Speakers

This year we have a range of experienced and knowledgeable speakers. Delegates can choose presentations from 2 streams throughout the day - The Future of IT and Software Asset Management & Best Practice; whether it's a combination of the two streams or staying with one particular stream, attendees can tailor the conference to suit themselves.

Matt Barnes
Managing Director, FAST Ltd

Matt Barnes joined IRIS Software, a private software house supplying management solutions in 1995, where he became Head of Business Development, and has extensive experience in the sales environment. Matt joined FAST in October 2009 as Operations Director and was made Managing Director in May 2010. Matt's focus is to help clarify and improve FAST's messaging and value proposition and drive forward the FAST programme to existing and potential customers.

Open & Close Address

Ian Osborne
Project Director, Intellect

Ian Osborne has worked in ICT since 1972, and is Director of the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network, a Technology Strategy Board funded programme operated by a consortium led by Intellect with QinetiQ and National Physical Laboratory.

Ian has a masters degree in the Management of Technology and has been involved in the G-Cloud project, a Cabinet Office initiative to encourage the use of Cloud Computing services within Government. Ian led work on specifying the requirements for the Applications Store, a major component in the strategy. He is also a founder member of the Cloud Industry Forum, an initiative to improve visibility of the Cloud Service Provider industry, led by FAST Iis.

New Decade, New Horizons - The Future of IT Stream: 11.05-11.40

The computer industry has made a very dramatic shift in its thinking and strategies from ever growing data processing and storage capacity towards the concept of Utility Services. In part, this shift has been driven by the extraordinary growth in capacity offered by modern computing systems and by the need to offer cheaper, more flexible services to the main stream market. The rise of IT as a Service began in the Consumer Internet and yet analysts and forecasters tell us that these changes will sweep away much of what we have come to know and love as “business computing”. Are there new horizons ahead? What will the new challenges be for IT professionals?

Peter Rowell
Executive Chairman, Regent Partners International

Peter Rowell is Executive Chairman of Regent Partners International, the company he founded in 1987. Over the years he has built it to become Europe’s leading specialist provider of acquisition and corporate finance services to the technology industry.

Prior to that, Peter was President and CEO of International Data Corporation (IDC), responsible for the worldwide operations of the market research and consulting group. 

Peter is regarded as an authority on the changing structure of the technology industry. He speaks regularly at international conferences, appears on television and is often quoted in the press. He is an occasional lecturer at the London Business School. On various occasions he has been voted as being one of the most influential people in the UK and European technology industry. Likewise over the years, Regent has received various awards as “Advisor of the Year”.

Mergers & Acquisitions – An Unavoidable Dynamic for the Software Industry - SAM & Best Practice Stream: 11.05 - 11.40

Despite the economic problems of the last few years, acquisitions in the software industry have grown substantially. The major players have shown that they are not afraid to undertake multiple acquisitions in order to fill out their product portfolio and strengthen their market position.

David McLeman
Managing Director, Ancoris Limited

David McLeman is the Managing Director of Ancoris Limited, a leading provider of cloud computing and enterprise security management solutions. David is also Chairman of Cloud Skills Limited, a IT change management and training consultancy for organisations migrating to Google's cloud computing platform.

David has an extensive background in IT service management and internet services having held senior European management positions with open systems pioneer Sequent (now IBM), Data General (now EMC) and service level management specialists NetIQ. David has been involved with software-as-a-service since 1999 when he was part of the executive team at Netstore plc, the UK's first "Application Service Provider", delivering multi-tenanted hosted messaging services based on Microsoft Exchange.

The Risks and Rewards of Cloud Computing - The Future of IT Stream: 11.45-12.20

The adoption of Cloud Computing offers the promise of reduced IT costs, more rapid deployment, greener IT and anywhere, anytime, any device application access. Current cloud services already support a range of traditional applications such as messaging, collaboration and CRM. New cloud compute platforms also offer the potential of dramatic new capabilities such as real-time translation, geographic mapping and voice to text accessed through low-cost devices which might make the traditional PC redundant. However concerns still exist within the enterprise; what about security and data privacy?  Is the IT industry really on the brink of a new computing paradigm or are vendors just "cloud-washing" existing IT services?

Stuart Dicken
Licensing Consultant, SAM Practice

Stuart is a Licensing & Risk Consultant for SAM Practice, his background is in design and delivery of SAM solutions in line with ITIL, FAST & ISO standards. He is one of a handful of people in the world to achieve the ITIL SAM Practitioner qualifications and has helped major household names achieve business benefits from the implementation of SAM.

SAM & Best Practice - SAM & Best Practice Stream : 11.45 - 12.20

In this session we will cover what is SAM Best Practice. There are a number of SAM / Licensing Best Practices but how do they stand up in the real world is there such a thing as “Best Practice” that works for everyone.
 
Stuart has implemented SAM solutions in a number of varying organisation in both size and complexity this session will allow you to explore those experiences of implementing FAST, ITIL and ISO “Best Practice” and ask questions about the good and the bad.

Dominic Storey
Technical Director, Sourcefire

Dominic Storey is the Technical Director for Sourcefire Europe Middle East and Africa and co-founder for the Sourcefire EMEA operation. Dominic manages the technical sales engineering team across the region and articulates technical strategy to prospects, customers, partners, press and analysts.

Dominic has many years experience in enterprise networking, computer security, UNIX systems, software development and support. 

Dominic trained as a plasma physicist at the Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom, specializing in laser interferometry of magnetic confinement systems for nuclear fusion.

CyberSecurity & Threat Protection in a Constantly Changing World - The Future of IT Stream : 1.20 - 1.55

Cybercrime is big business; today’s hackers are sophisticated, experienced, organised and focused - and some are even state-funded.  They have the resources and expertise to target your business; and they absolutely will not stop until they get what they want. How you deal with this has never been so important, as data breaches and cyber attacks can paralyse your organisation and impact shareholder value and the subsequent PR nightmare of dealing with the incident and implementing solutions after the ‘horse has bolted’ are costly, inconvenient and embarrassing. 

Peter Hubbard
Senior ITSM Consultant, Pink Elephant

Peter Hubbard has worked in IT Service Management for over 12 years in all areas from Service Desk to assisting in the generation of Service strategies for global IT departments.  His work with a FTSE 100 client gained them FAST gold certification and was described by the author of the ITIL best practice book on Software Asset Management as “ground breaking stuff”

Starting a SAM project – how to make sense of an overwhelming task- SAM & Best Practice Stream: 1.20 - 1.55

Many SAM projects look impossible at first glance.  The sheer number of activities, differing vendors and licences that are required to be addressed can seem truly overwhelming.  This address will draw on Peter's experience as a SAM consultant for many different clients over the years to lay out a simple few steps that will get you up and running.

Andy Lawrence
Efficient IT research director, The 451 Group

Andy lives in the UK, where he was a technology editor and publisher before becoming an analyst in 2006. He founded and edited Computer Business Review and Information Age magazines. Andy now leads the eco-efficient IT research practice at The 451 Group, a New York based analyst firm. His team focuses on how IT can reduce its energy and carbon emissions; how IT can reduce the energy and carbon emissions of business generally; and how IT can be used to measure and monetize carbon and energy reductions.

Andy is the author of several reports, including: Eco-Efficient IT: The Eco-imperative and its impact on suppliers and users; 2008-2012, Power Management - Managing and monitoring IT energy use from the desktop to the datacenter, Eco-Efficient IT: Policy, legislation & compliance; 2008-2012, Datacenter Management and Energy-Efficiency Software; 2009

Eco-Efficient IT: The phoney war is over - The Future of IT Stream: 2.00 - 2.35
 
Eco-efficient IT – sometimes called Green IT – has been the focal point of much hype in recent years. In this presentation, 451 Group Eco-efficient IT research director Andy Lawrence will explain how and why the market for eco-efficient technologies is changing dramatically, and how the next decade will see widespread innovation and disruption as technology is brought to bear on the energy and carbon problem.



 

Manuel Miseré
Managing Director, Mediasyst

Manuel Miseré, the Managing Director of Mediasyst started his career in IT 1998 and has worked for Ammirati Puris Lintas, Kolle Rebbe as well as an Apple Retailer. In 2002 he joined Mediasyst where he and his team have full responsibility for the IT management of the Serviceplan groups across Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin as well as offices in Bremen, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich and Dubai. Manual and his team have responsibility for more than 1200 Clients across multiple countries and languages.

Mediasyst is a division of the SERVICEPLAN Group; Germany’s largest Network-free Agency. Based in Munich, Bavaria, the company is an independent department of the Serviceplan Group for the IT sector.

Software Asset Management in a PC Mac (iPhone iPad) Enterprise  - SAM & Best Practice Stream : 2.00 - 2.35
 
As corporate IT departments experience an increased demand for Mac’s, iPhones and iPads, managing these devices in a cross platform environment is a serious challenge for IT professionals.
 
Join this informative session and learn more about how to manage software assets on your PC’s and Mac’s in exactly the same way.

 

Matt Fisher
Director, FrontRange Solutions

Matt Fisher has spent six years in the IT Asset Management and Software Management arenas, first with Centennial Software and now FrontRange Solutions.  He leads the global product management and marketing functions at FrontRange, based in the UK.  Matt is especially passionate about evangelising the positive benefits of SAM – how organisations can not only avoid risk, but more importantly realise tangible and substantial cost savings. 
 
Managing the complexity of change on the network - Closing keynote presentation 3.05 - 3.50
 
By its very nature, the IT network is ever-changing. Keeping pace with this change or better still, proactively managing it, is a major challenge for any organisation.   To manage change effective (thus minimising risks, reducing costs and achieving goals in a timely manner) requires a careful blend of people, processes and technology – all working in concert.  From audit and inventory, through to self-service and integrated IT Service Management, organisations need to take an integrated and holistic approach to managing IT operations.