Events
EVENT
- TITLE:
- 2010 ICT Conference and Excellence Awards
- WHEN:
- 25.11.2010-25.11.2010 08.00 h-16.30 h
- WHERE:
- National Motorcycle Museum - Solihull
- Category:
- Non-UKITA events
DESCRIPTION
The 7th annual ICT Conference 2010 will be held on 25th November, followed by the Awards Dinner to annouce the winners of this years ICT Excellence Awards.
The provisional agenda for the conference is outlined below and more details can be obtained from the ICT Cluster website.
How to Succeed in Challenging Times
| 08.00 - 9:00 | Exhibition & Breakfast Networking Event |
| Welcome: Stuart Linnell | |
| 09:10 - 9:30 |
Introduction: Richard Leary, Chair of ICT ClusterVideo – ICT Excellence in the West Midlands |
| 09:30 - 10:10 | Main Plenary Speaker Phil Smith, Vice President and CEO, Cisco UK & Ireland |
| 10:10 - 10:35 | Cloud Computing – Opportunities and challenges for the ICT SME. Industry speaker being arranged by Ian Osborne, Director of the Digital Systems KTN. |
| 10:35 – 11:00 |
Bucking the Trend – How a business grew from 8 to 100 plus despite the recession Billy Tank, MD of Indigo Retail Technology, tells how they grew from eight members of staff to in excess of 100 in a few years through exporting. |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | BREAK AND EXHIBITION |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Opportunities for ICT businesses from Emerging Markets - Dr Peter Waggett, Manager of Emerging Technology at IBM's Hursley Laboratory. Peter brings extensive experience of innovative IT systems, including research into telematics and low power systems based on novel processing architectures. |
| 11:55 – 13:00 | Business Networking Meet the Buyer; Meet the Money; Meet the System Integrators; Meet the Support; Meet Each Other |
| Workshop: Email Marketing Optimisation – get back to basics and reap the response Malia Pridgeon, MD,The Marketing Trade - former Global Lead, Marketing Best Practices, Oracle | |
| Workshop: The Agile Methodology - Why aren't you using it? The Agile approach to producing software in short iterations is one which delivers business-focused results quickly and effectively. It should do this reliably, predictably, within tightly-constrained budgetsand within a specific timeframe - an agile approach is the answer. Attending this workshop will enable you to adopt an agile approach. | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH AND EXHIBITION |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Business Networking Meet the Buyer; Meet the Money; Meet the IP; Meet the Support; Meet Each Other |
| Workshop: Social Media in the Marketing Mix – the do’s, don’t’s and how to get started?Malia Pridgeon, MD, The Marketing Trade - former Global Lead, Marketing Best Practices, Oracle | |
| Workshop: Cloud Computing - Hype or Reality? In the aftermath of global recession, businesses are still looking at 2010 as a year fro cost-cutting. Facing substantially lower revenues, management boards are increasingly taking an active interest in how cost-efficiently business functions such as IT are performing. Can Cloud Computing really help? | |
| 15:00 - 15:35 | The Coalition Government’s policy for supporting business. Government Minister – Francis Maude – Minister for the Cabinet Office TBC. How the coalition government will help SMEs to succeed |
| 15:35 – 16:15 | Keynote Speaker Sir Roy McNulty on the challenges and opportunities that SMEs face today. Sir Roy is Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Deputy Chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority and Chair of AWM (TBC) |
| 16.15- 16.25 | Close of Conference & Prize Draw Stuart Linnell, MBE—Conference Chair |
| Post-Conference Networking Exhibition area and bar lounge will be open from 16:30 until 19.00. |
VENUE
- Venue:
- National Motorcycle Museum - WEBSITE
- CITY:
- Solihull
- ZIP:
- B92 0EJ
DESCRIPTION
