A wide range of high profile speakers, including leading industry experts, will present at ICT Forum Wales events.
Monday 12th November
Launch Events:
Anne Jones
Assistant Information Commissioner, Wales
Rhodri Williams
Director Wales, Ofcom
Tuesday 13th November
Technology Futures Conference
Martin Harvey
Director of IT User Skills, e-Skills UK
Professor Mike Rodd
Director - Learned Society & External Relations, British Computer Society
Charles Ward
Chief Operating Officer, Intellect
Gerry Ingram
ISV & Developer Relations Executive, IBM UK
John Gutai
Chief Architect, DVLA Account, Fujitsu Services
Richard Sheppard
Managing Director, Draig Technology Limited
Russell Toms
Head of Standards and Assessment, Work Wise UK
Wednesday 14th November
Risk, Recovery & Resilience (South Wales)
Ben Cottam
Welsh Policy Advisor, Federation of Small Businesses
Stuart Taylor
Manager, Sophos
Simon Steggles
Managing Director, Disklabs
Mark Sunner
Chief Security Analyst, MessageLabs
Stephen C. Mevel
Managing Director, LLG Solutions
Dr Akif Khan
Head of Client and Technical Services, Cybersource
Risk, Recovery & Resilience (North Wales)
Les Pritchard
School of Computing, Bangor University / North Wales Police
Andy Harbach
Snowdonia IT Services
Det Sgt Dave Titheridge
North Wales Police
Wish you were here...?
Anthony Stevens
Encompass Consulting
Damon Davies
dotnet works Ltd.
Sandra Burnett
PBI
Thursday 15th November
BCS Business Lecture - Green Computing
Richard Barrington
Head of Public Policy, Sun Microsystems UK
BCS Computing Lecture - Visualisation
Professor Dieter W. Fellner
Director, IGD
Friday 16th November
The Changing Face of Financial Services
Rhys Jones
Managing Director, Accountis
Capture your Data
Leighton James
Director, Welsh Transport Research Centre
Hywel Williams
National AIDC Centre for Wales
Andy Kirk
Director, Quartix
Andy Wigley
Wigley Computing
Finance - The Cost of Evolution
Bryan Foss
Non-executive director, independent board advisor and business author
Jane Jee
Director Sales and Marketing, SecureTrading
Kiran Sudhakar
Manager, Grant Thornton LLP
Monday 19th November
An introduction to Future Interactive Technologies
A Technocamps Workshop for Year 8-9 pupils
Fernando Loizides
Computer Science, Swansea University
Glass Ceiling or Golden Opportunity?
Dr Caroline Fox
Project Manager Athena, Royal Society
3D Laser Scanning Technology
Dyfan Rhys Searell
Business Development Engineer, Coleg Menai
Public Lecture - Press On
Professor Harold Thimbleby
Computer Science, School of Physical Sciences, Swansea University
Tuesday 20th November
So you want to be a programmer?
A Technocamps Workshop for Year 10 pupils
Fernando Loizides
Computer Science, Swansea University
Software - Developing an Industry
Julian Heathcote Hobbins
Senior Legal Counsel, Federation Against Software Theft
Alan Cox
Red Hat
Michael Meeks
Novell
Alex Donald
Information Specialist, UK & Ireland Microsoft .NET Regional Service Centre, EDS
From Adaptive Systems to Found Objects
Tessa Elliott
Artistic & Educational Director, Surgery – Digital Art Research
Jonathan Jones-Morris
Director, Soda Creative Technologies / Artistic & Technical Director, Surgery – Digital Art Research
Wednesday 21st November
So you want to be a network engineer?
A Technocamps Workshop for Year 12 pupils
Wise up to the Web (South Wales)
Dr Matt Roach
Managing Director, BluePrint IT
Nigel Roberts
Imaginet
Julia Lewis
Operations & Policy Manager, Information Commissioner’s Office – Wales
Neil Mason
Director, Applied Insights
Simon Norris
Founder and Managing Director, Nomensa
Richard Baker
Managing Director, Sequence
Wise up to the Web (North Wales)
Chris Hillier
Twelfth Man Marketing
Andy Clarke
Stuff and Nonsense Ltd.
Stephen C. Mevel
Managing Director, LLG Solutions
Thursday 22nd November
So you want to be a web developer?
A Technocamps Workshop for Year 10 pupils
Fernando Loizides
Computer Science, Swansea University
Developing Creativity
Huw Swayne
Head of Design, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Studies
Gary Whiting
Abel & Imray
Mark Johnson
Creative Director, Sequence
Social Networking within the Creative Technology Sector
Mark Johnson
Senior Lecturer, Computing and Electronic Technology, University of Bolton / Project Coordinator, SPLICE
John Brown
Artist, Sculptor and Director of International Contemporary Art Wales (ICAW)
Debate: Technology in Wales - Is the Dragon Driven or Distracted?
Friday 23rd November
An introduction to Future Interactive Technologies
A Technocamps Workshop for Year 8-9 pupils
Fernando Loizides
Computer Science, Swansea University
3D Environments
Joel Cockrill
Movix Media
See the Future - Business Lunch (North Wales)
Adam Walton
BBC Radio Wales
See the Future - Business Lunch (South Wales)
Rory Cellan Jones
BBC
