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•    Getting a SaaS strategy on the road;
•    Key implementation lessons;
•    How to optimize joined up SaaS to derive business benefits.

Toby Wright, Head of Applications and Product Development, Telegraph Media Group

•    Best practice approach to scaling and modelling
•    Enterprise 2.0: Balancing the Internet with internal systems
•    Building software into the data centre infrastructure
•    Why a ‘lift and shift’ approach does not work

Christine Ashton, Information Management Group Strategy Director, Transport for London

•    Right-sourcing as an element of industrialising IT
•    Fitness for sourcing
•    Critical success factors for long-term success
•    Optimising risk-return in sourcing decisions
•    Sourcing, people management and change management

Robin Gardner, Chief Technical Officer, Avis Europe plc

•    Maturity of the Cloud
•    Key Players and Offerings
•    Leveraging Cloud Computing
•    Smarter Applications Agile Infrastructure
•    Effective IT-Contextual Working
•    Case Study

Hisham Anis, Enterprise Architect and Strategist, Clifford Chance

•    Developing the business case
•    Exploring the major decisions
•    Describing the transition

Neil McPherson, Manager, Data Centre Refurbishment, Standard Life

•    Outsourcing to Survive and Outsourcing to Succeed?
•    Recession impacts on deal structures and service providers
•    Differences in global markets: Europe, Asia, United States
•    Restructuring and Re-alignment: making the most of what you've got 

Alistair Maughan, Head of Global Sourcing, Morrison & Foerster

Peter DeSantis, Vice President, Amazon Web Services
 

Ben Grimes, Chief Technology Officer and Sr Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Avocent

•    Identifying business needs
•    Selecting business partners and service providers
•    Negotiation and contract agreements
•    Implementing a model that includes off shoring
•    Realising Benefits

David Brown, General Manager, Group Technology, Scottish Water

• Radically transforming the way IT services are delivered and
managed with cloud computing
• Using cloud computing solutions to achieve significant capital
and operational cost reductions
• Current and soon-to-come cloud computing solutions

Walter Falk, WW Global Test Cloud Executive 
& SOA Infrastructure Services Leader, IBM

Beyond server consolidation through To virtual desktops

•    How do I undertake capacity planning
•    How can I control what goes into production?
•    How do I avoid server and desktop sprawl?
•    How do I measure performance delivered?
•    What were some of the lessons learned?

Christopher Venning, IT Manager, Royal College of Physicians

Graham Benson, IT Director, M and M Direct

The rapid rise of the virtual environment has opened up new challenges:

•    How to manage virtual sprawl
•    Reducing reduce risk by automating the change management process?
•    Best practices to ensure internal compliance and governance
•    Implications of new services such as Cloud
•    Maximising the benefits of virtualisation

Andy Waterhouse, Technology Services Director, EMEA, EMC IT Infrastructure Management

•    The nature of offshore relationships – beyond simply labour arbitrage to the establishment of innovation partners
•    Refinement of communications techniques and processes as partners take on more sophisticated services
•    Alternative low cost regions that might mitigate risk (China, S America, Russia)
•    IP and security issues in different regions

Prof Ruth Taplin, Director, Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies
 

•    Utilising Open Source SOA
•    From Information Flow to Service Enabling
•    The end of the IT Dept

Angus Gow, Head of Development and Strategy, I Want One of Those

• Align To Client Policy
• Mitigate Operational Risk
• Accelerate Recovery Time
• Improve Supply Chain Response
• Meet Regulator and Legal Demands
• Reduce Continuity Insurance Premiums
• Implement Best Practice BS 25999 Standard
• Increase Data Centre Agility, Availability and Responsiveness

Neil MacArthur, Strategy Director, IDL
 

•    Establishing the innovation vision: Guardian as the World's Leading liberal Voice
•    New product development: Reach, influence and return
•    The Guardian Open Platform and the self-serving innovation

Mike, Bracken, Technology Director, Guardian News & Media
 

•    Can I establish a consistent and repeatable implementation process?
•    How can I control what goes into production?
•    Can I find and trust services?
•    How can I know what is going on in the service eco-system?
•    How do I budget my SOA expansion?

Pawel Maszczyk, UK MD, Enable-U 

•    Lifecycle cost management - where to spend and where to save
•    Obtaining business case approval in an economic downturn 
•    Maintaining production services during a refurbishment
•    Using the Data Centre for internal and external customer use

Jonathon Royle, Head of Data Centre Services, KCOM Group PLC

Equinix

•    Speed to benefits
•    Choosing partners and service levels
•    Multi-partner strategy
•    Integration to legacy
•    The HDNL Logistics Integrator case study

Chris Airey, IT Director, Home Delivery Network Ltd

The pressure on IT managers to find new ways to decrease the cost of traditional data centres
•    Radically transforming the way IT services are delivered and managed with Cloud Computing
•    Using Cloud Computing solutions to achieve significant capital and operational cost reductions
•    Current and soon-to-come Cloud Computing solutions.
Walter Falk
WW Global Test Cloud Executive & SOA Infrastructure Services Leader

Minal Ahuja, SOA Solution Manager, GTS - UK & Ireland, IBM

•    Using virtualised on-demand infrastructure to manage seasonality and maximise efficiency
•    Using monitoring, alerting and automated testing to provide quality of service
•    Engineering the application to optimise efficiency in a utility infrastructure
•    Managing the supplier network
•    Experience of using Public Cloud Computing

Dr Andy Ross, Chief Information & Technology Officer, SHL

An independent overview of the eco-efficient data centre over the next ten years.
•    Metrics and targets
•    Legislation, Energy Star, the European Code of Conduct Guidelines
•    Reference designs
•    The influence of the utilities, companies
•    Emerging and existing technologies for eco-efficiency (virtualisation, container data centres, renewable energy)

Andy Lawrence, Research Director, Eco-Efficiency IT, The 451 Group

•    The no-fluff definition of Cloud Computing
•    What you should, and should not, consider hosting in the Cloud
•    How Cloud compares with Managed Hosting (including cost examples)
•    Using Cloud to convert software into a revenue stream (SaaS)

Kate Craig-Wood, Managing Director, Memset