Speaker Library
Senior IT executives that have spoken at Dining Club events:
E-Retailing - Succeeding with E-Retail
Date: 4th September 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Vijay Ghei, Vice President & Head of Retail, NIIT Technologies Ltd
Company: NIITS Technologies Ltd
Coping with the Imminent Legacy Systems Crunch
Date: 14th August 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Bhaskar Chavali, Executive Vice president, NIIT Technologies Ltd
Biography: Bhaskar has been with NIIT Technologies for over 18 years now and currently heads the Indian operations as well as the Application Development and Management practice. Under Bhaskar's extensive experience and able leadership NIIT Technologies’ software solutions business has grown by leaps and bounds. He has been closely involved in the orchestration of Development Centres for several clients.
Company: NIITS Technologies Ltd
Virtualisation: Live or Let Die!
Date: Thursday 10th July 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Ron Goering, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Company: IBM www.ibm.com
The Inconvenient Truth about Business Continuity
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2008
Sponsor Speaker: David Spencer, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services Consulting team, IBM
Company: IBM www.ibm.com
Could You Be Risking a Data Breach?
Date: 26th June 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Dr. Guy Bunker, Engineer, Symantec
Company: Symantec www.symantec.com
Could You Be Risking a Data Breach?
Date: 26th June 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Dr. Guy Bunker, Engineer, Symantec
Company: Symantec www.symantec.com
Unlock the Business Value in your Information
Date: 11th June 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Graham Walter, IBM
Company: IBM www.ibm.com
Master Data Automation and Consolidation with Virtualisation
Date: Thursday 1st May 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Steve Harris, Director Data Centre Strategy, Novell
Biography: Steve Harris is the senior sales director for Open Platform Solutions at Novell. He joined the leadership team in April 2007 and has been responsible to help Novell UK transform its go to market strategy, local market product focus and relationships with strategic business partners.
Prior to Novell, Steve founded Wind River Systems in the UK, and successfully grew the business for a total of 16 years. As a NASDAQ listed proprietary software & tools company, Steve managed Wind River through three distinct phases of growth from start up, through Public offering and finally re-inventing itself as a software company which embraces Open Source solutions and Linux in the embedded and real time markets.
Prior to Wind River, Steve worked with NCR, IBM and a small software distribution company, Real Time Products.
Steve is a graduate of Aston University, with a first class honours degree in Computer Science.
Company: Novell www.novell.com
Unified Communications: drastically more powerful than simple unifying communications
Date: 6th March 2008, London
Sponsor Speaker: Alan MacArthur, Unified Communications Business Development Executive for UK and NE Europe, IBM
Biography: Alan MacArthur works for IBM Integrated Communication Services where he is the Unified Communications Business Development Executive for UK and NE Europe. Previous to this role Alan was the Centre of Excellence Leader for Cisco IPC in NE Europe where he worked closely with IBM and Cisco Worldwide UC teams. Alan has 26 years experience in networking with IBM. Alan’s experience includes Service Management on the IBM Global Network, Wide Area Network Sales in IBMs Strategic Outsourcing business and Commercial Management for IBMs Network Outsourcing Services. Alan’s work with IBMs suppliers and clients gives him an excellent view of today’s European UC marketplace and where it is going.
Company: IBM www.ibm.com
Master Data Management: The Key to Accurate Information on Demand?
Date: 26th September 2007
Sponsor Speaker: Dr Shahin Taromsari, Information on Demand Solution Strategy Leader
Biography: Shahin has worked for IBM for over 10 years in a variety of senior roles across the Information Management division – his current position involves articulating the IBM Information on Demand strategy and how this can be developed to meet client-specific business requirements. Specifically he focuses on the channel and partner community to execute appropriate sales plans across the North East Europe region.
Company: IBM www.ibm.com
Can 'Green IT' Save Costs, or 'Just' the Planet?
Date: 11th October 2007
Sponsor Speaker: Chris Scott, Service Product Line Executive, Site and Facilities Services
Biography: Chris Scott is the Service Product Line Leader for Site Enablement Services in the North East Integrated Operating Team in IBM Global Technology Services in Europe. This is a cross industry line of services covering all sectors.
Chris has over 20 years experience in IT services in IBM. He started his career in the maintenance and support business as a hardware engineer where he worked for a number of years as both an engineer and in a variety of supervisory and management roles.
Chris’s knowledge of the importance of high system availability led to his appointment as a Project Manager developing high availability services and enhanced maintenance services on IBM’s Netfinity server range which eventually developed into the System x server range.
More recently, Chris has managed IBM’s support offerings in the Technology Transformation Services business where high availability and strict service levels are paramount.
It was also during this time that Chris joined a large project team working with the Royal Air Force where he had the lead responsibility for creating the hardware support plans and service level agreements to support the RAF’s logistics operations. Whilst working with the RAF, he was also introduced to Data Centre Design and Construction and the many technologies that support Data Centre infrastructure.
Company: IBM www.ibm.com
Accelerating Decision Making with Business Activity Monitoring
Date: 18th October 2007
Sponsor Speaker: Dr Giles Nelson, Director of Technology
Biography: Dr Giles Nelson is Director of Technology for Progress Software responsible for new product sales. Giles is a regular speaker at financial industry events and is published and quoted widely in the press. Before Progress, Giles co-founded Apama, a startup which achieved a leadership position in the financial software market before being acquired by Progress in 2005. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University.
Company: Progress Software www.progress.com
Take Charge of Your Identity Management Challenges
Date: 21st February 2008
Sponsor Speaker: Brian Green, Technical Director
Biography: Brian is the Technical Director for Novell UK. In this position, he is responsible for managing a team of architects covering each of Novell's Business Units (Systems Management, Open Source Platforms, Security and Identity Management and Workgroup). Previously, Brian was Director of Solution Management and Marketing, EMEA. In this role, he was responsible for the go-to-market plans for Novell's solution areas, including the introduction of Novell’s new Linux and Security offerings into the EMEA market place after the acquisitions of SilverStream, Ximian and SUSE Linux. As well as Novell's workgroup solutions, he helped on established products such as NetWare and GroupWise. Prior to joining Novell, Brian worked for one of Europe’s biggest IT Services companies, Computacenter. and before that, a California-based hardware vendor – Advanced Logic Research, Inc. Brian Green has studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and is now based at Novell’s office in Bracknell, UK.
Company: Novell www.novell.com