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Speakers presenting on the day include:
James Mosley, Web Competence Centre - Infrastructure Architecture & Operations Manager, Mars Information Services
James has 13 years experience at Mars working with messaging and collaboration technologies in development, application support and infrastructure. For the last 4 years he has been responsible for the global web infrastructure for Mars' consumer facing websites as well as the internal intranet environment including collaboration tools such as wikis and blogs. James will be sharing his experience of cloud computing to support an exceptional online brand promotion and how this experience has led to further adoption of cloud solutions.
Sean Poulley, Vice President for the Online Collaboration Business, IBM
Sean has been responsible establishing the strategy for online collaboration and for setting up and heading this Business unit for IBM over the last 15 months. Besides the responsibility of managing the Business Worldwide he has also spearheaded key acquisitions in the SAAS portfolio for IBM including WebDialogs ( web conferencing ) and Outblaze ( web based email ). Prior to this role Sean has served in Senior Leadership positions at IBM as Vice President for Business Development for Workplace, Portal & Collaboration, Sean oversaw strategic alliances for this division of the IBM Software Goup portfolio including establishment of relationships with SAP, Yahoo, AOL, Google. He also maintained specific channel responsibility for Global Independent Software Vendors and Global Systems Integrators. In his previous role he held similar responsibilities for the Websphere brand specifically focused on Websphere Business Integration.
Darren Ratcliffe, Chief Architect for Infrastructure as a Service at Fujitsu UK & I
With over 15 years experience in the IT industry, specialising in working with enterprise customers across EMEA to address the challenges of large scale computing and data centre efficiency improvements through consolidation, streamlining and virtualisation. More recently using this experience to develop utility based offerings culminating in today’s Fujitsu trusted cloud offerings
Alastair Robertson, GlaxoSmithKline Vice President – Information Workplace
Alastair was appointed Vice President, Information Workplace in September 2008. In this role he is accountable for all aspects of GlaxoSmithKline’s productivity (messaging, collaboration, portal & mobility) solutions. Previously he was Vice President, Connectivity. In this role he was responsible for GSK's Voice, Collaboration, Conferencing and B2B infrastructure. Alastair originally joined SmithKline Beecham in 1997 and then moved to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in 2000. He joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2003, where he has held various positions prior to his current role. Alastair holds a BSc (Hons) in Information Technology from the University of Salford.
Euan Semple, Former Director of Knowledge at the BBC
Whilst at the BBC, Euan pioneered the use of weblogs, wikis and online forums to enable staff to work more collaboratively across the organisation. Euan also worked on the BBC’s award winning leadership programme, gaining experience in how to engage and inspire people with the possibilities of social computing as a business tool. He is now independent advisor on social computing for business, and a well known writer, thinker and public speaker. His unique experience enables him to provide inspiration on this wired-up world of work and strategies for how business can prepare themselves for the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies.
Simon Wardley, Cloud Computing Strategist / Software Services Manager, Canonical
Simon is an innovative strategist who combines significant levels of hands-on business, technical and management expertise in achieving business turnaround and strong revenue growth in high technology and software markets. Simon will be opening the Cloud Conference with his explanation of what Cloud Computing is, a unique and entertaining view, which is not to be missed!
Ian Wilcox, Principal IT Consultant, Hampshire County Council
Ian is currently on secondment to the Cabinet Office on the Public Sector Network (PSN) programme as Local Government liaison within the PSN core team. The role involves representing the interests of Local Government, as expressed by Local CIO Council, on a day to day basis. In addition he is acting as project mentor on the Dorset Public Sector Network (DPSN).
This work is building on his role as lead on the Hampshire Public Services Network 2 (HPSN2). Ian set up a formal partnership arrangement of 16 local government organisations, managed a joint procurement exercise and delivered a framework contract that exceeded the original value for money expectations. This model is now being championed by local government as a way of delivering the PSN.
Ian has worked for Hampshire County Council for 12 years. He spent the previous 20 years in industry. Prior to working for the County he managed business units and major projects for central government departments and the armed forces giving him an insight into the drivers for local government, central government and industry.
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