P R O G R A M M
9:00 Uhr
Welcome in der Außenhandelsstelle London
Handelsdelegierter Georg Karabaczek
09:30 Uhr
The UK IT Market: Developments Shaping the Market
Charles Ward, Intellect UK (www.intellectuk.org)
Intellect represents the UK technology industry and provides a collective voice for its members, drives connections with government and business to create a commercial environment in which they can thrive. The 800 company members come from all corners of the technology industry including software and IT services, telecommunications and electronics. Intellect's membership is made up of the leading, most successful and many hundreds of smaller technology companies that maximise this contribution.
As Chief Operating Officer Charles Ward is responsible for sales, marketing and delivery of Intellect’s services to members. Charles' role involves day-to-day involvement with member companies and he regularly contributes to executive level seminars on a variety of topics including sales strategy, performance benchmarking as well as software pricing and licensing. Charles also chairs judging committees for two national award schemes, IT Excellence in Local Government and IT Excellence in Health, and is a member of both the steering committee and awards panel for the UK IT Innovation and Growth Forum. Charles was also a member of the judging panel for the 2007 Digital Challenge competition and has spoken on the topic of Digital Inclusion.
In 2002 Charles co-authored a joint Intellect/KPMG executive report "Software and Services in Focus" analysing sales and marketing performance of UK companies in the sector. The report achieved record circulation levels making it the most successful business publication in the history of the organisation. Charles is also on the steering committee of the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO), which produces an annual pan-European strategic analysis of the ICT market. Charles also represents Intellect on the UK Electronics Alliance which he helped form in 2006.
Charles joined Intellect from Compaq (previously Digital) where he was EMEA Head of Marketing for Customer Services Division. Prior to joining Digital in 1989 Charles held a variety of marketing and sales roles in De La Rue Payment Systems, Johnson & Johnson and 3M United Kingdom.
10:15 Uhr
Technology Trends: Latest Innovations, Trends and their Consequences
Rob Edmonds, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (http://www.sric-bi.com)
With a focus on the enterprise market, Rob Edmonds will discuss the prospects for various software technologies incl. Enterprise 2.0, virtual worlds, lifelogging, intranet video, semantic web, open source, cloud computing, web-centric security.
Rob Edmonds is a senior consultant and analyst specializing in how new enterprise software technologies reach the market. In his ten years with SRIC-BI, a technology consulting and market analyst firm, Rob has led and participated in a wide variety of consulting projects and presented at events around the world. Rob is currently the European leader of the Virtual Worlds Consortium that SRIC-BI launched in 2007 to help companies explore and exploit new virtual worlds opportunities. He also monitors Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Systems for SRIC-BI’s Explorer service. Rob previously lead SRIC-BI’s Learning on Demand service in Europe and has written numerous research studies on topics including Web 2.0, software-as-a-service, artificial intelligence, Web services, handheld devices and pervasive computing. Before joining SRIC-BI, Edmonds worked at IBM Global Services.
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (SRIC-BI) believes that capturing business opportunities requires exploring the big picture and then focusing on actionable strategies in an uncertain environment. Our research identifies the defining forces of change to help our clients expand their perspective. An employee-owned spin-off of SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute), SRIC-BI taps into a history of technology innovation that nurtured the computer mouse and the Internet. We combine content-based research programs with consulting expertise. And we bring an optimistic view of opportunity coupled with a realistic view of the difference between hype and reality.
11:00 Uhr
Coffee Break
11:15 Uhr
The IT User’s perspective: IT spending and IT strategies of UK corporate customers
Ian Jones, Head of Content & Publishing, National Computing Centre (http://www.ncc.co.uk/)
The National Computing Centre (NCC) is the single largest and most diverse corporate membership body in the UK IT sector. NCC champions the effective deployment of IT to maximise the competitiveness of its members' business, and serves the corporate, vendor and government communities. NCC delivers a continuum of services including; independent and impartial advice and support, best practice and standards, personal and professional development, managed service delivery, awareness raising and experience sharing. These services are designed to support IT and IS professionals and their teams throughout their management careers and facilitate operational excellence in the industry.
The NCC has a well-established survey service, building on annual surveys on IT salaries and topical IT issues of concern to IT users, IT spending and the adoption of technologies and applications. We also conduct ad hoc surveys with partners/affiliates on subjects ranging from outsourcing to career tracking.
12:00 Uhr
Entering the UK IT Market
Charles Ward, Intellect UK (www.intellectuk.org)
Charles Ward will explain how to conduct market research, identify competitors and potential partners and build a viable business strategy to successfully compete on the UK market.
Having co-authored two "Going International for Software and Services SME's" publications launched in November 2004, Charles has extensive expertise for market entry analysis.
12:45 Uhr
Buffet Lunch und Möglichkeit zu individuellen Beratungsgesprächen mit den Branchenexperten
14:15 Uhr
Bustransfer zum UCL (University College London) Department of Computer Science
15:00 Uhr
Besuch des UCL (University College London) Department of Computer Science
Malet Place
London WC1E 6BT
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/
The Department of Computer Science at UCL is a global leader in research in experimental computer science. The Department has various Research Groups which are strong, broad-based, disciplinary teams associated with laboratories. These groups are formally established and constitute the focus for strategic development.
Research is being undertaken in such areas as networking research, virtual environments, human centred systems, information security, vision and imaging science, software systems engineering and intelligent systems. Key research themes include internet architecture, multimedia and mobile networking, security systems, intelligent user interfaces and e-government.
19:00 Uhr
Gemeinsames Abendessen mit Erfahrungsbericht der österreichischen phion AG zu Markteintritt und Bearbeitung des britischen Marktes
Albert Fragner, Area Sales Director
www.phion.com
phion is one of the leading European providers of communication protection solutions. netfence, its enterprise product portfolio and M, the security appliances family for mid-sized companies, provide comprehensive answers to all security-related issues in your corporate network, ranging from guarding the perimeter, networking branch offices via reliable and highly available connections, to protecting against malicious content and securing internal networks. airlock protects Web applications like e-banking platforms and web services from any attacks or misuse.
21:00 Uhr
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