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Wayne David is the newly appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales and Deputy Minister for Digital Inclusion. For 10 years he was a Member of the European Parliament for South Wales and was Leader of the Labour Group. Before being elected to Westminster, Wayne worked for the Youth Service in Caerphilly and as a lecturer and organiser for the Workers' Educational Association. He is a Member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and the European Scrutiny Select Committee. He has also been a Member of the Standards and Privileges Committee.
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Harvey Mattinson is Lead Consultant at CESG with primary responsibility for risk management and IA professionalism. He had previously been on a 6- year loan to the Cabinet Office, where he was Assistant Director for Assurance and Standards, and Head of Profession of Accreditation at the CSIA. He is author of the assurance and standards section of the National IA Strategy. He also chaired the GIPSI and CIPCOG meetings and is founder and scheme owner of the CCT Mark (UK Government basic assurance scheme). He is an Associate to the National School of Government, University of Cranfield.
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Steven Noels is co-founder and CEO of Outerthought, makers of the open source Daisy CMS. Previously deeply infected by the angle brackets bug, he ventured from ancient SGML rites to hipsters' XML and then from internet applications onwards. Outerthought is a Belgian software company on the crossroads and the forefront of open source and Java development for the internet age. In his presentation 'From data storage to information management - the webification of your ICT world' Steven will describe e-government as being all about data management for society: lots of data, rules and regulation stored in massively centralized application silos.
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Mike Lafford is group vice president for Global Sourcing, Procurement and IT Asset Management Research at Gartner. He is a member of the research executive management team and is responsible for all aspects of business performance for this group. This includes client satisfaction, research quality, product revenue streams and collaboration with other Gartner business units. Mike was previously GVP Global research operations and has held numerous management roles in Gartner both in Asia and EMEA: as well as several infrastructure management roles at Safeway PLC in the UK.
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Charles Chang has been tracking China and India for many years. He was born in Shanghai and brought up in Calcutta. He is a management consultant who works on soft issues in ICT management. Charles developed his IT skills with IBM in the US and with ICL in the UK. His consulting and research skills were developed at Butler Cox, Wentworth Research - which he co-founded, and Gartner where he was a VP of EXP: Executive Programs for CIOs. Charles is the author of numerous reports and has addressed business and IT executives internationally. He will talk about whether India and China are a threat or an opportunity.
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James Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. A physics graduate, he writes for IT Week and www.spiked-online.com. He helped introduce Britain's first computer-controlled car park in 1968 and has written extensively on a range of subjects ranging from chemical weapons for the Economist in 1978 to devising an instruction manual for word processors in 1983. He was manager of worldwide market intelligence with Philips from 1995-7 and has worked with most of the world's top IT companies. He will talk about the Future of virtual worlds and relevance in the workplace.
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Donna Hall became Chief Executive at Chorley Borough Council, Lancashire in January 2006. She is a member of the CLG's national Innovation, Capacity and Efficiency Board and the new Local Government Delivery Council. Prior to working at Chorley, Donna was Executive Director (Deputy Chief Executive) for 5 years at "excellent" rated Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. She acted as Strategic Client for the Council's 15 year Public Private Partnership with Capita and led on the development of the Local Strategic Partnership and one of the first Public Service Agreements nationally.
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Tim Bishop is Head of Strategy for Siemens Enterprise Communications. He has over 20 years experience in the ICT industry. He has enjoyed a varied career which has included assignments in the UK, United States, Europe and Scandinavia in roles which have included HR, IT project management, video conferencing services, product business management, CRM, mobile business, user needs analysis, strategy design & execution and client consulting. He will be presenting ‘Citizen Sally’, a theatrical foray into the world of Unified Communications and its effect on Healthcare, Police, Central & Local Government, Education and…Sally. She has no idea what a converged network is, but she knows good service when she sees it.
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