapes and environments?
Their fast-growing virtual populations involve participants
from all over the ‘real-world’. As well as social interactions, virtual worlds
now facilitate advertising and business opportunities and are attracting major media
coverage plus the attention of business leaders, e.g. at the January 2007 World Economics
Summit in Davos.
Come and join us at this fascinating event to learn more about:
- The history of 2D and 3D graphical worlds, starting with the first avatars in Maze War
in the mid-1970s.
- Second Life (created by Linden Lab), the leading example of the current evolution of
virtual worlds.
- How leading global organisations are using virtual worlds to collaborate internally and
market externally.
Our expert presenters were:
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| Does IT Comply? - Regulatory change and compliance - how do
you handle IT? |
Wednesday 25th April 2007 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
What’s involved in managing multi-national IT activities in
business organisations to ensure compliance with regulatory changes? At this event
we’ll look at a number of aspects of working in challenging multi-cultural
multi-dimensional environments.
Our experts will share some of their insights in how to
define, deliver, operate, report and evaluate the performance of international activities
such as:
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404) compliant business and IT processes within a global
business process re-engineering (BPR) programme;
- MiFID - preparations for the European Union’s Markets In Financial Instruments
Directive.
Our speakers were:
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| Benefit from IT - Benefit Realisation Management |
Monday 19th March 2007 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
We know that IT can change the world, and have 50 years of change to
prove it!
Yet why do so many IT projects aiming for transformational change fail to
deliver all of their potential business benefits? How do you actually realise benefits -
rather than just identifying them to justify a project then forgetting them?
Attendees
came to this dynamic event with us and to meet Gerald Bradley, a world expert on Benefit
Realisation. Learn about the BRM (Benefit Realisation Management) process for ensuring
that projects and programmes are demonstrably successful in contributing to an
organisation’s mission and objectives. We consider some fundamental principles, tools
and techniques.
But how easy or difficult is it to address the real-life challenges of
benefit realisation in a large dynamic corporate environment? We heard from Ann Watts
about case studies from an organisation that has implemented BRM and reaped the benefits -
and we learnt about issues faced and how they were overcome to ensure success.
Our speakers were:
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| Executive Coaching - How can coaching improve you and your
career? |
Tuesday 27th February 2007 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
Coaches provide executive, business and career transition, creativity and change
management. They work with directors, executives and key individuals in corporates,
SME’s and start-ups.
At the event they talked about how to get the best out of teams
and presenting a multi-disciplinary and holistic model to addressing and improving your
career and work/life balance.
Our speakers were:
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| IT’s Women in 2007 - A World of Opportunities? |
Wednesday 17th January 2007 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This forum evening highlighted how ‘Women in IT’ in Government has made a
difference through change management, development opportunities and challenging
boundaries.
There was also executive résumé presentations from academia, the legal
profession, communications industry & government. These highlighted approaches to
success in the professions together with challenges, useful tools and lessons picked up
along the way.
Our speakers were:
- Nigel Shadbolt, President BCS
- Professor Wendy Hall CBE, Chair Women’s Forum and Past President BCS
- Dr Jan Peters - Women’s Forum Manager
- Dr Sue Black - Head of Dept. of Information & Software Systems, University of
Westminster, and Chair, BCS Women
- Sarah Bryant - Head of ICT and e-Government at London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
(Medallist Finalist in BCS Women’s Award 2006)
- Rita Aswani - Systems Analyst, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
- Rachel Burnett - Deputy President BCS, Solicitor and Principal, Burnett IT Legal
Services
- Maggie Berry - UK Communications Director www.womenintechnology.co.uk
- Reena Pau - PhD student, University of Southampton
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