| Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n' Tell |
Wednesday 10th December 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
There have been some great gadgets released in 2008. Do you own one?
Alternatively have you created one of your own? Are you finding it hard to stop telling
others just how good it is?
For Christmas, we turned our event over to you. We gave 10
people 5 minutes each to present why they thought that their gadget was the best.
Our expert gave an over view of 2008 gadgets.
- JACK SCHOFIELD, Computer Editor, The Guardian
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| BEHAVE! This house believes that Behavioural Marketing
represents an Opportunity not a Threat! |
Wednesday 12th November 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
Behavioural marketing - observing a user’s online behaviour in
order to serve relevant advertisements - is increasingly being looked to as a replacement
for more traditional marketing methods. Being able to track and profile people’s
online activity certainly offers advantages to prospective advertisers but what of the
individual?
Advocates see it as incisive, highly personalized and driven by
users’ behaviour Opponents feel that it is an invasion of privacy and a further
infringement on consumer rights. Could there be a compromise position between these two
opinions?
Our expert presenters included:
FOR:
- Proposing: ANANT JOSHI, Director, Partnerships and Sales Engineering, Eyeblaster
Ltd
- Seconding: DONALD HAMILTON Managing Director, Wunderloop Ltd
AGAINST:
- Opposing: PETER JOHN, Founder, Dephormation.org
- Seconding: MICHAEL HOLLOWAY Operations Manager, Open Rights Group
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| Is IT Secure? |
Wednesday 22nd October 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with Gotham Digital
Science
The implementation of security requirements in large IT programmes is
extremely difficult and is a cause of major security weaknesses for both off the shelf
products and in-house developed systems.
- Why is this the case, and what can we do about it?
- What lessons can be learnt from past examples of where it has gone well / not so well?
- Is there a guaranteed formula for success?
This talk will explore the problem from the perspective of an external
security consultant and an internal risk manager, and with a mixture of theory and
practical experience in this area from both presenters.
Join us at this dynamic free
event to learn more and share your views.
Our expert presenters include:
- JUSTIN CLARKE Founder & Director, Gotham Digital Science
- JULES GASCOIGNE Associate Director, Information Risk Management, Barclays Wealth
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| It’s Wiki Wednesday! |
Wednesday 1st October 18:30
BCS,
5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with BearingPoint
What do you know about wikis - and blogs and social media technology -
and what do you do with them?
For increasing numbers of us, these uses of technology are
becoming everyday aspects of our lives, personal and business - and especially on Wiki
Wednesdays!
At this special event with a technical flavour, we hope to hear formal and
informal presentations and discussions about today’s Wiki tools and technologies,
topics and techniques, traps and tips - and to consider future directions and
possibilities.
The evening will be started off with a group discussion on “Microsoft
SharePoint as social media platform - Any chance to fight your IT department when they
suggest it?” followed by a series of mini-presentations on real world wiki, blogs and
other social media implementations.
Our expert presenters included:
- DAVID TERRAR Executive Director, WordFrame
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| Mobile Location-Based Services |
Wednesday 24th September 18:30
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
Mobile Location-Based Services (LBS) have been ‘the next big
thing’ for years now, but have not materialised due to a mixture of technical and
business constraints. With increasing numbers of mobile phones being equipped with Wi-Fi
and GPS receivers, this looks set to change.
What are the main location technologies and
how do they work? What technical, business and social challenges do companies face when
developing LBS for mobiles? What LBS can we expect to see on mobiles in the next 2-3
years? How will current favourites such as social networking and online advertising evolve
in a location-aware world? This talk will address these questions and more.
Our expert presenters were:
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| Health(y) IT - Mobile computing in healthcare |
Wednesday 18st June 18:30
BCS, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2
The NHS and wider healthcare sector is changing rapidly - new
government initiatives will take care closer to patients’ homes. The setup of
“Super” GP surgeries, Polyclinics and the possibility to remotely monitor and
manage chronic diseases will without doubt change the way care is provided to patients as
well as to the support given to carers and relatives in the future. The one size fits all
approach will be replaced with care plans, setup individually for the needs and
requirements of each individual client.
Questions are being raised whether the current
provision of Information Technology within the National Programme for IT in the NHS will
cope with these changes. Providing care within the community is challenging traditional
thinking of information generation, collection and storage within health informatics and
can the IT industry keep up with the pace of challenges to make relevant medical data
accessible wherever the care is needed.
This event will discuss what the main drivers and
requirements are to provide safe and sound information for the care of patients in a
hospital and community setting? What technology is available to allow doctors and nurses
to have the correct medical information and knowledge available independent from the
location of the patient? We will also discus how patients be involved in helping to create
a personal care record that ultimately leads to a single patient record?
Our expert presenters were:
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| e-Books |
Wednesday 21st May 18:15
BCS, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2
The humble book seems to be holding its own against its digital
equivalents, in a way that say 35 mm film and the CD have not. Is this really the case, if
so why and what does the future hold for the e-book?
How is the e-book format being used
to innovate, e.g. linking to other media? Is the Turning Pages technology still holding
it’s own against other e-Book formats? What did the collaboration between the British
Library and Microsoft do for e-Books?
Do readers like e-books? Is non-fiction as
successful as fiction? How do publishers and authors protect their copyright?
Are e-Books
widely used in education? Will the JISC National e-Books Observatory Project, provide any
answers with its study on the use and impacts of e-content in Higher Education?
Will
devices such as Amazon’s recently-released Kindle lead to increased take up? Is there
a standard for e-books and e-book readers?
What does the future hold, e.g. for library
collections and content preservation?
Our expert presenters were:
- PETER BLANCHARD Managing Director of Libresco Ltd and Agent and Distributor in
the UK and Eire For iRex Technologies Bv
- CLIVE IZARD Head of Creative Services, British Library
- CAREN MILLOY E-books Project Manager, JISC Collections
Click here for Caren's Presentation
- JACK SCHOFIELD Computer Editor of The Guardian
Click here for Jack's Presentation
- ROLFE SWINTON Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of CPI Publishing Solutions
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| Women in IT - Making a Difference |
Wednesday 16th April 18:15
BCS,
5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with
Ernst & Young LLP
Women in IT, as in other areas of the business world, can make a
significant difference, and add new dimensions and perspectives.
What are the main drivers
and differentiators that women bring to the business world - in psychological, social,
commercial, environmental and other aspects?
And what’s the best balance for taking
UK IT forward?
Our expert presenters were:
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| DISCOVERY - THE NEXT GENERATION! |
Wednesday 19th March 18:15
BCS,
5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with
SUPINFO
The International Institute of Information Technology
In this fascinating evening seminar, we invite experts to talk about
the future of search and discovery technologies, the challenges and their application.
We
have updates on semantic extractions to manage corporate and organisational knowledge and
risks; tracking and investigating complex transactional information, email and operations
using secure technologies.
We consider the issues of privacy and security offered by
internet search systems and the issues of managing email message storage and discovery.
Our expert presenters were:
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| IT’s Going Going.. Going Green! |
Wednesday 20th February 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with
SUPINFO
The International Institute of Information Technology
Is there a black-and-white blueprint for the future?
Global warming,
climate change, time’s running out. At last we’re much more focused on Green
issues - in the news at least. And IT has a major role to play in helping to shape our
future, and the future shape of our home planet. At this event we’ll consider views
on green issues and ideas such as reducing carbon footprints, increasing mobile computing,
using energy-efficient hardware and networks, developing virtual computing, recycling
unwanted PCs, printing less paper copies of electronic information. ‘Is the key not
just to invest in green products, but to be more efficient - and more coordinated?’
Is
a multi-faceted approach needed for effects on the environment to be felt? Does the design
of technology and organisations need to change? Where are we now, and what do we need to
do to accelerate change? Do we need to be more lean and mean about green? And more
coordinated, locally, nationally, globally?
Our expert presenters were:
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| AudIT to BenefIT - 6 sides of the dice |
Wednesday 16th January 2008 18:15
BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2
This event was in association with
Gotham
Digital Science
ISACA London Chapter
IT Faculty of the Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales
SUPINFO The International Institute of
Information Technology
What do you think of IT Audit and what it can achieve for your organisation?
[a] A
handicap to business performance? [b] A necessary evil? [c] A valuable service?
Few
non-auditors choose [c]. Yet IT audit can work for you to help ensure your IT environment,
applications and data are adequately secure, controlled and productive to give reasonable
return on investment.
At this event, we’ll consider six aspects of IT audit in
action, with guidance and illustrations about how you could use your audits to advantage.
How
much could you benefit from IT audit?
Our speakers were:
- FRASER NICOL Senior Manager Technology & Security Risk, Ernst & Young
- JUSTIN CLARKE Director, Gotham Digital Science
- LYNN LAWTON International President, ISACA
- MARTIN ALLEN Director, Risk Assurance Services, PwC
- NICK FELLOWS Audit Manager, Barclays Internal Audit, Barclays Plc
- STEVEN BABB Senior Manager, IT Advisory, KPMG & VP, ISACA Central England
Chapter
Click here for their Presentation (large file)
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